On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:24 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:45 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > The thing is, swapper_space just calls ->writepage() and expects the
> > > > > > page to be written out. So either the a_ops usage of swapper_space is
> > > > > > deviant or NFS' is.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could somebody please document WTF writepage() is supposed to do, and
> > > > > WTF page_mkwrite() is for?
> > > > >
> > > > > I thought that page_mkwrite() was supposed to finally allow us to deal
> > > > > with dirty pages in a clean manner: the caller gets to tell the
> > > > > filesystem that it wants the entire page written out, and then dirties
> > > > > the page. What is the point if the VM then expects to be able to
> > > > > circumvent this?
> > > >
> > > > Put differently:
> > > > * _who_ is dirtying the page when the swapper is trying to write
> > > > the page out?
> > > > * why are they not calling either page_mkwrite() or
> > > > commit_write()?
> > >
> > > I'm writing anonymous pages (I'm the crazy person doing swap over NFS).
> > > And anonymous is dirty by default.
> >
> > I'd really prefer to _know_ that these writes are coming from the
> > swapper. That makes it possible to give them a correct credential and
> > open context.
> >
> > Could you perhaps funnel them through a new a_op->swap_out() and default
> > back to ->writepage() for those filesystems that don't define it?
>
> Sure, will do that.
OTOH these pages will have PageSwapCache() and IS_SWAPFILE(inode) will
be true, so ->writepage() can already know. Do you still prefer
->swap_out() ?
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