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    vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics · 6b2f3d1f
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    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: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
    Acked-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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