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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-04-27 10:32:45 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-04-27 10:32:45 -0300 |
| commit | b3e5ced63e051e8f911b795ac5b06229a5328f7b (patch) | |
| tree | e63badb76509839ec948431859255923b6e2a09c /include/uapi/linux/falloc.h | |
| parent | e183201b9e917daf2530b637b2f34f1d5afb934d (diff) | |
| parent | b787f68c36d49bb1d9236f403813641efa74a031 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v4.1-rc1' into patchwork
Linux 4.1-rc1
* tag 'v4.1-rc1': (11651 commits)
Linux 4.1-rc1
x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue
v4l: xilinx: fix for include file movement
platform/chrome: chromeos_laptop - instantiate Atmel at primary address
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
fs/9p: fix readdir()
Btrfs: prevent list corruption during free space cache processing
toshiba_acpi: Do not register vendor backlight when acpi_video bl is available
x86: fix special __probe_kernel_write() tail zeroing case
crypto: img-hash - CRYPTO_DEV_IMGTEC_HASH should depend on HAS_DMA
crypto: x86/sha512_ssse3 - fixup for asm function prototype change
nios2: rework cache
nios2: Add types.h header required for __u32 type
ALSA: hda - fix headset mic detection problem for one more machine
eth: bf609 eth clock: add pclk clock for stmmac driver probe
blackfin: Wire up missing syscalls
Btrfs: fix inode cache writeout
ACPI / scan: Add a scan handler for PRP0001
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/falloc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/falloc.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h index d1197ae3723c..3e445a760f14 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h @@ -41,4 +41,21 @@ */ #define FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE 0x10 +/* + * FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE is use to insert space within the file size without + * overwriting any existing data. The contents of the file beyond offset are + * shifted towards right by len bytes to create a hole. As such, this + * operation will increase the size of the file by len bytes. + * + * 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. + * + * Attempting to insert space using this flag at OR beyond the end of + * the file is considered an illegal operation - just use ftruncate(2) or + * fallocate(2) with mode 0 for such type of operations. + */ +#define FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE 0x20 + #endif /* _UAPI_FALLOC_H_ */ |