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@@ -737,12 +737,8 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
bool (*release_folio)(struct folio *, gfp_t);
void (*free_folio)(struct folio *);
ssize_t (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
- /* isolate a page for migration */
- bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
- /* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
- int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
- /* put migration-failed page back to right list */
- void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
+ int (*migrate_folio)(struct mapping *, struct folio *dst,
+ struct folio *src, enum migrate_mode);
int (*launder_folio) (struct folio *);
bool (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct folio *, size_t from,
@@ -774,13 +770,38 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
See the file "Locking" for more details.
``read_folio``
- called by the VM to read a folio from backing store. The folio
- will be locked when read_folio is called, and should be unlocked
- and marked uptodate once the read completes. If ->read_folio
- discovers that it cannot perform the I/O at this time, it can
- unlock the folio and return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. In this case,
- the folio will be looked up again, relocked and if that all succeeds,
- ->read_folio will be called again.
+ Called by the page cache to read a folio from the backing store.
+ The 'file' argument supplies authentication information to network
+ filesystems, and is generally not used by block based filesystems.
+ It may be NULL if the caller does not have an open file (eg if
+ the kernel is performing a read for itself rather than on behalf
+ of a userspace process with an open file).
+
+ If the mapping does not support large folios, the folio will
+ contain a single page. The folio will be locked when read_folio
+ is called. If the read completes successfully, the folio should
+ be marked uptodate. The filesystem should unlock the folio
+ once the read has completed, whether it was successful or not.
+ The filesystem does not need to modify the refcount on the folio;
+ the page cache holds a reference count and that will not be
+ released until the folio is unlocked.
+
+ Filesystems may implement ->read_folio() synchronously.
+ In normal operation, folios are read through the ->readahead()
+ method. Only if this fails, or if the caller needs to wait for
+ the read to complete will the page cache call ->read_folio().
+ Filesystems should not attempt to perform their own readahead
+ in the ->read_folio() operation.
+
+ If the filesystem cannot perform the read at this time, it can
+ unlock the folio, do whatever action it needs to ensure that the
+ read will succeed in the future and return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE.
+ In this case, the caller should look up the folio, lock it,
+ and call ->read_folio again.
+
+ Callers may invoke the ->read_folio() method directly, but using
+ read_mapping_folio() will take care of locking, waiting for the
+ read to complete and handle cases such as AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE.
``writepages``
called by the VM to write out pages associated with the
@@ -905,20 +926,12 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
data directly between the storage and the application's address
space.
-``isolate_page``
- Called by the VM when isolating a movable non-lru page. If page
- is successfully isolated, VM marks the page as PG_isolated via
- __SetPageIsolated.
-
-``migrate_page``
+``migrate_folio``
This is used to compact the physical memory usage. If the VM
- wants to relocate a page (maybe off a memory card that is
- signalling imminent failure) it will pass a new page and an old
- page to this function. migrate_page should transfer any private
- data across and update any references that it has to the page.
-
-``putback_page``
- Called by the VM when isolated page's migration fails.
+ wants to relocate a folio (maybe from a memory device that is
+ signalling imminent failure) it will pass a new folio and an old
+ folio to this function. migrate_folio should transfer any private
+ data across and update any references that it has to the folio.
``launder_folio``
Called before freeing a folio - it writes back the dirty folio.