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author | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2006-03-31 10:30:42 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-31 20:18:54 (GMT) |
commit | f79e2abb9bd452d97295f34376dedbec9686b986 (patch) | |
tree | 56b9998caa11983556e842fb9a8143d86d765fa3 /fs | |
parent | d6dfd1310d3562698fd7c3c086f6c239f96394ac (diff) | |
download | linux-f79e2abb9bd452d97295f34376dedbec9686b986.tar.xz |
[PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
Reasons:
- It's more flexible. Things which would require two or three syscalls with
fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.
- Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.
The patch wires up the syscall for x86.
The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c. The intention is that we can
move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.
Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.
A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.
The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC. I can skip the ->fsync call for
NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."
Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
the queue is congested. This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
wbc->nonblocking. But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
details down to that level.
Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).
Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines. It makes such attempts appear to
succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility. Perhaps it should make such
requests fail...
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/sync.c | 164 |
2 files changed, 165 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index f3a4f70..83bf478 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o buffer.o bio.o super.o \ ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcache.o inode.o \ attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \ seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o mpage.o direct-io.o \ - ioprio.o pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o + ioprio.o pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY) += inotify.o obj-$(CONFIG_EPOLL) += eventpoll.o diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8616006 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +/* + * High-level sync()-related operations + */ + +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/file.h> +#include <linux/fs.h> +#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> +#include <linux/linkage.h> +#include <linux/pagemap.h> + +#define VALID_FLAGS (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE| \ + SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) + +/* + * sys_sync_file_range() permits finely controlled syncing over a segment of + * a file in the range offset .. (offset+nbytes-1) inclusive. If nbytes is + * zero then sys_sync_file_range() will operate from offset out to EOF. + * + * The flag bits are: + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE: wait upon writeout of all pages in the range + * before performing the write. + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: initiate writeout of all those dirty pages in the + * range which are not presently under writeback. + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER: wait upon writeout of all pages in the range + * after performing the write. + * + * Useful combinations of the flag bits are: + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: ensures that all pages + * in the range which were dirty on entry to sys_sync_file_range() are placed + * under writeout. This is a start-write-for-data-integrity operation. + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: start writeout of all dirty pages in the range which + * are not presently under writeout. This is an asynchronous flush-to-disk + * operation. Not suitable for data integrity operations. + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE (or SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER): wait for + * completion of writeout of all pages in the range. This will be used after an + * earlier SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE operation to wait + * for that operation to complete and to return the result. + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER: + * a traditional sync() operation. This is a write-for-data-integrity operation + * which will ensure that all pages in the range which were dirty on entry to + * sys_sync_file_range() are committed to disk. + * + * + * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE and SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER will detect any + * I/O errors or ENOSPC conditions and will return those to the caller, after + * clearing the EIO and ENOSPC flags in the address_space. + * + * It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's + * metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of + * already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data + * will be available after a crash. + */ +asmlinkage long sys_sync_file_range(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes, + int flags) +{ + int ret; + struct file *file; + loff_t endbyte; /* inclusive */ + int fput_needed; + umode_t i_mode; + + ret = -EINVAL; + if (flags & ~VALID_FLAGS) + goto out; + + endbyte = offset + nbytes; + + if ((s64)offset < 0) + goto out; + if ((s64)endbyte < 0) + goto out; + if (endbyte < offset) + goto out; + + if (sizeof(pgoff_t) == 4) { + if (offset >= (0x100000000ULL << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)) { + /* + * The range starts outside a 32 bit machine's + * pagecache addressing capabilities. Let it "succeed" + */ + ret = 0; + goto out; + } + if (endbyte >= (0x100000000ULL << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)) { + /* + * Out to EOF + */ + nbytes = 0; + } + } + + if (nbytes == 0) + endbyte = -1; + else + endbyte--; /* inclusive */ + + ret = -EBADF; + file = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed); + if (!file) + goto out; + + i_mode = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode; + ret = -ESPIPE; + if (!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(i_mode) && + !S_ISLNK(i_mode)) + goto out_put; + + ret = do_sync_file_range(file, offset, endbyte, flags); +out_put: + fput_light(file, fput_needed); +out: + return ret; +} + +/* + * `endbyte' is inclusive + */ +int do_sync_file_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t endbyte, + int flags) +{ + int ret; + struct address_space *mapping; + + mapping = file->f_mapping; + if (!mapping) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + + ret = 0; + if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE) { + ret = wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, + offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; + } + + if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE) { + ret = __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte, + WB_SYNC_NONE); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; + } + + if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) { + ret = wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, + offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); + } +out: + return ret; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_sync_file_range); |