Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: don't use GFP_ZERO for page caches

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 16:42:54 EST


Change log from v1:
- don't memset for recovered page

Related to https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/8/661

Sometimes, we need to write meta data to new allocated block address,
then we will allocate a zeroed page in inner inode's address space, and
fill partial data in it, and leave other place with zero value which means
some fields are initial status.

There are two inner inodes (meta inode and node inode) setting __GFP_ZERO,
I have just checked them, for both of them, we can avoid using __GFP_ZERO,
and do initialization by ourselves to avoid unneeded/redundant zeroing
from mm.

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/inode.c | 4 ++--
fs/f2fs/node.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 417c9dcd0269..87535bf63421 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -320,10 +320,10 @@ struct inode *f2fs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
make_now:
if (ino == F2FS_NODE_INO(sbi)) {
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_node_aops;
- mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
+ mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
} else if (ino == F2FS_META_INO(sbi)) {
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_meta_aops;
- mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
+ mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
} else if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
inode->i_op = &f2fs_file_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &f2fs_file_operations;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index 9a99243054ba..5a4469093e43 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -1096,7 +1096,8 @@ struct page *new_node_page(struct dnode_of_data *dn, unsigned int ofs)
set_node_addr(sbi, &new_ni, NEW_ADDR, false);

f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, NODE, true);
- fill_node_footer(page, dn->nid, dn->inode->i_ino, ofs, true);
+ memset(F2FS_NODE(page), 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ fill_node_footer(page, dn->nid, dn->inode->i_ino, ofs, false);
set_cold_node(page, S_ISDIR(dn->inode->i_mode));
if (!PageUptodate(page))
SetPageUptodate(page);
--
2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c9-goog