Re: [PATCH v2] mm: shmem: implement POSIX_FADV_[WILL|DONT]NEED for shmem

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Dec 02 2021 - 08:27:25 EST


On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 04:20:53PM +0530, Charan Teja Reddy wrote:
> +static int shmem_fadvise_willneed(struct address_space *mapping,
> + pgoff_t start, pgoff_t long end)
> +{
> + XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, start);
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + page = xas_find(&xas, end);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + while (page) {
> + if (xa_is_value(page)) {
> + page = shmem_read_mapping_page(mapping, xas.xa_index);
> + if (!IS_ERR(page))
> + put_page(page);
> + }
> +
> + if (need_resched()) {
> + xas_pause(&xas);
> + cond_resched();
> + }
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + page = xas_next_entry(&xas, end);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

What part of the XArray documentation led you to believe that this is a
safe thing to do? Because it needs to be rewritten immediately!