1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 3a29a618021..5b4c3a4847e 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -603,3 +603,27 @@ int vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmtruncate);
+
+int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the underlying filesystem is not going to provide
+	 * a way to truncate a range of blocks (punch a hole) -
+	 * we should return failure right now.
+	 */
+	if (!inode->i_op->truncate_range)
+		return -ENOSYS;
+
+	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	down_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+	unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+	truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, offset, end);
+	unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, (end - offset), 1);
+	inode->i_op->truncate_range(inode, offset, end);
+	up_write(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
+	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+	return 0;
+}