linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache

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Date:	Sun, 13 May 2012 13:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range

When truncating a file, we unmap pages from userspace first, as that's
usually more efficient than relying, page by page, on the fallback in
truncate_inode_page() - particularly if the file is mapped many times.

Do the same when punching a hole: 3.4 added truncate_pagecache_range()
to do the unmap and trunc, so use it in ext4_ext_punch_hole(), instead
of calling truncate_inode_pages_range() directly.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---

 fs/ext4/extents.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- next-20120511/fs/ext4/extents.c	2012-05-11 00:22:26.011158147 -0700
+++ linux/fs/ext4/extents.c	2012-05-12 18:01:14.988654723 -0700
@@ -4789,8 +4789,8 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *fil
 
 	/* Now release the pages */
 	if (last_page_offset > first_page_offset) {
-		truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, first_page_offset,
-					   last_page_offset-1);
+		truncate_pagecache_range(inode, first_page_offset,
+					 last_page_offset - 1);
 	}
 
 	/* finish any pending end_io work */
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