xfs: introduce new file range commit ioctls
Source kernel commit:
398597c3ef7fb1d8fa31491c8f4f3996cff45701
This patch introduces two more new ioctls to manage atomic updates to
file contents -- XFS_IOC_START_COMMIT and XFS_IOC_COMMIT_RANGE. The
does, but with the additional requirement that file2 cannot have changed
since some sampling point. The start-commit ioctl performs the sampling
of file attributes.
Note: This patch currently samples i_ctime during START_COMMIT and
checks that it hasn't changed during COMMIT_RANGE. This isn't entirely
safe in kernels prior to 6.12 because ctime only had coarse grained
granularity and very fast updates could collide with a COMMIT_RANGE.
With the multi-granularity ctime introduced by Jeff Layton, it's now
possible to update ctime such that this does not happen.
It is critical, then, that this patch must not be backported to any
kernel that does not support fine-grained file change timestamps.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>