On 3/16/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure that running do_fsync() will guarantee that all sys_write()
> callers will have finished their syscall. Probably they will have, in
> practice. But there is logic in the sync paths to deliberately bale out
> if we're competing with ongoing dirtyings, to avoid livelocking.
For device files you really need to call into the device driver for this
(->flush etc).
Sure but the do_fsync() bits are part of generic_file_revoke() which
is not meant for device files at all.
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