The patch titled Subject: mm: move readahead nr_pages check into read_pages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: move readahead nr_pages check into read_pages Simplify the callers by moving the check for nr_pages and the BUG_ON into read_pages(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-5-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> 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: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ static void read_pages(struct address_sp struct blk_plug plug; unsigned page_idx; + if (!nr_pages) + return; + blk_start_plug(&plug); if (mapping->a_ops->readpages) { @@ -138,6 +141,8 @@ static void read_pages(struct address_sp out: blk_finish_plug(&plug); + + BUG_ON(!list_empty(pages)); } /* @@ -180,8 +185,7 @@ void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct ad * contiguous pages before continuing with the next * batch. */ - if (nr_pages) - read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, + read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask); nr_pages = 0; continue; @@ -202,9 +206,7 @@ void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct ad * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and * will then handle the error. */ - if (nr_pages) - read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask); - BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool)); + read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-move-readahead-prototypes-from-mmh.patch mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions.patch mm-ignore-return-value-of-readpages.patch mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages.patch mm-add-new-readahead_control-api.patch mm-use-readahead_control-to-pass-arguments.patch mm-rename-various-offset-parameters-to-index.patch mm-rename-readahead-loop-variable-to-i.patch mm-remove-page_offset-from-readahead-loop.patch mm-put-readahead-pages-in-cache-earlier.patch mm-add-readahead-address-space-operation.patch mm-move-end_index-check-out-of-readahead-loop.patch mm-add-page_cache_readahead_unbounded.patch mm-document-why-we-dont-set-pagereadahead.patch mm-use-memalloc_nofs_save-in-readahead-path.patch fs-convert-mpage_readpages-to-mpage_readahead.patch btrfs-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch erofs-convert-uncompressed-files-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch erofs-convert-compressed-files-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch ext4-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch ext4-pass-the-inode-to-ext4_mpage_readpages.patch f2fs-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch f2fs-pass-the-inode-to-f2fs_mpage_readpages.patch fuse-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch iomap-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch