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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index f5fdd39e037a..6b891328f332 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static int nfs_need_sync_write(struct file *filp, struct inode *inode)
 {
         struct nfs_open_context *ctx;
 
-        if (IS_SYNC(inode) || (filp->f_flags & O_SYNC))
+        if (IS_SYNC(inode) || (filp->f_flags & O_DSYNC))
                 return 1;
         ctx = nfs_file_open_context(filp);
         if (test_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_ERROR_WRITE, &ctx->flags))
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 
         nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALWRITTENBYTES, count);
         result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
-        /* Return error values for O_SYNC and IS_SYNC() */
+        /* Return error values for O_DSYNC and IS_SYNC() */
         if (result >= 0 && nfs_need_sync_write(iocb->ki_filp, inode)) {
                 int err = nfs_do_fsync(nfs_file_open_context(iocb->ki_filp), inode);
                 if (err < 0)