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| author | Jens Axboe | 2018-08-17 15:45:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -0700 |
| commit | 74c8164e1cdb1eb22f1d49d54e515e81821a8ad0 (patch) | |
| tree | f1fbddb5d202d0eacb79859118f77e0f18491566 /fs/f2fs | |
| parent | 357c1206520da7a40e383fe329ce379bda722cd9 (diff) | |
mpage: mpage_readpages() should submit IO as read-ahead
a_ops->readpages() is only ever used for read-ahead, yet we don't flag
the IO being submitted as such. Fix that up. Any file system that uses
mpage_readpages() as its ->readpages() implementation will now get this
right.
Since we're passing in whether the IO is read-ahead or not, we don't
need to pass in the 'gfp' separately, as it is dependent on the IO being
read-ahead. Kill off that member.
Add some documentation notes on ->readpages() being purely for
read-ahead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621010725.17813-3-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/f2fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/f2fs/data.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c index 8f931d699287..b7c9b58acf3e 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -1421,6 +1421,11 @@ out: /* * This function was originally taken from fs/mpage.c, and customized for f2fs. * Major change was from block_size == page_size in f2fs by default. + * + * Note that the aops->readpages() function is ONLY used for read-ahead. If + * this function ever deviates from doing just read-ahead, it should either + * use ->readpage() or do the necessary surgery to decouple ->readpages() + * readom read-ahead. */ static int f2fs_mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, struct page *page, |