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From: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>
To: Rob Barnes <robbarnes@google.com>
Cc: bleung@chromium.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: export emergency_sync
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:13:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLcOcr6N+Ty59rBD@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230718214540.1.I763efc30c57dcc0284d81f704ef581cded8960c8@changeid>

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:45:40PM +0000, Rob Barnes wrote:
> emergency_sync forces a filesystem sync in emergency situations.
> Export this function so it can be used by modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Barnes <robbarnes@google.com>

Example of an emergency situation?
Thanks-
Bill


> ---
> 
>  fs/sync.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
> index dc725914e1edb..b313db0ebb5ee 100644
> --- a/fs/sync.c
> +++ b/fs/sync.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ void emergency_sync(void)
>  		schedule_work(work);
>  	}
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(emergency_sync);
>  
>  /*
>   * sync a single super
> -- 
> 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-18 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-18 21:45 [PATCH] fs: export emergency_sync Rob Barnes
2023-07-18 22:13 ` Bill O'Donnell [this message]
2023-07-18 22:18   ` Rob Barnes
2023-07-19  4:08   ` Guenter Roeck
2023-07-19  5:53     ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-19  6:31       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-19 20:51         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2023-07-31  7:23           ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-19 13:21       ` Guenter Roeck
2023-07-31 19:18         ` Christian Brauner

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