fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).
[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a83160a..b40b8084 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2729,53 +2729,29 @@
{
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
struct page *page;
+ void *fsdata;
int err;
char *kaddr;
retry:
- err = -ENOMEM;
- page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0, gfp_mask);
- if (!page)
- goto fail;
- err = mapping->a_ops->prepare_write(NULL, page, 0, len-1);
- if (err == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) {
- page_cache_release(page);
- goto retry;
- }
+ err = pagecache_write_begin(NULL, mapping, 0, len-1,
+ AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, &page, &fsdata);
if (err)
- goto fail_map;
+ goto fail;
+
kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
memcpy(kaddr, symname, len-1);
kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
- err = mapping->a_ops->commit_write(NULL, page, 0, len-1);
- if (err == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) {
- page_cache_release(page);
- goto retry;
- }
- if (err)
- goto fail_map;
- /*
- * Notice that we are _not_ going to block here - end of page is
- * unmapped, so this will only try to map the rest of page, see
- * that it is unmapped (typically even will not look into inode -
- * ->i_size will be enough for everything) and zero it out.
- * OTOH it's obviously correct and should make the page up-to-date.
- */
- if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
- err = mapping->a_ops->readpage(NULL, page);
- if (err != AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
- wait_on_page_locked(page);
- } else {
- unlock_page(page);
- }
- page_cache_release(page);
+
+ err = pagecache_write_end(NULL, mapping, 0, len-1, len-1,
+ page, fsdata);
if (err < 0)
goto fail;
+ if (err < len-1)
+ goto retry;
+
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
return 0;
-fail_map:
- unlock_page(page);
- page_cache_release(page);
fail:
return err;
}
