writeback: factor folio_prepare_writeback() out of write_cache_pages()

Reduce write_cache_pages() by about 30 lines; much of it is commentary,
but it all bundles nicely into an obvious function.

[hch@lst.de: rename should_writeback_folio to folio_prepare_writeback per Jan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215063649.2164017-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3a1e23bed405..4bc55ce9597d 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2360,6 +2360,38 @@ void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
 
+static bool folio_prepare_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
+		struct writeback_control *wbc, struct folio *folio)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Folio truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it then,
+	 * even for data integrity operations: the folio has disappeared
+	 * concurrently, so there could be no real expectation of this
+	 * data integrity operation even if there is now a new, dirty
+	 * folio at the same pagecache index.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(folio->mapping != mapping))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * Did somebody else write it for us?
+	 */
+	if (!folio_test_dirty(folio))
+		return false;
+
+	if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
+		if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
+			return false;
+		folio_wait_writeback(folio);
+	}
+	BUG_ON(folio_test_writeback(folio));
+
+	if (!folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /**
  * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
  * @mapping: address space structure to write
@@ -2430,38 +2462,13 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_folios; i++) {
 			folio = fbatch.folios[i];
 			folio_lock(folio);
-
-			/*
-			 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
-			 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
-			 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
-			 * real expectation of this data integrity operation
-			 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
-			 * pagecache address.
-			 */
-			if (unlikely(folio->mapping != mapping)) {
-continue_unlock:
+			if (!folio_prepare_writeback(mapping, wbc, folio)) {
 				folio_unlock(folio);
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			if (!folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
-				/* someone wrote it for us */
-				goto continue_unlock;
-			}
-
-			if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
-				if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
-					folio_wait_writeback(folio);
-				else
-					goto continue_unlock;
-			}
-
-			BUG_ON(folio_test_writeback(folio));
-			if (!folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio))
-				goto continue_unlock;
-
 			trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host));
+
 			error = writepage(folio, wbc, data);
 			wbc->nr_to_write -= folio_nr_pages(folio);