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@@ -385,3 +385,12 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
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on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
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exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_RCU). See
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Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
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+--
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+[mandatory]
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+ In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in. If your
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+filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a
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+file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode.
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+Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set,
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+so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of
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+a file off.
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