fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate

Introduce new FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate. This has the same
functionality as xfs ioctl XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE.

It can be used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably without
issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that span
holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
unwritten extents - even though file system may choose to zero out the
extent or do whatever which will result in reading zeros from the range
while the range remains allocated for the file.

This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE which should cause the inode
size to remain the same.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 4a923a547d103cf39156012ba5d0107c7562d65a..c4465b2f84410d1b7601b80fd36229a3cd943525 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -232,7 +232,12 @@ int do_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_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE))
+               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+       /* Punch hole and zero range are mutually exclusive */
+       if ((mode & (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE)) ==
+           (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE))
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        /* Punch hole must have keep size set */

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h
index 5ff562ddac0b11ba67173cbf37b7b812d8c7333e..d1197ae3723ce5193b0526ea8dfa0511d39c8407 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h
@@ -27,4 +27,18 @@
  */
 #define FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE       0x08
 
+/*
+ * FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably
+ * without issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that
+ * span holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
+ * unwritten extents - even though file system may choose to zero out the
+ * extent or do whatever which will result in reading zeros from the range
+ * while the range remains allocated for the file.
+ *
+ * This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
+ * with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE should cause the inode
+ * size to remain the same.
+ */
+#define FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE           0x10
+
 #endif /* _UAPI_FALLOC_H_ */