linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 28/68] fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:20:59 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     linux-cachefs@...hat.com
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        JeffleXu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 28/68] fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a
 page

Provide a function to be called from a network filesystem's releasepage
method to indicate that a page has been released that might have been a
reflection of data upon the server - and now that data must be reloaded
from the server or the cache.

This is used to end an optimisation for empty files, in particular files
that have just been created locally, whereby we know there cannot yet be
any data that we would need to read from the server or the cache.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@...hat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819617128.215744.4725572296135656508.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906920354.143852.7511819614661372008.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967128061.1823006.611781655060034988.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
---

 include/linux/fscache.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/fscache.h b/include/linux/fscache.h
index 18e725671594..28ce258c1f87 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscache.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscache.h
@@ -607,4 +607,20 @@ static inline void fscache_clear_inode_writeback(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * fscache_note_page_release - Note that a netfs page got released
+ * @cookie: The cookie corresponding to the file
+ *
+ * Note that a page that has been copied to the cache has been released.  This
+ * means that future reads will need to look in the cache to see if it's there.
+ */
+static inline
+void fscache_note_page_release(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
+{
+	if (cookie &&
+	    test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
+	    test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))
+		clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags);
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_FSCACHE_H */