[PATCHv1, RFC 14/33] filemap: handle huge pages in do_generic_file_read()

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 20:36:14 EST


Most of work happans on head page. Only when we need to do copy data to
userspace we find relevant subpage.

We are still limited by PAGE_SIZE per iteration. Lifting this limitation
would require some more work.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index a3183e688718..566c7e6ca423 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1819,6 +1819,7 @@ find_page:
if (unlikely(page == NULL))
goto no_cached_page;
}
+ page = compound_head(page);
if (PageReadahead(page)) {
page_cache_async_readahead(mapping,
ra, filp, page,
@@ -1895,7 +1896,8 @@ page_ok:
* now we can copy it to user space...
*/

- ret = copy_page_to_iter(page, offset, nr, iter);
+ ret = copy_page_to_iter(page + index - page->index, offset,
+ nr, iter);
offset += ret;
index += offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
offset &= ~PAGE_MASK;
@@ -2315,6 +2317,7 @@ page_not_uptodate:
* because there really aren't any performance issues here
* and we need to check for errors.
*/
+ page = compound_head(page);
ClearPageError(page);
error = mapping->a_ops->readpage(file, page);
if (!error) {
--
2.8.1