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mm for fs: add truncate_pagecache_range()

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Holepunching filesystems ext4 and xfs are using truncate_inode_pages_range
but forgetting to unmap pages first (ocfs2 remembers).  This is not really
a bug, since races already require truncate_inode_page() to handle that
case once the page is locked; but it can be very inefficient if the file
being punched happens to be mapped into many vmas.

Provide a drop-in replacement truncate_pagecache_range() which does the
unmapping pass first, handling the awkward mismatch between arguments to
truncate_inode_pages_range() and arguments to unmap_mapping_range().

Note that holepunching does not unmap privately COWed pages in the range:
POSIX requires that we do so when truncating, but it's hard to justify,
difficult to implement without an i_size cutoff, and no filesystem is
attempting to implement it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins 2012-03-28 14:42:40 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3748b2f15b
commit 623e3db9f9
2 changed files with 41 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/mm.h
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@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ extern void truncate_pagecache(struct inode *inode, loff_t old, loff_t new);
extern void truncate_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize);
extern int vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset);
extern int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end);
void truncate_pagecache_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end);
int truncate_inode_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
int generic_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);

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mm/truncate.c
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@ -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);