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    mm, netfs, fscache: stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache · b4fa966f
    David Howells authored
    Fscache has an optimisation by which reads from the cache are skipped
    until we know that (a) there's data there to be read and (b) that data
    isn't entirely covered by pages resident in the netfs pagecache.  This is
    done with two flags manipulated by fscache_note_page_release():
    
    	if (...
    	    test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
    	    test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))
    		clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags);
    
    where the NO_DATA_TO_READ flag causes cachefiles_prepare_read() to
    indicate that netfslib should download from the server or clear the page
    instead.
    
    The fscache_note_page_release() function is intended to be called from
    ->releasepage() - but that only gets called if PG_private or PG_private_2
    is set - and currently the former is at the discretion of the network
    filesystem and the latter is only set whilst a page is being written to
    the cache, so sometimes we miss clearing the optimisation.
    
    Fix this by following Willy's suggestion[1] and adding an address_space
    flag, AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, that causes filemap_release_folio() to always call
    ->release_folio() if it's set, even if PG_private or PG_private_2 aren't
    set.
    
    Note that this would require folio_test_private() and page_has_private() to
    become more complicated.  To avoid that, in the places[*] where these are
    used to conditionalise calls to filemap_release_folio() and
    try_to_release_page(), the tests are removed the those functions just
    jumped to unconditionally and the test is performed there.
    
    [*] There are some exceptions in vmscan.c where the check guards more than
    just a call to the releaser.  I've added a function, folio_needs_release()
    to wrap all the checks for that.
    
    AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS should be set if a non-NULL cookie is obtained from
    fscache and cleared in ->evict_inode() before truncate_inode_pages_final()
    is called.
    
    Additionally, the FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ flag needs to be cleared
    and the optimisation cancelled if a cachefiles object already contains data
    when we open it.
    
    [dwysocha@redhat.com: call folio_mapping() inside folio_needs_release()]
      Link: https://github.com/DaveWysochanskiRH/kernel/commit/902c990e311120179fa5de99d68364b2947b79ec
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-3-dhowells@redhat.com
    Fixes: 1f67e6d0 ("fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page")
    Fixes: 047487c9 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarRohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Daire Byrne <daire.byrne@gmail.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
    Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
    Cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
    Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
    Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
    Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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