linux-toradex.git/include/linux/buffer_head.h, branch v4.6-rc6

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 -  << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 -  >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bufferhead: force inlining of buffer head flag operations

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

With both gcc 4.7.2 and 4.9.2, sometimes gcc mysteriously doesn't inline
very small functions we expect to be inlined.  See

    https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66122

With this .config:
http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config_OPTIMIZE_INLINING_and_Os,
set_buffer_foo(), clear_buffer_foo() and similar functions get deinlined
about 60 times. Examples of disassembly:

 (14 copies, 43 calls):
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       f0 80 0f 20             lock orb $0x20,(%rdi)
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq
 (3 copies, 34 calls):
       48 8b 07                mov    (%rdi),%rax
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       48 c1 e8 05             shr    $0x5,%rax
       83 e0 01                and    $0x1,%eax
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq
 (5 copies, 13 calls):
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       f0 80 0f 40             lock orb $0x40,(%rdi)
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq

This patch fixes this via s/inline/__always_inline/.
This decreases vmlinux by about 3 kbytes.

    text	    data	     bss	      dec	    hex	filename
88200439	19905208	36421632	144527279	89d4faf	vmlinux2
88197239	19905240	36421632	144524111	89d434f	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Graf 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: remove unused wrapper block_page_mkwrite()

2015-11-11T07:19:33+00:00

The function currently called "__block_page_mkwrite()" used to be called
"block_page_mkwrite()" until a wrapper for this function was added by:

commit 24da4fab5a61 ("vfs: Create __block_page_mkwrite() helper passing
	error values back")

This wrapper, the current "block_page_mkwrite()", is currently unused.
__block_page_mkwrite() is used directly by ext4, nilfs2 and xfs.

Remove the unused wrapper, rename __block_page_mkwrite() back to
block_page_mkwrite() and update the comment above block_page_mkwrite().

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()

2015-07-02T05:32:44+00:00

sb_getblk() is used during ext4 (and possibly other FSes) writeback
paths. Sometimes such path require allocating memory and guaranteeing
that such allocation won't block. Currently, however, there is no way
to provide user flags for sb_getblk which could lead to deadlocks.

This patch implements a sb_getblk_gfp with the only difference it can
accept user-provided GFP flags.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fs/buffer.c: support buffer cache allocations with gfp modifiers

2014-09-05T02:04:42+00:00

A buffer cache is allocated from movable area because it is referred
for a while and released soon.  But some filesystems are taking buffer
cache for a long time and it can disturb page migration.

New APIs are introduced to allocate buffer cache with user specific
flag.  *_gfp APIs are for user want to set page allocation flag for
page cache allocation.  And *_unmovable APIs are for the user wants to
allocate page cache from non-movable area.

Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara

fs/buffer.c: remove block_write_full_page_endio()

2014-06-04T23:54:02+00:00

The last in-tree caller of block_write_full_page_endio() was removed in
January 2013.  It's time to remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL, which leaves
block_write_full_page() as the only caller of
block_write_full_page_endio(), so inline block_write_full_page_endio()
into block_write_full_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

switch ->is_partially_uptodate() to saner arguments

2014-04-02T03:19:19+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions

2013-09-04T13:23:46+00:00

Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user
context using a workqueue.  This replaces opencoded and less efficient
code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO)
and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO.

The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires
a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the
direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating
with the filesystems.

Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these
completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara.  I'm
not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global
workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion.

JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account

2013-07-03T23:07:29+00:00

Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks 
Cc: Zlatko Calusic 
Cc: dormando 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds