linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 03/14] filemap: use mapping_min

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:58:28 +0100
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>,
 linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: mcgrof@...nel.org, gost.dev@...sung.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
 kbusch@...nel.org, djwong@...nel.org, chandan.babu@...cle.com,
 p.raghav@...sung.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, willy@...radead.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, david@...morbit.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 03/14] filemap: use mapping_min_order while allocating
 folios

On 2/13/24 10:37, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
> 
> filemap_create_folio() and do_read_cache_folio() were always allocating
> folio of order 0. __filemap_get_folio was trying to allocate higher
> order folios when fgp_flags had higher order hint set but it will default
> to order 0 folio if higher order memory allocation fails.
> 
> As we bring the notion of mapping_min_order, make sure these functions
> allocate at least folio of mapping_min_order as we need to guarantee it
> in the page cache.
> 
> Add some additional VM_BUG_ON() in page_cache_delete[batch] and
> __filemap_add_folio to catch errors where we delete or add folios that
> has order less than min_order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> ---
>   mm/filemap.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes