[patch 027/128] mm: document why we don't set PageReadahead

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: document why we don't set PageReadahead

If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-15-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/readahead.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-document-why-we-dont-set-pagereadahead
+++ a/mm/readahead.c
@@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(stru
 
 		if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) {
 			/*
-			 * Page already present?  Kick off the current batch of
-			 * contiguous pages before continuing with the next
-			 * batch.
+			 * Page already present?  Kick off the current batch
+			 * of contiguous pages before continuing with the
+			 * next batch.  This page may be the one we would
+			 * have intended to mark as Readahead, but we don't
+			 * have a stable reference to this page, and it's
+			 * not worth getting one just for that.
 			 */
 			read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, true);
 			continue;
_




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