linux/fs/afs
Christoph Hellwig 6b2f3d1f76 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>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
..
afs_cm.h afs: support the CB.ProbeUuid RPC op 2008-04-29 08:06:26 -07:00
afs_fs.h AFS: implement file locking 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
afs_vl.h
afs.h AFS: implement file locking 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
cache.c FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
callback.c Fix various old email addresses for dwmw2 2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
cell.c FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
cmservice.c afs: support the CB.ProbeUuid RPC op 2008-04-29 08:06:26 -07:00
dir.c AFS: Fix compilation warning 2009-07-12 12:24:07 -07:00
file.c FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions 2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
flock.c const: make file_lock_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
fsclient.c AFS: implement file locking 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
inode.c FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
internal.h afs: remove cache.h 2009-10-01 16:11:16 -07:00
Kconfig FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
main.c FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
Makefile FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
misc.c AFS: Correctly translate auth error aborts and don't failover in such cases 2009-06-16 21:20:14 -07:00
mntpt.c headers: mnt_namespace.h redux 2009-07-08 09:31:56 -07:00
netdevices.c afs: BUG to BUG_ON changes 2009-04-09 10:41:19 -07:00
proc.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
rxrpc.c fs/afs/: possible cleanups 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
security.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
server.c fs: replace NIPQUAD() 2008-10-31 00:56:28 -07:00
super.c headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
vlclient.c [AFS]: Add security support. 2007-04-26 15:57:07 -07:00
vlocation.c AFS: Correctly translate auth error aborts and don't failover in such cases 2009-06-16 21:20:14 -07:00
vnode.c AFS: drop explicit extern 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
volume.c FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache 2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
write.c vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00