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diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 3a29a6180212..5b4c3a4847e9 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -603,3 +603,27 @@ int vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmtruncate);
+
+int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+
+ /*
+ * If the underlying filesystem is not going to provide
+ * a way to truncate a range of blocks (punch a hole) -
+ * we should return failure right now.
+ */
+ if (!inode->i_op->truncate_range)
+ return -ENOSYS;
+
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ down_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+ truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, offset, end);
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+ inode->i_op->truncate_range(inode, offset, end);
+ up_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+ return 0;
+}