Name
sync_inode —
write an inode and its pages to disk.
Synopsis
int sync_inode (struct inode * inode, struct writeback_control * wbc);
Arguments
inode
the inode to sync
wbc
controls the writeback mode
Description
sync_inode will write an inode and its pages to disk. It will also
correctly update the inode on its superblock's dirty inode lists and will
update inode->i_state.
The caller must have a ref on the inode.