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| author | Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> | 2018-10-30 10:41:21 +1100 |
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| committer | Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> | 2018-10-30 10:41:21 +1100 |
| commit | 2e5dfc99f2e61c42083ba742395e7a7b353513d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 48bc800424405b56153ed8c8997847c8ed9aaf14 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
| parent | 6095028b455d775e369ae27875f698ff0f6fdeb8 (diff) | |
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vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range
Combine the clone_file_range and dedupe_file_range operations into a
single remap_file_range file operation dispatch since they're
fundamentally the same operation. The differences between the two can
be made in the prep functions.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index a6c6a8af48a2..6f5babfee27b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -883,8 +883,9 @@ struct file_operations { unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *); #endif ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int); - int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); - int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); + int (*remap_file_range)(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, + struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out, + u64 len, unsigned int remap_flags); int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); }; @@ -960,11 +961,16 @@ otherwise noted. copy_file_range: called by the copy_file_range(2) system call. - clone_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FICLONERANGE and - FICLONE commands. - - dedupe_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FIDEDUPERANGE - command. + remap_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FICLONERANGE and + FICLONE and FIDEDUPERANGE commands to remap file ranges. An + implementation should remap len bytes at pos_in of the source file into + the dest file at pos_out. Implementations must handle callers passing + in len == 0; this means "remap to the end of the source file". The + return value should be zero if all bytes were remapped, or the usual + negative error code if the remapping did not succeed completely. + The remap_flags parameter accepts REMAP_FILE_* flags. If + REMAP_FILE_DEDUP is set then the implementation must only remap if the + requested file ranges have identical contents. fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call. |