linux/arch/x86/mm
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
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kmemcheck Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck 2009-09-22 08:07:54 -07:00
dump_pagetables.c x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables 2009-04-14 11:50:22 +02:00
extable.c x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm 2009-10-12 18:29:46 +02:00
fault.c Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-05 15:33:27 -08:00
gup.c Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-20 11:29:32 -07:00
highmem_32.c Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not 2009-05-29 08:40:03 -07:00
init_32.c x86, cpa: Fix kernel text RO checks in static_protection() 2009-11-02 17:16:35 +01:00
init_64.c x86_64, cpa: Use only text section in set_kernel_text_rw/ro 2009-11-02 17:17:24 +01:00
init.c x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot 2009-11-16 13:44:59 -08:00
iomap_32.c x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs 2009-08-26 15:41:16 -07:00
ioremap.c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:34:17 -08:00
k8topology_64.c x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage 2009-11-24 12:10:51 +01:00
kmmio.c Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
Makefile x86: split NX setup into separate file to limit unstack-protected code 2009-09-21 13:56:58 -07:00
memtest.c x86: memtest: use pointers of equal type for comparison 2009-06-11 16:26:35 +02:00
mmap.c x86: Increase MIN_GAP to include randomized stack 2009-09-10 17:00:12 -07:00
mmio-mod.c tracing: x86, mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active 2009-04-29 11:33:34 +02:00
numa_32.c x86: Export k8 physical topology 2009-10-12 22:56:45 +02:00
numa_64.c x86, numa: Use near(er) online node instead of roundrobin for NUMA 2009-11-23 10:06:24 +01:00
numa.c cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t 2009-03-13 14:35:31 +01:00
pageattr-test.c x86: make sure the CPA test code's use of _PAGE_UNUSED1 is obvious 2008-09-05 17:09:57 +02:00
pageattr.c x86, pageattr: Make set_memory_(x|nx) aware of NX support 2009-11-16 13:44:58 -08:00
pat.c vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
pf_in.c x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding 2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
pf_in.h x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/. 2008-05-24 11:25:37 +02:00
pgtable_32.c x86/32: no need to use set_pte_present in set_pte_vaddr 2009-03-19 14:04:18 +01:00
pgtable.c x86, 32-bit: Fix double accounting in reserve_top_address() 2009-08-04 16:27:29 +02:00
physaddr.c x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
physaddr.h x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
setup_nx.c x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot 2009-11-16 13:44:59 -08:00
srat_32.c x86: Decrease the level of some NUMA messages to KERN_DEBUG 2009-09-06 06:32:23 +02:00
srat_64.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:27:33 -08:00
testmmiotrace.c testmmiotrace.c: Add and use pr_fmt(fmt) 2009-10-12 08:05:41 +02:00
tlb.c x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options 2009-11-19 04:58:34 +01:00