[PATCH 04/21] fs: Add RWF_ATOMIC and IOCB_ATOMIC flags for atomic write support

John Garry
2023-09-29T10:29:07Z

From: Prasad Singamsetty <prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com>

Userspace may add flag RWF_ATOMIC to pwritev2() to indicate that the
write is to be issued with torn write prevention, according to special
alignment and length rules.

Torn write prevention means that for a power or any other HW failure, all
or none of the data will be committed to storage, but never a mix of old
and new.

For any syscall interface utilizing struct iocb, add IOCB_ATOMIC for
iocb->ki_flags field to indicate the same.

A call to statx will give the relevant atomic write info:
- atomic_write_unit_min
- atomic_write_unit_max

Both values are a power-of-2.

Applications can avail of atomic write feature by ensuring that the total
length of a write is a power-of-2 in size and also sized between
atomic_write_unit_min and atomic_write_unit_max, inclusive. Applications
must ensure that the write is at a naturally-aligned offset in the file
wrt the total write length.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Singamsetty <prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b528f063e8ff..898952dee8eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ enum rw_hint {
#define IOCB_SYNC (__force int) RWF_SYNC
#define IOCB_NOWAIT (__force int) RWF_NOWAIT
#define IOCB_APPEND (__force int) RWF_APPEND
+#define IOCB_ATOMIC (__force int) RWF_ATOMIC

/* non-RWF related bits - start at 16 */
#define IOCB_EVENTFD (1 << 16)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index b7b56871029c..e3b4f5bc6860 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -301,8 +301,11 @@ typedef int __bitwise __kernel_rwf_t;
/* per-IO O_APPEND */
#define RWF_APPEND ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000010)

+/* Atomic Write */
+#define RWF_ATOMIC ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000020)
+
/* mask of flags supported by the kernel */
#define RWF_SUPPORTED (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT |\
- RWF_APPEND)
+ RWF_APPEND | RWF_ATOMIC)

#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H */
--
2.31.1