Hi Al, Christoph, Here are patches to provide support for extracting pages from an iov_iter and to use this in the extraction functions in the block layer bio code. The patches make the following changes: (1) Add a function, iov_iter_extract_pages() to replace iov_iter_get_pages*() that gets refs, pins or just lists the pages as appropriate to the iterator type. Add a function, iov_iter_extract_mode() that will indicate from the iterator type how the cleanup is to be performed, returning FOLL_PIN or 0. (2) Add a function, folio_put_unpin(), and a wrapper, page_put_unpin(), that take a page and the return from iov_iter_extract_mode() and do the right thing to clean up the page. (3) Make the bio struct carry a pair of flags to indicate the cleanup mode. BIO_NO_PAGE_REF is replaced with BIO_PAGE_REFFED (equivalent to FOLL_GET) and BIO_PAGE_PINNED (equivalent to BIO_PAGE_PINNED) is added. (4) Add a function, bio_release_page(), to release a page appropriately to the cleanup mode indicated by the BIO_PAGE_* flags. (5) Make the iter-to-bio code use iov_iter_extract_pages() to retain the pages appropriately and clean them up later. (6) Fix bio_flagged() so that it doesn't prevent a gcc optimisation. (7) Renumber FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET down so that they're at bits 0 and 1 and coincident with BIO_PAGE_PINNED and BIO_PAGE_REFFED. The compiler can then optimise on that. Also, it's probably going to be necessary to embed these in the page pointer in sk_buff fragments. This patch can go independently through the mm tree. I've pushed the patches here also: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=iov-extract David Changes: ======== ver #8) - Import Christoph Hellwig's changes. - Split the conversion-to-extraction patch. - Drop the extract_flags arg from iov_iter_extract_mode(). - Don't default bios to BIO_PAGE_REFFED, but set explicitly. - Switch FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET when renumbering so PIN is at bit 0. - Switch BIO_PAGE_PINNED and BIO_PAGE_REFFED so PINNED is at bit 0. - We should always be using FOLL_PIN (not FOLL_GET) for DIO, so adjust the patches for that. ver #7) - For now, drop the parts to pass the I/O direction to iov_iter_*pages*() as it turned out to be a lot more complicated, with places not setting IOCB_WRITE when they should, for example. - Drop all the patches that changed things other then the block layer's bio handling. The netfslib and cifs changes can go into a separate patchset. - Add support for extracting pages from KVEC-type iterators. - When extracting from BVEC/KVEC, skip over empty vecs at the front. ver #6) - Fix write() syscall and co. not setting IOCB_WRITE. - Added iocb_is_read() and iocb_is_write() to check IOCB_WRITE. - Use op_is_write() in bio_copy_user_iov(). - Drop the iterator direction checks from smbd_recv(). - Define FOLL_SOURCE_BUF and FOLL_DEST_BUF and pass them in as part of gup_flags to iov_iter_get/extract_pages*(). - Replace iov_iter_get_pages*2() with iov_iter_get_pages*() and remove. - Add back the function to indicate the cleanup mode. - Drop the cleanup_mode return arg to iov_iter_extract_pages(). - Provide a helper to clean up a page. - Renumbered FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN and made BIO_PAGE_REFFED/PINNED have the same numerical values, enforced with an assertion. - Converted AF_ALG, SCSI vhost, generic DIO, FUSE, splice to pipe, 9P and NFS. - Added in the patches to make CIFS do top-to-bottom iterators and use various of the added extraction functions. - Added a pair of work-in-progess patches to make sk_buff fragments store FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN. ver #5) - Replace BIO_NO_PAGE_REF with BIO_PAGE_REFFED and split into own patch. - Transcribe FOLL_GET/PIN into BIO_PAGE_REFFED/PINNED flags. - Add patch to allow bio_flagged() to be combined by gcc. ver #4) - Drop the patch to move the FOLL_* flags to linux/mm_types.h as they're no longer referenced by linux/uio.h. - Add ITER_SOURCE/DEST cleanup patches. - Make iov_iter/netfslib iter extraction patches use ITER_SOURCE/DEST. - Allow additional gup_flags to be passed into iov_iter_extract_pages(). - Add struct bio patch. ver #3) - Switch to using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to prevent indirect 3rd-party access to get/pin_user_pages_fast()[1]. ver #2) - Rolled the extraction cleanup mode query function into the extraction function, returning the indication through the argument list. - Fixed patch 4 (extract to scatterlist) to actually use the new extraction API. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y3zFzdWnWlEJ8X8/@infradead.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166697254399.61150.1256557652599252121.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166722777223.2555743.162508599131141451.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166732024173.3186319.18204305072070871546.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166869687556.3723671.10061142538708346995.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166920902005.1461876.2786264600108839814.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166997419665.9475.15014699817597102032.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167305160937.1521586.133299343565358971.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167344725490.2425628.13771289553670112965.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167391047703.2311931.8115712773222260073.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v6 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120175556.3556978-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ # v7 Christoph Hellwig (2): iomap: don't get an reference on ZERO_PAGE for direct I/O block zeroing block: Rename BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED and invert the meaning David Howells (8): iov_iter: Define flags to qualify page extraction. iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator mm: Provide a helper to drop a pin/ref on a page block: Fix bio_flagged() so that gcc can better optimise it block: Switch to pinning pages. block: Convert bio_iov_iter_get_pages to use iov_iter_extract_pages block: convert bio_map_user_iov to use iov_iter_extract_pages mm: Renumber FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET down block/bio.c | 33 ++-- block/blk-map.c | 25 ++- block/blk.h | 28 ++++ fs/direct-io.c | 2 + fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 1 - include/linux/bio.h | 5 +- include/linux/blk_types.h | 3 +- include/linux/mm.h | 35 ++-- include/linux/uio.h | 29 +++- lib/iov_iter.c | 334 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- mm/gup.c | 22 +++ 11 files changed, 461 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)