fallocate support in ext4

This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this
patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system
call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports
preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date)
with extent maps. This patch does not support block-mapped files currently.
Only FALLOC_ALLOCATE and FALLOC_RESV_SPACE modes are being supported as of
now.

Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
index acfe59740b0..e3d5afc6f23 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(struct inode *inode)
 	EXT4_I(inode)->i_cached_extent.ec_type = EXT4_EXT_CACHE_NO;
 }
 
+static inline void ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(struct ext4_extent *ext)
+{
+	ext->ee_len |= cpu_to_le16(0x8000);
+}
+
+static inline int ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(struct ext4_extent *ext)
+{
+	return (int)(le16_to_cpu((ext)->ee_len) & 0x8000);
+}
+
+static inline int ext4_ext_get_actual_len(struct ext4_extent *ext)
+{
+	return (int)(le16_to_cpu((ext)->ee_len) & 0x7FFF);
+}
+
 extern int ext4_extent_tree_init(handle_t *, struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(struct inode *, struct ext4_ext_path *);
 extern unsigned int ext4_ext_check_overlap(struct inode *, struct ext4_extent *, struct ext4_ext_path *);