Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix uniniatilized extend splitting error.

2008-01-11 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:31:03PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 17:31 +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > > While playing with new fancy fallocate interface on ext4 i've triggered > > bug which corrupted my grub :). > > I notice I'm CC'd on this, but in fact Amit wrote the code. I'v

Re: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page.

2007-07-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:07:41AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: > Hi folks > > As discussed in the conference call, we are going to create a new doc > on the ext4 wiki dedicated to track the development of some of the > features needed in e2fsprogs. The page will consist of mostly changes > neede

Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:23:42AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > [CC += [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Amit, Hi Michael, > Thanks for this page. I will endeavour to review it in > the coming days. In the meantime, the better address to CC > me on fot man pages stuff is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure. BTW

[PATCH 5/5][TAKE8] ext4: change for better extent-to-group alignment

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Change on-disk format for extent to represent uninitialized/initialized extents This change was suggested by Andreas Dilger. This patch changes the EXT_MAX_LEN value and extent code which marks/checks uninitialized extents. With this change it will be possibl

[PATCH 4/5][TAKE8] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write support for preallocated blocks This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new spl

[PATCH 3/5][TAKE8] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fallocate support in ext4 This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for r

[PATCH 2/5][TAKE8] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w

[PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. Following changed from TAKE7: * Removed FALLOC_ALLOCATE and FALLOCATE_RESV_SPACE modes. * Described only single flag for mode, i.e. FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE. * s/z

[PATCH 0/5][TAKE8] fallocate system call

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the latest fallocate patchset and is based on 2.6.22. * Following are the changes from TAKE7: 1) Updated the man page. 2) Merged "revalidate write permissions" patch with the main falloc patch. 3) Added linux/falloc.h and moved FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flag to it. Also removed the two modes

Re: [PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:21:37PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:18:47PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > From: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy &g

Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:06:51AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by > > David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. > &g

Re: [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:21:19PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:17:55PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > /* > > + * sys_fallocate - preallocate blocks or free preallocated blocks > > + * @fd: the file descriptor > > + * @mode: mod

[PATCH 6/6][TAKE7] ext4: change for better extent-to-group alignment

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Change on-disk format for extent to represent uninitialized/initialized extents This change was suggested by Andreas Dilger. This patch changes the EXT_MAX_LEN value and extent code which marks/checks uninitialized extents. With this change it will be possibl

[PATCH 5/6][TAKE7] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write support for preallocated blocks This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new spl

[PATCH 4/6][TAKE7] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fallocate support in ext4 This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for r

[PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has changed since the files were opened. Acked-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/open.c |3 +++ 1 files changed

[PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w

[PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok. .TH fallocate 2 .SH NAME fallocate \- allocate or remove file space .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #

[PATCH 0/6][TAKE7] fallocate system call

2007-07-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the latest fallocate patchset and is based on 2.6.22. * Following are the changes from TAKE6: 1) We now just have two modes (and no deallocation modes). 2) Updated the man page 3) Added a new patch submitted by David P. Quigley (Patch 3/6). 4) Used EXT_INIT_MAX_LEN instead of 0x8000 in Pa

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-12 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:13:34PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > > Why don't we just merge the interface for preallocation (essentially > > enough to satisfy posix_fallocate() and the simple XFS requirement for > > space

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-12 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:50PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > Well, if you see the modes proposed using above flags : &g

Re: [PATCH 1/7] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-11 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:37:01AM +0300, Heikki Orsila wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:48:20AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > .BI "int syscall(int, int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); > > Correction: "int syscall(int fd, int mode, ...)", Here

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-11 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:10:34PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > > +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c >

[PATCH 7/7] ext4: change for better extent-to-group alignment

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Change on-disk format for extent to represent uninitialized/initialized extents This change was suggested by Andreas Dilger as part of the following post: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org/msg02445.html This patch changes the EXT_MAX_LEN v

[PATCH 6/7] ext4: support new modes in ext4

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support new values of mode in ext4. This patch supports new mode values/flags in ext4. With this patch ext4 will be able to support FALLOC_ALLOCATE and FALLOC_RESV_SPACE modes. Supporting FALLOC_DEALLOCATE and FALLOC_UNRESV_SPACE fallocate modes in ext4 is a wo

[PATCH 5/7] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write support for preallocated blocks This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new spl

[PATCH 4/7] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fallocate support in ext4 This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for r

[PATCH 3/7] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Implement new flags and values for mode argument. This patch implements the new flags and values for the "mode" argument of the fallocate system call. It is based on the discussion between Andreas Dilger and David Chinner on the man page proposed (by the later

[PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w

[PATCH 1/7] manpage for fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. .TH fallocate 2 .SH NAME fallocate \- allocate or remove file space .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .BI "int syscall(int, int fd, int mode, loff_t offset,

[PATCH 0/7][TAKE6] fallocate system call

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the latest fallocate patchset and is rebased to 2.6.22. Following are the changes from TAKE5: 1) Rebased to 2.6.22 2) Added compat wrapper for x86_64 3) Dropped s390 and ia64 patches, since the platform maintaners can add the support for fallocate once it is in mainline. 4) Added a chan

Re: ext4-patch-queue rebased to 2.6.22

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:09:39AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 10, 2007 20:24 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:37:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > So we're just waiting for Amit to make the minor on-disk format change >

Re: ext4-patch-queue rebased to 2.6.22

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:37:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > So we're just waiting for Amit to make the minor on-disk format change > Andreas suggested before we push to Linus. I have commited following changes to the ext4 patch queue: 1. Updated ext4-fallocate-1-syscall_i386_amd64_ppc to add

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-03 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:31:07AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:38:48PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > FA_FL_DEALLOC 0x01 /* deallocate unwritten extent (default > > > allocate) */ > > > FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE 0x02 /* k

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-03 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:52:46PM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > The @mode flags that are currently under consideration are (AFAIK): > > FA_FL_DEALLOC 0x01 /* deallocate unwritten extent (default allocate) > */ > FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE 0x02 /* keep size for EOF {pre,de}alloc (default chan

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-02 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:55:43AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:02:47PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > > Can you clarify - what is the current behaviour when ENOSPC (o

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-28 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:18:04AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2007 16:02 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:26PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > >

Re: [PATCH 7/7][TAKE5] ext4: support new modes

2007-06-28 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:04:56AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:59:08AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:14:00PM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > On Jun 26, 2007 17:37 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > > I think

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:55:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:58:10 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > N O T E: > > --- > > 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part > >

Re: [PATCH 7/7][TAKE5] ext4: support new modes

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:14:00PM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007 17:37 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > Hmm.. I am thinking of a scenario when the file system supports some > > individual flags, but does not support a particular combination of them. > >

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:42:50AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007 16:15 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:52:39PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > In XFS one of the (many) ALLOC modes is to zero existing data on allocate. > > &

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007 16:02 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:26PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Can you clarify - what is the current behaviour when ENOSPC (or some other > > &

Re: [PATCH 7/7][TAKE5] ext4: support new modes

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:56:25PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 25, 2007 19:20 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > @@ -2499,7 +2500,8 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, > > * currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based > > * files _only_ &

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:52:39PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 25, 2007 19:15 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > +#define FA_FL_DEALLOC 0x01 /* default is allocate */ > > +#define FA_FL_KEEP_SIZE0x02 /* default is extend/shrink size */ > > +#define FA

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:26PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 25, 2007 20:33 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > I have not implemented FA_FL_FREE_ENOSPC and FA_ZERO_SPACE flags yet, as > > *suggested* by Andreas in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/323 post. > > If it

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
I have not implemented FA_FL_FREE_ENOSPC and FA_ZERO_SPACE flags yet, as *suggested* by Andreas in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/323 post. If it is decided that these flags are also needed, I will update this patch. Thanks! On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:15:00PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote

[PATCH 7/7][TAKE5] ext4: support new modes

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
Support new values of mode in ext4. This patch supports new mode values/flags in ext4. With this patch ext4 will be able to support FA_ALLOCATE and FA_RESV_SPACE modes. Supporting FA_DEALLOCATE and FA_UNRESV_SPACE fallocate modes in ext4 is a work for future. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PRO

[PATCH 6/7][TAKE5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new split extents with neighbouring ones, if possible. Changelog: - Changes

[PATCH 5/7][TAKE5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date) with extent

[PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
Implement new flags and values for mode argument. This patch implements the new flags and values for the "mode" argument of the fallocate system call. It is based on the discussion between Andreas Dilger and David Chinner on the man page proposed (by the later) on fallocate. Signed-off-by: Amit A

[PATCH 3/7][TAKE5] fallocate() on ia64

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
fallocate() on ia64 ia64 fallocate syscall support. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S === --- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S 2007-06-11 17:22:15.00

[PATCH 2/7][TAKE5] fallocate() on s390(x)

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky to support sys_fallocate() on s390(x) platform. He also suggested a wrapper in glibc to handle this system call on s390. Posting it here so that we get feedback for this too. .globl __fallocate ENTRY(__fallocate) stm %r6,%r7,28(%r15)

[PATCH 1/7][TAKE5] fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platforms. Changelog: - Changes from Take3 to Take4: 1) Do not update c/mtime. Let each filesystem update ctime (update of mtime will not be required for allocation since we touch only metadata/inod

[PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
N O T E: --- 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part of ext4 patch queue git tree hosted by Ted. 2) The above new patches (4/7 and 7/7) are based on the dicussion between Andreas Dilger and David Chinner on the mode argument, when later posted a man page o

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-06-12 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:01:57PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:33:01PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:39:50AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > All I'm really interested in right now is that the fallocate > > > _interface_ can be used

[PATCH 6/6][TAKE4] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new split extents with neighbouring ones, if possible. Changelog: - Changes

[PATCH 5/6][TAKE4] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date) with extent

[PATCH 3/6][TAKE4] fallocate() on ia64

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
Here is the 2.6.22-rc1 version of David's patch: add fallocate() on ia64 From: David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] ia64 fallocate syscall Cc: "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL P

[PATCH 4/6][TAKE4] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds a check for overlap of extents and cuts short the new extent to be inserted, if there is a chance of overlap. Changelog: - Changes from Take3 to Take4: - no change - Changes from Take2 to Take3: 1) Patch rebased to 2.6.22-rc1 kernel. Changes from Take1 to Take2: 1) As su

[PATCH 2/6][TAKE4] fallocate() on s390

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky to support sys_fallocate() on s390(x) platform. He also suggested a wrapper in glibc to handle this system call on s390. Posting it here so that we get feedback for this too. .globl __fallocate ENTRY(__fallocate) stm %r6,%r7,28(%r15)

[PATCH 1/6][TAKE4] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platforms. Changelog: - Changes from Take3 to Take4: 1) Do not update c/mtime. Let each filesystem update ctime (update of mtime will not be required for allocation since we touch only metadata/inod

[PATCH 0/6][TAKE4] fallocate system call

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
Description: --- fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need to support an inode operation called fallocate. Applications ca

Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE3] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-17 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:40:36AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:21:16AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:16 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:33:59AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > > &

Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE3] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-16 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:21:16AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:16 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:33:59AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > > > Following changes were made to the previous version: > > > 1) Added de

Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE3] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-16 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:42:46PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 01:33 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 > > and powerpc platforms. > > > @@ -1137,6 +1148,8 @@ struct inode_oper

[PATCH 5/5][TAKE3] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new split extents with neighbouring ones, if possible. Changelog: - Note: Th

[PATCH 4/5][TAKE3] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date) with extent

[PATCH 3/5][TAKE3] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds a check for overlap of extents and cuts short the new extent to be inserted, if there is a chance of overlap. Changelog: - Note: The changes below are from the initial post (dated 26th April, 2007) and _not_ from TAKE2. The only difference from TAKE2 is the kernel version o

[PATCH 2/5][TAKE3] fallocate() on s390

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky to support sys_fallocate() on s390(x) platform. He also suggested a wrapper in glibc to handle this system call on s390. Posting it here so that we get feedback for this too. .globl __fallocate ENTRY(__fallocate) stm %r6,%r7,28(%r15)

[PATCH 1/5][TAKE3] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platforms. Changelog: - Note: The changes below are from the initial post (dated 26th April, 2007) and _not_ from TAKE2. The only difference from TAKE2 is the kernel version on which this patch is based. TAK

[PATCH 0/5][TAKE3] fallocate system call

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ P L E A S EN O T E : *** 1. Patches have been now rebased to 2.6.22-rc1 kernel. Earlier they were based on 2.6.21. 2. An unnecessary export of symbol is removed from the ext4 preallocate patch. Details

Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE2] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:44:36AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:15:24 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 > > and powerpc platforms. >

Re: [PATCH 0/5][TAKE2] fallocate system call

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:31:21AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On May 14, 2007 18:59 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > > > > fd: The descriptor of the open file. > > > > mode*: T

Re: [PATCH 2/5][TAKE2] fallocate() on s390 - glibc wrapper

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:18:34PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky. Here are the comments > and patch from him. Martin also suggested a wrapper in glibc to handle this system call on s390. Posting it here so that we get feedback for this too

[PATCH 5/5][TAKE2] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new split extents with neighbouring ones, if possible. Changelog: - 1) Repl

[PATCH 4/5][TAKE2] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements ->fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date) with extent

[PATCH 3/5][TAKE2] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds a check for overlap of extents and cuts short the new extent to be inserted, if there is a chance of overlap. Changelog: - As suggested by Andrew, a check for wrap though zero has been added. Here is the new patch: Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext

[PATCH 2/5][TAKE2] fallocate() on s390

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky. Here are the comments and patch from him. - From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements support of fallocate system call on s390(x) platform. A wrapper is added to address the issue which s390 ABI has with the a

[PATCH 1/5][TAKE2] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platforms. Changelog: - Following changes were made to the previous version: 1) Added description before sys_fallocate() definition. 2) Return EINVAL for len<=0 (With new draft that Ulrich pointed to,

[PATCH 0/5][TAKE2] fallocate system call

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the new set of patches which take care of the review comments received from the community (mainly from Andrew). Description: --- fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:59:26AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:31:02PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > I have the updated patches ready which take care of Andrew's comments. > > Will run some tests and post them soon. > > > > But, be

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-09 Thread Amit K. Arora
I have the updated patches ready which take care of Andrew's comments. Will run some tests and post them soon. But, before submitting these patches, I think it will be better to finalize on certain things which might be worth some discussion here: 1) Should the file size change when preallocation

Re: 2.6.21-ext4-1

2007-05-09 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:24:49AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:05:56PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 12:50 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > BTW, have you guys tested mmap writes into unwritten extents? ;) > > > > > I am not sure, Amit, have you

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-09 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:37:22PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya writes: > > > > Of course the interface used by an application program would have the > > > fd first. Glibc can do the translation. > > > > I think that was understood. > > OK, then what does it matter what t

Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-08 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:24:37AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 17:37 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:43:32 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:40:26PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 4/26/07, Amit K. Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /* > >+ * ext4_ext_try_to_merge: > >+ * tries to merge the "ex" extent to the next extent in the tree. > >+ * It always tries t

Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:32:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:46:23 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + */ > > +int ext4_ext_try_to_merge(struct inode *inode, > > +

Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:43:32 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch has the ext4 implemtation of fallocate system call. > > > > ... > > > > +

Re: [PATCH 3/5] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:30:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:41:01 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +unsigned int ext4_ext_check_overlap(struct inode *inode, > > +

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The above opengroup page only permits S_ISREG. Preallocating directories > sounds quite useful to me, although it's something which would be pretty > hard to emulate if the FS doesn't support it. And there's a decent case to > be ma

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
Andrew, Thanks for the review comments! On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:29:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:33:32 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch implements the fallocate() system call and adds support for

Re: [PATCH 0/5] fallocate system call

2007-05-02 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:25:59PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:47:02AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > For FA_ALLOCATE, it's supposed to change the file size if we > > allocate past EOF, right? > > I would argue no. Use truncate for that. The patch I posted for e

[PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support for preallocated (using fallocate system call) blocks/extents. The preallocated extents in ext4 are marked "uninitialized", hence they need special handling especially while writing to them. This patch takes care of that. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch has the ext4 implemtation of fallocate system call. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 201 +++- fs/ext4/file.c |1 include/linux/ext4_fs.h |7 + include/linux/ext4_f

[PATCH 3/5] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is a fix for an extent-overlap bug. The fallocate() implementation on ext4 depends on this bugfix. Though this fix had been posted earlier, but because it is still not part of mainline code, I have attached it here too. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext4/extents.c

[PATCH 2/5] fallocate() on s390

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements support of fallocate system call on s390(x) platform. A wrapper is added to address the issue which s390 ABI has with "preferred" ordering of arguments in this system call (i.e. int, int, loff_t, loff_t). I will request s390 experts to please review this code and verify if th

[PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements the fallocate() system call and adds support for i386, x86_64 and powerpc. NOTE: It is based on 2.6.21 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |1 arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c |7 ++ arch/x86_64/ker

[PATCH 0/5] fallocate system call

2007-04-26 Thread Amit K. Arora
Based on the discussion, this new patchset uses following as the interface for fallocate() system call: asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) It seems that only s390 architecture has a problem with such a layout of arguments in fallocate(). Thus for s390, we

Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call

2007-04-24 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:59:18AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:21:46PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > Ok. > > In this case we may have to consider following things: > > > > 1) Obviously, for this glibc will have to call fallocate()

Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call

2007-04-20 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:06:00AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 17, 2007 18:25 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:14:17AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > Wouldn't > > > int fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode)

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