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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-04-19 09:23:28 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-04-19 09:23:28 -0300
commitd5aeee8cb28317ef608ecac421abc4d986d585d2 (patch)
tree70ec8ed8891f26e5c58152ffca9924ea1c58fe3a /mm/truncate.c
parent32898a145404acbebe3256709e012c2830a2043b (diff)
parente816b57a337ea3b755de72bec38c10c864f23015 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.4-rc3' into staging/for_v3.5
* tag 'v3.4-rc3': (3755 commits) Linux 3.4-rc3 x86-32: fix up strncpy_from_user() sign error ARM: 7386/1: jump_label: fixup for rename to static_key ARM: 7384/1: ThumbEE: Disable userspace TEEHBR access for !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE ARM: 7382/1: mm: truncate memory banks to fit in 4GB space for classic MMU ARM: 7359/2: smp_twd: Only wait for reprogramming on active cpus PCI: Fix regression in pci_restore_state(), v3 SCSI: Fix error handling when no ULD is attached ARM: OMAP: clock: cleanup CPUfreq leftovers, fix build errors ARM: dts: remove blank interrupt-parent properties ARM: EXYNOS: Fix Kconfig dependencies for device tree enabled machine files do not export kernel's NULL #define to userspace ARM: EXYNOS: Remove broken config values for touchscren for NURI board ARM: EXYNOS: set fix xusbxti clock for NURI and Universal210 boards ARM: EXYNOS: fix regulator name for NURI board ARM: SAMSUNG: make SAMSUNG_PM_DEBUG select DEBUG_LL cpufreq: OMAP: fix build errors: depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS sparc64: Eliminate obsolete __handle_softirq() function sparc64: Fix bootup crash on sun4v. ARM: msm: Fix section mismatches in proc_comm.c ...
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diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 18aded3a89fc..61a183b89df6 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -626,3 +626,43 @@ int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
return 0;
}
+
+/**
+ * truncate_pagecache_range - unmap and remove pagecache that is hole-punched
+ * @inode: inode
+ * @lstart: offset of beginning of hole
+ * @lend: offset of last byte of hole
+ *
+ * This function should typically be called before the filesystem
+ * releases resources associated with the freed range (eg. deallocates
+ * blocks). This way, pagecache will always stay logically coherent
+ * with on-disk format, and the filesystem would not have to deal with
+ * situations such as writepage being called for a page that has already
+ * had its underlying blocks deallocated.
+ */
+void truncate_pagecache_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+ loff_t unmap_start = round_up(lstart, PAGE_SIZE);
+ loff_t unmap_end = round_down(1 + lend, PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
+ /*
+ * This rounding is currently just for example: unmap_mapping_range
+ * expands its hole outwards, whereas we want it to contract the hole
+ * inwards. However, existing callers of truncate_pagecache_range are
+ * doing their own page rounding first; and truncate_inode_pages_range
+ * currently BUGs if lend is not pagealigned-1 (it handles partial
+ * page at start of hole, but not partial page at end of hole). Note
+ * unmap_mapping_range allows holelen 0 for all, and we allow lend -1.
+ */
+
+ /*
+ * Unlike in truncate_pagecache, unmap_mapping_range is called only
+ * once (before truncating pagecache), and without "even_cows" flag:
+ * hole-punching should not remove private COWed pages from the hole.
+ */
+ if ((u64)unmap_end > (u64)unmap_start)
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, unmap_start,
+ 1 + unmap_end - unmap_start, 0);
+ truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, lstart, lend);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_pagecache_range);