When inline encryption isn't used, filesystems must encrypt/decrypt
the file contents themselves, as described below:
-For the read path (->readpage()) of regular files, filesystems can
+For the read path (->read_folio()) of regular files, filesystems can
read the ciphertext into the page cache and decrypt it in-place. The
page lock must be held until decryption has finished, to prevent the
page from becoming visible to userspace prematurely.
Pagecache
~~~~~~~~~
-For filesystems using Linux's pagecache, the ``->readpage()`` and
+For filesystems using Linux's pagecache, the ``->read_folio()`` and
``->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.
prototypes::
int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
- int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
+ int (*read_folio)(struct file *, struct folio *);
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
bool (*dirty_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *folio);
void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
ops PageLocked(page) i_rwsem invalidate_lock
====================== ======================== ========= ===============
writepage: yes, unlocks (see below)
-readpage: yes, unlocks shared
+read_folio: yes, unlocks shared
writepages:
dirty_folio maybe
readahead: yes, unlocks shared
swap_deactivate: no
====================== ======================== ========= ===============
-->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->readpage() may be called from
+->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->read_folio() may be called from
the request handler (/dev/loop).
-->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O
+->read_folio() unlocks the folio, either synchronously or via I/O
completion.
-->readahead() unlocks the pages that I/O is attempted on like ->readpage().
+->readahead() unlocks the folios that I/O is attempted on like ->read_folio().
->writepage() is used for two purposes: for "memory cleansing" and for
"sync". These are quite different operations and the behaviour may differ
Buffered Read Helpers
=====================
-The library provides a set of read helpers that handle the ->readpage(),
+The library provides a set of read helpers that handle the ->read_folio(),
->readahead() and much of the ->write_begin() VM operations and translate them
into a common call framework.
Three read helpers are provided::
void netfs_readahead(struct readahead_control *ractl);
- int netfs_readpage(struct file *file,
- struct page *page);
+ int netfs_read_folio(struct file *file,
+ struct folio *folio);
int netfs_write_begin(struct file *file,
struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos,
Each corresponds to a VM address space operation. These operations use the
state in the per-inode context.
-For ->readahead() and ->readpage(), the network filesystem just point directly
+For ->readahead() and ->read_folio(), the network filesystem just point directly
at the corresponding read helper; whereas for ->write_begin(), it may be a
little more complicated as the network filesystem might want to flush
conflicting writes or track dirty data and needs to put the acquired folio if
the application, and then written-back to storage typically in whole
pages, however the address_space has finer control of write sizes.
-The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write
+The read process essentially only requires 'read_folio'. The write
process is more complicated and uses write_begin/write_end or
dirty_folio to write data into the address_space, and writepage and
writepages to writeback data to storage.
struct address_space_operations {
int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
- int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
+ int (*read_folio)(struct file *, struct folio *);
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
bool (*dirty_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *);
void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
See the file "Locking" for more details.
-``readpage``
- called by the VM to read a page from backing store. The page
- will be Locked when readpage is called, and should be unlocked
- and marked uptodate once the read completes. If ->readpage
- discovers that it needs to unlock the page for some reason, it
- can do so, and then return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. In this case,
- the page will be relocated, relocked and if that all succeeds,
- ->readpage will be called again.
+``read_folio``
+ called by the VM to read a folio from backing store. The folio
+ will be locked when read_folio is called, and should be unlocked
+ and marked uptodate once the read completes. If ->read_folio
+ discovers that it cannot perform the I/O at this time, it can
+ unlock the folio and return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. In this case,
+ the folio will be looked up again, relocked and if that all succeeds,
+ ->read_folio will be called again.
``writepages``
called by the VM to write out pages associated with the