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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index ca52c82e5bb5..287b80948a40 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ or bottom half). ->alloc_inode. ``dirty_inode`` - this method is called by the VFS to mark an inode dirty. + this method is called by the VFS when an inode is marked dirty. + This is specifically for the inode itself being marked dirty, + not its data. If the update needs to be persisted by fdatasync(), + then I_DIRTY_DATASYNC will be set in the flags argument. ``write_inode`` this method is called when the VFS needs to write an inode to diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index b7616bbd5533..2e6064012f7d 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) trace_writeback_dirty_inode_start(inode, flags); if (sb->s_op->dirty_inode) - sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags); + sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags & I_DIRTY_INODE); trace_writeback_dirty_inode(inode, flags); |