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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:27:23 -0700
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ext4 punch hole 3/4 v4] Ext4 Punch Hole Support: Punch out
 extents

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:04 -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
> This patch modifies the truncate routines to support hole punching
> Below is a brief summary of the patches changes:
> 
> - Added end param to ext_ext4_rm_leaf
>         This function has been modified to accept an end parameter
>         which enables it to punch holes in leafs instead of just
>         truncating them.
> 
> - Implemented the "remove head" case in the ext_remove_blocks routine
>         This routine is used by ext_ext4_rm_leaf to remove the tail
>         of an extent during a truncate.  The new ext_ext4_rm_leaf
>         routine will now also use it to remove the head of an extent in the
>         case that the hole covers a region of blocks at the beginning
>         of an extent.
> 
> - Added "end" param to ext4_ext_remove_space routine
>         This function has been modified to accept a stop parameter, which
>         is passed through to ext4_ext_rm_leaf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@...ibm.com>

This patch is reusing truncate code to handling free up spaces on disk
in a range, not to the end of file.

Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
> ---
> :100644 100644 b78b41f... 01a83a1... M	fs/ext4/extents.c
>  fs/ext4/extents.c |  145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index b78b41f..01a83a1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -2159,8 +2159,16 @@ static int ext4_remove_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, NULL, start, num, flags);
>  	} else if (from == le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block)
>  		   && to <= le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block) + ee_len - 1) {
> -		printk(KERN_INFO "strange request: removal %u-%u from %u:%u\n",
> -			from, to, le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block), ee_len);
> +		/* head removal */
> +		ext4_lblk_t num;
> +		ext4_fsblk_t start;
> +
> +		num = to - from;
> +		start = ext4_ext_pblock(ex);
> +
> +		ext_debug("free first %u blocks starting %llu\n", num, start);
> +		ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, 0, start, num, flags);
> +
>  	} else {
>  		printk(KERN_INFO "strange request: removal(2) "
>  				"%u-%u from %u:%u\n",
> @@ -2272,9 +2280,22 @@ fix_extent_len:
>  	return err;
>  }
> 
> +
> +/*
> + * ext4_ext_rm_leaf() Removes the extents associated with the
> + * blocks appearing between "start" and "end", and splits the extents
> + * if "start" and "end" appear in the same extent
> + *
> + * @handle: The journal handle
> + * @inode:  The files inode
> + * @path:   The path to the leaf
> + * @start:  The first block to remove
> + * @end:   The last block to remove
> + */
>  static int
>  ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> -		struct ext4_ext_path *path, ext4_lblk_t start)
> +		struct ext4_ext_path *path, ext4_lblk_t start,
> +		ext4_lblk_t end)
>  {
>  	int err = 0, correct_index = 0;
>  	int depth = ext_depth(inode), credits;
> @@ -2314,31 +2335,88 @@ ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		path[depth].p_ext = ex;
> 
>  		a = ex_ee_block > start ? ex_ee_block : start;
> -		b = ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1 < EXT_MAX_BLOCK ?
> -			ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1 : EXT_MAX_BLOCK;
> +		b = ex_ee_block+ex_ee_len - 1 < end ?
> +			ex_ee_block+ex_ee_len - 1 : end;
> 
>  		ext_debug("  border %u:%u\n", a, b);
> 
> -		if (a != ex_ee_block && b != ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1) {
> -			block = 0;
> -			num = 0;
> -			BUG();
> +		/* If this extent is beyond the end of the hole, skip it */
> +		if (end <= ex_ee_block) {
> +			ex--;
> +			ex_ee_block = le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block);
> +			ex_ee_len = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex);
> +			continue;
> +		} else if (a != ex_ee_block &&
> +			b != ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1) {
> +			/*
> +			 * If this is a truncate, then this condition should
> +			 * never happen because at least one of the end points
> +			 * needs to be on the edge of the extent.
> +			 */
> +			if (end == EXT_MAX_BLOCK) {
> +				ext_debug("  bad truncate %u:%u\n",
> +						start, end);
> +				block = 0;
> +				num = 0;
> +				err = -EIO;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
> +			/*
> +			 * else this is a hole punch, so the extent needs to
> +			 * be split since neither edge of the hole is on the
> +			 * extent edge
> +			 */
> +			else{
> +				err = ext4_split_extents(handle, inode,
> +					b, path, 0);
> +				if (err)
> +					goto out;
> +
> +				ex_ee_len = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex);
> +
> +				b = ex_ee_block+ex_ee_len - 1 < end ?
> +					ex_ee_block+ex_ee_len - 1 : end;
> +
> +				/* Then remove tail of this extent */
> +				block = ex_ee_block;
> +				num = a - block;
> +			}
>  		} else if (a != ex_ee_block) {
>  			/* remove tail of the extent */
>  			block = ex_ee_block;
>  			num = a - block;
>  		} else if (b != ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1) {
>  			/* remove head of the extent */
> -			block = a;
> -			num = b - a;
> -			/* there is no "make a hole" API yet */
> -			BUG();
> +			block = b;
> +			num =  ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - b;
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If this is a truncate, this condition
> +			 * should never happen
> +			 */
> +			if (end == EXT_MAX_BLOCK) {
> +				ext_debug("  bad truncate %u:%u\n",
> +					start, end);
> +				err = -EIO;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
>  		} else {
>  			/* remove whole extent: excellent! */
>  			block = ex_ee_block;
>  			num = 0;
> -			BUG_ON(a != ex_ee_block);
> -			BUG_ON(b != ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1);
> +			if (a != ex_ee_block) {
> +				ext_debug("  bad truncate %u:%u\n",
> +					start, end);
> +				err = -EIO;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
> +
> +			if (b != ex_ee_block + ex_ee_len - 1) {
> +				ext_debug("  bad truncate %u:%u\n",
> +					start, end);
> +				err = -EIO;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
>  		}
> 
>  		/*
> @@ -2369,7 +2447,13 @@ ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		if (num == 0) {
>  			/* this extent is removed; mark slot entirely unused */
>  			ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex, 0);
> -			le16_add_cpu(&eh->eh_entries, -1);
> +		} else if (block != ex_ee_block) {
> +			/*
> +			 * If this was a head removal, then we need to update
> +			 * the physical block since it is now at a different
> +			 * location
> +			 */
> +			ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex, ext4_ext_pblock(ex) + (b-a));
>  		}
> 
>  		ex->ee_block = cpu_to_le32(block);
> @@ -2385,6 +2469,27 @@ ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		if (err)
>  			goto out;
> 
> +		/*
> +		 * If the extent was completely released,
> +		 * we need to remove it from the leaf
> +		 */
> +		if (num == 0) {
> +			if (end != EXT_MAX_BLOCK) {
> +				/*
> +				 * For hole punching, we need to scoot all the
> +				 * extents up when an extent is removed so that
> +				 * we dont have blank extents in the middle
> +				 */
> +				memmove(ex, ex+1, (EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh) - ex) *
> +					sizeof(struct ext4_extent));
> +
> +				/* Now get rid of the one at the end */
> +				memset(EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh), 0,
> +					sizeof(struct ext4_extent));
> +			}
> +			le16_add_cpu(&eh->eh_entries, -1);
> +		}
> +
>  		ext_debug("new extent: %u:%u:%llu\n", block, num,
>  				ext4_ext_pblock(ex));
>  		ex--;
> @@ -2425,7 +2530,8 @@ ext4_ext_more_to_rm(struct ext4_ext_path *path)
>  	return 1;
>  }
> 
> -static int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t start)
> +static int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t start,
> +				ext4_lblk_t end)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
>  	int depth = ext_depth(inode);
> @@ -2464,7 +2570,8 @@ again:
>  	while (i >= 0 && err == 0) {
>  		if (i == depth) {
>  			/* this is leaf block */
> -			err = ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle, inode, path, start);
> +			err = ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle, inode, path,
> +					start, end);
>  			/* root level has p_bh == NULL, brelse() eats this */
>  			brelse(path[i].p_bh);
>  			path[i].p_bh = NULL;
> @@ -3676,7 +3783,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> 
>  	last_block = (inode->i_size + sb->s_blocksize - 1)
>  			>> EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb);
> -	err = ext4_ext_remove_space(inode, last_block);
> +	err = ext4_ext_remove_space(inode, last_block, EXT_MAX_BLOCK);
> 
>  	/* In a multi-transaction truncate, we only make the final
>  	 * transaction synchronous.


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