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<title>minmax: add in_range() macro</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:40:41+00:00</updated>
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<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
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<published>2025-09-24T20:23:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f9bff0e31881d03badf191d3b0005839391f5f2b ]

Patch series "New page table range API", v6.

This patchset changes the API used by the MM to set up page table entries.
The four APIs are:

    set_ptes(mm, addr, ptep, pte, nr)
    update_mmu_cache_range(vma, addr, ptep, nr)
    flush_dcache_folio(folio)
    flush_icache_pages(vma, page, nr)

flush_dcache_folio() isn't technically new, but no architecture
implemented it, so I've done that for them.  The old APIs remain around
but are mostly implemented by calling the new interfaces.

The new APIs are based around setting up N page table entries at once.
The N entries belong to the same PMD, the same folio and the same VMA, so
ptep++ is a legitimate operation, and locking is taken care of for you.
Some architectures can do a better job of it than just a loop, but I have
hesitated to make too deep a change to architectures I don't understand
well.

One thing I have changed in every architecture is that PG_arch_1 is now a
per-folio bit instead of a per-page bit when used for dcache clean/dirty
tracking.  This was something that would have to happen eventually, and it
makes sense to do it now rather than iterate over every page involved in a
cache flush and figure out if it needs to happen.

The point of all this is better performance, and Fengwei Yin has measured
improvement on x86.  I suspect you'll see improvement on your architecture
too.  Try the new will-it-scale test mentioned here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230206140639.538867-5-fengwei.yin@intel.com/
You'll need to run it on an XFS filesystem and have
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE set.

This patchset is the basis for much of the anonymous large folio work
being done by Ryan, so it's received quite a lot of testing over the last
few months.

This patch (of 38):

Determine if a value lies within a range more efficiently (subtraction +
comparison vs two comparisons and an AND).  It also has useful (under some
circumstances) behaviour if the range exceeds the maximum value of the
type.  Convert all the conflicting definitions of in_range() within the
kernel; some can use the generic definition while others need their own
definition.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber &lt;farbere@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ufs: replace ll_rw_block()</title>
<updated>2022-09-12T03:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2022-09-01T13:35:02+00:00</published>
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ll_rw_block() is not safe for the sync read path because it cannot
guarantee that submitting read IO if the buffer has been locked. We
could get false positive EIO after wait_on_buffer() if the buffer has
been locked by others. So stop using ll_rw_block() in ufs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-12-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'folio-6.0' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache</title>
<updated>2022-08-03T17:35:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-08-03T17:35:43+00:00</published>
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Pull folio updates from Matthew Wilcox:

 - Fix an accounting bug that made NR_FILE_DIRTY grow without limit
   when running xfstests

 - Convert more of mpage to use folios

 - Remove add_to_page_cache() and add_to_page_cache_locked()

 - Convert find_get_pages_range() to filemap_get_folios()

 - Improvements to the read_cache_page() family of functions

 - Remove a few unnecessary checks of PageError

 - Some straightforward filesystem conversions to use folios

 - Split PageMovable users out from address_space_operations into
   their own movable_operations

 - Convert aops-&gt;migratepage to aops-&gt;migrate_folio

 - Remove nobh support (Christoph Hellwig)

* tag 'folio-6.0' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (78 commits)
  fs: remove the NULL get_block case in mpage_writepages
  fs: don't call -&gt;writepage from __mpage_writepage
  fs: remove the nobh helpers
  jfs: stop using the nobh helper
  ext2: remove nobh support
  ntfs3: refactor ntfs_writepages
  mm/folio-compat: Remove migration compatibility functions
  fs: Remove aops-&gt;migratepage()
  secretmem: Convert to migrate_folio
  hugetlb: Convert to migrate_folio
  aio: Convert to migrate_folio
  f2fs: Convert to filemap_migrate_folio()
  ubifs: Convert to filemap_migrate_folio()
  btrfs: Convert btrfs_migratepage to migrate_folio
  mm/migrate: Add filemap_migrate_folio()
  mm/migrate: Convert migrate_page() to migrate_folio()
  nfs: Convert to migrate_folio
  btrfs: Convert btree_migratepage to migrate_folio
  mm/migrate: Convert expected_page_refs() to folio_expected_refs()
  mm/migrate: Convert buffer_migrate_page() to buffer_migrate_folio()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs/buffer: Combine two submit_bh() and ll_rw_block() arguments</title>
<updated>2022-07-14T18:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-14T18:07:13+00:00</published>
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Both submit_bh() and ll_rw_block() accept a request operation type and
request flags as their first two arguments. Micro-optimize these two
functions by combining these first two arguments into a single argument.
This patch does not change the behavior of any of the modified code.

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt; (for the md changes)
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714180729.1065367-48-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>ufs: Remove checks for PageError</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T12:51:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-17T22:12:25+00:00</published>
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If read_mapping_page() encounters an error, it returns an errno, not
a page with PageError set, or a page that is not Uptodate, so this is
dead code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio()</title>
<updated>2022-05-09T20:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T14:40:40+00:00</published>
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This function is NOT converted to handle large folios, so include
an assert that the filesystem isn't passing one in.  Otherwise, use
the folio functions instead of the page functions, where they exist.
Convert all filesystems which use block_read_full_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Remove flags parameter from aops-&gt;write_begin</title>
<updated>2022-05-08T18:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-22T19:31:43+00:00</published>
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There are no more aop flags left, so remove the parameter.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<title>fs: Remove aop flags parameter from block_write_begin()</title>
<updated>2022-05-08T18:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-22T16:25:12+00:00</published>
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There are no more aop flags left, so remove the parameter.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'folio-5.18b' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache</title>
<updated>2022-03-23T01:26:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-23T01:26:56+00:00</published>
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Pull filesystem folio updates from Matthew Wilcox:
 "Primarily this series converts some of the address_space operations to
  take a folio instead of a page.

  Notably:

   - a_ops-&gt;is_partially_uptodate() takes a folio instead of a page and
     changes the type of the 'from' and 'count' arguments to make it
     obvious they're bytes.

   - a_ops-&gt;invalidatepage() becomes -&gt;invalidate_folio() and has a
     similar type change.

   - a_ops-&gt;launder_page() becomes -&gt;launder_folio()

   - a_ops-&gt;set_page_dirty() becomes -&gt;dirty_folio() and adds the
     address_space as an argument.

  There are a couple of other misc changes up front that weren't worth
  separating into their own pull request"

* tag 'folio-5.18b' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (53 commits)
  fs: Remove aops -&gt;set_page_dirty
  fb_defio: Use noop_dirty_folio()
  fs: Convert __set_page_dirty_no_writeback to noop_dirty_folio
  fs: Convert __set_page_dirty_buffers to block_dirty_folio
  nilfs: Convert nilfs_set_page_dirty() to nilfs_dirty_folio()
  mm: Convert swap_set_page_dirty() to swap_dirty_folio()
  ubifs: Convert ubifs_set_page_dirty to ubifs_dirty_folio
  f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_node_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_node_folio
  f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_data_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_data_folio
  f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_meta_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_meta_folio
  afs: Convert afs_dir_set_page_dirty() to afs_dir_dirty_folio()
  btrfs: Convert extent_range_redirty_for_io() to use folios
  fs: Convert trivial uses of __set_page_dirty_nobuffers to filemap_dirty_folio
  btrfs: Convert from set_page_dirty to dirty_folio
  fscache: Convert fscache_set_page_dirty() to fscache_dirty_folio()
  fs: Add aops-&gt;dirty_folio
  fs: Remove aops-&gt;launder_page
  orangefs: Convert launder_page to launder_folio
  nfs: Convert from launder_page to launder_folio
  fuse: Convert from launder_page to launder_folio
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()</title>
<updated>2022-03-22T22:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T21:41:03+00:00</published>
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The inode allocation is supposed to use alloc_inode_sb(), so convert
kmem_cache_alloc() of all filesystems to alloc_inode_sb().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;		[ext4]
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Fam Zheng &lt;fam.zheng@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kari Argillander &lt;kari.argillander@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Xiongchun Duan &lt;duanxiongchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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