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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2011-06-27 16:18:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-06-27 18:00:12 -0700
commitd9d90e5eb70e09903dadff42099b6c948f814050 (patch)
treec3ab73df6dee61f9403bfd819a6b0cb9f3ca6085 /mm/shmem.c
parent94c1e62df4494b79782cb9c7279f827212d1de70 (diff)
downloadlinux-d9d90e5eb70e09903dadff42099b6c948f814050.tar.bz2
tmpfs: add shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp
Although it is used (by i915) on nothing but tmpfs, read_cache_page_gfp() is unsuited to tmpfs, because it inserts a page into pagecache before calling the filesystem's ->readpage: tmpfs may have pages in swapcache which only it knows how to locate and switch to filecache. At present tmpfs provides a ->readpage method, and copes with this by copying pages; but soon we can simplify it by removing its ->readpage. Provide shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() now, ready for that transition, Export shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() and add it to list in shmem_fs.h, with shmem_read_mapping_page() inline for the common mapping_gfp case. (shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp or shmem_read_cache_page_gfp? Generally the read_mapping_page functions use the mapping's ->readpage, and the read_cache_page functions use the supplied filler, so I think read_cache_page_gfp was slightly misnamed.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index f1714758ea96..fcedf5464eb7 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3035,3 +3035,26 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
vma->vm_flags |= VM_CAN_NONLINEAR;
return 0;
}
+
+/**
+ * shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp - read into page cache, using specified page allocation flags.
+ * @mapping: the page's address_space
+ * @index: the page index
+ * @gfp: the page allocator flags to use if allocating
+ *
+ * This behaves as a tmpfs "read_cache_page_gfp(mapping, index, gfp)",
+ * with any new page allocations done using the specified allocation flags.
+ * But read_cache_page_gfp() uses the ->readpage() method: which does not
+ * suit tmpfs, since it may have pages in swapcache, and needs to find those
+ * for itself; although drivers/gpu/drm i915 and ttm rely upon this support.
+ *
+ * Provide a stub for those callers to start using now, then later
+ * flesh it out to call shmem_getpage() with additional gfp mask, when
+ * shmem_file_splice_read() is added and shmem_readpage() is removed.
+ */
+struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping,
+ pgoff_t index, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ return read_cache_page_gfp(mapping, index, gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp);