linux/fs/ubifs
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
..
budget.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into linux-next 2009-09-21 12:09:22 +03:00
commit.c UBIFS: suppress compilation warning 2009-07-24 15:14:54 +03:00
compress.c
debug.c UBIFS: fix debugging dump 2009-09-17 15:08:31 +03:00
debug.h UBIFS: improve journal head debugging prints 2009-09-15 17:05:06 +03:00
dir.c UBIFS: return error if link and unlink race 2009-05-19 11:01:31 +03:00
file.c vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
find.c
gc.c UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
io.c UBIFS: improve journal head debugging prints 2009-09-15 17:05:06 +03:00
ioctl.c headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
journal.c UBIFS: improve journal head debugging prints 2009-09-15 17:05:06 +03:00
Kconfig
key.h UBIFS: add inode size debugging check 2009-09-10 09:58:11 +03:00
log.c UBIFS: improve journal head debugging prints 2009-09-15 17:05:06 +03:00
lprops.c UBIFS: improve lprops dump 2009-09-15 17:09:48 +03:00
lpt_commit.c
lpt.c
Makefile
master.c UBIFS: check ubifs_scan error codes better 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
misc.h
orphan.c UBIFS: check ubifs_scan error codes better 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
recovery.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
replay.c UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
sb.c
scan.c UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
shrinker.c
super.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into linux-next 2009-09-21 12:09:22 +03:00
tnc_commit.c UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly 2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
tnc_misc.c
tnc.c UBIFS: add inode size debugging check 2009-09-10 09:58:11 +03:00
ubifs-media.h UBIFS: define journal head numbers in ubifs-media.h 2009-09-15 14:45:35 +03:00
ubifs.h UBIFS: improve lprops dump 2009-09-15 17:09:48 +03:00
xattr.c const: mark remaining address_space_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00