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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2022-03-23 21:29:04 -0400
committerMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2022-04-01 13:45:33 -0400
commit704528d895dd3e7b173e672116b4eb2b0a0fceb0 (patch)
tree2fd71b29ddd4e61c18b5114f94bd5433bbbda00d /Documentation
parentebf921a9fac38560e0fc3a4381e163a6969efd5a (diff)
fs: Remove ->readpages address space operation
All filesystems have now been converted to use ->readahead, so remove the ->readpages operation and fix all the comments that used to refer to it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst11
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
index 1d831e3cbcb3..8cc536d08f51 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ Pagecache
~~~~~~~~~
For filesystems using Linux's pagecache, the ``->readpage()`` and
-``->readpages()`` methods must be modified to verify pages before they
+``->readahead()`` methods must be modified to verify pages before they
are marked Uptodate. Merely hooking ``->read_iter()`` would be
insufficient, since ``->read_iter()`` is not used for memory maps.
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ workqueue, and then the workqueue work does the decryption or
verification. Finally, pages where no decryption or verity error
occurred are marked Uptodate, and the pages are unlocked.
-Files on ext4 and f2fs may contain holes. Normally, ``->readpages()``
+Files on ext4 and f2fs may contain holes. Normally, ``->readahead()``
simply zeroes holes and sets the corresponding pages Uptodate; no bios
are issued. To prevent this case from bypassing fs-verity, these
filesystems use fsverity_verify_page() to verify hole pages.
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ weren't already directly answered in other parts of this document.
- To prevent bypassing verification, pages must not be marked
Uptodate until they've been verified. Currently, each
filesystem is responsible for marking pages Uptodate via
- ``->readpages()``. Therefore, currently it's not possible for
+ ``->readahead()``. Therefore, currently it's not possible for
the VFS to do the verification on its own. Changing this would
require significant changes to the VFS and all filesystems.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 2998cec9af4b..c26d854275a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -241,8 +241,6 @@ prototypes::
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
bool (*dirty_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *folio);
void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
- int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
- struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
@@ -274,7 +272,6 @@ readpage: yes, unlocks shared
writepages:
dirty_folio maybe
readahead: yes, unlocks shared
-readpages: no shared
write_begin: locks the page exclusive
write_end: yes, unlocks exclusive
bmap:
@@ -300,9 +297,6 @@ completion.
->readahead() unlocks the pages that I/O is attempted on like ->readpage().
-->readpages() populates the pagecache with the passed pages and starts
-I/O against them. They come unlocked upon I/O completion.
-
->writepage() is used for two purposes: for "memory cleansing" and for
"sync". These are quite different operations and the behaviour may differ
depending upon the mode.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index 4f14edf93941..794bd1a66bfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -726,8 +726,6 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
bool (*dirty_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *);
void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
- int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
- struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
@@ -817,15 +815,6 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
completes successfully. Setting PageError on any page will be
ignored; simply unlock the page if an I/O error occurs.
-``readpages``
- called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space
- object. This is essentially just a vector version of readpage.
- Instead of just one page, several pages are requested.
- readpages is only used for read-ahead, so read errors are
- ignored. If anything goes wrong, feel free to give up.
- This interface is deprecated and will be removed by the end of
- 2020; implement readahead instead.
-
``write_begin``
Called by the generic buffered write code to ask the filesystem
to prepare to write len bytes at the given offset in the file.