The patch titled Subject: fat: skip cluster allocation on fallocated region has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fat-skip-cluster-allocation-on-fallocated-region.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fat: skip cluster allocation on fallocated region Skip new cluster allocation after checking i_blocks limit in _fat_get_block, because the blocks are already allocated in fallocated region. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fat/inode.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/fat/inode.c~fat-skip-cluster-allocation-on-fallocated-region fs/fat/inode.c --- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-skip-cluster-allocation-on-fallocated-region +++ a/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static inline int __fat_get_block(struct struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb); unsigned long mapped_blocks; - sector_t phys; + sector_t phys, last_block; int err, offset; err = fat_bmap(inode, iblock, &phys, &mapped_blocks, create); @@ -135,8 +135,14 @@ static inline int __fat_get_block(struct return -EIO; } + last_block = inode->i_blocks >> (sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9); offset = (unsigned long)iblock & (sbi->sec_per_clus - 1); - if (!offset) { + /* + * allocate a cluster according to the following. + * 1) no more available blocks + * 2) not part of fallocate region + */ + if (!offset && !(iblock < last_block)) { /* TODO: multiple cluster allocation would be desirable. */ err = fat_add_cluster(inode); if (err) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html