New helper - simple_fsync()
writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean). Depends on
->write_inode() honouring the second argument.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d883aa1..ede84fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2345,6 +2345,8 @@
extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count,
loff_t *ppos, const void *from, size_t available);
+extern int simple_fsync(struct file *, struct dentry *, int);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
struct page *, struct page *);
