The quilt patch titled Subject: mm, netfs, fscache: stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache.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: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, netfs, fscache: stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:48:52 +0100 Fscache has an optimisation by which reads from the cache are skipped until we know that (a) there's data there to be read and (b) that data isn't entirely covered by pages resident in the netfs pagecache. This is done with two flags manipulated by fscache_note_page_release(): if (... test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) && test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags)) clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags); where the NO_DATA_TO_READ flag causes cachefiles_prepare_read() to indicate that netfslib should download from the server or clear the page instead. The fscache_note_page_release() function is intended to be called from ->releasepage() - but that only gets called if PG_private or PG_private_2 is set - and currently the former is at the discretion of the network filesystem and the latter is only set whilst a page is being written to the cache, so sometimes we miss clearing the optimisation. Fix this by following Willy's suggestion[1] and adding an address_space flag, AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, that causes filemap_release_folio() to always call ->release_folio() if it's set, even if PG_private or PG_private_2 aren't set. Note that this would require folio_test_private() and page_has_private() to become more complicated. To avoid that, in the places[*] where these are used to conditionalise calls to filemap_release_folio() and try_to_release_page(), the tests are removed the those functions just jumped to unconditionally and the test is performed there. [*] There are some exceptions in vmscan.c where the check guards more than just a call to the releaser. I've added a function, folio_needs_release() to wrap all the checks for that. AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS should be set if a non-NULL cookie is obtained from fscache and cleared in ->evict_inode() before truncate_inode_pages_final() is called. Additionally, the FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ flag needs to be cleared and the optimisation cancelled if a cachefiles object already contains data when we open it. [dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx: call folio_mapping() inside folio_needs_release()] Link: https://github.com/DaveWysochanskiRH/kernel/commit/902c990e311120179fa5de99d68364b2947b79ec Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-3-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 1f67e6d0b188 ("fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page") Fixes: 047487c947e8 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daire Byrne <daire.byrne@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/9p/cache.c | 2 ++ fs/afs/internal.h | 2 ++ fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 2 ++ fs/ceph/cache.c | 2 ++ fs/nfs/fscache.c | 3 +++ fs/smb/client/fscache.c | 2 ++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ mm/internal.h | 5 ++++- 8 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/9p/cache.c~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/9p/cache.c @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ void v9fs_cache_inode_get_cookie(struct &path, sizeof(path), &version, sizeof(version), i_size_read(&v9inode->netfs.inode)); + if (v9inode->netfs.cache) + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping); p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_FSC, "inode %p get cookie %p\n", inode, v9fs_inode_cookie(v9inode)); --- a/fs/afs/internal.h~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/afs/internal.h @@ -681,6 +681,8 @@ static inline void afs_vnode_set_cache(s { #ifdef CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE vnode->netfs.cache = cookie; + if (cookie) + mapping_set_release_always(vnode->netfs.inode.i_mapping); #endif } --- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c @@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ static bool cachefiles_open_file(struct if (ret < 0) goto check_failed; + clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &object->cookie->flags); + object->file = file; /* Always update the atime on an object we've just looked up (this is --- a/fs/ceph/cache.c~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/ceph/cache.c @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ void ceph_fscache_register_inode_cookie( &ci->i_vino, sizeof(ci->i_vino), &ci->i_version, sizeof(ci->i_version), i_size_read(inode)); + if (ci->netfs.cache) + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping); } void ceph_fscache_unregister_inode_cookie(struct ceph_inode_info *ci) --- a/fs/nfs/fscache.c~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/nfs/fscache.c @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ void nfs_fscache_init_inode(struct inode &auxdata, /* aux_data */ sizeof(auxdata), i_size_read(inode)); + + if (netfs_inode(inode)->cache) + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping); } /* --- a/fs/smb/client/fscache.c~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/fs/smb/client/fscache.c @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ void cifs_fscache_get_inode_cookie(struc &cifsi->uniqueid, sizeof(cifsi->uniqueid), &cd, sizeof(cd), i_size_read(&cifsi->netfs.inode)); + if (cifsi->netfs.cache) + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping); } void cifs_fscache_unuse_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode, bool update) --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/include/linux/pagemap.h @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ enum mapping_flags { /* writeback related tags are not used */ AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS = 5, AS_LARGE_FOLIO_SUPPORT = 6, + AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, /* Call ->release_folio(), even if no private data */ }; /** @@ -273,6 +274,21 @@ static inline int mapping_use_writeback_ return !test_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags); } +static inline bool mapping_release_always(const struct address_space *mapping) +{ + return test_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags); +} + +static inline void mapping_set_release_always(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + set_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags); +} + +static inline void mapping_clear_release_always(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + clear_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags); +} + static inline gfp_t mapping_gfp_mask(struct address_space * mapping) { return mapping->gfp_mask; --- a/mm/internal.h~mm-netfs-fscache-stop-read-optimisation-when-folio-removed-from-pagecache +++ a/mm/internal.h @@ -181,7 +181,10 @@ static inline void set_page_refcounted(s */ static inline bool folio_needs_release(struct folio *folio) { - return folio_has_private(folio); + struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(folio); + + return folio_has_private(folio) || + (mapping && mapping_release_always(mapping)); } extern unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are