mm: add folio_zero_tail() and use it in ext4
authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tue, 7 Nov 2023 21:26:40 +0000 (21:26 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:51:36 +0000 (16:51 -0800)
commita4fc4a0c45f2617c3aa8b693739de264e0c09909
treebca2d3828d6b72fd85c15535a3e8b5e265f020d7
parent600bca580579d8d8454cc8fe3290e2f8b9c01884
mm: add folio_zero_tail() and use it in ext4

Patch series "Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()".

I'm trying to make it easier for filesystems with tailpacking / stuffing /
inline data to use folios.  The primary function here is
folio_fill_tail().  You give it a pointer to memory where the data
currently is, and it takes care of copying it into the folio at that
offset.  That works for gfs2 & iomap.  Then There's Ext4.  Rather than gin
up some kind of specialist "Here's a two pointers to two blocks of memory"
routine, just let it do its current thing, and let it call
folio_zero_tail(), which is also called by folio_fill_tail().

Other filesystems can be converted later; these ones seemed like good
examples as they're already partly or completely converted to folios.

This patch (of 3):

Instead of unmapping the folio after copying the data to it, then mapping
it again to zero the tail, provide folio_zero_tail() to zero the tail of
an already-mapped folio.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc argument ordering]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext4/inline.c
include/linux/highmem.h