* @lstart: offset from which to truncate
*
* Called under (and serialised by) inode->i_mutex.
+ *
+ * Note: When this function returns, there can be a page in the process of
+ * deletion (inside __delete_from_page_cache()) in the specified range. Thus
+ * mapping->nrpages can be non-zero when this function returns even after
+ * truncation of the whole mapping.
*/
void truncate_inode_pages(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart)
{
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmtruncate);
+
+int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+
+ /*
+ * If the underlying filesystem is not going to provide
+ * a way to truncate a range of blocks (punch a hole) -
+ * we should return failure right now.
+ */
+ if (!inode->i_op->truncate_range)
+ return -ENOSYS;
+
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ down_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+ inode->i_op->truncate_range(inode, offset, end);
+ /* unmap again to remove racily COWed private pages */
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+ up_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+ return 0;
+}