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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> |
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| caching | ||
| configfs | ||
| nfs | ||
| pohmelfs | ||
| 00-INDEX | ||
| 9p.txt | ||
| adfs.txt | ||
| affs.txt | ||
| afs.txt | ||
| autofs4-mount-control.txt | ||
| automount-support.txt | ||
| befs.txt | ||
| bfs.txt | ||
| btrfs.txt | ||
| ceph.txt | ||
| cifs.txt | ||
| coda.txt | ||
| cramfs.txt | ||
| debugfs.txt | ||
| dentry-locking.txt | ||
| devpts.txt | ||
| directory-locking | ||
| dlmfs.txt | ||
| dnotify.txt | ||
| dnotify_test.c | ||
| ecryptfs.txt | ||
| exofs.txt | ||
| ext2.txt | ||
| ext3.txt | ||
| ext4.txt | ||
| fiemap.txt | ||
| files.txt | ||
| fuse.txt | ||
| gfs2-glocks.txt | ||
| gfs2-uevents.txt | ||
| gfs2.txt | ||
| hfs.txt | ||
| hfsplus.txt | ||
| hpfs.txt | ||
| inotify.txt | ||
| isofs.txt | ||
| jfs.txt | ||
| Locking | ||
| locks.txt | ||
| logfs.txt | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mandatory-locking.txt | ||
| ncpfs.txt | ||
| nilfs2.txt | ||
| ntfs.txt | ||
| ocfs2.txt | ||
| omfs.txt | ||
| porting | ||
| proc.txt | ||
| quota.txt | ||
| ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt | ||
| relay.txt | ||
| romfs.txt | ||
| seq_file.txt | ||
| sharedsubtree.txt | ||
| smbfs.txt | ||
| spufs.txt | ||
| squashfs.txt | ||
| sysfs-pci.txt | ||
| sysfs-tagging.txt | ||
| sysfs.txt | ||
| sysv-fs.txt | ||
| tmpfs.txt | ||
| ubifs.txt | ||
| udf.txt | ||
| ufs.txt | ||
| vfat.txt | ||
| vfs.txt | ||
| xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt | ||
| xfs.txt | ||
| xip.txt | ||