Re: [PATCH 0/2 v5] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jan 17 2025 - 02:58:38 EST


Still NAC for sneaking in an almost undocumented MM feature into
a file system ioctl. Especially while a discussion on that is still
ongoin.

And it's still bad that you don't even bother to Cc fsdevel on this,
nor linux-api or in this case the mm list.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 05:19:42PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> If users clearly know which file-backed pages to reclaim in system view, they
> can use this ioctl() to register in advance and reclaim all at once later.
>
> Change log from v4:
> - fix range handling
>
> Change log from v3:
> - cover partial range
>
> Change log from v2:
> - add more boundary checks
> - de-register the range, if len is zero
>
> Jaegeuk Kim (1):
> f2fs: add a sysfs entry to request donate file-backed pages
>
> Yi Sun (1):
> f2fs: Optimize f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range()
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 7 ++++++
> fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 ++
> fs/f2fs/file.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> fs/f2fs/shrinker.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 8 +++++++
> 5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.48.0.rc2.279.g1de40edade-goog
>
>
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