nilfs2: buffer and page operations

This adds common routines for buffer/page operations used in B-tree
node caches, meta data files, or segment constructor (log writer).

NILFS uses copy functions for buffers and pages due to the following
reasons:

 1) Relocation required for COW
    Since NILFS changes address of on-disk blocks, moving buffers
    in page cache is needed for the buffers which are not addressed
    by a file offset.  If buffer size is smaller than page size,
    this involves partial copy of pages.

 2) Freezing mmapped pages
    NILFS calculates checksums for each log to ensure its validity.
    If page data changes after the checksum calculation, this validity
    check will not work correctly.  To avoid this failure for mmaped
    pages, NILFS freezes their data by copying.

 3) Copy-on-write for DAT pages
    NILFS makes clones of DAT page caches in a copy-on-write manner
    during GC processes, and this ensures atomicity and consistency
    of the DAT in the transient state.

In addition, NILFS uses two obsolete functions, nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty()
and nilfs_clear_page_dirty() respectively.

* nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty() was required to avoid NULL pointer
  dereference faults:

  Since the page cache of B-tree node pages or data page cache of pseudo
  inodes does not have a valid mapping->host, calling mark_buffer_dirty()
  for their buffers causes the fault; it calls __mark_inode_dirty(NULL)
  through __set_page_dirty().

* nilfs_clear_page_dirty() was needed in the two cases:

 1) For B-tree node pages and data pages of the dat/gcdat, NILFS2 clears
    page dirty flags when it copies back pages from the cloned cache
    (gcdat->{i_mapping,i_btnode_cache}) to its original cache
    (dat->{i_mapping,i_btnode_cache}).

 2) Some B-tree operations like insertion or deletion may dispose buffers
    in dirty state, and this needs to cancel the dirty state of their
    pages.  clear_page_dirty_for_io() caused faults because it does not
    clear the dirty tag on the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/page.h b/fs/nilfs2/page.h
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+/*
+ * page.h - buffer/page management specific to NILFS
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+ *
+ * Written by Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>,
+ *            Seiji Kihara <kihara@osrg.net>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _NILFS_PAGE_H
+#define _NILFS_PAGE_H
+
+#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
+#include "nilfs.h"
+
+/*
+ * Extended buffer state bits
+ */
+enum {
+	BH_NILFS_Allocated = BH_PrivateStart,
+	BH_NILFS_Node,
+	BH_NILFS_Volatile,
+};
+
+BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Allocated, nilfs_allocated)	/* nilfs private buffers */
+BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Node, nilfs_node)		/* nilfs node buffers */
+BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Volatile, nilfs_volatile)
+
+
+void nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_head *bh);
+int __nilfs_clear_page_dirty(struct page *);
+
+struct buffer_head *nilfs_grab_buffer(struct inode *, struct address_space *,
+				      unsigned long, unsigned long);
+void nilfs_forget_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
+void nilfs_copy_buffer(struct buffer_head *, struct buffer_head *);
+int nilfs_page_buffers_clean(struct page *);
+void nilfs_page_bug(struct page *);
+struct page *nilfs_alloc_private_page(struct block_device *, int,
+				      unsigned long);
+void nilfs_free_private_page(struct page *);
+
+int nilfs_copy_dirty_pages(struct address_space *, struct address_space *);
+void nilfs_copy_back_pages(struct address_space *, struct address_space *);
+void nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(struct address_space *);
+unsigned nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers(struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
+
+#define NILFS_PAGE_BUG(page, m, a...) \
+	do { nilfs_page_bug(page); BUG(); } while (0)
+
+static inline struct buffer_head *
+nilfs_page_get_nth_block(struct page *page, unsigned int count)
+{
+	struct buffer_head *bh = page_buffers(page);
+
+	while (count-- > 0)
+		bh = bh->b_this_page;
+	get_bh(bh);
+	return bh;
+}
+
+#endif /* _NILFS_PAGE_H */