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David Howells 0201ebf274 mm: merge folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call pairs
Patch series "mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio
removed from pagecache", v7.

This fixes an optimisation in fscache whereby we don't read from the cache
for a particular file until we know that there's data there that we don't
have in the pagecache.  The problem is that I'm no longer using PG_fscache
(aka PG_private_2) to indicate that the page is cached and so I don't get
a notification when a cached page is dropped from the pagecache.

The first patch merges some folio_has_private() and
filemap_release_folio() pairs and introduces a helper,
folio_needs_release(), to indicate if a release is required.

The second patch is the actual fix.  Following Willy's suggestions[1], it
adds an AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag to an address_space that will make
filemap_release_folio() always call ->release_folio(), even if
PG_private/PG_private_2 aren't set.  folio_needs_release() is altered to
add a check for this.


This patch (of 2):

Make filemap_release_folio() check folio_has_private().  Then, in most
cases, where a call to folio_has_private() is immediately followed by a
call to filemap_release_folio(), we can get rid of the test in the pair.

There are a couple of sites in mm/vscan.c that this can't so easily be
done.  In shrink_folio_list(), there are actually three cases (something
different is done for incompletely invalidated buffers), but
filemap_release_folio() elides two of them.

In shrink_active_list(), we don't have have the folio lock yet, so the
check allows us to avoid locking the page unnecessarily.

A wrapper function to check if a folio needs release is provided for those
places that still need to do it in the mm/ directory.  This will acquire
additional parts to the condition in a future patch.

After this, the only remaining caller of folio_has_private() outside of
mm/ is a check in fuse.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-2-dhowells@redhat.com
Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
Cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch arm64: mte: simplify swap tag restoration logic 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
block block-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 11:05:15 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes 2023-08-18 10:12:11 -07:00
drivers memory tier: rename destroy_memory_type() to put_memory_type() 2023-08-18 10:12:11 -07:00
fs mm: merge folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call pairs 2023-08-18 10:12:12 -07:00
include mm: remove obsolete comment above struct per_cpu_pages 2023-08-18 10:12:12 -07:00
init mm: remove arguments of show_mem() 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-28 2023-07-28 10:19:44 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel mm/mm_init.c: remove obsolete macro HASH_SMALL 2023-08-18 10:12:07 -07:00
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mm mm: merge folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call pairs 2023-08-18 10:12:12 -07:00
net A patch to reduce the potential for erroneous RBD exclusive lock 2023-07-28 10:47:24 -07:00
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