[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 09/29] vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:45:17PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> 
> Combine the clone_file_range and dedupe_file_range operations into a
> single remap_file_range file operation dispatch since they're
> fundamentally the same operation.  The differences between the two can
> be made in the prep functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |   13 +++++------
>  fs/btrfs/ctree.h                  |    8 ++-----
>  fs/btrfs/file.c                   |    3 +-
>  fs/btrfs/ioctl.c                  |   45 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                  |   22 +++++++++++-------
>  fs/nfs/nfs4file.c                 |   10 ++++++--
>  fs/ocfs2/file.c                   |   24 +++++++-------------
>  fs/overlayfs/file.c               |   30 ++++++++++++++-----------
>  fs/read_write.c                   |   18 +++++++--------
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c                 |   23 ++++++-------------
>  include/linux/fs.h                |   20 +++++++++++++---
>  11 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> index a6c6a8af48a2..bb3183334ab9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> @@ -883,8 +883,9 @@ struct file_operations {
>  	unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *);
>  #endif
>  	ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int);
> -	int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
> -	int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
> +	int (*remap_file_range)(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
> +				struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
> +				u64 len, unsigned int remap_flags);
>  	int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
>  };

Documentation/filesystems/porting part, please.  And document remap_flags.

> +#define REMAP_FILE_DEDUP		(1 << 0)
> +
> +/*
> + * These flags should be taken care of by the implementation (possibly using
> + * vfs helpers) but can be ignored by the implementation.
> + */
> +#define REMAP_FILE_ADVISORY		(0)

???