Re: [RFC] ext4: Add support for ext4_map_blocks_atomic()

[Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>]

"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> writes:

> +int ext4_map_blocks_atomic(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> +			   struct ext4_map_blocks *map, int flags)
> +{
> +	unsigned int mapped_len = 0, m_len = map->m_len;
> +	ext4_lblk_t m_lblk = map->m_lblk;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	WARN_ON(!(flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE));
> +
> +	do {
> +		ret = ext4_map_blocks(handle, inode, map, flags);
> +		if (ret < 0)
> +			return ret;
> +		mapped_len += map->m_len;
> +		map->m_lblk += map->m_len;
> +		map->m_len = m_len - mapped_len;
> +	} while (mapped_len < m_len);
> +
> +	map->m_lblk = m_lblk;
> +	map->m_len = mapped_len;
> +	return mapped_len;

ouch! 
1. I need to make sure map.m_pblk is updated properly.
2. I need to make sure above call only happens with bigalloc.

Sorry about that. Generally not a good idea to send something that late
at night.
But I guess this can be fixed easily. so hopefully the algorithm should
still remain, more or less the same for ext4_map_blocks_atomic().

-ritesh