From f79e2abb9bd452d97295f34376dedbec9686b986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:30:42 -0800 Subject: [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 Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 20a7afd4590c..4ed7e602d703 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -757,6 +757,13 @@ extern void send_sigio(struct fown_struct *fown, int fd, int band); extern int fcntl_setlease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, long arg); extern int fcntl_getlease(struct file *filp); +/* fs/sync.c */ +#define SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE 1 +#define SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE 2 +#define SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER 4 +extern int do_sync_file_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t endbyte, + int flags); + /* fs/locks.c */ extern void locks_init_lock(struct file_lock *); extern void locks_copy_lock(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151