[PATCH 2/3] NFS/localio: remove dead FLUSH_SYNC handling from nfs_local_commit

From: Mike Snitzer

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 14:07:16 EST


nfs_local_commit() is reached only through nfs_initiate_commit(), and every
path that supplies its "how" argument has already cleared FLUSH_SYNC:
__nfs_commit_inode() strips it (how &= ~FLUSH_SYNC) before dispatch and does
its own waiting via wait_on_commit(), while the O_DIRECT path passes how=0.
filelayout issues its DS commit with a NULL localio, so it never enters
nfs_local_commit() at all. The FLUSH_SYNC branch has therefore been dead
since it was introduced with commit 70ba381e1a43 ("nfs: add LOCALIO
support").

Remove the never-taken FLUSH_SYNC branch along with the completion plumbing
it was the sole user of: the struct nfs_local_fsync_ctx::done member, its
initialization, and the complete() call in nfs_local_fsync_work(). With the
branch gone the "how" parameter is unused, so drop it from nfs_local_commit()
and its callers. No functional change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/internal.h | 4 ++--
fs/nfs/localio.c | 15 ++-------------
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 0338603e9674..66dbc9befdbb 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ extern int nfs_local_doio(struct nfs_client *,
const struct rpc_call_ops *);
extern int nfs_local_commit(struct nfsd_file *,
struct nfs_commit_data *,
- const struct rpc_call_ops *, int);
+ const struct rpc_call_ops *);
extern bool nfs_server_is_local(const struct nfs_client *clp);

#else /* CONFIG_NFS_LOCALIO */
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static inline int nfs_local_doio(struct nfs_client *clp,
}
static inline int nfs_local_commit(struct nfsd_file *localio,
struct nfs_commit_data *data,
- const struct rpc_call_ops *call_ops, int how)
+ const struct rpc_call_ops *call_ops)
{
return -EINVAL;
}
diff --git a/fs/nfs/localio.c b/fs/nfs/localio.c
index d3e480888eb1..acbc2bddcf81 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/localio.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/localio.c
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ struct nfs_local_fsync_ctx {
struct nfsd_file *localio;
struct nfs_commit_data *data;
struct work_struct work;
- struct completion *done;
};

static bool localio_enabled __read_mostly = true;
@@ -1100,8 +1099,6 @@ nfs_local_fsync_work(struct work_struct *work)
status = nfs_local_run_commit(nfs_to->nfsd_file_file(ctx->localio),
ctx->data);
nfs_local_commit_done(ctx->data, status);
- if (ctx->done != NULL)
- complete(ctx->done);
nfs_local_fsync_ctx_free(ctx);

current->flags = old_flags;
@@ -1117,14 +1114,13 @@ nfs_local_fsync_ctx_alloc(struct nfs_commit_data *data,
ctx->localio = localio;
ctx->data = data;
INIT_WORK(&ctx->work, nfs_local_fsync_work);
- ctx->done = NULL;
}
return ctx;
}

int nfs_local_commit(struct nfsd_file *localio,
struct nfs_commit_data *data,
- const struct rpc_call_ops *call_ops, int how)
+ const struct rpc_call_ops *call_ops)
{
struct nfs_local_fsync_ctx *ctx;

@@ -1136,14 +1132,7 @@ int nfs_local_commit(struct nfsd_file *localio,
}

nfs_local_init_commit(data, call_ops);
-
- if (how & FLUSH_SYNC) {
- DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
- ctx->done = &done;
- queue_work(nfslocaliod_workqueue, &ctx->work);
- wait_for_completion(&done);
- } else
- queue_work(nfslocaliod_workqueue, &ctx->work);
+ queue_work(nfslocaliod_workqueue, &ctx->work);

return 0;
}
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 0d7f2c2e599c..3afe243597fb 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@ int nfs_initiate_commit(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct nfs_commit_data *data,
dprintk("NFS: initiated commit call\n");

if (localio)
- return nfs_local_commit(localio, data, call_ops, how);
+ return nfs_local_commit(localio, data, call_ops);

task = rpc_run_task(&task_setup_data);
if (IS_ERR(task))
--
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