From 71be6b4942dd64bc17728f82f787be98fd8afed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:11:14 -0700 Subject: vfs: add a FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE mode to fallocate to unshare a range of blocks Add a new fallocate mode flag that explicitly unshares blocks on filesystems that support such features. The new flag can only be used with an allocate-mode fallocate call. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- include/uapi/linux/falloc.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h index 3e445a760f14..b075f601919b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h @@ -58,4 +58,22 @@ */ #define FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE 0x20 +/* + * FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE is used to unshare shared blocks within the + * file size without overwriting any existing data. The purpose of this + * call is to preemptively reallocate any blocks that are subject to + * copy-on-write. + * + * Different filesystems may implement different limitations on the + * granularity of the operation. Most will limit operations to filesystem + * block size boundaries, but this boundary may be larger or smaller + * depending on the filesystem and/or the configuration of the filesystem + * or file. + * + * This flag can only be used with allocate-mode fallocate, which is + * to say that it cannot be used with the punch, zero, collapse, or + * insert range modes. + */ +#define FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE 0x40 + #endif /* _UAPI_FALLOC_H_ */ -- cgit v1.2.1