[PATCH 03/25] mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion

David Howells
2021-01-20T23:46:56Z

Provide a function, readahead_expand(), that expands the set of pages
specified by a readahead_control object to encompass a revised area with a
proposed size and length.

The proposed area must include all of the old area and may be expanded yet
more by this function so that the edges align on (transparent huge) page
boundaries as allocated.

The expansion will be cut short if a page already exists in either of the
areas being expanded into. Note that any expansion made in such a case is
not rolled back.

This will be used by fscache so that reads can be expanded to cache granule
boundaries, thereby allowing whole granules to be stored in the cache, but
there are other potential users also.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

include/linux/pagemap.h | 2 +
mm/readahead.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 1fa160e682fa..4935ad6171c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -774,6 +774,8 @@ extern void __delete_from_page_cache(struct page *page, void *shadow);
int replace_page_cache_page(struct page *old, struct page *new, gfp_t gfp_mask);
void delete_from_page_cache_batch(struct address_space *mapping,
struct pagevec *pvec);
+void readahead_expand(struct readahead_control *ractl,
+ loff_t new_start, size_t new_len);

/*
* Like add_to_page_cache_locked, but used to add newly allocated pages:
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index c5b0457415be..4446dada0bc2 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -638,3 +638,73 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readahead, int, fd, loff_t, offset, size_t, count)
{
return ksys_readahead(fd, offset, count);
}
+
+/**
+ * readahead_expand - Expand a readahead request
+ * @ractl: The request to be expanded
+ * @new_start: The revised start
+ * @new_len: The revised size of the request
+ *
+ * Attempt to expand a readahead request outwards from the current size to the
+ * specified size by inserting locked pages before and after the current window
+ * to increase the size to the new window. This may involve the insertion of
+ * THPs, in which case the window may get expanded even beyond what was
+ * requested.
+ *
+ * The algorithm will stop if it encounters a conflicting page already in the
+ * pagecache and leave a smaller expansion than requested.
+ *
+ * The caller must check for this by examining the revised @ractl object for a
+ * different expansion than was requested.
+ */
+void readahead_expand(struct readahead_control *ractl,
+ loff_t new_start, size_t new_len)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = ractl->mapping;
+ pgoff_t new_index, new_nr_pages;
+ gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping);
+
+ new_index = new_start / PAGE_SIZE;
+
+ /* Expand the leading edge downwards */
+ while (ractl->_index > new_index) {
+ unsigned long index = ractl->_index - 1;
+ struct page *page = xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, index);
+
+ if (page && !xa_is_value(page))
+ return; /* Page apparently present */
+
+ page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask);
+ if (!page)
+ return;
+ if (add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, gfp_mask) < 0) {
+ put_page(page);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ ractl->_nr_pages++;
+ ractl->_index = page->index;
+ }
+
+ new_len += new_start - readahead_pos(ractl);
+ new_nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(new_len, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ /* Expand the trailing edge upwards */
+ while (ractl->_nr_pages < new_nr_pages) {
+ unsigned long index = ractl->_index + ractl->_nr_pages;
+ struct page *page = xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, index);
+
+ if (page && !xa_is_value(page))
+ return; /* Page apparently present */
+
+ page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask);
+ if (!page)
+ return;
+ if (add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, gfp_mask) < 0) {
+ put_page(page);
+ return;
+ }
+ ractl->_nr_pages++;
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(readahead_expand);