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authornpiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>2010-05-26 17:05:34 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-05-28 04:15:42 +0200
commit15c6fd9786dfaab43547bf60df6fa63170fb64fc (patch)
treeafd997b3402761e28b6c39f414fbd93c69fdcdce /fs/ubifs
parentfs: introduce new truncate sequence (diff)
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kill spurious reference to vmtruncate
Lots of filesystems calls vmtruncate despite not implementing the old ->truncate method. Switch them to use simple_setsize and add some comments about the truncate code where it seems fitting. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/file.c13
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/ubifs.h2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index c726da68e6be..12f445cee9f7 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -967,12 +967,15 @@ static int do_writepage(struct page *page, int len)
* the page locked, and it locks @ui_mutex. However, write-back does take inode
* @i_mutex, which means other VFS operations may be run on this inode at the
* same time. And the problematic one is truncation to smaller size, from where
- * we have to call 'vmtruncate()', which first changes @inode->i_size, then
+ * we have to call 'simple_setsize()', which first changes @inode->i_size, then
* drops the truncated pages. And while dropping the pages, it takes the page
- * lock. This means that 'do_truncation()' cannot call 'vmtruncate()' with
+ * lock. This means that 'do_truncation()' cannot call 'simple_setsize()' with
* @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock with 'ubifs_writepage()'. This
* means that @inode->i_size is changed while @ui_mutex is unlocked.
*
+ * XXX: with the new truncate the above is not true anymore, the simple_setsize
+ * calls can be replaced with the individual components.
+ *
* But in 'ubifs_writepage()' we have to guarantee that we do not write beyond
* inode size. How do we do this if @inode->i_size may became smaller while we
* are in the middle of 'ubifs_writepage()'? The UBIFS solution is the
@@ -1125,7 +1128,7 @@ static int do_truncation(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
budgeted = 0;
}
- err = vmtruncate(inode, new_size);
+ err = simple_setsize(inode, new_size);
if (err)
goto out_budg;
@@ -1214,7 +1217,7 @@ static int do_setattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
dbg_gen("size %lld -> %lld", inode->i_size, new_size);
- err = vmtruncate(inode, new_size);
+ err = simple_setsize(inode, new_size);
if (err)
goto out;
}
@@ -1223,7 +1226,7 @@ static int do_setattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
/* Truncation changes inode [mc]time */
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ubifs_current_time(inode);
- /* 'vmtruncate()' changed @i_size, update @ui_size */
+ /* 'simple_setsize()' changed @i_size, update @ui_size */
ui->ui_size = inode->i_size;
}
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index b0904536cc1c..2eef553d50c8 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb {
* The @ui_size is a "shadow" variable for @inode->i_size and UBIFS uses
* @ui_size instead of @inode->i_size. The reason for this is that UBIFS cannot
* make sure @inode->i_size is always changed under @ui_mutex, because it
- * cannot call 'vmtruncate()' with @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock
+ * cannot call 'simple_setsize()' with @ui_mutex locked, because it would deadlock
* with 'ubifs_writepage()' (see file.c). All the other inode fields are
* changed under @ui_mutex, so they do not need "shadow" fields. Note, one
* could consider to rework locking and base it on "shadow" fields.