linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/21] iomap: Convert iomap_add_to

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Date:   Thu, 4 Nov 2021 03:42:37 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/21] iomap: Convert iomap_add_to_ioend to take a folio

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 09:00:57AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > -			wpc->ops->discard_folio(page_folio(page), file_offset);
> > +			wpc->ops->discard_folio(folio, pos);
> 
> /me wonders why this wouldn't have been done in whichever patch added
> folio as a local variable, but fmeh, the end result is the same:

Found it and fixed it.

> > @@ -1474,17 +1474,15 @@ iomap_do_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, void *data)
> >  		 * memory is zeroed when mapped, and writes to that region are
> >  		 * not written out to the file."
> >  		 */
> > -		zero_user_segment(page, poff, PAGE_SIZE);
> > -
> > -		/* Adjust the end_offset to the end of file */
> > +		zero_user_segment(&folio->page, poff, folio_size(folio));
> 
> Question: is &folio->page != page here?  I guess the idea is that we
> have a (potentially multi-page) folio straddling i_size, and we need to
> zero everything in the whole folio after i_size.  But then why not pass
> the whole folio?

Ugh, thanks.  You made me realise that zero_user_segments() is still
conditional on CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.  It's a relic of when I
was going to do all of this with THP; before I switched to the folio
mental model.

So now we're going to get folio_zero_segments(), folio_zero_segment()
and folio_zero_range().