With this change, the lmfs_get_block*(3) functions allow the caller to
specify that it only wants the block if it is in the cache or the
secondary VM cache. If the block is not found there, the functions
return NULL. Previously, the PREFETCH method would be used to this
end instead, which was both abuse in name and less efficient.
Change-Id: Ieb5a15b67fa25d2008a8eeef9d126ac908fc2395
When VM asks a file system to provide a block to satisfy a page fault
on a file memory mapping, the file system previously had no way to
inform VM that the block is a hole, since there is no corresponding
block on the underlying device. To work around this, MFS and ext2
would actually allocate a block for the hole when asked by VM, which
not only defeats the point of holes in the first place, but also does
not work on read-only file systems. With this patch, a new libminixfs
call allows the file system to inform VM about holes. This issue does
raise the question as to whether the VM cache is using the right data
structures, since there are now two places where we have to fake a
device offset. This will have to be revisited in the future.
The patch changes file systems accordingly, and adds a test to test74.
Change-Id: Ib537d56b3f30a8eb05bc1f63c92b5c7428d18f4c
