linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 10/10] erofs: implement .fadvise for page cache share

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Message-ID: <20251117132537.227116-11-lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:25:37 +0000
From: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@...wei.com>
To: <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>, <chao@...nel.org>, <brauner@...nel.org>,
	<djwong@...nel.org>, <amir73il@...il.com>, <joannelkoong@...il.com>
CC: <lihongbo22@...wei.com>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v9 10/10] 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().

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongzhen Luo <hongzhen@...ux.alibaba.com>
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 da735d69f21f..d8bff0cdf702 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/ishare.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/ishare.c
@@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ static int erofs_ishare_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	return generic_file_readonly_mmap(file, vma);
 }
 
+static int erofs_ishare_fadvise(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,
@@ -238,6 +248,7 @@ 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_fadvise,
 };
 
 /*
-- 
2.22.0