[PATCH 5/7] shmem: open code the page cache lookup in shmem_get_folio_gfp

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Use the very low level filemap_get_entry helper to look up the
> entry in the xarray, and then:
> 
>  - don't bother locking the folio if only doing a userfault notification
>  - open code locking the page and checking for truncation in a related
>    code block
> 
> This will allow to eventually remove the FGP_ENTRY flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>

but Andrew, please fold in this small improvement to its comment:

[PATCH] shmem: open code the page cache lookup in shmem_get_folio_gfp fix

Adjust the new comment line: shmem folio may have been swapped out.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
---

 mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@ static int shmem_get_folio_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	if (folio) {
 		folio_lock(folio);
 
-		/* Has the page been truncated? */
+		/* Has the folio been truncated or swapped out? */
 		if (unlikely(folio->mapping != mapping)) {
 			folio_unlock(folio);
 			folio_put(folio);