ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure

Pages in the page cache belonging to ext4 data files are released via
the ext4_releasepage() function specified in the ext4 inode's
address_space_ops.  However, metadata blocks (such as indirect blocks,
directory blocks, etc) are managed via the block device
address_space_ops, and they can not be released by
try_to_free_buffers() if they have a journal head attached to them.

To address this, we supply a release_metadata function which calls
jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() function to free the metadata, and
which is called by the block device's blkdev_releasepage() function.

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index a3321bf..e5ab520 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -907,6 +907,25 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
 				    ext4_nfs_get_inode);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Try to release metadata pages (indirect blocks, directories) which are
+ * mapped via the block device.  Since these pages could have journal heads
+ * which would prevent try_to_free_buffers() from freeing them, we must use
+ * jbd2 layer's try_to_free_buffers() function to release them.
+ */
+static int bdev_try_to_free_page(struct super_block *sb, struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
+{
+	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
+
+	WARN_ON(PageChecked(page));
+	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
+		return 0;
+	if (journal)
+		return jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal, page,
+							wait & ~__GFP_WAIT);
+	return try_to_free_buffers(page);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 #define QTYPE2NAME(t) ((t) == USRQUOTA ? "user" : "group")
 #define QTYPE2MOPT(on, t) ((t) == USRQUOTA?((on)##USRJQUOTA):((on)##GRPJQUOTA))
@@ -971,6 +990,7 @@ static const struct super_operations ext4_sops = {
 	.quota_read	= ext4_quota_read,
 	.quota_write	= ext4_quota_write,
 #endif
+	.bdev_try_to_free_page = bdev_try_to_free_page,
 };
 
 static const struct export_operations ext4_export_ops = {