[PATCH v7 2/4] xfs: Introduce a helper routine to probe data or hole offset from page cache

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:54:52PM +0800, Jie Liu wrote:
> On 08/20/12 23:31, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> > On 08/13/12 08:07, Jeff Liu wrote:
> >> helper routine to lookup data or hole offset from page cache for
> >> unwritten extents.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jie Liu<jeff.liu at oracle.com>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>   fs/xfs/xfs_file.c |  213
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>   1 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> +STATIC bool
> >> +xfs_find_get_desired_pgoff(
> >> +    struct inode        *inode,
> >> +    struct xfs_bmbt_irec    *map,
> >> +    unsigned int        type,
> >> +    loff_t            *offset)
> >> +{
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> +        for (i = 0; i<  nr_pages; i++) {
> >> +            struct page    *page = pvec.pages[i];
> >> +            loff_t        b_offset;
> >> +
> >> +            /*
> >> +             * Page index is out of range, searching done.
> >> +             * If the current offset is not reaches the end
> >> +             * of the specified search range, there should
> >> +             * be a hole between them.
> >> +             */
> >> +            if (page->index>  end) {
> >
> > Shouldn't this sample of the index also be locked?
> Thanks for the review.  Yes, it should be locked in concert with the
> sample of index below.
> 
> However, as I have mentioned at v6,
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-08/msg00028.html
> I really don't understand why page->index will be changed as those pages
> returned from pagevec_lookup() should
> have refcount > 0.  Hence,  those pages can not be removed out of VM
> cache upon memory reclaim IMHO.

Ah, true, you are right. It's been a while since I looked at the
reference count vs truncate vs page locks in detail, and I have
always tended to err on the side of caution. I'd suggest you need to
copy the comment from write_cache_pages() here to remind us why it
is safe to do the check unlocked, otherwise in a couple of years
time someone will be asking themselves why this is safe... :/

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com