[V5,0/2] mm: shmem: support POSIX_FADV_[WILL|DONT]NEED for shmem files

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Charan Teja Kalla March 11, 2022, 10:43 a.m. UTC

This patch aims to implement POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED and POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED
advices to shmem files which can be helpful for the drivers who may want
to manage the pages of shmem files on their own, like, that are created
through shmem_file_setup[_with_mnt]().

Changes in V5:
 -- Moved the 'endbyte' calculations to a header function for use by shmem_fadvise().
 -- Addressed comments from suren.

Changes in V4:
  -- Changed the code to use reclaim_pages() to writeout the shmem pages to swap and then reclaim.
  -- Addressed comments from Mark Hemment and Matthew.
  -- fadvise() on shmem file may even unmap a page.
  -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/[e-mail]/

Changes in V3:
  -- Considered THP pages while doing FADVISE_[DONT|WILL]NEED, identified by Matthew.
  -- xarray used properly, as identified by Matthew.
  -- Excluded mapped pages as it requires unmapping and the man pages of fadvise don't talk about them.
  -- RESEND: Fixed the compilation issue when CONFIG_TMPFS is not defined.
  -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/[e-mail]/

Changes in V2:
  -- Rearranged the code to not to sleep with rcu_lock while using xas_() functionality.
  -- Addressed the comments from Suren.
  -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/[e-mail]/

changes in V1:
  -- Created the interface for fadvise(2) to work on shmem files.
  -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/[e-mail]/

Charan Teja Kalla (2):
  mm: fadvise: move 'endbyte' calculations to helper function
  mm: shmem: implement POSIX_FADV_[WILL|DONT]NEED for shmem

 mm/fadvise.c  |  11 +-----
 mm/internal.h |  21 ++++++++++
 mm/shmem.c    | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)