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Commit 729f52c6 authored by Zheng Liu's avatar Zheng Liu Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: add a new nolock flag in ext4_map_blocks



EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK flag is added to indicate that we don't need
to acquire i_data_sem lock in ext4_map_blocks.  Meanwhile, it changes
ext4_get_block() to not start a new journal because when we do a
overwrite dio, there is no any metadata that needs to be modified.

We define a new function called ext4_get_block_write_nolock, which is
used in dio overwrite nolock.  In this function, it doesn't try to
acquire i_data_sem lock and doesn't start a new journal as it does a
lookup.

CC: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
CC: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
CC: Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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