raw-posix: SEEK_HOLE suffices, get rid of FIEMAP
Commit 5500316d (May 2012) implemented raw_co_is_allocated() as follows: 1. If defined(CONFIG_FIEMAP), use the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl 2. Else if defined(SEEK_HOLE) && defined(SEEK_DATA), use lseek() 3. Else pretend there are no holes Later on, raw_co_is_allocated() was generalized to raw_co_get_block_status(). Commit 4f11aa8a (May 2014) changed it to try the three methods in order until success, because "there may be implementations which support [SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA] but not [FIEMAP] (e.g., NFSv4.2) as well as vice versa." Unfortunately, we used FIEMAP incorrectly: we lacked FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC. Commit 38c4d0ae (Sep 2014) added it. Because that's a significant speed hit, the next commit 7c159037 put SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA first. As you see, the obvious use of FIEMAP is wrong, and the correct use is slow. I guess this puts it somewhere between -7 "The obvious use is wrong" and -10 "It's impossible to get right" on Rusty Russel's Hard to Misuse scale[*]. "Fortunately", the FIEMAP code is used only when * SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA aren't defined, but CONFIG_FIEMAP is Uncommon. SEEK_HOLE had no XFS implementation between 2011 (when it was introduced for ext4 and btrfs) and 2012. * SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA and CONFIG_FIEMAP are defined, but lseek() fails Unlikely. Thus, the FIEMAP code executes rarely. Makes it a nice hidey-hole for bugs. Worse, bugs hiding there can theoretically bite even on a host that has SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA. I don't want to worry about this crap, not even theoretically. Get rid of it. [*] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.htmlSigned-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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