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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2009-10-27 10:05:28 (GMT)
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2009-12-10 14:02:50 (GMT)
commit6b2f3d1f769be5779b479c37800229d9a4809fc3 (patch)
tree046ef6736ec6c25ab1c68741ba715d13645af336 /drivers/char
parent59bc055211b8d266ab6089158058bf8268e02006 (diff)
downloadlinux-6b2f3d1f769be5779b479c37800229d9a4809fc3.tar.xz
vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems, since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give O_DSYNC" comment. This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics. After Jan's O_SYNC patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to vfs_fsync_range and when not. This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC flag. To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers. This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition. Drivers and network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set. The few places setting O_SYNC for lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe. We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path to make sure we always get these sane options. Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op. We try to repair it by using it for the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mem.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 30eff80..fba76fb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static inline int uncached_access(struct file *file, unsigned long addr)
{
#if defined(CONFIG_IA64)
/*
- * On ia64, we ignore O_SYNC because we cannot tolerate memory attribute aliases.
+ * On ia64, we ignore O_DSYNC because we cannot tolerate memory attribute aliases.
*/
return !(efi_mem_attributes(addr) & EFI_MEMORY_WB);
#elif defined(CONFIG_MIPS)
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ static inline int uncached_access(struct file *file, unsigned long addr)
#else
/*
* Accessing memory above the top the kernel knows about or through a file pointer
- * that was marked O_SYNC will be done non-cached.
+ * that was marked O_DSYNC will be done non-cached.
*/
- if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
+ if (file->f_flags & O_DSYNC)
return 1;
return addr >= __pa(high_memory);
#endif