linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2 v6] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

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Message-ID: <20250117164350.2419840-1-jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:41:16 +0000
From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2 v6] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

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.

To MM and others,

I'd like to propose this API in F2FS only, since
1) the use-case is quite limited in Android at the moment. Once it's generall
accepted with more use-cases, happy to propose a generic API such as fadvise.
Please chime in, if there's any needs.

2) it's file-backed pages which requires to maintain the list of inode objects.
I'm not sure this fits in MM tho, also happy to listen to any feedback.

Jaegeuk Kim (2):
  f2fs: register inodes which is able to donate pages
  f2fs: add a sysfs entry to request donate file-backed pages

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs |  7 +++
 fs/f2fs/debug.c                         |  3 ++
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                          | 14 +++++-
 fs/f2fs/file.c                          | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/f2fs/inode.c                         | 14 ++++++
 fs/f2fs/shrinker.c                      | 27 ++++++++++
 fs/f2fs/super.c                         |  1 +
 fs/f2fs/sysfs.c                         |  8 +++
 include/uapi/linux/f2fs.h               |  7 +++
 9 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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