fallocate should be a file operation
Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously, while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure available that lets us check for O_SYNC. This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems, and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire up fallocate for regular files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ extern int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
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extern void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *);
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extern void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *);
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extern void ext4_ext_release(struct super_block *);
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extern long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset,
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extern long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
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loff_t len);
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extern int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
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ssize_t len);
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