[PATCH v5 00/10] ceph: convert writeback path to folios
From: Tal Zussman
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 13:10:46 EST
Convert ceph's writeback path to work on folios. These conversions
eliminate the last callers of three mm compatibility APIs:
wait_on_page_writeback(), thp_size(), and thp_order(). Their removals
will be sent separately once the conversions land, per Ceph maintainer
request.
This also fixes a couple pre-existing issues discovered by Sashiko
along the way.
Some page <-> folio boundaries are deliberately left in place where
ceph borders on some gnarlier page-based APIs:
- libceph's OSD data plane is page-array based, so ceph_writeback_ctl's
pages[] and osd_data->pages[] remain struct page arrays. Folios are
converted at the array/libceph boundary.
- fscrypt's bounce page API remains page-based for some functions
(fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(), fscrypt_free_bounce_page()).
Possibly-bounce array entries are unwrapped to their pagecache folios
via fscrypt_pagecache_folio().
This series is based on the ceph-client testing branch [1].
[1] https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client/tree/testing
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Changes in v5:
- Rebase onto the current ceph-client testing branch
- Patches 1, 6, and 8: open-code the bounce page unwrapping, as
fscrypt_finalize_bounce_page() was removed in v7.3-rc1, per Ilya
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260817-remove-wait-on-page-writeback-v4-0-0e5e53d47eb0@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v4:
- Rebase onto the current ceph-client testing branch
- Drop the two mm patches removing wait_on_page_writeback(), thp_size(),
and thp_order(), per Alex
- Patch 2: wait for the pending fscache write before bumping the
writeback congestion count and allocating the OSD request, per
Sashiko
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260810-remove-wait-on-page-writeback-v3-0-dd7531704f26@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v3:
- Add patches 1 and 2, fixing a couple pre-existing bugs found by Sashiko
- Patch 7 (was patch 5): Rework the ceph_submit_write() error path
conversion on top of patch 1
- Patch 10 (was patch 8): Remove the BUG_ON(), per Sashiko and Matthew
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260804-remove-wait-on-page-writeback-v2-0-81f0ab065284@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v2:
- Propagate tags (thanks David and Matthew!)
- Rebase onto ceph-client.git testing
- Rename the series to "ceph: convert writeback path to folios"
- Patch 1: Drop the folio_test_private() check in
ceph_folio_snap_context(), per Matthew and Zi.
- Patch 4: Introduce ceph_fscrypt folio helpers and use them in
get_writepages_data_length(), per Matthew.
- Patches 5-10: new
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260802-remove-wait-on-page-writeback-v1-0-6c35d6b3ad36@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Tal Zussman (10):
ceph: fix error handling when the OSD client is stopping in ceph_submit_write()
ceph: wait for pending fscache write in write_folio_nounlock()
ceph: add ceph_folio_snap_context()
ceph: convert ceph_wait_until_current_writes_complete() to folios
ceph: convert get_writepages_data_length() to folios
ceph: convert ceph_submit_write() to folios
ceph: remove page remnants from write_folio_nounlock()
ceph: convert page cleanup loop in writepages_finish() to folios
ceph: remove ceph_fscrypt_pagecache_page() and ceph_fscrypt_page_offset()
ceph: rename ceph_check_page_before_write() to ceph_check_folio_before_write()
fs/ceph/addr.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
fs/ceph/crypto.h | 12 ++--
2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 6b039a71d37a39bb90a64c4e271f90ee0588ac4a
change-id: 20260802-remove-wait-on-page-writeback-8e0cb766d4c7
Best regards,
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Tal Zussman <tz2294@xxxxxxxxxxxx>