On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:43:56AM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> This adds the aop_flags parameter to the create_page_buffers function.
> When AOP_FLAGS_NOWAIT parameter is set, the atomic allocation flag is
> set. The AOP_FLAGS_NOWAIT flag is set, when async buffered writes are
> enabled.
Why is this better than passing in gfp flags directly?
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 948505480b43..5e3067173580 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -1682,13 +1682,27 @@ static inline int block_size_bits(unsigned int blocksize)
> return ilog2(blocksize);
> }
>
> -static struct buffer_head *create_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct inode *inode, unsigned int b_state)
> +static struct buffer_head *create_page_buffers(struct page *page,
> + struct inode *inode,
> + unsigned int b_state,
> + unsigned int aop_flags)
> {
> BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
>
> - if (!page_has_buffers(page))
> - create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << READ_ONCE(inode->i_blkbits),
> - b_state);
> + if (!page_has_buffers(page)) {
> + gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
> +
> + if (aop_flags & AOP_FLAGS_NOWAIT) {
> + gfp |= GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN;
> + gfp &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> + } else {
> + gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
> + }
> +
> + __create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << READ_ONCE(inode->i_blkbits),
> + b_state, gfp);
> + }
> +
> return page_buffers(page);
> }
>
> @@ -1734,7 +1748,7 @@ int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
> int write_flags = wbc_to_write_flags(wbc);
>
> head = create_page_buffers(page, inode,
> - (1 << BH_Dirty)|(1 << BH_Uptodate));
> + (1 << BH_Dirty)|(1 << BH_Uptodate), 0);
>
> /*
> * Be very careful. We have no exclusion from __set_page_dirty_buffers
> @@ -2000,7 +2014,7 @@ int __block_write_begin_int(struct folio *folio, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
> BUG_ON(to > PAGE_SIZE);
> BUG_ON(from > to);
>
> - head = create_page_buffers(&folio->page, inode, 0);
> + head = create_page_buffers(&folio->page, inode, 0, flags);
> blocksize = head->b_size;
> bbits = block_size_bits(blocksize);
>
> @@ -2280,7 +2294,7 @@ int block_read_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block)
> int nr, i;
> int fully_mapped = 1;
>
> - head = create_page_buffers(page, inode, 0);
> + head = create_page_buffers(page, inode, 0, 0);
> blocksize = head->b_size;
> bbits = block_size_bits(blocksize);
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>
