Re: [PATCH 3/14] tmpfs: take control of its truncate_range

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:58:18AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> (i915 isn't really doing hole-punching there, I think it just found it
> a useful interface to remove the page-and-swapcache without touching
> i_size.  Parentheses because it makes no difference to your point.)

Keeping i_size while removing pages on tmpfs fits the defintion of hole
punching for me.  Not that it matters anyway.

> When I say "shmem", I am including the !SHMEM-was-TINY_SHMEM case too,
> which goes to ramfs.  Currently i915 has been configured to disable that
> possibility, though we insisted on it originally: there may or may not be
> good reason for disabling it - may just be a side-effect of the rather
> twisted unintuitive SHMEM/TMPFS dependencies.

Hmm, the two different implementations make everything harder.  Also
because we don't even implement the hole punching in !SHMEM tmpfs.

> Fine, I'll add tmpfs PUNCH_HOLE later on.  And wire up madvise MADV_REMOVE
> to fallocate PUNCH_HOLE, yes?

Yeah.  One thing I've noticed is that the hole punching doesn't seem
to do the unmap_mapping_range.  It might be worth to audit that from the
VM point of view.

> Would you like me to remove the ->truncate_range method from
> inode_operations completely?

Doing that would be nice.  Do we always have the required file struct
for ->fallocate in the callers?

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