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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	oleg@redhat.com, mjguzik@gmail.com,  josh@joshtriplett.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	jlayton@kernel.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	 kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] fs/pipe: add per-pipe pool push, prefill and trim helpers
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:04:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707-b4-pipe-unification-v2-2-eb52bddeeefd@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260707-b4-pipe-unification-v2-0-eb52bddeeefd@debian.org>

Add the helpers the per-pipe pool needs: anon_pipe_prealloc_push() to
return a page to the pool, anon_pipe_prefill() to top the pipe's pool up
before the lock, and anon_pipe_trim_pool() to drop it back to
PIPE_PREALLOC_KEEP after a write. anon_pipe_prealloc_pop() already exists
and is reused.

prefill and trim_pool have no callers yet and are marked __maybe_unused;
the next patch wires them into anon_pipe_write() and removes the
annotation along with the old on-stack pool helpers.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 fs/pipe.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 325fd9757dbdd..240fede27542d 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -155,6 +155,78 @@ static struct page *anon_pipe_prealloc_pop(struct anon_pipe_prealloc *prealloc)
 	return prealloc->pages[prealloc->count];
 }
 
+/* Push a page to the prealloc pool. Returns true if added, false if full. */
+static bool anon_pipe_prealloc_push(struct anon_pipe_prealloc *prealloc,
+				    struct page *page)
+{
+	if (prealloc->count >= PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX)
+		return false;
+	prealloc->pages[prealloc->count++] = page;
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Top up the pipe's own pool before taking pipe->mutex, allocating only the
+ * shortfall outside the lock, then briefly take the lock to push the pages in.
+ * anon_pipe_get_page() then drains the pool instead of allocating under the lock.
+ */
+static void __maybe_unused anon_pipe_prefill(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+					     size_t total_len)
+{
+	struct page *pages[PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX];
+	unsigned int want, have, need, n = 0;
+
+	want = min_t(unsigned int, DIV_ROUND_UP(total_len, PAGE_SIZE),
+		     PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX);
+	/* Unlocked read; the pool is refilled under the lock below. */
+	have = min_t(unsigned int, READ_ONCE(pipe->prealloc.count), want);
+	need = want - have;
+
+	if (!need)
+		return;
+
+	while (n < need) {
+		struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
+
+		if (!page)
+			break;
+		pages[n++] = page;
+	}
+	if (!n)
+		return;
+
+	mutex_lock(&pipe->mutex);
+	while (n && anon_pipe_prealloc_push(&pipe->prealloc, pages[n - 1]))
+		n--;
+	mutex_unlock(&pipe->mutex);
+
+	/*
+	 * Just flush any extra page that got affected by the TOCTOU
+	 * effect
+	 */
+	while (n)
+		put_page(pages[--n]);
+}
+
+/* Trim the pool down to PIPE_PREALLOC_KEEP, freeing the excess unlocked. */
+static void __maybe_unused anon_pipe_trim_pool(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe)
+{
+	struct page *excess[PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX];
+	unsigned int nexcess = 0;
+
+	/* Unlocked fast path; the count is re-checked under the lock below. */
+	if (READ_ONCE(pipe->prealloc.count) <= PIPE_PREALLOC_KEEP)
+		return;
+
+	mutex_lock(&pipe->mutex);
+	while (pipe->prealloc.count > PIPE_PREALLOC_KEEP)
+		excess[nexcess++] = anon_pipe_prealloc_pop(&pipe->prealloc);
+	mutex_unlock(&pipe->mutex);
+
+	while (nexcess)
+		put_page(excess[--nexcess]);
+}
+
 static struct page *anon_pipe_get_page(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				       struct anon_pipe_prealloc *prealloc)
 {

-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-07 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-07 15:04 [PATCH v2 0/4] fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool Breno Leitao
2026-07-07 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] fs/pipe: move the prealloc pool to per-pipe infrastructure Breno Leitao
2026-07-07 15:04 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-07-07 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] fs/pipe: switch the read and write paths to the per-pipe pool Breno Leitao
2026-07-07 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] fs/pipe: remove the old on-stack prealloc helpers and tmp_page[2] Breno Leitao
2026-07-07 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool Mateusz Guzik
2026-07-08 12:09   ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-08 13:18     ` Mateusz Guzik
2026-07-08 15:11       ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-08 15:24         ` Mateusz Guzik
2026-07-08 15:54           ` Breno Leitao

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