[PATCH 18/42] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:54:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.block,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
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/ext2/inode.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index dbfe9098a124..fb91c61aa6d6 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -94,8 +94,9 @@ void ext2_evict_inode(struct inode * inode)
 		if (inode->i_blocks)
 			ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, 0);
 		ext2_xattr_delete_inode(inode);
+	} else {
+		sync_mapping_buffers(&inode->i_data);
 	}
-
 	invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);
 	clear_inode(inode);
 
-- 
2.51.0


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