[PATCH v6 01/19] mm: Return void from various readahead functions

[Matthew Wilcox]

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy at infradead.org>

ondemand_readahead has two callers, neither of which use the return value.
That means that both ra_submit and __do_page_cache_readahead() can return
void, and we don't need to worry that a present page in the readahead
window causes us to return a smaller nr_pages than we ought to have.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy at infradead.org>
---
 mm/internal.h  |  8 ++++----
 mm/readahead.c | 24 ++++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 3cf20ab3ca01..f779f058118b 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -49,18 +49,18 @@ void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 			     unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 			     struct zap_details *details);
 
-extern unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
+extern void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 		struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read,
 		unsigned long lookahead_size);
 
 /*
  * Submit IO for the read-ahead request in file_ra_state.
  */
-static inline unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra,
+static inline void ra_submit(struct file_ra_state *ra,
 		struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp)
 {
-	return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
-					ra->start, ra->size, ra->async_size);
+	__do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
+			ra->start, ra->size, ra->async_size);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 2fe72cd29b47..8ce46d69e6ae 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -149,10 +149,8 @@ static int read_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
  * the pages first, then submits them for I/O. This avoids the very bad
  * behaviour which would occur if page allocations are causing VM writeback.
  * We really don't want to intermingle reads and writes like that.
- *
- * Returns the number of pages requested, or the maximum amount of I/O allowed.
  */
-unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
+void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 		struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read,
 		unsigned long lookahead_size)
 {
@@ -166,7 +164,7 @@ unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 	gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping);
 
 	if (isize == 0)
-		goto out;
+		return;
 
 	end_index = ((isize - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
@@ -211,8 +209,6 @@ unsigned int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 	if (nr_pages)
 		read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask);
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool));
-out:
-	return nr_pages;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -378,11 +374,10 @@ static int try_context_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 /*
  * A minimal readahead algorithm for trivial sequential/random reads.
  */
-static unsigned long
-ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
-		   struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp,
-		   bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset,
-		   unsigned long req_size)
+static void ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
+		struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp,
+		bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset,
+		unsigned long req_size)
 {
 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host);
 	unsigned long max_pages = ra->ra_pages;
@@ -428,7 +423,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		if (!start || start - offset > max_pages)
-			return 0;
+			return;
 
 		ra->start = start;
 		ra->size = start - offset;	/* old async_size */
@@ -464,7 +459,8 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 	 * standalone, small random read
 	 * Read as is, and do not pollute the readahead state.
 	 */
-	return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, req_size, 0);
+	__do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, req_size, 0);
+	return;
 
 initial_readahead:
 	ra->start = offset;
@@ -489,7 +485,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
 		}
 	}
 
-	return ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp);
+	ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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