tmpfs: do not allocate pages on read
Mikulas asked in "Do we still need commit a0ee5ec5 ('tmpfs: allocate on read when stacked')?" in [1] Lukas noticed this unusual behavior of loop device backed by tmpfs in [2]. Normally, shmem_file_read_iter() copies the ZERO_PAGE when reading holes; but if it looks like it might be a read for "a stacking filesystem", it allocates actual pages to the page cache, and even marks them as dirty. And reads from the loop device do satisfy the test that is used. This oddity was added for an old version of unionfs, to help to limit its usage to the limited size of the tmpfs mount involved; but about the same time as the tmpfs mod went in (2.6.25), unionfs was reworked to proceed differently; and the mod kept just in case others needed it. Do we still need it? I cannot answer with more certainty than "Probably not". It's nasty enough that we really should try to delete it; but if a regression is reported somewhere, then we might have to revert later. It's not quite as simple as just removing the test (as Mikulas did): xfstests generic/013 hung because splice from tmpfs failed on page not up-to-date and page mapping unset. That can be fixed just by marking the ZERO_PAGE as Uptodate, which of course it is: do so in pagecache_init() - it might be useful to others than tmpfs. My intention, though, was to stop using the ZERO_PAGE here altogether: surely iov_iter_zero() is better for this case? Sadly not: it relies on clear_user(), and the x86 clear_user() is slower than its copy_user() [3]. But while we are still using the ZERO_PAGE, let's stop dirtying its struct page cacheline with unnecessary get_page() and put_page(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/alpine.LRH.2.02.2007210510230.6959@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211126075100.gd64odg2bcptiqeb@work/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2f5ca5e4-e250-a41c-11fb-a7f4ebc7e1c9@google.com/ [3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/90bc5e69-9984-b5fa-a685-be55f2b64b@google.comSigned-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reported-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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