Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h
index d4d9c9d852c3..3b9cfb39175e 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 #ifndef _SPARC_FCNTL_H
 #define _SPARC_FCNTL_H
 
-/* open/fcntl - O_SYNC is only implemented on blocks devices and on files
-   located on an ext2 file system */
 #define O_APPEND	0x0008
 #define FASYNC		0x0040	/* fcntl, for BSD compatibility */
 #define O_CREAT		0x0200	/* not fcntl */
 #define O_TRUNC		0x0400	/* not fcntl */
 #define O_EXCL		0x0800	/* not fcntl */
-#define O_SYNC		0x2000
+#define O_DSYNC		0x2000	/* used to be O_SYNC, see below */
 #define O_NONBLOCK	0x4000
 #if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)
 #define O_NDELAY	0x0004
@@ -20,6 +18,21 @@
 #define O_DIRECT        0x100000 /* direct disk access hint */
 #define O_NOATIME	0x200000
 #define O_CLOEXEC	0x400000
+/*
+ * Before Linux 2.6.32 only O_DSYNC semantics were implemented, but using
+ * the O_SYNC flag.  We continue to use the existing numerical value
+ * for O_DSYNC semantics now, but using the correct symbolic name for it.
+ * This new value is used to request true Posix O_SYNC semantics.  It is
+ * defined in this strange way to make sure applications compiled against
+ * new headers get at least O_DSYNC semantics on older kernels.
+ *
+ * This has the nice side-effect that we can simply test for O_DSYNC
+ * wherever we do not care if O_DSYNC or O_SYNC is used.
+ *
+ * Note: __O_SYNC must never be used directly.
+ */
+#define __O_SYNC	0x800000
+#define O_SYNC		(__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC)
 
 #define F_GETOWN	5	/*  for sockets. */
 #define F_SETOWN	6	/*  for sockets. */