Btrfs: transaction ioctls

These ioctls let a user application hold a transaction open while it
performs a series of operations.  A final ioctl does a sync on the fs
(closing the current transaction).  This is the main requirement for
Ceph's OSD to be able to keep the data it's storing in a btrfs volume
consistent, and AFAICS it works just fine.  The application would do
something like

	fd = ::open("some/file", O_RDONLY);
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_START);
	/* do a bunch of stuff */
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_END);
or just
	::close(fd);

And to ensure it commits to disk,

	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_SYNC);

When a transaction is held open, the trans_handle is attached to the
struct file (via private_data) so that it will get cleaned up if the
process dies unexpectedly.  A held transaction is also ended on fsync() to
avoid a deadlock.

A misbehaving application could also deliberately hold a transaction open,
effectively locking up the FS, so it may make sense to restrict something
like this to root or something.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index ad4eacca7f5..1dcf4fb5b68 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -1575,6 +1575,7 @@ struct inode *btrfs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb);
 void btrfs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode);
 int btrfs_init_cachep(void);
 void btrfs_destroy_cachep(void);
+long btrfs_ioctl_trans_end(struct file *file);
 long btrfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
 struct inode *btrfs_iget_locked(struct super_block *s, u64 objectid,
 				struct btrfs_root *root);
@@ -1595,6 +1596,8 @@ extern struct file_operations btrfs_file_operations;
 int btrfs_drop_extents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		       struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode,
 		       u64 start, u64 end, u64 inline_limit, u64 *hint_block);
+int btrfs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
+
 /* tree-defrag.c */
 int btrfs_defrag_leaves(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			struct btrfs_root *root, int cache_only);
@@ -1615,4 +1618,5 @@ int btrfs_delete_xattrs(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 u64 btrfs_parse_size(char *str);
 int btrfs_parse_options(char *options, struct btrfs_root *root,
 			char **subvol_name);
+int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
 #endif