[PATCH v4 2/10] xfs: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate

[Mark Tinguely]

On 05/30/14 09:05, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 04:29:29PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> >  This patch implements fallocate's FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for XFS.
>> >
>> >  1) Make sure that both offset and len are block size aligned.
>> >  2) Update the i_size of inode by len bytes.
>> >  3) Compute the file's logical block number against offset. If the computed
>> >      block number is not the starting block of the extent, split the extent
>> >      such that the block number is the starting block of the extent.
>> >  4) Shift all the extents which are lying bewteen [offset, last allocated extent]
>> >      towards right by len bytes. This step will make a hole of len bytes
>> >      at offset.
>> >  5) Allocate unwritten extents for the hole created in step 4.
>> >
>> >  Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon<namjae.jeon at samsung.com>
>> >  Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan<a.sangwan at samsung.com>
>> >  Reviewed-by: Brian Foster<bfoster at redhat.com>
>> >  ---
>> >
>> >  Changelog
>> >  v4:
>> >    - set cur->bc_private.b.allocated to zero before calling xfs_btree_del_cursor.
>> >
> Other issues not withstanding (sounds like Mark still has a lingering,
> potential corruption case), this fixes the warnings I was seeing. I ran
> through an xfstest cycle without problem. Thanks for fixing this.
>
> The cursor allocated flag appears to be used to carry bmbt block
> allocations over to delayed allocation extent conversions (such that
> these allocations are accounted from previous delalloc extent index
> block reservations). This is all within the bmbt code, so clearing the
> flag seems reasonable as well.
>
> Though I wonder why it falls on the caller to clear the flag as opposed
> to fixing up the flag automatically when it becomes accounted for. I
> guess that would enable a warning with semantics of "something might
> have been unaccounted for" vs. "somebody forgot to reset a flag." That
> said, it's likely there are circumstances involved with this mechanism
> that I'm not yet familiar with.;)
>
> Brian
>

I did not have this patch included in my tests just the code from Linux 
3.15-rc5. I will add and see if it still asserts.

--Mark.