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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-02 12:21:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-02 12:21:36 -0700
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parent4fba37586e4e73f9f9a855e610e151ef7da2b481 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc, vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits) kasan: move kasan_report() into report.c mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags ubsan: entirely disable alignment checks under UBSAN_TRAP kasan: fix clang compilation warning due to stack protector x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting mm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings() x86/mm/32: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() x86/mm/64: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() mm/ioremap: track which page-table levels were modified mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified mm: add functions to track page directory modifications s390: use __vmalloc_node in stack_alloc powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack arm64: use __vmalloc_node in arch_alloc_vmap_stack mm: remove vmalloc_user_node_flags mm: switch the test_vmalloc module to use __vmalloc_node mm: remove __vmalloc_node_flags_caller mm: remove both instances of __vmalloc_node_flags mm: remove the prot argument to __vmalloc_node mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc ...
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@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
+ void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
@@ -781,12 +782,26 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
If defined, it should set the PageDirty flag, and the
PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag in the radix tree.
+``readahead``
+ Called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space
+ object. The pages are consecutive in the page cache and are
+ locked. The implementation should decrement the page refcount
+ after starting I/O on each page. Usually the page will be
+ unlocked by the I/O completion handler. If the filesystem decides
+ to stop attempting I/O before reaching the end of the readahead
+ window, it can simply return. The caller will decrement the page
+ refcount and unlock the remaining pages for you. Set PageUptodate
+ if the I/O completes successfully. Setting PageError on any page
+ will be ignored; simply unlock the page if an I/O error occurs.
+
``readpages``
called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space
object. This is essentially just a vector version of readpage.
Instead of just one page, several pages are requested.
readpages is only used for read-ahead, so read errors are
ignored. If anything goes wrong, feel free to give up.
+ This interface is deprecated and will be removed by the end of
+ 2020; implement readahead instead.
``write_begin``
Called by the generic buffered write code to ask the filesystem