aha/arch/mips
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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alchemy MIPS: Alchemy: Fix hang with high-frequency edge interrupts 2009-11-02 12:00:08 +01:00
ar7 MIPS: AR7: register watchdog device only if enabled in hw configuration 2009-11-02 12:00:03 +01:00
basler/excite MIPS: Excite: Get rid of BKL. 2009-09-30 21:47:01 +02:00
bcm47xx MIPS: Make local arrays with CL_SIZE static __initdata 2009-11-13 18:10:37 +01:00
bcm63xx MIPS: bcm63xx: Set the correct BCM3302 CPU name 2009-11-02 12:00:07 +01:00
boot MIPS: Remove useless zero initializations. 2009-09-17 20:07:51 +02:00
cavium-octeon MIPS: Octeon: Use lockless interrupt controller operations when possible. 2009-11-02 12:00:07 +01:00
cobalt Update Yoichi Yuasa's e-mail address 2009-07-03 15:45:29 +01:00
configs MIPS: TXx9: Update rbtx49xx_defconfig 2009-11-13 18:10:37 +01:00
dec Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 09:15:24 -07:00
emma MIPS: Remove useless zero initializations. 2009-09-17 20:07:51 +02:00
fw MIPS: Remove useless zero initializations. 2009-09-17 20:07:51 +02:00
gt64120/wrppmc Update Yoichi Yuasa's e-mail address 2009-07-03 15:45:29 +01:00
include/asm vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
jazz MIPS: Add IRQF_TIMER flag for timer interrupts 2009-11-02 12:00:02 +01:00
kernel vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
lasat sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler. 2009-11-18 08:37:40 -08:00
lib MIPS: Fix __ndelay build error and add 'ull' suffix for 32-bit kernel 2009-06-17 11:06:24 +01:00
loongson vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
math-emu Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
mipssim cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips 2009-09-24 09:34:45 +09:30
mm vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
mti-malta MIPS: Make local arrays with CL_SIZE static __initdata 2009-11-13 18:10:37 +01:00
nxp MIPS: Add IRQF_TIMER flag for timer interrupts 2009-11-02 12:00:02 +01:00
oprofile MIPS: Oprofile: Rename cpu_type from godson2 to loongson2 2009-11-02 12:00:08 +01:00
pci MIPS: MSP71xx: request_irq() failure ignored in msp_pcibios_config_access() 2009-09-30 21:47:01 +02:00
pmc-sierra cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips 2009-09-24 09:34:45 +09:30
power MIPS: Use PAGE_SIZE in assembly instead of _PAGE_SIZE. 2009-09-17 20:07:48 +02:00
rb532 MIPS: RB532: Fix devices.c compilation. 2009-12-02 18:09:51 +00:00
sgi-ip22 MIPS: IP22, IP28: Build with -Werror 2009-09-17 20:07:44 +02:00
sgi-ip27 MIPS: Add IRQF_TIMER flag for timer interrupts 2009-11-02 12:00:02 +01:00
sgi-ip32 MIPS: IP32: Remove unnecessary if not even harmful volatile keywords. 2009-05-22 13:52:06 +01:00
sibyte MIPS: Sibyte: Get rid of BKL. 2009-09-30 21:47:01 +02:00
sni MIPS: Add IRQF_TIMER flag for timer interrupts 2009-11-02 12:00:02 +01:00
txx9 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
vr41xx Update Yoichi Yuasa's e-mail address 2009-07-03 15:45:29 +01:00
Kconfig MIPS: Loongson: Switch from flatmem to sparsemem 2009-12-01 16:21:26 +00:00
Kconfig.debug MIPS: Kconfig: Fix the arch-specific header path 2008-12-12 18:12:23 +00:00
Makefile arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0 2009-09-20 12:28:22 +02:00