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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] export iov_shorten for ext4's use
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:59:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4762C470.8040003@redhat.com> (raw)

ext4 needs to deal with 2 different max file offsets for block- and 
extent-allocated file formats, whereas the s_maxbytes scheme can only deal 
with one.  So, for block-allocated files, we must catch and fix up
too-large offsets from within the filesystem.

Having iov_shorten exported allows such things as:

		if (pos + length > sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes) {
			nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs,
					      sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes - pos);
		}

to fix up too-large writes to these files in ext4_file_write().

This patch is currently living in the ext4 patch queue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

---

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc3.orig/fs/read_write.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/read_write.c
@@ -451,6 +451,8 @@ unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *
 	return seg;
 }
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_shorten);
+
 ssize_t do_sync_readv_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
 		unsigned long nr_segs, size_t len, loff_t *ppos, iov_fn_t fn)
 {




             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14 17:59 UTC|newest]

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2007-12-14 17:59 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-12-17 15:14 ` [PATCH] export iov_shorten for ext4's use Eric Sandeen

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