linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/14] writeback: only update ->writeback_index for range

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Message-Id: <20240215063649.2164017-6-hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:36:40 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 05/14] writeback: only update ->writeback_index for range_cyclic writeback

mapping->writeback_index is only [1] used as the starting point for
range_cyclic writeback, so there is no point in updating it for other
types of writeback.

[1] except for btrfs_defrag_file which does really odd things with
mapping->writeback_index.  But btrfs doesn't use write_cache_pages at
all, so this isn't relevant here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index abbee369405a83..f02014007b57cc 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2403,7 +2403,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	pgoff_t index;
 	pgoff_t end;		/* Inclusive */
 	pgoff_t done_index;
-	int range_whole = 0;
 	xa_mark_t tag;
 
 	folio_batch_init(&fbatch);
@@ -2413,8 +2412,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	} else {
 		index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-		if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
-			range_whole = 1;
 	}
 	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) {
 		tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
@@ -2518,14 +2515,21 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If we hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
-	 * back the index back to the start of the file for the next
-	 * time we are called.
+	 * For range cyclic writeback we need to remember where we stopped so
+	 * that we can continue there next time we are called.  If  we hit the
+	 * last page and there is more work to be done, wrap back to the start
+	 * of the file.
+	 *
+	 * For non-cyclic writeback we always start looking up at the beginning
+	 * of the file if we are called again, which can only happen due to
+	 * -ENOMEM from the file system.
 	 */
-	if (wbc->range_cyclic && !done)
-		done_index = 0;
-	if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
-		mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
+	if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
+		if (done)
+			mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
+		else
+			mapping->writeback_index = 0;
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.39.2