ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write

Syncing is now properly done by generic_file_aio_write() so no special logic is
needed in ext3.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

diff --git a/fs/ext3/file.c b/fs/ext3/file.c
index 2992532..388bbdf 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext3/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/file.c
@@ -51,71 +51,12 @@ static int ext3_release_file (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
-               unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
-{
-       struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
-       struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-       ssize_t ret;
-       int err;
-
-       ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
-
-       /*
-        * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
-        */
-       if (ret <= 0)
-               return ret;
-
-       /*
-        * If the inode is IS_SYNC, or is O_SYNC and we are doing data
-        * journalling then we need to make sure that we force the transaction
-        * to disk to keep all metadata uptodate synchronously.
-        */
-       if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC) {
-               /*
-                * If we are non-data-journaled, then the dirty data has
-                * already been flushed to backing store by generic_osync_inode,
-                * and the inode has been flushed too if there have been any
-                * modifications other than mere timestamp updates.
-                *
-                * Open question --- do we care about flushing timestamps too
-                * if the inode is IS_SYNC?
-                */
-               if (!ext3_should_journal_data(inode))
-                       return ret;
-
-               goto force_commit;
-       }
-
-       /*
-        * So we know that there has been no forced data flush.  If the inode
-        * is marked IS_SYNC, we need to force one ourselves.
-        */
-       if (!IS_SYNC(inode))
-               return ret;
-
-       /*
-        * Open question #2 --- should we force data to disk here too?  If we
-        * don't, the only impact is that data=writeback filesystems won't
-        * flush data to disk automatically on IS_SYNC, only metadata (but
-        * historically, that is what ext2 has done.)
-        */
-
-force_commit:
-       err = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
-       if (err)
-               return err;
-       return ret;
-}
-
 const struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = {
        .llseek         = generic_file_llseek,
        .read           = do_sync_read,
        .write          = do_sync_write,
        .aio_read       = generic_file_aio_read,
-       .aio_write      = ext3_file_write,
+       .aio_write      = generic_file_aio_write,
        .unlocked_ioctl = ext3_ioctl,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
        .compat_ioctl   = ext3_compat_ioctl,