linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] mm/page-writeback: drop usage of folio

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Message-ID: <20250825163721.17734-1-ryncsn@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:37:21 +0800
From: Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/page-writeback: drop usage of folio_index

From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>

folio_index is only needed for mixed usage of page cache and swap cache.
The remaining three caller in page-writeback are for page cache tag
marking. Swap cache space doesn't use tag (explicitly sets
mapping_set_no_writeback_tags), so use folio->index here directly.

Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>

---

Changes in V2:
- Add a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE and some comment about why we don't use
  folio_index for __folio_mark_dirty. Other helpers all calls
  mapping_use_writeback_tags which tells the reason clearly.
- V1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250815121252.41315-1-ryncsn@gmail.com/

 mm/page-writeback.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7e1e798e7213..5f90fd6a7137 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
 #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
 #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
-#include "swap.h"
 
 /*
  * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
@@ -2705,12 +2705,18 @@ void __folio_mark_dirty(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * Shmem writeback relies on swap, and swap writeback is LRU based,
+	 * not using the dirty mark.
+	 */
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_swapcache(folio) || shmem_mapping(mapping));
+
 	xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping->i_pages, flags);
 	if (folio->mapping) {	/* Race with truncate? */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !folio_test_uptodate(folio));
 		folio_account_dirtied(folio, mapping);
-		__xa_set_mark(&mapping->i_pages, folio_index(folio),
-				PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
+		__xa_set_mark(&mapping->i_pages, folio->index,
+			      PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
 	}
 	xa_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->i_pages, flags);
 }
@@ -2989,7 +2995,7 @@ bool __folio_end_writeback(struct folio *folio)
 
 		xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping->i_pages, flags);
 		ret = folio_xor_flags_has_waiters(folio, 1 << PG_writeback);
-		__xa_clear_mark(&mapping->i_pages, folio_index(folio),
+		__xa_clear_mark(&mapping->i_pages, folio->index,
 					PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
 		if (bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT) {
 			struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_to_wb(inode);
@@ -3026,7 +3032,7 @@ void __folio_start_writeback(struct folio *folio, bool keep_write)
 	VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
 
 	if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
-		XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, folio_index(folio));
+		XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, folio->index);
 		struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);
 		unsigned long flags;
-- 
2.51.0