3 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
index 495dc8af4044..681ddf3e844c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
-/* open/fcntl - O_SYNC is only implemented on blocks devices and on files
-   located on an ext2 file system */
 #define O_ACCMODE	00000003
 #define O_RDONLY	00000000
 #define O_WRONLY	00000001
@@ -27,8 +25,8 @@
 #ifndef O_NONBLOCK
 #define O_NONBLOCK	00004000
 #endif
-#ifndef O_SYNC
-#define O_SYNC		00010000
+#ifndef O_DSYNC
+#define O_DSYNC		00010000	/* used to be O_SYNC, see below */
 #endif
 #ifndef FASYNC
 #define FASYNC		00020000	/* fcntl, for BSD compatibility */
@@ -51,6 +49,25 @@
 #ifndef O_CLOEXEC
 #define O_CLOEXEC	02000000	/* set close_on_exec */
 #endif
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+#ifndef O_SYNC
+#define __O_SYNC	04000000
+#define O_SYNC		(__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC)
+#endif
+
 #ifndef O_NDELAY
 #define O_NDELAY	O_NONBLOCK
 #endif
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h b/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
index 4c8d0afae711..fb2d63f13f4c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 #elif defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
 
-/* memmap is virtually contigious.  */
+/* memmap is virtually contiguous.  */
 #define __pfn_to_page(pfn)	(vmemmap + (pfn))
 #define __page_to_pfn(page)	(unsigned long)((page) - vmemmap)
 
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/asm-generic/unistd.h
index d76b66acea95..7c38c147e5e6 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_perf_event_open, sys_perf_event_open)
  * these are provided for both review and as a porting
  * help for the C library version.
 *
- * Last chance: are any of these important enought to
+ * Last chance: are any of these important enough to
  * enable by default?
  */
 #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYSCALL_NO_AT