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author | Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com> | 2014-09-05 02:04:42 (GMT) |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2014-09-05 02:04:42 (GMT) |
commit | 3b5e6454aaf6b4439b19400d8365e2ec2d24e411 (patch) | |
tree | bd1105d5eafdf980633ea5735b75e20af9f614ad /fs | |
parent | d26e2c4d72c2f2a38246f618480864fe3224929c (diff) | |
download | linux-3b5e6454aaf6b4439b19400d8365e2ec2d24e411.tar.xz |
fs/buffer.c: support buffer cache allocations with gfp modifiers
A buffer cache is allocated from movable area because it is referred
for a while and released soon. But some filesystems are taking buffer
cache for a long time and it can disturb page migration.
New APIs are introduced to allocate buffer cache with user specific
flag. *_gfp APIs are for user want to set page allocation flag for
page cache allocation. And *_unmovable APIs are for the user wants to
allocate page cache from non-movable area.
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 45 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 8f05111..9a6029e 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct block_device *bdev, */ static int grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, - pgoff_t index, int size, int sizebits) + pgoff_t index, int size, int sizebits, gfp_t gfp) { struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode; struct page *page; @@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int ret = 0; /* Will call free_more_memory() */ gfp_t gfp_mask; - gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS; - gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE; + gfp_mask = (mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS) | gfp; + /* * XXX: __getblk_slow() can not really deal with failure and * will endlessly loop on improvised global reclaim. Prefer @@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ failed: * that page was dirty, the buffers are set dirty also. */ static int -grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) +grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size, gfp_t gfp) { pgoff_t index; int sizebits; @@ -1085,11 +1085,12 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) } /* Create a page with the proper size buffers.. */ - return grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size, sizebits); + return grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size, sizebits, gfp); } -static struct buffer_head * -__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) +struct buffer_head * +__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, + unsigned size, gfp_t gfp) { /* Size must be multiple of hard sectorsize */ if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)-1) || @@ -1111,13 +1112,14 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) if (bh) return bh; - ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size); + ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size, gfp); if (ret < 0) return NULL; if (ret == 0) free_more_memory(); } } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getblk_slow); /* * The relationship between dirty buffers and dirty pages: @@ -1371,24 +1373,25 @@ __find_get_block(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__find_get_block); /* - * __getblk will locate (and, if necessary, create) the buffer_head + * __getblk_gfp() will locate (and, if necessary, create) the buffer_head * which corresponds to the passed block_device, block and size. The * returned buffer has its reference count incremented. * - * __getblk() will lock up the machine if grow_dev_page's try_to_free_buffers() - * attempt is failing. FIXME, perhaps? + * __getblk_gfp() will lock up the machine if grow_dev_page's + * try_to_free_buffers() attempt is failing. FIXME, perhaps? */ struct buffer_head * -__getblk(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) +__getblk_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, + unsigned size, gfp_t gfp) { struct buffer_head *bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size); might_sleep(); if (bh == NULL) - bh = __getblk_slow(bdev, block, size); + bh = __getblk_slow(bdev, block, size, gfp); return bh; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getblk); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getblk_gfp); /* * Do async read-ahead on a buffer.. @@ -1404,24 +1407,28 @@ void __breadahead(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__breadahead); /** - * __bread() - reads a specified block and returns the bh + * __bread_gfp() - reads a specified block and returns the bh * @bdev: the block_device to read from * @block: number of block * @size: size (in bytes) to read - * + * @gfp: page allocation flag + * * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. + * The page cache can be allocated from non-movable area + * not to prevent page migration if you set gfp to zero. * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable. */ struct buffer_head * -__bread(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) +__bread_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, + unsigned size, gfp_t gfp) { - struct buffer_head *bh = __getblk(bdev, block, size); + struct buffer_head *bh = __getblk_gfp(bdev, block, size, gfp); if (likely(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) bh = __bread_slow(bh); return bh; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bread); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bread_gfp); /* * invalidate_bh_lrus() is called rarely - but not only at unmount. |