[PATCH 15/42] fat: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from fat_evict_inode()
Jan Kara <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:54:09 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.block,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
There are only very few filesystems using generic metadata buffer head tracking and everybody is paying the overhead. When we remove this tracking for inode reclaim code .evict will start to see inodes with metadata buffers attached so write them out and prune them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> --- fs/fat/inode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c index 3cc5fb01afa1..ce88602b0d57 100644 --- a/fs/fat/inode.c +++ b/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -657,8 +657,10 @@ static void fat_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) if (!inode->i_nlink) { inode->i_size = 0; fat_truncate_blocks(inode, 0); - } else + } else { + sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); fat_free_eofblocks(inode); + } invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); clear_inode(inode); -- 2.51.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to [email protected]. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"[email protected]">[email protected]</a>