Re: [PATCH] mm/truncate: reset xa_has_values flag on each iteration
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 02 2024 - 18:56:22 EST
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 15:51:50 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently mapping_try_invalidate() and invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
> traverses the xarray in batches and then for each batch, maintains and
> set the flag named xa_has_values if the batch has a shadow entry to
> clear the entries at the end of the iteration. However they forgot to
> reset the flag at the end of the iteration which cause them to always
> try to clear the shadow entries in the subsequent iterations where
> there might not be any shadow entries. Fixing it.
>
So this is an efficiency thing, no other effects expected?
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -463,10 +463,10 @@ unsigned long mapping_try_invalidate(struct address_space *mapping,
> unsigned long ret;
> unsigned long count = 0;
> int i;
> - bool xa_has_values = false;
>
> folio_batch_init(&fbatch);
> while (find_lock_entries(mapping, &index, end, &fbatch, indices)) {
> + bool xa_has_values = false;
> int nr = folio_batch_count(&fbatch);
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
> @@ -592,7 +592,6 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> int ret = 0;
> int ret2 = 0;
> int did_range_unmap = 0;
> - bool xa_has_values = false;
>
> if (mapping_empty(mapping))
> return 0;
> @@ -600,6 +599,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> folio_batch_init(&fbatch);
> index = start;
> while (find_get_entries(mapping, &index, end, &fbatch, indices)) {
> + bool xa_has_values = false;
> int nr = folio_batch_count(&fbatch);
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
> --
> 2.43.5