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 --- mm/fadvise.c | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c index 907c39257ca0..0a03357a1f8e 100644 --- a/mm/fadvise.c +++ b/mm/fadvise.c @@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ * * LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk. * - * LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently - * dirty pages at the disk. - * - * LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push - * all of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been - * written. - * - * It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's - * metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of - * already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data - * will be available after a crash. */ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice) { @@ -129,15 +118,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice) invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index, end_index); break; - case LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: - ret = __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte, - WB_SYNC_NONE); - break; - case LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: - ret = wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, - offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, - endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); - break; default: ret = -EINVAL; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b