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Message-ID: <3570373a3db66151033a3667cb8c28bbf8bc505b.camel@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:41:03 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Christian Brauner
	 <christian@...uner.io>, Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>, Dominique
	Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
  Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>, Paulo Alcantara
 <pc@...guebit.com>, Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>, Tom Talpey
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 <idryomov@...il.com>, netfs@...ts.linux.dev,  linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
 linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,  linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,  ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
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 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Trond
 Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>, Christoph Hellwig
 <hch@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Alexander Viro
 <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,  Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
 devel@...ts.orangefs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/26] mm: Provide a means of invalidation without using
 launder_folio

On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 16:34 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Implement a replacement for launder_folio.  The key feature of
> invalidate_inode_pages2() is that it locks each folio individually, unmaps
> it to prevent mmap'd accesses interfering and calls the ->launder_folio()
> address_space op to flush it.  This has problems: firstly, each folio is
> written individually as one or more small writes; secondly, adjacent folios
> cannot be added so easily into the laundry; thirdly, it's yet another op to
> implement.
> 
> Instead, use the invalidate lock to cause anyone wanting to add a folio to
> the inode to wait, then unmap all the folios if we have mmaps, then,
> conditionally, use ->writepages() to flush any dirty data back and then
> discard all pages.
> 
> The invalidate lock prevents ->read_iter(), ->write_iter() and faulting
> through mmap all from adding pages for the duration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
> cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>
> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
> cc: netfs@...ts.linux.dev
> cc: v9fs@...ts.linux.dev
> cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
> cc: ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org
> cc: linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
> cc: linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
> cc: devel@...ts.orangefs.org
> ---
>  include/linux/pagemap.h |  1 +
>  mm/filemap.c            | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index 2df35e65557d..4eb3d4177a53 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ int filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping);
>  int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
>  int filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping,
>  		loff_t start_byte, loff_t end_byte);
> +int filemap_invalidate_inode(struct inode *inode, bool flush);
>  
>  static inline int filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *mapping)
>  {
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 25983f0f96e3..087f685107a5 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -4134,6 +4134,52 @@ bool filemap_release_folio(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_release_folio);
>  
> +/**
> + * filemap_invalidate_inode - Invalidate/forcibly write back an inode's pagecache
> + * @inode: The inode to flush
> + * @flush: Set to write back rather than simply invalidate.
> + *
> + * Invalidate all the folios on an inode, possibly writing them back first.
> + * Whilst the operation is undertaken, the invalidate lock is held to prevent
> + * new folios from being installed.
> + */
> +int filemap_invalidate_inode(struct inode *inode, bool flush)
> +{
> +	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
> +
> +	if (!mapping || !mapping->nrpages)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	/* Prevent new folios from being added to the inode. */
> +	filemap_invalidate_lock(mapping);
> +
> +	if (!mapping->nrpages)
> +		goto unlock;
> +
> +	unmap_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, ULONG_MAX, false);
> +
> +	/* Write back the data if we're asked to. */
> +	if (flush) {
> +		struct writeback_control wbc = {
> +			.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_ALL,
> +			.nr_to_write	= LONG_MAX,
> +			.range_start	= 0,
> +			.range_end	= LLONG_MAX,
> +		};
> +
> +		filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(mapping, &wbc);
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Wait for writeback to complete on all folios and discard. */
> +	truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, 0, LLONG_MAX);
> +
> +unlock:
> +	filemap_invalidate_unlock(mapping);
> +out:
> +	return filemap_check_errors(mapping);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_invalidate_inode);
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CACHESTAT_SYSCALL
>  /**
>   * filemap_cachestat() - compute the page cache statistics of a mapping
> 
> 

I'd have liked to have seen the first caller of this function too.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>

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