[PATCH 5/6 v2] ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate

[tytso at mit.edu]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:14:38PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Also add appropriate tracepoints.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted