Re: [PATCH 09/28] FS-Cache: Release page->private after failed readahead [try #2]

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 22:52:26 EST


On Thursday 06 December 2007 06:39, David Howells wrote:
> The attached patch causes read_cache_pages() to release page-private data
> on a page for which add_to_page_cache() fails or the filler function fails.
> This permits pages with caching references associated with them to be
> cleaned up.
>
> The invalidatepage() address space op is called (indirectly) to do the
> honours.

This is pretty nasty. I would suggest either to have the function
return the number of pages that were added to pagecache, or just
open code it.

>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/readahead.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
> index c9c50ca..75aa6b6 100644
> --- a/mm/readahead.c
> +++ b/mm/readahead.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,41 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(file_ra_state_init);
>
> #define list_to_page(head) (list_entry((head)->prev, struct page, lru))
>
> +/*
> + * see if a page needs releasing upon read_cache_pages() failure
> + * - the caller of read_cache_pages() may have set PG_private before
> calling, + * such as the NFS fs marking pages that are cached locally on
> disk, thus we + * need to give the fs a chance to clean up in the event
> of an error + */
> +static void read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(struct address_space
> *mapping, + struct page *page)
> +{
> + if (PagePrivate(page)) {
> + if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
> + BUG();
> + page->mapping = mapping;
> + do_invalidatepage(page, 0);
> + page->mapping = NULL;
> + unlock_page(page);
> + }
> + page_cache_release(page);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * release a list of pages, invalidating them first if need be
> + */
> +static void read_cache_pages_invalidate_pages(struct address_space
> *mapping, + struct list_head *pages)
> +{
> + struct page *victim;
> +
> + while (!list_empty(pages)) {
> + victim = list_to_page(pages);
> + list_del(&victim->lru);
> + read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(mapping, victim);
> + }
> +}
> +
> /**
> * read_cache_pages - populate an address space with some pages & start
> reads against them * @mapping: the address_space
> @@ -65,14 +100,14 @@ int read_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
> struct list_head *pages, list_del(&page->lru);
> if (add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping,
> page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> - page_cache_release(page);
> + read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(mapping, page);
> continue;
> }
> page_cache_release(page);
>
> ret = filler(data, page);
> if (unlikely(ret)) {
> - put_pages_list(pages);
> + read_cache_pages_invalidate_pages(mapping, pages);
> break;
> }
> task_io_account_read(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
>
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