mm: introduce and use mapping_empty()

Patch series "Remove nrexceptional tracking", v2.

We actually use nrexceptional for very little these days.  It's a minor
pain to keep in sync with nrpages, but the pain becomes much bigger with
the THP patches because we don't know how many indices a shadow entry
occupies.  It's easier to just remove it than keep it accurate.

Also, we save 8 bytes per inode which is nothing to sneeze at; on my
laptop, it would improve shmem_inode_cache from 22 to 23 objects per
16kB, and inode_cache from 26 to 27 objects.  Combined, that saves
a megabyte of memory from a combined usage of 25MB for both caches.
Unfortunately, ext4 doesn't cross a magic boundary, so it doesn't save
any memory for ext4.

This patch (of 4):

Instead of checking the two counters (nrpages and nrexceptional), we can
just check whether i_pages is empty.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index b3d27fdc6775..999f3f22aea3 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ int dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(inode->i_blkbits != PAGE_SHIFT))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	if (!mapping->nrexceptional || wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL)
+	if (mapping_empty(mapping) || wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL)
 		return 0;
 
 	trace_dax_writeback_range(inode, xas.xa_index, end_index);