[PATCH 3/4] fs: inode: count invalidated shadow pages in pginodesteal

Johannes Weiner
2021-06-14T21:19:26Z

pginodesteal is supposed to capture the impact that inode reclaim has
on the page cache state. Currently, it doesn't consider shadow pages
that get dropped this way, even though this can have a significant
impact on paging behavior, memory pressure calculations etc.

To improve visibility into these effects, make sure shadow pages get
counted when they get dropped through inode reclaim.

This changes the return value semantics of invalidate_mapping_pages()
semantics slightly, but the only two users are the inode shrinker
itsel and a usb driver that logs it for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
fs/inode.c | 2 +-
mm/truncate.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index c93500d84264..8830a727b0af 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ static enum lru_status inode_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
return LRU_ROTATE;
}

- if (inode_has_buffers(inode) || inode->i_data.nrpages) {
+ if (inode_has_buffers(inode) || !mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)) {
__iget(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(lru_lock);
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index b92b86222625..95934c98259a 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -486,8 +486,9 @@ static unsigned long __invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
index = indices[i];

if (xa_is_value(page)) {
- invalidate_exceptional_entry(mapping, index,
- page);
+ count += invalidate_exceptional_entry(mapping,
+ index,
+ page);
continue;
}
index += thp_nr_pages(page) - 1;
@@ -515,19 +516,18 @@ static unsigned long __invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
}

/**
- * invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
- * @mapping: the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate
+ * invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all clean, unlocked cache of one inode
+ * @mapping: the address_space which holds the cache to invalidate
* @start: the offset 'from' which to invalidate
* @end: the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
*
- * This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you want to
- * remove all the pages of one inode, you must call truncate_inode_pages.
+ * This function removes pages that are clean, unmapped and unlocked,
+ * as well as shadow entries. It will not block on IO activity.
*
- * invalidate_mapping_pages() will not block on IO activity. It will not
- * invalidate pages which are dirty, locked, under writeback or mapped into
- * pagetables.
+ * If you want to remove all the pages of one inode, regardless of
+ * their use and writeback state, use truncate_inode_pages().
*
- * Return: the number of the pages that were invalidated
+ * Return: the number of the cache entries that were invalidated
*/
unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
--
2.32.0