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authorM. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>2010-02-08 15:36:48 -0600
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@arly004.austin.ibm.com>2010-02-08 15:36:48 -0600
commit7a4439c406c21b1e900ed497cec1a79d05b38c07 (patch)
tree82f24249a7e970dc089406d334bd5d49cfecb7d1 /fs/9p/vfs_file.c
parent9d6939dac77102b09396ee0b89392ec7639612a7 (diff)
9p: Include fsync support for 9p client
Implement the fsync in the client side by marking stat field values to 'don't touch' so that server may interpret it as a request to guarantee that the contents of the associated file are committed to stable storage before the Rwstat message is returned. Without this patch, calling fsync on a 9p file results in "Invalid argument" error. Please check the attached C program. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/9p/vfs_file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/9p/vfs_file.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
index 3902bf43a088..74a0461a9ac0 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
@@ -257,6 +257,23 @@ v9fs_file_write(struct file *filp, const char __user * data,
return total;
}
+static int v9fs_file_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry,
+ int datasync)
+{
+ struct p9_fid *fid;
+ struct p9_wstat wstat;
+ int retval;
+
+ P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "filp %p dentry %p datasync %x\n", filp,
+ dentry, datasync);
+
+ fid = filp->private_data;
+ v9fs_blank_wstat(&wstat);
+
+ retval = p9_client_wstat(fid, &wstat);
+ return retval;
+}
+
static const struct file_operations v9fs_cached_file_operations = {
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
@@ -266,6 +283,7 @@ static const struct file_operations v9fs_cached_file_operations = {
.release = v9fs_dir_release,
.lock = v9fs_file_lock,
.mmap = generic_file_readonly_mmap,
+ .fsync = v9fs_file_fsync,
};
const struct file_operations v9fs_file_operations = {
@@ -276,4 +294,5 @@ const struct file_operations v9fs_file_operations = {
.release = v9fs_dir_release,
.lock = v9fs_file_lock,
.mmap = generic_file_readonly_mmap,
+ .fsync = v9fs_file_fsync,
};