linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC v7 7/7] erofs: implement .fadvise for page cache share

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Message-ID: <20251021104815.70662-8-lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:48:15 +0000
From: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@...wei.com>
To: <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>, <chao@...nel.org>, <brauner@...nel.org>,
	<hongzhen@...ux.alibaba.com>
CC: <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<lihongbo22@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC v7 7/7] erofs: implement .fadvise for page cache share

From: Hongzhen Luo <hongzhen@...ux.alibaba.com>

This patch implements the .fadvise interface for page cache share.
Similar to overlayfs, it drops those clean, unused pages through
vfs_fadvise().

Signed-off-by: Hongzhen Luo <hongzhen@...ux.alibaba.com>
[hongbo: forward port, minor cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@...wei.com>
---
 fs/erofs/ishare.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/erofs/ishare.c b/fs/erofs/ishare.c
index 73432b13bf75..b067f0e02d6c 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/ishare.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/ishare.c
@@ -228,6 +228,16 @@ static int erofs_ishare_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	return generic_file_readonly_mmap(file, vma);
 }
 
+static int erofs_ishare_fadvice(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
+				      loff_t len, int advice)
+{
+	struct file *realfile = file->private_data;
+
+	if (!realfile)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	return vfs_fadvise(realfile, offset, len, advice);
+}
+
 const struct file_operations erofs_ishare_fops = {
 	.open		= erofs_ishare_file_open,
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
@@ -236,6 +246,7 @@ const struct file_operations erofs_ishare_fops = {
 	.release	= erofs_ishare_file_release,
 	.get_unmapped_area = thp_get_unmapped_area,
 	.splice_read	= filemap_splice_read,
+	.fadvise	= erofs_ishare_fadvice,
 };
 
 void erofs_read_begin(struct erofs_read_ctx *rdctx)
-- 
2.22.0