A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation.
These will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized
I/O to page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O). This does preclude
I/Os that are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance
gain for some devices.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/mpage.c | 12 ++++++++++
include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 79 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 552a8d1..83fba15 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -363,6 +363,69 @@ int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_fsync);
+/**
+ * bdev_read_page() - Start reading a page from a block device
+ * @bdev: The device to read the page from
+ * @sector: The offset on the device to read the page to (need not be aligned)
+ * @page: The page to read
+ *
+ * On entry, the page should be locked. It will be unlocked when the page
+ * has been read. If the block driver implements rw_page synchronously,
+ * that will be true on exit from this function, but it need not be.
+ *
+ * Errors returned by this function are usually "soft", eg out of memory, or
+ * queue full; callers should try a different route to read this page rather
+ * than propagate an error back up the stack.
+ *
+ * Return: negative errno if an error occurs, 0 if submission was successful.
+ */
+int bdev_read_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ const struct block_device_operations *ops = bdev->bd_disk->fops;
+ if (!ops->rw_page)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ return ops->rw_page(bdev, sector + get_start_sect(bdev), page, READ);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_read_page);
+
+/**
+ * bdev_write_page() - Start writing a page to a block device
+ * @bdev: The device to write the page to
+ * @sector: The offset on the device to write the page to (need not be aligned)
+ * @page: The page to write
+ * @wbc: The writeback_control for the write
+ *
+ * On entry, the page should be locked and not currently under writeback.
+ * On exit, if the write started successfully, the page will be unlocked and
+ * under writeback. If the write failed already (eg the driver failed to
+ * queue the page to the device), the page will still be locked. If the
+ * caller is a ->writepage implementation, it will need to unlock the page.
+ *
+ * Errors returned by this function are usually "soft", eg out of memory, or
+ * queue full; callers should try a different route to write this page rather
+ * than propagate an error back up the stack.
+ *
+ * Return: negative errno if an error occurs, 0 if submission was successful.
+ */
+int bdev_write_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
+ struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+ int result;
+ int rw = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) ? WRITE_SYNC : WRITE;
+ const struct block_device_operations *ops = bdev->bd_disk->fops;
+ if (!ops->rw_page)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ set_page_writeback(page);
+ result = ops->rw_page(bdev, sector + get_start_sect(bdev), page, rw);
+ if (result)
+ end_page_writeback(page);
+ else
+ unlock_page(page);
+ return result;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_write_page);
+
/*
* pseudo-fs
*/
diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 10da0da..5f9ed62 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ do_mpage_readpage(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned nr_pages,
alloc_new:
if (bio == NULL) {
+ if (first_hole == blocks_per_page) {
+ if (!bdev_read_page(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
+ page))
+ goto out;
+ }
bio = mpage_alloc(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
min_t(int, nr_pages, bio_get_nr_vecs(bdev)),
GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -587,6 +592,13 @@ page_is_mapped:
alloc_new:
if (bio == NULL) {
+ if (first_unmapped == blocks_per_page) {
+ if (!bdev_write_page(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
+ page, wbc)) {
+ clean_buffers(page, first_unmapped);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
bio = mpage_alloc(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
bio_get_nr_vecs(bdev), GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGH);
if (bio == NULL)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0d84981..6d2de38 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1570,6 +1570,7 @@ static inline bool blk_integrity_is_initialized(struct gendisk *g)
struct block_device_operations {
int (*open) (struct block_device *, fmode_t);
void (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t);
+ int (*rw_page)(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *, int rw);
int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t,
@@ -1588,6 +1589,9 @@ struct block_device_operations {
extern int __blkdev_driver_ioctl(struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned int,
unsigned long);
+extern int bdev_read_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *);
+extern int bdev_write_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *,
+ struct writeback_control *);
#else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
/*
* stubs for when the block layer is configured out
--
1.9.1
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