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authornpiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>2010-05-27 01:05:33 +1000
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-05-27 22:15:33 -0400
commit7bb46a6734a7e1ad4beaecc11cae7ed3ff81d30f (patch)
treee575d9c55e2a6ccc645dcb3ae2564de458b428f2 /include/linux/buffer_head.h
parent7000d3c424e5bb350e502a477fb0e1ed42f8b10e (diff)
fs: introduce new truncate sequence
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced previously should be used. simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go away. simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache). To implement the new truncate sequence: - filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in the setattr method rather than ->truncate. - vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed in the fs code. - convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin, cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous). - inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode. - make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence. Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle block deallocation). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 05e5f5996216..1b9ba193b789 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ int block_write_full_page_endio(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);
int block_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *page, read_descriptor_t *desc,
unsigned long from);
+int block_write_begin_newtrunc(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+ loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+ struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
int block_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *,
loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
@@ -214,6 +217,9 @@ int generic_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
struct page *, void *);
void page_zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);
int block_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*);
+int cont_write_begin_newtrunc(struct file *, struct address_space *, loff_t,
+ unsigned, unsigned, struct page **, void **,
+ get_block_t *, loff_t *);
int cont_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *, loff_t,
unsigned, unsigned, struct page **, void **,
get_block_t *, loff_t *);
@@ -225,6 +231,9 @@ void block_sync_page(struct page *);
sector_t generic_block_bmap(struct address_space *, sector_t, get_block_t *);
int block_truncate_page(struct address_space *, loff_t, get_block_t *);
int file_fsync(struct file *, int);
+int nobh_write_begin_newtrunc(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+ loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+ struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
int nobh_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *,
loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);