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fallocate should be a file operation

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Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit.  Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes.  On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions.   Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.

This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-14 13:07:43 +01:00
committed by Al Viro
parent 64c23e8687
commit 2fe17c1075
13 changed files with 440 additions and 448 deletions
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fs/ext4/extents.c
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@@ -3627,14 +3627,15 @@ static void ext4_falloc_update_inode(struct inode *inode,
}
/*
* preallocate space for a file. This implements ext4's fallocate inode
* preallocate space for a file. This implements ext4's fallocate file
* operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call.
* For block-mapped files, posix_fallocate should fall back to the method
* of writing zeroes to the required new blocks (the same behavior which is
* expected for file systems which do not support fallocate() system call).
*/
long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
handle_t *handle;
loff_t new_size;
unsigned int max_blocks;
@@ -3655,10 +3656,6 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
/* preallocation to directories is currently not supported */
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -ENODEV;
map.m_lblk = offset >> blkbits;
/*
* We can't just convert len to max_blocks because