From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 6/8] ext4: Add an inode flag for atomic writes
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:32:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttlhp2w3.fsf@doe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZeYwavaG5WOJTFQ7@dread.disaster.area>
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 01:12:03PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote:
>> This patch adds an inode atomic writes flag to ext4
>> (EXT4_ATOMICWRITES_FL which uses FS_ATOMICWRITES_FL flag).
>> Also add support for setting of this flag via ioctl.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 ++++++
>> fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 11 +++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
>> index 1d2bce26e616..aa7fff2d6f96 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
>> @@ -495,8 +495,12 @@ struct flex_groups {
>> #define EXT4_EA_INODE_FL 0x00200000 /* Inode used for large EA */
>> /* 0x00400000 was formerly EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL */
>>
>> +#define EXT4_ATOMICWRITES_FL FS_ATOMICWRITES_FL /* Inode supports atomic writes */
>> #define EXT4_DAX_FL 0x02000000 /* Inode is DAX */
>
> Tying the on disk format to the kernel user API is a poor choice.
> While the flag bits might have the same value, anything parsing the
> on-disk format should not be required to include kernel syscall API
> header files just to get all the on-disk format definitions it
> needs.
sure. Make sense.
I will hardcode that value.
-ritesh
>
> -Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-02 7:41 [RFC 0/9] ext4: Add direct-io atomic write support using fsawu Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-02 7:41 ` [RFC 1/8] fs: Add FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES flag Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-02 7:41 ` [RFC 2/8] fs: Reserve inode flag FS_ATOMICWRITES_FL for atomic writes Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-04 0:59 ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-08 7:19 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 3/8] iomap: Add atomic write support for direct-io Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-04 1:16 ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-04 5:33 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-04 8:49 ` John Garry
2024-03-04 10:31 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-04 20:56 ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 4/8] ext4: Add statx and other atomic write helper routines Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-06 11:14 ` John Garry
2024-03-08 8:10 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 5/8] ext4: Adds direct-io atomic writes checks Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 6/8] ext4: Add an inode flag for atomic writes Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-04 20:34 ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-08 8:02 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 7/8] ext4: Enable FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE in open for direct-io Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 8/8] ext4: Adds atomic writes using fsawu Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-02 7:42 ` [RFC 9/9] e2fsprogs/chattr: Supports atomic writes attribute Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-06 11:22 ` [RFC 0/9] ext4: Add direct-io atomic write support using fsawu John Garry
2024-03-06 13:13 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-08 20:25 ` [RFC] ext4: Add support for ext4_map_blocks_atomic() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2024-03-09 2:37 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-13 18:40 ` John Garry
2024-03-14 15:52 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-03-18 8:22 ` John Garry
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