ext4: return hole from ext4_map_blocks()

Currently, ext4_map_blocks() just returns 0 when it finds a hole and
allocation is not requested. However we have all the information
available to tell how large the hole actually is and there are callers
of ext4_map_blocks() which would save some block-by-block hole iteration
if they knew this information. So fill in struct ext4_map_blocks even
for holes with the information we have. We keep returning 0 for holes to
maintain backward compatibility of the function.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 971892d7c213..1a156ec043a0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -455,13 +455,13 @@ static void ext4_map_blocks_es_recheck(handle_t *handle,
  * Otherwise, call with ext4_ind_map_blocks() to handle indirect mapping
  * based files
  *
- * On success, it returns the number of blocks being mapped or allocated.
- * if create==0 and the blocks are pre-allocated and unwritten block,
- * the result buffer head is unmapped. If the create ==1, it will make sure
- * the buffer head is mapped.
+ * On success, it returns the number of blocks being mapped or allocated.  if
+ * create==0 and the blocks are pre-allocated and unwritten, the resulting @map
+ * is marked as unwritten. If the create == 1, it will mark @map as mapped.
  *
  * It returns 0 if plain look up failed (blocks have not been allocated), in
- * that case, buffer head is unmapped
+ * that case, @map is returned as unmapped but we still do fill map->m_len to
+ * indicate the length of a hole starting at map->m_lblk.
  *
  * It returns the error in case of allocation failure.
  */
@@ -504,6 +504,11 @@ int ext4_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 				retval = map->m_len;
 			map->m_len = retval;
 		} else if (ext4_es_is_delayed(&es) || ext4_es_is_hole(&es)) {
+			map->m_pblk = 0;
+			retval = es.es_len - (map->m_lblk - es.es_lblk);
+			if (retval > map->m_len)
+				retval = map->m_len;
+			map->m_len = retval;
 			retval = 0;
 		} else {
 			BUG_ON(1);