[PATCH] Now that sync_filesystem() must be called from ->remount_fs() it needs to be EXPORT_SYMBOL() for kernel modules.

[PATCH] Now that sync_filesystem() must be called from ->remount_fs() it needs to be EXPORT_SYMBOL() for kernel modules.

[Anton Altaparmakov]

This patch changes sync_filesystem() to be EXPORT_SYMBOL().

The reason this is needed is that starting with 3.15 kernel, due to 
Theodore Ts'o's commit 02b9984d640873b7b3809e63f81a0d7e13496886, "fs: push 
sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()", all file 
systems that have dirty data to be written out need to call 
sync_filesystem() from their ->remount_fs() method when remounting 
read-only.

As this is now a generically required function rather than an internal 
only function it should be EXPORT_SYMBOL() so that all file systems can
call it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
---

Hi Linus,

Can you please apply this patch for inclusion into 3.17?  Explanation is 
above.

Thanks a lot in advance!

PS. I hope Pine does not mess up the whitespace of the patch!

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
University of Cambridge Information Services, Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0RB, UK

--- linux/fs/sync.c	2014-08-21 10:30:26.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/sync.c	2014-08-21 10:30:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *
 		return ret;
 	return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);
 
 static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
 {

Re: [PATCH] Now that sync_filesystem() must be called from ->remount_fs() it needs to be EXPORT_SYMBOL() for kernel modules.

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Hi Linus,

No-one has objected to the below patch I sent you over two weeks ago.

Would you please apply it?

If you would like it to go through for example Al or Andrew please let me know...

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,

	Anton

On 21 Aug 2014, at 11:09, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> This patch changes sync_filesystem() to be EXPORT_SYMBOL().
> 
> The reason this is needed is that starting with 3.15 kernel, due to 
> Theodore Ts'o's commit 02b9984d640873b7b3809e63f81a0d7e13496886, "fs: push 
> sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()", all file 
> systems that have dirty data to be written out need to call 
> sync_filesystem() from their ->remount_fs() method when remounting 
> read-only.
> 
> As this is now a generically required function rather than an internal 
> only function it should be EXPORT_SYMBOL() so that all file systems can
> call it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
> ---
> 
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Can you please apply this patch for inclusion into 3.17?  Explanation is 
> above.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> 
> PS. I hope Pine does not mess up the whitespace of the patch!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Anton
> -- 
> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
> University of Cambridge Information Services, Roger Needham Building
> 7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0RB, UK
> 
> --- linux/fs/sync.c	2014-08-21 10:30:26.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/fs/sync.c	2014-08-21 10:30:47.000000000 +0100
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *
> 		return ret;
> 	return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1);
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);
> 
> static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
> {

-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
University of Cambridge Information Services, Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0RB, UK