Support new values of mode in ext4. This patch supports new mode values/flags in ext4. With this patch ext4 will be able to support FA_ALLOCATE and FA_RESV_SPACE modes. Supporting FA_DEALLOCATE and FA_UNRESV_SPACE fallocate modes in ext4 is a work for future. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/ext4/extents.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -2477,7 +2477,8 @@ int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(stru /* * preallocate space for a file. This implements ext4's fallocate inode * operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call. - * Currently only FA_ALLOCATE mode is supported on extent based files. + * Currently only FA_ALLOCATE and FA_RESV_SPACE modes are supported on + * extent based files. * We may have more modes supported in future - like FA_DEALLOCATE, which * tells fallocate to unallocate previously (pre)allocated blocks. * For block-mapped files, posix_fallocate should fall back to the method @@ -2499,7 +2500,8 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, * currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based * files _only_ */ - if (mode != FA_ALLOCATE || !(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) + if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) || + !(mode == FA_ALLOCATE || mode == FA_RESV_SPACE)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; /* preallocation to directories is currently not supported */ @@ -2572,9 +2574,10 @@ retry: /* * Time to update the file size. - * Update only when preallocation was requested beyond the file size. + * Update only when preallocation was requested beyond the file size + * and when FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE mode is not specified! */ - if ((offset + len) > i_size_read(inode)) { + if (!(mode & FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && (offset + len) > i_size_read(inode)) { if (ret > 0) { /* * if no error, we assume preallocation succeeded - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html