[PATCH 1/3] filemap: Correct the conditions for marking a folio as accessed

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Date: Sun Jun 19 2022 - 11:12:07 EST


We had an off-by-one error which meant that we never marked the first page
in a read as accessed. This was visible as a slowdown when re-reading
a file as pages were being evicted from cache too soon. In reviewing
this code, we noticed a second bug where a multi-page folio would be
marked as accessed multiple times when doing reads that were less than
the size of the folio.

Abstract the comparison of whether two file positions are in the same
folio into a new function, fixing both of these bugs.

Reported-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ac3775c1ce4c..577068868449 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2629,6 +2629,13 @@ static int filemap_get_pages(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
return err;
}

+static inline bool pos_same_folio(loff_t pos1, loff_t pos2, struct folio *folio)
+{
+ unsigned int shift = folio_shift(folio);
+
+ return (pos1 >> shift == pos2 >> shift);
+}
+
/**
* filemap_read - Read data from the page cache.
* @iocb: The iocb to read.
@@ -2700,11 +2707,11 @@ ssize_t filemap_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
writably_mapped = mapping_writably_mapped(mapping);

/*
- * When a sequential read accesses a page several times, only
+ * When a read accesses the same folio several times, only
* mark it as accessed the first time.
*/
- if (iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT !=
- ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+ if (!pos_same_folio(iocb->ki_pos, ra->prev_pos - 1,
+ fbatch.folios[0]))
folio_mark_accessed(fbatch.folios[0]);

for (i = 0; i < folio_batch_count(&fbatch); i++) {
--
2.35.1