Re: [PATCH v8 12/20] erofs: add anonymous inode managing page cache for data blob

[Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 03:56:04PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:
> Introduce one anonymous inode managing page cache for data blob. Then
> erofs could read directly from the address space of the anonymous inode
> when cache hit.

Introduce one anonymous inode for data blobs so that erofs
can cache metadata directly within such anonymous inode.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>

Yeah, I think currently we can live with that:

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang


> ---
>  fs/erofs/fscache.c  | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  fs/erofs/internal.h |  6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/erofs/fscache.c b/fs/erofs/fscache.c
> index 67a3c4935245..1c88614203d2 100644
> --- a/fs/erofs/fscache.c
> +++ b/fs/erofs/fscache.c
> @@ -5,17 +5,22 @@
>  #include <linux/fscache.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> +static const struct address_space_operations erofs_fscache_meta_aops = {
> +};
> +
>  /*
>   * Create an fscache context for data blob.
>   * Return: 0 on success and allocated fscache context is assigned to @fscache,
>   *	   negative error number on failure.
>   */
>  int erofs_fscache_register_cookie(struct super_block *sb,
> -				  struct erofs_fscache **fscache, char *name)
> +				  struct erofs_fscache **fscache,
> +				  char *name, bool need_inode)
>  {
>  	struct fscache_volume *volume = EROFS_SB(sb)->volume;
>  	struct erofs_fscache *ctx;
>  	struct fscache_cookie *cookie;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!ctx)
> @@ -25,15 +30,40 @@ int erofs_fscache_register_cookie(struct super_block *sb,
>  					name, strlen(name), NULL, 0, 0);
>  	if (!cookie) {
>  		erofs_err(sb, "failed to get cookie for %s", name);
> -		kfree(name);
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		goto err;
>  	}
>  
>  	fscache_use_cookie(cookie, false);
>  	ctx->cookie = cookie;
>  
> +	if (need_inode) {
> +		struct inode *const inode = new_inode(sb);
> +
> +		if (!inode) {
> +			erofs_err(sb, "failed to get anon inode for %s", name);
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			goto err_cookie;
> +		}
> +
> +		set_nlink(inode, 1);
> +		inode->i_size = OFFSET_MAX;
> +		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &erofs_fscache_meta_aops;
> +		mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
> +
> +		ctx->inode = inode;
> +	}
> +
>  	*fscache = ctx;
>  	return 0;
> +
> +err_cookie:
> +	fscache_unuse_cookie(ctx->cookie, NULL, NULL);
> +	fscache_relinquish_cookie(ctx->cookie, false);
> +	ctx->cookie = NULL;
> +err:
> +	kfree(ctx);
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  void erofs_fscache_unregister_cookie(struct erofs_fscache **fscache)
> @@ -47,6 +77,9 @@ void erofs_fscache_unregister_cookie(struct erofs_fscache **fscache)
>  	fscache_relinquish_cookie(ctx->cookie, false);
>  	ctx->cookie = NULL;
>  
> +	iput(ctx->inode);
> +	ctx->inode = NULL;
> +
>  	kfree(ctx);
>  	*fscache = NULL;
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/erofs/internal.h b/fs/erofs/internal.h
> index c6a3351a4d7d..3a4a344cfed3 100644
> --- a/fs/erofs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/erofs/internal.h
> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ struct erofs_sb_lz4_info {
>  
>  struct erofs_fscache {
>  	struct fscache_cookie *cookie;
> +	struct inode *inode;
>  };
>  
>  struct erofs_sb_info {
> @@ -632,7 +633,8 @@ int erofs_fscache_register_fs(struct super_block *sb);
>  void erofs_fscache_unregister_fs(struct super_block *sb);
>  
>  int erofs_fscache_register_cookie(struct super_block *sb,
> -				  struct erofs_fscache **fscache, char *name);
> +				  struct erofs_fscache **fscache,
> +				  char *name, bool need_inode);
>  void erofs_fscache_unregister_cookie(struct erofs_fscache **fscache);
>  #else
>  static inline int erofs_fscache_register_fs(struct super_block *sb) { return 0; }
> @@ -640,7 +642,7 @@ static inline void erofs_fscache_unregister_fs(struct super_block *sb) {}
>  
>  static inline int erofs_fscache_register_cookie(struct super_block *sb,
>  						struct erofs_fscache **fscache,
> -						char *name)
> +						char *name, bool need_inode)
>  {
>  	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.27.0