Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Your patch down()s a semaphore without calling up() in the error code path...

Best regards,

Anton

At 23:01 03/08/2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:34:14PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>         fsync(int fd)
>         {
>                 dentry = fdget(fd);
>                 do_fsync(dentry);
>                 for (;;) {
>                         tmp = dentry;
>                         dentry = dentry->d_parent;
>                         if (dentry == tmp)
>                                 break;
>                         do_fdatasync(dentry);
>                 }
>         }
>
>I really like this idea. Can people please try out the attached patch?
>
>Please note, it contains a couple of things that need not be there in
>the final version.
>
>Note, there is also a reiserfs fix in here because we can call
>f_op->fsync on a directory and without this fix it will BUG!  Chris,
>perhaps you can suggest a better fix?
>
>
>Linus, one more thing --- the first argument to ->fsync is struct file*
>and nothing uses it, I'd like to blow it away or would you prefer we
>wait to 2.5.x as its essentially and API change and will break XFS,
>JFS, etc.
>
>
>
>    --cw