Re: [PATCH][RFC] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls

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Mark Fasheh wrote:
>> 2. Should the corresponding ioctls be removed from ocfs2?
> 
> Well, a small amount of the code in fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c can certainly go away.
> Shouldn't we be talking about doing the same for xfs too?

Yep. I'll cook up cleanup patches for these two and post them.

-Ankit

> 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ankit Jain <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/ioctl.c             |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  fs/open.c              |   51 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  include/linux/falloc.h |   19 ++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/fs.h     |    2 +
>>  4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
>> index 43e8b2c..5e565c8 100644
>> --- a/fs/ioctl.c
>> +++ b/fs/ioctl.c
>> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>>  #include <linux/writeback.h>
>>  #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
>> +#include <linux/falloc.h>
>>  
>>  #include <asm/ioctls.h>
>>  
>> @@ -346,6 +347,37 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_block_fiemap);
>>  
>>  #endif  /*  CONFIG_BLOCK  */
>>  
>> +/*
>> + * This provides compatibility with legacy XFS pre-allocation ioctls
>> + * which predate the fallocate syscall.
>> + *
>> + * Only the l_start, l_len and l_whence fields of the 'struct space_resv'
>> + * are used here, rest are ignored.
>> + */
>> +static int ioctl_preallocate(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
>> +{
>> +	struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
>> +	struct space_resv sr;
>> +
>> +	if (copy_from_user(&sr, (struct space_resv __user *) arg, sizeof(sr)))
>> +		return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> +	switch (sr.l_whence) {
>> +	case SEEK_SET:
>> +		break;
>> +	case SEEK_CUR:
>> +		sr.l_start += filp->f_pos;
>> +		break;
>> +	case SEEK_END:
>> +		sr.l_start += i_size_read(inode);
>> +		break;
>> +	default:
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return do_fallocate(filp, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, sr.l_start, sr.l_len);
>> +}
>> +
>>  static int file_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
>>  		unsigned long arg)
>>  {
>> @@ -361,6 +393,11 @@ static int file_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
>>  		return put_user(inode->i_sb->s_blocksize, p);
>>  	case FIONREAD:
>>  		return put_user(i_size_read(inode) - filp->f_pos, p);
>> +	case F_IOC_RESVSP:
>> +	case F_IOC_RESVSP64:
>> +	case F_IOC_UNRESVSP:
>> +	case F_IOC_UNRESVSP64:
>> +		return ioctl_preallocate(filp, arg);
> 
> This patch is not implementing proper support for F_IOC_UNRESVSP and
> F_IOC_UNRESVSP64, so why are you catching those here? To be more clear,
> those are used for freeing space in a file ("puching holes"), which
> fallocate is not set up to do right now.
> 	--Mark
> 
> --
> Mark Fasheh

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