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Commit 8bad6fc8 authored by Zheng Liu's avatar Zheng Liu Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: add punching hole support for non-extent-mapped files



This patch add supports for indirect file support punching hole.  It
is almost the same as ext4_ext_punch_hole.  First, we invalidate all
pages between this hole, and then we try to deallocate all blocks of
this hole.

A recursive function is used to handle deallocation of blocks.  In
this function, it iterates over the entries in inode's i_blocks or
indirect blocks, and try to free the block for each one of them.

After applying this patch, xfstest #255 will not pass w/o extent because
indirect-based file doesn't support unwritten extents.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 03dafb5f
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