[PATCH 7/7][TAKE5] ext4: support new modes

Amit K. Arora
2007-06-25T13:50:47Z

Support new values of mode in ext4.

This patch supports new mode values/flags in ext4. With this patch ext4
will be able to support FA_ALLOCATE and FA_RESV_SPACE modes. Supporting
FA_DEALLOCATE and FA_UNRESV_SPACE fallocate modes in ext4 is a work for
future.

Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/ext4/extents.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2477,7 +2477,8 @@ int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(stru
/*
* preallocate space for a file. This implements ext4's fallocate inode
* operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call.
- * Currently only FA_ALLOCATE mode is supported on extent based files.
+ * Currently only FA_ALLOCATE and FA_RESV_SPACE modes are supported on
+ * extent based files.
* We may have more modes supported in future - like FA_DEALLOCATE, which
* tells fallocate to unallocate previously (pre)allocated blocks.
* For block-mapped files, posix_fallocate should fall back to the method
@@ -2499,7 +2500,8 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode,
* currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based
* files _only_
*/
- if (mode != FA_ALLOCATE || !(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+ if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) ||
+ !(mode == FA_ALLOCATE || mode == FA_RESV_SPACE))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

/* preallocation to directories is currently not supported */
@@ -2572,9 +2574,10 @@ retry:

/*
* Time to update the file size.
- * Update only when preallocation was requested beyond the file size.
+ * Update only when preallocation was requested beyond the file size
+ * and when FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE mode is not specified!
*/
- if ((offset + len) > i_size_read(inode)) {
+ if (!(mode & FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && (offset + len) > i_size_read(inode)) {
if (ret > 0) {
/*
* if no error, we assume preallocation succeeded