linux-ext4 - return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get

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Date:   Tue,  7 Mar 2023 15:34:03 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio v3

Hi all,

__filemap_get_folio and its wrappers can return NULL for three different
conditions, which in some cases requires the caller to reverse engineer
the decision making.  This is fixed by returning an ERR_PTR instead of
NULL and thus transporting the reason for the failure.  But to make
that work we first need to ensure that no xa_value special case is
returned and thus return the FGP_ENTRY flag.  It turns out that flag
is barely used and can usually be deal with in a better way.

Note that the shmem patches in here are non-trivial and I would appreicate
a careful review from Hugh.

Changes since v2:
 - rebased to v6.3-rc which includes a couple of new callsites

Changes since v1:
 - drop the patches to check for errors in btrfs and gfs2
 - document the new calling conventions for the wrappers around
   __filemap_get_folio
 - rebased against the iomap changes in latest linux-next

Diffstat
 fs/afs/dir.c             |   10 +++----
 fs/afs/dir_edit.c        |    2 -
 fs/afs/write.c           |    4 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c          |    2 -
 fs/ext4/move_extent.c    |    8 ++---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c     |    2 -
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c   |   11 +-------
 fs/netfs/buffered_read.c |    4 +-
 fs/nfs/file.c            |    4 +-
 fs/nilfs2/page.c         |    6 ++--
 include/linux/pagemap.h  |   15 +++++------
 include/linux/shmem_fs.h |    1 
 mm/filemap.c             |   27 ++++++++-----------
 mm/folio-compat.c        |    4 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c         |    5 +--
 mm/hugetlb.c             |    6 ++--
 mm/memcontrol.c          |    2 -
 mm/mincore.c             |    2 -
 mm/shmem.c               |   64 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 mm/swap_state.c          |   17 ++++++------
 mm/swapfile.c            |    4 +-
 mm/truncate.c            |   15 +++++------
 22 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)