[RFC PATCH 5/9] shmem: clear_highpage() if block is not uptodate

Daniel Gomez
2024-02-09T14:29:21Z

clear_highpage() is called for all the subpages (blocks) in a large
folio when the folio is not uptodate. Do clear the subpages only when
they are not uptodate.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
---
mm/shmem.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 614cda767298..b6f9a60b179b 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2253,7 +2253,8 @@ static int shmem_get_folio_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
long i, n = folio_nr_pages(folio);

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
- clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, i));
+ if (!shmem_is_block_uptodate(folio, i))
+ clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, i));
flush_dcache_folio(folio);
shmem_set_range_uptodate(folio, 0, folio_size(folio));
}
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