+ ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: ufs: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: ufs: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:31:23 +0100

Patch series "remove most callers of write_one_page", v4.

This series removes most users of the write_one_page API.  These helpers
internally call ->writepage which we are gradually removing from the
kernel.


This patch (of 3):

We do not need to writeout modified directory blocks immediately when
modifying them while the page is locked.  It is enough to do the flush
somewhat later which has the added benefit that inode times can be flushed
as well.  It also allows us to stop depending on write_one_page()
function.

Ported from an ext2 patch by Jan Kara.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143125.27778-1-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143125.27778-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara via Ocfs2-devel <ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ufs/dir.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ufs/dir.c~ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories
+++ a/fs/ufs/dir.c
@@ -42,11 +42,10 @@ static inline int ufs_match(struct super
 	return !memcmp(name, de->d_name, len);
 }
 
-static int ufs_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len)
+static void ufs_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
 	struct inode *dir = mapping->host;
-	int err = 0;
 
 	inode_inc_iversion(dir);
 	block_write_end(NULL, mapping, pos, len, len, page, NULL);
@@ -54,10 +53,16 @@ static int ufs_commit_chunk(struct page
 		i_size_write(dir, pos+len);
 		mark_inode_dirty(dir);
 	}
-	if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
-		err = write_one_page(page);
-	else
-		unlock_page(page);
+	unlock_page(page);
+}
+
+static int ufs_handle_dirsync(struct inode *dir)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	err = filemap_write_and_wait(dir->i_mapping);
+	if (!err)
+		err = sync_inode_metadata(dir, 1);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -99,11 +104,12 @@ void ufs_set_link(struct inode *dir, str
 	de->d_ino = cpu_to_fs32(dir->i_sb, inode->i_ino);
 	ufs_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, inode->i_mode);
 
-	err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, len);
+	ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, len);
 	ufs_put_page(page);
 	if (update_times)
 		dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = current_time(dir);
 	mark_inode_dirty(dir);
+	ufs_handle_dirsync(dir);
 }
 
 
@@ -390,10 +396,11 @@ got_it:
 	de->d_ino = cpu_to_fs32(sb, inode->i_ino);
 	ufs_set_de_type(sb, de, inode->i_mode);
 
-	err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, rec_len);
+	ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, rec_len);
 	dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = current_time(dir);
 
 	mark_inode_dirty(dir);
+	err = ufs_handle_dirsync(dir);
 	/* OFFSET_CACHE */
 out_put:
 	ufs_put_page(page);
@@ -531,9 +538,10 @@ int ufs_delete_entry(struct inode *inode
 	if (pde)
 		pde->d_reclen = cpu_to_fs16(sb, to - from);
 	dir->d_ino = 0;
-	err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, to - from);
+	ufs_commit_chunk(page, pos, to - from);
 	inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = current_time(inode);
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
+	err = ufs_handle_dirsync(inode);
 out:
 	ufs_put_page(page);
 	UFSD("EXIT\n");
@@ -579,7 +587,8 @@ int ufs_make_empty(struct inode * inode,
 	strcpy (de->d_name, "..");
 	kunmap(page);
 
-	err = ufs_commit_chunk(page, 0, chunk_size);
+	ufs_commit_chunk(page, 0, chunk_size);
+	err = ufs_handle_dirsync(inode);
 fail:
 	put_page(page);
 	return err;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@lst.de are

ufs-dont-flush-page-immediately-for-dirsync-directories.patch
ocfs2-dont-use-write_one_page-in-ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page.patch
mmjfs-move-write_one_page-folio_write_one-to-jfs.patch