fallocate should be a file operation
Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.
This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 1de65f5..0c8d97b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@
extern void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *);
extern void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *);
extern void ext4_ext_release(struct super_block *);
-extern long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset,
+extern long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
loff_t len);
extern int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
ssize_t len);