Re: [PATCH v2] page cache: Store only head pages in i_pages

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 04:30:04PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>  - page_cache_delete_batch() will blow up on
> 
> 			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index + HPAGE_PMD_NR - tail_pages
> 					!= pvec->pages[i]->index, page);

Quite right.  I decided to rewrite page_cache_delete_batch.  What do you
(and Jan!) think to this?  Compile-tested only.

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 0d71b1acf811..facaa6913ffa 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -279,11 +279,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(delete_from_page_cache);
  * @pvec: pagevec with pages to delete
  *
  * The function walks over mapping->i_pages and removes pages passed in @pvec
- * from the mapping. The function expects @pvec to be sorted by page index.
+ * from the mapping. The function expects @pvec to be sorted by page index
+ * and is optimised for it to be dense.
  * It tolerates holes in @pvec (mapping entries at those indices are not
  * modified). The function expects only THP head pages to be present in the
- * @pvec and takes care to delete all corresponding tail pages from the
- * mapping as well.
+ * @pvec.
  *
  * The function expects the i_pages lock to be held.
  */
@@ -292,40 +292,36 @@ static void page_cache_delete_batch(struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, pvec->pages[0]->index);
 	int total_pages = 0;
-	int i = 0, tail_pages = 0;
+	int i = 0;
 	struct page *page;
 
 	mapping_set_update(&xas, mapping);
 	xas_for_each(&xas, page, ULONG_MAX) {
-		if (i >= pagevec_count(pvec) && !tail_pages)
+		if (i >= pagevec_count(pvec))
 			break;
+
+		/* A swap/dax/shadow entry got inserted? Skip it. */
 		if (xa_is_value(page))
 			continue;
-		if (!tail_pages) {
-			/*
-			 * Some page got inserted in our range? Skip it. We
-			 * have our pages locked so they are protected from
-			 * being removed.
-			 */
-			if (page != pvec->pages[i]) {
-				VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index >
-						pvec->pages[i]->index, page);
-				continue;
-			}
-			WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageLocked(page));
-			if (PageTransHuge(page) && !PageHuge(page))
-				tail_pages = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1;
+		/*
+		 * A page got inserted in our range? Skip it. We have our
+		 * pages locked so they are protected from being removed.
+		 */
+		if (page != pvec->pages[i]) {
+			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index > pvec->pages[i]->index,
+					page);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageLocked(page));
+
+		if (page->index == xas.xa_index)
 			page->mapping = NULL;
-			/*
-			 * Leave page->index set: truncation lookup relies
-			 * upon it
-			 */
+		/* Leave page->index set: truncation lookup relies on it */
+
+		if (page->index + (1UL << compound_order(page)) - 1 ==
+				xas.xa_index)
 			i++;
-		} else {
-			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index + HPAGE_PMD_NR - tail_pages
-					!= pvec->pages[i]->index, page);
-			tail_pages--;
-		}
 		xas_store(&xas, NULL);
 		total_pages++;
 	}