Btrfs: transaction ioctls

These ioctls let a user application hold a transaction open while it
performs a series of operations.  A final ioctl does a sync on the fs
(closing the current transaction).  This is the main requirement for
Ceph's OSD to be able to keep the data it's storing in a btrfs volume
consistent, and AFAICS it works just fine.  The application would do
something like

	fd = ::open("some/file", O_RDONLY);
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_START);
	/* do a bunch of stuff */
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_END);
or just
	::close(fd);

And to ensure it commits to disk,

	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_SYNC);

When a transaction is held open, the trans_handle is attached to the
struct file (via private_data) so that it will get cleaned up if the
process dies unexpectedly.  A held transaction is also ended on fsync() to
avoid a deadlock.

A misbehaving application could also deliberately hold a transaction open,
effectively locking up the FS, so it may make sense to restrict something
like this to root or something.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 77f44494e229..39bb86945ed0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ fail_close:
 	return err;
 }
 
-static int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
+int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 {
 	struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 	struct btrfs_root *root;