kill spurious reference to vmtruncate

Lots of filesystems calls vmtruncate despite not implementing the old
->truncate method.  Switch them to use simple_setsize and add some
comments about the truncate code where it seems fitting.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index c726da68e6b..12f445cee9f 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -967,12 +967,15 @@ static int do_writepage(struct page *page, int len)
  * the page locked, and it locks @ui_mutex. However, write-back does take inode
  * @i_mutex, which means other VFS operations may be run on this inode at the
  * same time. And the problematic one is truncation to smaller size, from where
- * we have to call 'vmtruncate()', which first changes @inode->i_size, then
+ * we have to call 'simple_setsize()', which first changes @inode->i_size, then
  * drops the truncated pages. And while dropping the pages, it takes the page
- * lock. This means that 'do_truncation()' cannot call 'vmtruncate()' with
+ * lock. This means that 'do_truncation()' cannot call 'simple_setsize()' with
  * @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock with 'ubifs_writepage()'. This
  * means that @inode->i_size is changed while @ui_mutex is unlocked.
  *
+ * XXX: with the new truncate the above is not true anymore, the simple_setsize
+ * calls can be replaced with the individual components.
+ *
  * But in 'ubifs_writepage()' we have to guarantee that we do not write beyond
  * inode size. How do we do this if @inode->i_size may became smaller while we
  * are in the middle of 'ubifs_writepage()'? The UBIFS solution is the
@@ -1125,7 +1128,7 @@ static int do_truncation(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
 		budgeted = 0;
 	}
 
-	err = vmtruncate(inode, new_size);
+	err = simple_setsize(inode, new_size);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_budg;
 
@@ -1214,7 +1217,7 @@ static int do_setattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
 
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		dbg_gen("size %lld -> %lld", inode->i_size, new_size);
-		err = vmtruncate(inode, new_size);
+		err = simple_setsize(inode, new_size);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -1223,7 +1226,7 @@ static int do_setattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		/* Truncation changes inode [mc]time */
 		inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ubifs_current_time(inode);
-		/* 'vmtruncate()' changed @i_size, update @ui_size */
+		/* 'simple_setsize()' changed @i_size, update @ui_size */
 		ui->ui_size = inode->i_size;
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index b0904536cc1..2eef553d50c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb {
  * The @ui_size is a "shadow" variable for @inode->i_size and UBIFS uses
  * @ui_size instead of @inode->i_size. The reason for this is that UBIFS cannot
  * make sure @inode->i_size is always changed under @ui_mutex, because it
- * cannot call 'vmtruncate()' with @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock
+ * cannot call 'simple_setsize()' with @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock
  * with 'ubifs_writepage()' (see file.c). All the other inode fields are
  * changed under @ui_mutex, so they do not need "shadow" fields. Note, one
  * could consider to rework locking and base it on "shadow" fields.