In some contexts, like in sysfs handlers, we don't want to trigger a
transaction commit. It's a heavy operation, we don't know what external
locks may be taken. Instead, make it possible to finish the operation
through sync syscall or SYNC_FS ioctl.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
---
 fs/btrfs/ctree.h       | 1 +
 fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 1c9157e4ab0c..817fc19b8159 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -2132,6 +2132,7 @@ struct btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args {
 
 #define BTRFS_PENDING_SET_INODE_MAP_CACHE      (0)
 #define BTRFS_PENDING_CLEAR_INODE_MAP_CACHE    (1)
+#define BTRFS_PENDING_COMMIT                   (2)
 
 #define btrfs_test_pending(info, opt)  \
        test_bit(BTRFS_PENDING_##opt, &(info)->pending_changes)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index 703238ed7337..9d8e2b8d12b4 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -2036,6 +2036,11 @@ void btrfs_apply_pending_changes(struct btrfs_fs_info 
*fs_info)
                btrfs_clear_opt(fs_info->mount_opt, INODE_MAP_CACHE);
        prev &= ~bit;
 
+       bit = 1 << BTRFS_PENDING_COMMIT;
+       if (prev & bit)
+               btrfs_debug(fs_info, "pending commit done");
+       prev &= ~bit;
+
        if (prev)
                btrfs_warn(fs_info,
                        "unknown pending changes left 0x%lx, ignoring", prev);
-- 
1.8.4.5

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