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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
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Patch series "Overhaul multi-page lookups for THP", v4. This THP prep patchset changes several page cache iteration APIs to only return head pages. - It's only possible to tag head pages in the page cache, so only return head pages, not all their subpages. - Factor a lot of common code out of the various batch lookup routines - Add mapping_seek_hole_data() - Unify find_get_entries() and pagevec_lookup_entries() - Make find_get_entries only return head pages, like find_get_entry(). These are only loosely connected, but they seem to make sense together as a series. This patch (of 14): Pagecache tags are used for dirty page writeback. Since dirtiness is tracked on a per-THP basis, we only want to return the head page rather than each subpage of a tagged page. All the filesystems which use huge pages today are in-memory, so there are no tagged huge pages today. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112212641.27837-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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