The patch titled Subject: mm: return void from various readahead functions has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: return void from various readahead functions ondemand_readahead has two callers, neither of which use the return value. That means that both ra_submit and __do_page_cache_readahead() can return void, and we don't need to worry that a present page in the readahead window causes us to return a smaller nr_pages than we ought to have. Similarly, no caller uses the return value from force_page_cache_readahead(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-3-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@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: 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> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/fadvise.c | 4 ---- mm/internal.h | 12 ++++++------ mm/readahead.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------ 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) --- a/mm/fadvise.c~mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions +++ a/mm/fadvise.c @@ -104,10 +104,6 @@ int generic_fadvise(struct file *file, l if (!nrpages) nrpages = ~0UL; - /* - * Ignore return value because fadvise() shall return - * success even if filesystem can't retrieve a hint, - */ force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start_index, nrpages); break; case POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE: --- a/mm/internal.h~mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions +++ a/mm/internal.h @@ -49,20 +49,20 @@ void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, struct zap_details *details); -int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *, struct file *, +void force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *, struct file *, pgoff_t index, unsigned long nr_to_read); -extern unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, - struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read, +void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *, struct file *, + pgoff_t index, unsigned long nr_to_read, unsigned long lookahead_size); /* * Submit IO for the read-ahead request in file_ra_state. */ -static inline unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra, +static inline void ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra, struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp) { - return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, - ra->start, ra->size, ra->async_size); + __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, + ra->start, ra->size, ra->async_size); } /** --- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -149,10 +149,8 @@ out: * the pages first, then submits them for I/O. This avoids the very bad * behaviour which would occur if page allocations are causing VM writeback. * We really don't want to intermingle reads and writes like that. - * - * Returns the number of pages requested, or the maximum amount of I/O allowed. */ -unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, +void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read, unsigned long lookahead_size) { @@ -166,7 +164,7 @@ unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(s gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping); if (isize == 0) - goto out; + return; end_index = ((isize - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT); @@ -211,23 +209,21 @@ unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(s if (nr_pages) read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool)); -out: - return nr_pages; } /* * Chunk the readahead into 2 megabyte units, so that we don't pin too much * memory at once. */ -int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, - pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) +void force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, + struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) { struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host); struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra; unsigned long max_pages; if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages)) - return -EINVAL; + return; /* * If the request exceeds the readahead window, allow the read to @@ -245,7 +241,6 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad offset += this_chunk; nr_to_read -= this_chunk; } - return 0; } /* @@ -378,11 +373,10 @@ static int try_context_readahead(struct /* * A minimal readahead algorithm for trivial sequential/random reads. */ -static unsigned long -ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, - struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp, - bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset, - unsigned long req_size) +static void ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, + struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp, + bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset, + unsigned long req_size) { struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host); unsigned long max_pages = ra->ra_pages; @@ -428,7 +422,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space rcu_read_unlock(); if (!start || start - offset > max_pages) - return 0; + return; ra->start = start; ra->size = start - offset; /* old async_size */ @@ -464,7 +458,8 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space * standalone, small random read * Read as is, and do not pollute the readahead state. */ - return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, req_size, 0); + __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, req_size, 0); + return; initial_readahead: ra->start = offset; @@ -489,7 +484,7 @@ readit: } } - return ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp); + ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-simplify-calling-a-compound-page-destructor.patch ipc-convert-ipcs_idr-to-xarray.patch ipc-convert-ipcs_idr-to-xarray-update.patch