[PATCH 0/6] btrfs: preparation patches for the incoming metadata folio conversion

[Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>]

[BACKGROUND]

Recently I'm checking on the feasibility on converting metadata handling
to go a folio based solution.

The best part of using a single folio for metadata is, we can get rid of
the complexity of cross-page handling, everything would be just a single
memory operation on a continuous memory range.

[PITFALLS]

One of the biggest problem for metadata folio conversion is, we still
need the current page based solution (or folios with order 0) as a
fallback solution when we can not get a high order folio.

In that case, there would be a hell to handle the four different
combinations (folio/folio, folio/page, page/folio, page/page) for extent
buffer helpers involving two extent buffers.

[OBJECTIVE]

So this patchset is the preparation to reduce direct page operations for
metadata.

The patchset would do this mostly be concentrate the operations to use
the common helper, write_extent_buffer() and read_extent_buffer().

For bitmap operations it's much complex, thus this patchset refactor it
completely to go a 3 part solution:

- Handle the first byte
- Handle the byte aligned ranges
- Handle the last byte

This needs more complex testing (which I failed several times during
development) to prevent regression.

Finally there is only one function which can not be properly migrated,
memmove_extent_buffer(), which has to use memmove() calls, thus must go
per-page mapping handling.

Thankfully if we go folio in the end, the folio based handling would
just be a single memmove(), thus it won't be too much burden.

Qu Wenruo (6):
  btrfs: tests: enhance extent buffer bitmap tests
  btrfs: refactor extent buffer bitmaps operations
  btrfs: use write_extent_buffer() to implement
    write_extent_buffer_*id()
  btrfs: refactor memcpy_extent_buffer()
  btrfs: refactor copy_extent_buffer_full()
  btrfs: call copy_extent_buffer_full() inside
    btrfs_clone_extent_buffer()

 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c             | 219 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 fs/btrfs/tests/extent-io-tests.c | 161 +++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)

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