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[v2,0/4] ext4: Add atomic writes support for DIO

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Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Oct. 27, 2024, 6:17 p.m. UTC 
This is v2 of atomic write enablement on ext4 for DIO. I have split this series
as discussed in v1 [1], so this only enables atomic writes to a single fsblock.
That means for now this gets only enabled on bs < ps systems on ext4.
Enablement of atomic writes for bigalloc (multi-fsblock support) is still
under discussion and may require general consensus within the filesystem
community [1].

This series adds the base feature support to enable atomic writes in
direct-io path for ext4. We advertise the minimum and the maximum atomic
write unit sizes via statx on a regular file.

This series allows users to utilize atomic write support using -
1. on bs < ps systems via - mkfs.ext4 -F -b 16384 /dev/sda

This can then be utilized using -
	xfs_io -fdc "pwrite -V 1 -A -b16k 0 16k" /mnt/f1

This is built on top of John's DIO atomic write series for XFS [2].
The VFS and block layer enablement for atomic writes were merged already.


[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/87jzdvmqfz.fsf@gmail.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20241019125113.369994-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com/


Changelogs:
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PATCH -> PATCH v2:
- addressed review comments from John and Darrick.
- renamed ext4_sb_info variables names: fs_awu* -> s_awu*
- [PATCH]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/cover.1729825985.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/

RFC -> PATCH:
- Dropped RFC tag
- Last RFC was posted a while ago but back then a lot of VFS and block layer
  interfaces were still not merged. Those are now merged, thanks to John and
  everyone else.
- [RFC] - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/cover.1709356594.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/


Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (4):
  ext4: Add statx support for atomic writes
  ext4: Check for atomic writes support in write iter
  ext4: Support setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE
  ext4: Do not fallback to buffered-io for DIO atomic write

 fs/ext4/ext4.h  |  9 +++++++++
 fs/ext4/file.c  | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 fs/ext4/super.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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