Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/12] fs: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:47:48AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE command is the opposite command of
> FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE that is needed for advertisers or someone who want to
> add some data in the middle of file. FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE will create space
> for writing new data within a file after shifting extents to right as given
> length. and this command also has same limitation as FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE,
> that is block boundary and use ftruncate(2) for crosses EOF.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brian Foster<bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/open.c                   |    8 +++++++-
>  include/uapi/linux/falloc.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index 813be03..762fb45 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ int vfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
>  
>  	/* Return error if mode is not supported */
>  	if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE |
> -		     FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE))
> +		     FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE |
> +		     FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE))
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

Can we create a FALLOC_FL_SUPPORTED_MASK define in falloc.h
so that we only need to add new flags to the mask in rather than
change this code every time we add a new flag?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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