kill spurious reference to vmtruncate
Lots of filesystems calls vmtruncate despite not implementing the old
->truncate method. Switch them to use simple_setsize and add some
comments about the truncate code where it seems fitting.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 1c6220a..6a13ea6 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@
}
/*
- * This will intentionally not wind up calling vmtruncate(),
+ * This will intentionally not wind up calling simple_setsize(),
* since all the work for a size change has been done above.
* Otherwise, we could get into problems with truncate as
* ip_alloc_sem is used there to protect against i_size
@@ -2118,9 +2118,13 @@
* direct write may have instantiated a few
* blocks outside i_size. Trim these off again.
* Don't need i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.
+ *
+ * XXX(hch): this looks buggy because ocfs2 did not
+ * actually implement ->truncate. Take a look at
+ * the new truncate sequence and update this accordingly
*/
if (*ppos + count > inode->i_size)
- vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
+ simple_setsize(inode, inode->i_size);
ret = written;
goto out_dio;
}