linux/arch
Andrew Morton f79e2abb9b [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
Reasons:

- It's more flexible.  Things which would require two or three syscalls with
  fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.

- Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.

The patch wires up the syscall for x86.

The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c.  The intention is that we can
move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.

Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.

A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.

The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC.  I can skip the ->fsync call for
NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."

Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
the queue is congested.  This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
wbc->nonblocking.  But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
details down to that level.

Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).

Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines.  It makes such attempts appear to
succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility.  Perhaps it should make such
requests fail...

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
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alpha [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-03-28 13:53:03 -08:00
arm26 [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros 2006-03-27 08:44:48 -08:00
cris [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros 2006-03-27 08:44:48 -08:00
frv [PATCH] bitops: frv: use generic bitops 2006-03-26 08:57:12 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] bitops: h8300: use generic bitops 2006-03-26 08:57:12 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range() 2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-03-30 12:38:18 -08:00
m32r [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros 2006-03-27 08:44:48 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitions 2006-03-28 09:16:01 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] bitops: m68knommu: use generic bitops 2006-03-26 08:57:13 -08:00
mips [PATCH] remove add_parent()'s parent argument 2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
parisc [PARISC] Enabled some NLS modules in a500, b180 and c3000 defconfigs 2006-03-30 17:48:58 +00:00
powerpc [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
ppc [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc 2006-03-29 13:44:16 +11:00
s390 [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: s390 2006-03-31 12:18:52 -08:00
sh [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitions 2006-03-28 09:16:01 -08:00
sparc [PATCH] bitops: sparc: use generic bitops 2006-03-26 08:57:14 -08:00
sparc64 [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Sparc64 2006-03-28 09:16:00 -08:00
um [PATCH] uml: check for differences in host support 2006-03-31 12:18:52 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] bitops: v850: use generic bitops 2006-03-26 08:57:14 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes 2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00