Re: [PATCH v8 01/10] fs: Allow fine-grained control of folio sizes

["Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 04:20:13PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 01:23:20PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> > > -	AS_LARGE_FOLIO_SUPPORT = 6,
> > 
> > nit: this removed enum is still referenced in a comment further down the file.
Good catch.
> 
> Thanks.  Pankaj, let me know if you want me to send you a patch or if
> you'll do it directly.
Yes, I will fold the changes.
> 
> > > +static inline void mapping_set_folio_order_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> > > +						 unsigned int min,
> > > +						 unsigned int max)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
> > > +		return;
> > > +
> > > +	if (min > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER)
> > > +		min = MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER;
> > > +	if (max > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER)
> > > +		max = MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER;
> > > +	if (max < min)
> > > +		max = min;
> > 
> > It seems strange to silently clamp these? Presumably for the bs>ps usecase,
> > whatever values are passed in are a hard requirement? So wouldn't want them to
> > be silently reduced. (Especially given the recent change to reduce the size of
> > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER to less then PMD size in some cases).
> 
> Hm, yes.  We should probably make this return an errno.  Including
> returning an errno for !IS_ENABLED() and min > 0.
> 

Something like this? (I also need to change the xfs_icache.c to
use this return value in the last patch)

diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 14e1415f7dcf..04916720f807 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -390,28 +390,27 @@ static inline void mapping_set_gfp_mask(struct address_space *m, gfp_t mask)
  * Context: This should not be called while the inode is active as it
  * is non-atomic.
  */
-static inline void mapping_set_folio_order_range(struct address_space *mapping,
+static inline int mapping_set_folio_order_range(struct address_space *mapping,
                                                 unsigned int min,
                                                 unsigned int max)
 {
        if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
-               return;
+               return -EINVAL;
 
-       if (min > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER)
-               min = MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER;
-       if (max > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER)
-               max = MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER;
+       if (min > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER || max > MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER)
+               return -EINVAL;
        if (max < min)
                max = min;
 
        mapping->flags = (mapping->flags & ~AS_FOLIO_ORDER_MASK) |
                (min << AS_FOLIO_ORDER_MIN) | (max << AS_FOLIO_ORDER_MAX);
+       return 0;
 }
 
-static inline void mapping_set_folio_min_order(struct address_space *mapping,
+static inline int mapping_set_folio_min_order(struct address_space *mapping,
                                               unsigned int min)
 {
-       mapping_set_folio_order_range(mapping, min, MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER);
+       return mapping_set_folio_order_range(mapping, min, MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER);
 }
 
 
@@ -428,6 +427,10 @@ static inline void mapping_set_folio_min_order(struct address_space *mapping,
  */
 static inline void mapping_set_large_folios(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
+       /*
+        * The return value can be safely ignored because this range
+        * will always be supported by the page cache.
+        */
        mapping_set_folio_order_range(mapping, 0, MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER);
 }

 --
 Pankaj