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From: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
	Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Pankaj Raghav <pankaj.raghav@linux.dev>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 02/11] mm: Refactor folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
Date: Wed,  5 Aug 2026 11:58:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79acedfb7f3cb1814a68954974da30fd81c655bb.1785908600.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1785908600.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>

Add a new __folio_clear_dirty_for_io() helper which takes an extra
parameter to indicate folio_mkclean() is needed. This is in preparation
of buffered writethrough support where we already do folio_mkclean()
before calling into this function.

Co-developed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e98748112d1e..3d184ca316a8 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2856,20 +2856,12 @@ void __folio_cancel_dirty(struct folio *folio)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__folio_cancel_dirty);
 
 /*
- * Clear a folio's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
- * Returns true if the folio was previously dirty.
- *
- * This is for preparing to put the folio under writeout.  We leave
- * the folio tagged as dirty in the xarray so that a concurrent
- * write-for-sync can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.
- * The ->writepage implementation will run either folio_start_writeback()
- * or folio_mark_dirty(), at which stage we bring the folio's dirty flag
- * and xarray dirty tag back into sync.
- *
- * This incoherency between the folio's dirty flag and xarray tag is
- * unfortunate, but it only exists while the folio is locked.
+ * Internal helper to take care of clearing dirty bit on a folio in preparation
+ * of an IO. For some cases we might not want to do mkclean, eg, if we've
+ * already taken care of it, hence pass the should_mkclean flag to indicate if
+ * its needed.
  */
-bool folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio)
+static bool __folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio, bool should_mkclean)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
 	bool ret = false;
@@ -2906,7 +2898,7 @@ bool folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio)
 		 * as a serialization point for all the different
 		 * threads doing their things.
 		 */
-		if (folio_mkclean(folio))
+		if (should_mkclean && folio_mkclean(folio))
 			folio_mark_dirty(folio);
 		/*
 		 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
@@ -2931,6 +2923,25 @@ bool folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio)
 	}
 	return folio_test_clear_dirty(folio);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Clear a folio's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
+ * Returns true if the folio was previously dirty.
+ *
+ * This is for preparing to put the folio under writeout.  We leave
+ * the folio tagged as dirty in the xarray so that a concurrent
+ * write-for-sync can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.
+ * The ->writepage implementation will run either folio_start_writeback()
+ * or folio_mark_dirty(), at which stage we bring the folio's dirty flag
+ * and xarray dirty tag back into sync.
+ *
+ * This incoherency between the folio's dirty flag and xarray tag is
+ * unfortunate, but it only exists while the folio is locked.
+ */
+bool folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio)
+{
+	return __folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio, true);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_clear_dirty_for_io);
 
 static void wb_inode_writeback_start(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-05  6:28 [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] Add buffered write-through support to iomap & xfs Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/11] fs: Add counter to track inflight writes that need stable pages Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` Ojaswin Mujoo [this message]
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 03/11] iomap: Add helper to revert iomap iter Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 04/11] iomap: Add initial support for buffered RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:20   ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-08-18 16:04     ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 05/11] xfs: Add RWF_WRITETHROUGH support to xfs Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 06/11] iomap: Add aio support to RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 07/11] iomap: Add DSYNC " Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:26   ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/11] fs: Introduce RWF_NOSERIAL flag to indicate parallel reads/writes Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/11] xfs: Implement RWF_NOSERIAL to parallelize RWF_WRITETHROUGH writes Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:33   ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-08-20 10:01     ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/11] iomap: Avoid folio dirtying in case of RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/11] iomap: Handle deadlock due to repeating folios in RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05  6:35 ` [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] Add buffered write-through support to iomap & xfs Ojaswin Mujoo

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