netfs: Rename read_helper.c to io.c

Rename the read_helper.c file to io.c before splitting out the buffered
read functions and some other bits.

Changes
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ver #2)
- Rename read_helper.c befor

netfs: Rename read_helper.c to io.c

Rename the read_helper.c file to io.c before splitting out the buffered
read functions and some other bits.

Changes
=======
ver #2)
- Rename read_helper.c before splitting.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678216109.1200972.16567696909952495832.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692918076.2099075.8120961172717347610.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3

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netfs: Split netfs_io_* object handling out

Split netfs_io_* object handling out into a file that's going to contain
object allocation, get and put routines.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@

netfs: Split netfs_io_* object handling out

Split netfs_io_* object handling out into a file that's going to contain
object allocation, get and put routines.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622995118.3564931.6089530629052064470.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678197044.1200972.11511937252083343775.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692894693.2099075.7831091294248735173.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.15 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.13' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest parport API.

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc3' into asoc-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc3

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Pulling in -rc2 fixes and TTM changes that next upcoming patches depend
on.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc2' into spi-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc2

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into fixes

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Time to get back in sync...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v5.12 fixes. Requested for vmwgfx.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Start this new release drm-misc-fixes branch

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'dhowells/netfs-lib'

Pick up David Howells' netfs helper library and the new fscache API.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
"Here's a set of patches for 5.1

Merge tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
"Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling
the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of
two parts:

(1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface.

This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem
(whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common
framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the
future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also
allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a
read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only
provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and
the helper takes care of the rest.

(2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb
facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's
pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one
side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since
it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file.

Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data
available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement
from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a
modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging
blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul.

This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is
opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try
to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling
pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO
with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the
old API.

This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the
way invalidation is done at this time.

In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API
(fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(),
fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually
replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier
to follow.

This patchset contains the following parts:

- Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov
iterator and a function to do readahead expansion.

- Patches to add the netfs helper library.

- A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API.

- A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and
read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy.

Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he
intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS
that I will post a separate pull request for.

With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a
cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these
patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also
passes the expected tests.

I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of
PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in
the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will
route them separately"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/

* tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
netfs: Miscellaneous fixes
iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY
fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen
netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache
netfs: Add write_begin helper
netfs: Gather stats
netfs: Add tracepoints
netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers
netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases
netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h
netfs: Documentation for helper library
netfs: Make a netfs helper module
mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
fs: Document file_ra_state
mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl
mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2
iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY

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netfs: Gather stats

Gather statistics from the netfs interface that can be exported through a
seqfile. This is intended to be called by a later patch when viewing
/proc/fs/fscache/stats.

Signed-of

netfs: Gather stats

Gather statistics from the netfs interface that can be exported through a
seqfile. This is intended to be called by a later patch when viewing
/proc/fs/fscache/stats.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118139247.1232039.10556850937548511068.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161034669.2537118.2761232524997091480.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340397101.1303470.17581910581108378458.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539539959.286939.6794352576462965914.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653797700.2770958.5801990354413178228.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789079281.6155.17141344853277186500.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6

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netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers

Add a pair of helper functions:

(*) netfs_readahead()
(*) netfs_readpage()

to do the work of handling a readahead or a readpage, where the pag

netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers

Add a pair of helper functions:

(*) netfs_readahead()
(*) netfs_readpage()

to do the work of handling a readahead or a readpage, where the page(s)
that form part of the request may be split between the local cache, the
server or just require clearing, and may be single pages and transparent
huge pages. This is all handled within the helper.

Note that while both will read from the cache if there is data present,
only netfs_readahead() will expand the request beyond what it was asked to
do, and only netfs_readahead() will write back to the cache.

netfs_readpage(), on the other hand, is synchronous and only fetches the
page (which might be a THP) it is asked for.

The netfs gives the helper parameters from the VM, the cache cookie it
wants to use (or NULL) and a table of operations (only one of which is
mandatory):

(*) expand_readahead() [optional]

Called to allow the netfs to request an expansion of a readahead
request to meet its own alignment requirements. This is done by
changing rreq->start and rreq->len.

(*) clamp_length() [optional]

Called to allow the netfs to cut down a subrequest to meet its own
boundary requirements. If it does this, the helper will generate
additional subrequests until the full request is satisfied.

(*) is_still_valid() [optional]

Called to find out if the data just read from the cache has been
invalidated and must be reread from the server.

(*) issue_op() [required]

Called to ask the netfs to issue a read to the server. The subrequest
describes the read. The read request holds information about the file
being accessed.

The netfs can cache information in rreq->netfs_priv.

Upon completion, the netfs should set the error, transferred and can
also set FSCACHE_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL and then call
fscache_subreq_terminated().

(*) done() [optional]

Called after the pages have been unlocked. The read request is still
pinning the file and mapping and may still be pinning pages with
PG_fscache. rreq->error indicates any error that has been
accumulated.

(*) cleanup() [optional]

Called when the helper is disposing of a finished read request. This
allows the netfs to clear rreq->netfs_priv.

Netfs support is enabled with CONFIG_NETFS_SUPPORT=y. It will be built
even if CONFIG_FSCACHE=n and in this case much of it should be optimised
away, allowing the filesystem to use it even when caching is disabled.

Changes:
v5:
- Comment why netfs_readahead() is putting pages[2].
- Use page_file_mapping() rather than page->mapping[2].
- Use page_index() rather than page->index[2].
- Use set_page_fscache()[3] rather then SetPageFsCache() as this takes an
appropriate ref too[4].

v4:
- Folded in a kerneldoc comment fix.
- Folded in a fix for the error handling in the case that ENOMEM occurs.
- Added flag to netfs_subreq_terminated() to indicate that the caller may
have been running async and stuff that might sleep needs punting to a
workqueue (can't use in_softirq()[1]).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216084230.GA23669@lst.de/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210321014202.GF3420@casper.infradead.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2499407.1616505440@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh+2gbF7XEjYc=HV9w_2uVzVf7vs60BPz0gFA=+pUm3ww@mail.gmail.com/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588497406.3465195.18003475695899726222.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118136849.1232039.8923686136144228724.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161032290.2537118.13400578415247339173.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340394873.1303470.6237319335883242536.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539537375.286939.16642940088716990995.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653795430.2770958.4947584573720000554.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789076581.6155.6745849361504760209.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6

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