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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-03-08 16:39:49 +0530
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2011-03-22 15:43:36 -0500
commitea59bb759b8fd240860c37026ab1b998d26ac285 (patch)
treede7fee45a8c08b7407f1b0d833889ca69154a506 /fs/9p
parent059c138bc79320bd7d6fba91bad4d50eeec9c31f (diff)
fs/9p: Open writeback fid in O_SYNC mode
Older version of protocol don't support tsyncfs operation. So for them force a O_SYNC flag on the server Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/9p')
-rw-r--r--fs/9p/fid.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/9p/fid.c b/fs/9p/fid.c
index cd63e002d82..99a1a7b0863 100644
--- a/fs/9p/fid.c
+++ b/fs/9p/fid.c
@@ -286,9 +286,11 @@ static struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_clone_with_uid(struct dentry *dentry, uid_t uid)
struct p9_fid *v9fs_writeback_fid(struct dentry *dentry)
{
- int err;
+ int err, flags;
struct p9_fid *fid;
+ struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses;
+ v9ses = v9fs_inode2v9ses(dentry->d_inode);
fid = v9fs_fid_clone_with_uid(dentry, 0);
if (IS_ERR(fid))
goto error_out;
@@ -297,8 +299,17 @@ struct p9_fid *v9fs_writeback_fid(struct dentry *dentry)
* dirty pages. We always request for the open fid in read-write
* mode so that a partial page write which result in page
* read can work.
+ *
+ * we don't have a tsyncfs operation for older version
+ * of protocol. So make sure the write back fid is
+ * opened in O_SYNC mode.
*/
- err = p9_client_open(fid, O_RDWR);
+ if (!v9fs_proto_dotl(v9ses))
+ flags = O_RDWR | O_SYNC;
+ else
+ flags = O_RDWR;
+
+ err = p9_client_open(fid, flags);
if (err < 0) {
p9_client_clunk(fid);
fid = ERR_PTR(err);