So far, we've constructed the front end of the file range exchange code
that does all the checking; and the back end of the file mapping
exchange code that actually does the work. Glue these two pieces
together so that we can turn on the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Now that we've created the skeleton of a log intent item to track and
restart file mapping exchange operations, add the upper level logic to
commit intent items and turn them into concrete work recorded in the
log. This builds on the existing bmap update intent items that have
been around for a while now.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Introduce a new ioctl to handle exchanging ranges of bytes
between files. The goal here is to perform the exchange atomically with
respect to applications -- either they see the file contents before the
exchange or they see that A-B is now B-A, even if the kernel crashes.
My original goal with all this code was to make it so that online repair
can build a replacement directory or xattr structure in a temporary file
and commit the repair by atomically exchanging all the data blocks
between the two files. However, I needed a way to test this mechanism
thoroughly, so I've been evolving an ioctl interface since then.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
