Re: [PATCH] zonefs: move super block reading from page to folio

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On 23.05.24 03:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:22:08PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> From: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Move reading of the on-disk superblock from page to kmalloc()ed memory.
> 
> No, this is wrong.
> 
>> +	super = kzalloc(ZONEFS_SUPER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!super)
>>   		return -ENOMEM;
>>   
>> +	folio = virt_to_folio(super);
> 
> This will stop working at some point.  It'll return NULL once we get
> to the memdesc future (because the memdesc will be a slab, not a folio).
> 
>>   	bio_init(&bio, sb->s_bdev, &bio_vec, 1, REQ_OP_READ);
>>   	bio.bi_iter.bi_sector = 0;
>> -	__bio_add_page(&bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
>> +	bio_add_folio_nofail(&bio, folio, ZONEFS_SUPER_SIZE,
>> +			     offset_in_folio(folio, super));
> 
> It also doesn't solve the problem of trying to read 4KiB from a device
> with 16KiB sectors.  We'll have to fail the bio because there isn't
> enough memory in the bio to store one block.
> 
> I think the right way to handle this is to call read_mapping_folio().
> That will allocate a folio in the page cache for you (obeying the
> minimum folio size).  Then you can examine the contents.  It should
> actually remove code from zonefs.  Don't forget to call folio_put()
> when you're done with it (either at unmount or at the end of mount if
> you copy what you need elsewhere).
> 

Hmm but read mapping folio needs an inode for the address_space. Or does 
the block device inode work here?




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