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| author | Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-05-25 07:41:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-05-25 07:41:50 -0400 |
| commit | a4bb6b64e39abc0e41ca077725f2a72c868e7622 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d911caa13d445d64cce5ea37f424bf066731ea6 /fs/ext4/ext4.h | |
| parent | e861304b8ed83fe43e36d46794d72641c82d4636 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a4bb6b64e39abc0e41ca077725f2a72c868e7622.tar.gz linux-a4bb6b64e39abc0e41ca077725f2a72c868e7622.tar.xz | |
ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality
This patch adds new routines: "ext4_punch_hole" "ext4_ext_punch_hole"
and "ext4_ext_check_cache"
fallocate has been modified to call ext4_punch_hole when the punch hole
flag is passed. At the moment, we only support punching holes in
extents, so this routine is pretty much a wrapper for the ext4_ext_punch_hole
routine.
The ext4_ext_punch_hole routine first completes all outstanding writes
with the associated pages, and then releases them. The unblock
aligned data is zeroed, and all blocks in between are punched out.
The ext4_ext_check_cache routine is very similar to ext4_ext_in_cache
except it accepts a ext4_ext_cache parameter instead of a ext4_extent
parameter. This routine is used by ext4_ext_punch_hole to check and
see if a block in a hole that has been cached. The ext4_ext_cache
parameter is necessary because the members ext4_extent structure are
not large enough to hold a 32 bit value. The existing
ext4_ext_in_cache routine has become a wrapper to this new function.
[ext4 punch hole patch series 5/5 v7]
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index c48f9db5b96b..7bc7c724805d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -1816,6 +1816,7 @@ extern int ext4_change_inode_journal_flag(struct inode *, int); extern int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *, struct ext4_iloc *); extern int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode); extern void ext4_truncate(struct inode *); +extern int ext4_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length); extern int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *, struct inode *, int nblocks); extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *); extern void ext4_get_inode_flags(struct ext4_inode_info *); @@ -2157,6 +2158,8 @@ extern int ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, extern int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, struct ext4_map_blocks *map, int flags); extern void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *); +extern int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, + loff_t length); extern void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *); extern void ext4_ext_release(struct super_block *); extern long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, |