The quilt patch titled Subject: ufs: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: ufs: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:31:23 +0100 Patch series "remove most callers of write_one_page", v4. This series removes most users of the write_one_page API. These helpers internally call ->writepage which we are gradually removing from the kernel. This patch (of 3): We do not need to writeout modified directory blocks immediately when modifying them while the page is locked. It is enough to do the flush somewhat later which has the added benefit that inode times can be flushed as well. It also allows us to stop depending on write_one_page() function. Ported from an ext2 patch by Jan Kara. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143125.27778-1-hch@xxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143125.27778-2-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara via Ocfs2-devel <ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ufs/dir.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ufs/dir.c~ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories +++ a/fs/ufs/dir.c @@ -42,11 +42,10 @@ static inline int ufs_match(struct super return !memcmp(name, de->d_name, len); } -static int ufs_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len) +static void ufs_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; struct inode *dir = mapping->host; - int err = 0; inode_inc_iversion(dir); block_write_end(NULL, mapping, pos, len, len, page, NULL); @@ -54,10 +53,16 @@ static int ufs_commit_chunk(struct page i_size_write(dir, pos+len); mark_inode_dirty(dir); } - if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir)) - err = write_one_page(page); - else - unlock_page(page); + unlock_page(page); +} + +static int ufs_handle_dirsync(struct inode *dir) +{ + int err; + + err = filemap_write_and_wait(dir->i_mapping); + if (!err) + err = sync_inode_metadata(dir, 1); return err; } @@ -99,11 +104,12 @@ void ufs_set_link(struct inode *dir, str de->d_ino = cpu_to_fs32(dir->i_sb, inode->i_ino); ufs_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, inode->i_mode); - err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, len); + ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, len); ufs_put_page(page); if (update_times) dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = current_time(dir); mark_inode_dirty(dir); + ufs_handle_dirsync(dir); } @@ -390,10 +396,11 @@ got_it: de->d_ino = cpu_to_fs32(sb, inode->i_ino); ufs_set_de_type(sb, de, inode->i_mode); - err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, rec_len); + ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, rec_len); dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = current_time(dir); mark_inode_dirty(dir); + err = ufs_handle_dirsync(dir); /* OFFSET_CACHE */ out_put: ufs_put_page(page); @@ -531,9 +538,10 @@ int ufs_delete_entry(struct inode *inode if (pde) pde->d_reclen = cpu_to_fs16(sb, to - from); dir->d_ino = 0; - err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, to - from); + ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, to - from); inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = current_time(inode); mark_inode_dirty(inode); + err = ufs_handle_dirsync(inode); out: ufs_put_page(page); UFSD("EXIT\n"); @@ -579,7 +587,8 @@ int ufs_make_empty(struct inode * inode, strcpy (de->d_name, ".."); kunmap(page); - err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, 0, chunk_size); + ufs_commit_chunk(page, 0, chunk_size); + err = ufs_handle_dirsync(inode); fail: put_page(page); return err; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are mm-dont-look-at-xarray-value-entries-in-split_huge_pages_in_file.patch mm-make-mapping_get_entry-available-outside-of-filemapc.patch mm-use-filemap_get_entry-in-filemap_get_incore_folio.patch shmem-open-code-the-page-cache-lookup-in-shmem_get_folio_gfp.patch mm-remove-fgp_entry.patch mm-return-an-err_ptr-from-__filemap_get_folio.patch mm-return-an-err_ptr-from-__filemap_get_folio-fix.patch