patches/old/mm-filemap-drop-streaming-uncached-pages-when-writeback-completes.patch

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: mm/filemap: drop streaming/uncached pages when writeback completes
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:47:47 -0700

If the folio is marked as streaming, drop pages when writeback completes. 
Intended to be used with RWF_DONTCACHE, to avoid needing sync writes for
uncached IO.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-10-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/filemap.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-filemap-drop-streaming-uncached-pages-when-writeback-completes
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1571,6 +1571,27 @@ int folio_wait_private_2_killable(struct
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_wait_private_2_killable);
 
+/*
+ * If folio was marked as dropbehind, then pages should be dropped when writeback
+ * completes. Do that now. If we fail, it's likely because of a big folio -
+ * just reset dropbehind for that case and latter completions should invalidate.
+ */
+static void folio_end_dropbehind_write(struct folio *folio)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Hitting !in_task() should not happen off RWF_DONTCACHE writeback,
+	 * but can happen if normal writeback just happens to find dirty folios
+	 * that were created as part of uncached writeback, and that writeback
+	 * would otherwise not need non-IRQ handling. Just skip the
+	 * invalidation in that case.
+	 */
+	if (in_task() && folio_trylock(folio)) {
+		if (folio->mapping)
+			folio_unmap_invalidate(folio->mapping, folio, 0);
+		folio_unlock(folio);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * folio_end_writeback - End writeback against a folio.
  * @folio: The folio.
@@ -1581,6 +1602,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_wait_private_2_killa
  */
 void folio_end_writeback(struct folio *folio)
 {
+	bool folio_dropbehind = false;
+
 	VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_writeback(folio), folio);
 
 	/*
@@ -1602,9 +1625,14 @@ void folio_end_writeback(struct folio *f
 	 * reused before the folio_wake_bit().
 	 */
 	folio_get(folio);
+	if (!folio_test_dirty(folio))
+		folio_dropbehind = folio_test_clear_dropbehind(folio);
 	if (__folio_end_writeback(folio))
 		folio_wake_bit(folio, PG_writeback);
 	acct_reclaim_writeback(folio);
+
+	if (folio_dropbehind)
+		folio_end_dropbehind_write(folio);
 	folio_put(folio);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_end_writeback);
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