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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
Ralf Baechle c0648e02db MIPS: VPE: Fix build after the credential changes a while ago.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-09-30 21:47:02 +02:00
Ralf Baechle 982f6ffeee MIPS: Remove useless zero initializations.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-09-17 20:07:51 +02:00
David Howells b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
Kevin D. Kissell 1928cc84a0 [MIPS] MT: Functional fixes and a little reformatting of APRP support
Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-05-12 16:46:51 +01:00
Al Viro 9f3acc3140 [PATCH] split linux/file.h
Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
Joe Perches 603e82edf7 arch/mips/: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 16:54:53 +02:00
Alejandro Martinez Ruiz 2b22c034d0 [MIPS] Converting most array size calculations to use ARRAY_SIZE().
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-01-29 10:14:54 +00:00
Ralf Baechle 21a151d8ca [MIPS] checkfiles: Fix "need space after that ','" errors.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:15 +01:00
Ralf Baechle 49a89efbbb [MIPS] Fix "no space between function name and open parenthesis" warnings.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:15 +01:00
Ralf Baechle 07cc0c9e65 [MIPS] MT: Enable coexistence of AP/SP with VSMP and SMTC.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-07-31 21:35:24 +01:00
Ralf Baechle 7f5a7716dc [MIPS] Fix AP/SP to work in the reality of modern kernels.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:23 +01:00
Ralf Baechle 46230aa6ea [MIPS] RTLX: Handle copy_*_user return values.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-17 01:03:29 +00:00
Ralf Baechle 0e6ee854e7 [MIPS] kspd: ioctl needs a translation entry.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-13 16:59:31 +00:00
Vadim Lobanov bbea9f6966 [PATCH] fdtable: Make fdarray and fdsets equal in size
Currently, each fdtable supports three dynamically-sized arrays of data: the
fdarray and two fdsets.  The code allows the number of fds supported by the
fdarray (fdtable->max_fds) to differ from the number of fds supported by each
of the fdsets (fdtable->max_fdset).

In practice, it is wasteful for these two sizes to differ: whenever we hit a
limit on the smaller-capacity structure, we will reallocate the entire fdtable
and all the dynamic arrays within it, so any delta in the memory used by the
larger-capacity structure will never be touched at all.

Rather than hogging this excess, we shouldn't even allocate it in the first
place, and keep the capacities of the fdarray and the fdsets equal.  This
patch removes fdtable->max_fdset.  As an added bonus, most of the supporting
code becomes simpler.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00
David Howells 6d5aefb8ea WorkQueue: Fix up arch-specific work items where possible
Fix up arch-specific work items where possible to use the new work_struct and
delayed_work structs.

Three places that enqueue bits of their stack and then return have been marked
with #error as this is not permitted.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 19:36:26 +00:00
Ralf Baechle 2600990e64 [MIPS] kpsd and other AP/SP improvements.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-04-19 04:14:27 +02:00