linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] filemap: do not use folio

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Message-ID: <116d8920-6154-4ed1-946a-887cfe084fe9@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:22:00 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
 Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
 "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] filemap: do not use folio_contains for swap cache
 folios

On 29.04.25 13:49, Kairui Song wrote:
> From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> 
> Currently, none of the folio_contains callers should encounter swap
> cache folios.
> 
> For fs/ callers, swap cache folios are never part of their workflow.
> 
> For filemap and truncate, folio_contains is only used for sanity
> checks to verify the folio index matches the expected
> lookup / invalidation target.
> 
> The swap cache does not utilize filemap or truncate helpers in ways
> that would trigger these checks, as it mostly implements its own
> cache management.
> 
> Shmem won't trigger these sanity checks either unless thing went
> wrong, as it would directly trigger a BUG because swap cache index are
> unrelated and almost never matches shmem index. Shmem have to handle
> mixed values of folios, shadows, and swap entries, so it has its own
> way of handling the mapping.
> 
> While some filemap helpers works for swap cache space, the swap cache
> is different from the page cache in many ways. So this particular helper
> will unlikely to work in a helpful way for swap cache folios.
> 
> So make it explicit here that folio_contains should not be used for
> swap cache folios. This helps to avoid misuse, make swap cache less
> exposed and remove the folio_index usage here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/pagemap.h | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index af25fb640463..1dc3416a9c0d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -935,14 +935,14 @@ static inline struct page *folio_file_page(struct folio *folio, pgoff_t index)
>    * @folio: The folio.
>    * @index: The page index within the file.
>    *
> - * Context: The caller should have the page locked in order to prevent
> - * (eg) shmem from moving the page between the page cache and swap cache
> - * and changing its index in the middle of the operation.
> + * Context: The caller should have the folio locked and ensure
> + * (e.g.) shmem did not move this folio to swap cache.

The "(e.g.)" looks weird. Maybe "ensure that e.g., shmem ..."

"to the"

>    * Return: true or false.
>    */
>   static inline bool folio_contains(struct folio *folio, pgoff_t index)
>   {
> -	return index - folio_index(folio) < folio_nr_pages(folio);
> +	VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_swapcache(folio), folio);

Likely you want VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO() here.

> +	return index - folio->index < folio_nr_pages(folio);
>   }
>   
>   unsigned filemap_get_folios(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *start,


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb