mm: add readahead address space operation

This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
 - Return void instead of an ignored error code.
 - Page cache is already populated with locked pages when ->readahead
   is called.
 - New arguments can be passed to the implementation without changing
   all the filesystems that use a common helper function like
   mpage_readahead().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-12-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-06-01 21:46:44 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c1f6925e10
commit 8151b4c8be
4 changed files with 32 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ prototypes::
int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
@@ -271,7 +272,8 @@ writepage: yes, unlocks (see below)
readpage: yes, unlocks
writepages:
set_page_dirty no
readpages:
readahead: yes, unlocks
readpages: no
write_begin: locks the page exclusive
write_end: yes, unlocks exclusive
bmap:
@@ -295,6 +297,8 @@ the request handler (/dev/loop).
->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O
completion.
->readahead() unlocks the pages that I/O is attempted on like ->readpage().
->readpages() populates the pagecache with the passed pages and starts
I/O against them. They come unlocked upon I/O completion.