linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2 v5] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

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Message-ID: <Z4oNmx2xPkdzvkUd@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:58:19 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v5] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

Still NAC for sneaking in an almost undocumented MM feature into
a file system ioctl.  Especially while a discussion on that is still
ongoin.

And it's still bad that you don't even bother to Cc fsdevel on this,
nor linux-api or in this case the mm list.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 05:19:42PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> If users clearly know which file-backed pages to reclaim in system view, they
> can use this ioctl() to register in advance and reclaim all at once later.
> 
> Change log from v4:
>  - fix range handling
> 
> Change log from v3:
>  - cover partial range
> 
> Change log from v2:
>  - add more boundary checks
>  - de-register the range, if len is zero
> 
> Jaegeuk Kim (1):
>   f2fs: add a sysfs entry to request donate file-backed pages
> 
> Yi Sun (1):
>   f2fs: Optimize f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range()
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs |  7 ++++++
>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                          |  2 ++
>  fs/f2fs/file.c                          | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>  fs/f2fs/shrinker.c                      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/f2fs/sysfs.c                         |  8 +++++++
>  5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.48.0.rc2.279.g1de40edade-goog
> 
> 
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