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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