add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems

Implement blkdev_releasepage() to release the buffer_heads and pages
after we release private data belonging to a mounted filesystem.

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

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 349a26c..1dd07e6 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1220,6 +1220,20 @@ static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	return blkdev_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Try to release a page associated with block device when the system
+ * is under memory pressure.
+ */
+static int blkdev_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
+{
+	struct super_block *super = BDEV_I(page->mapping->host)->bdev.bd_super;
+
+	if (super && super->s_op->bdev_try_to_free_page)
+		return super->s_op->bdev_try_to_free_page(super, page, wait);
+
+	return try_to_free_buffers(page);
+}
+
 static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
 	.readpage	= blkdev_readpage,
 	.writepage	= blkdev_writepage,
@@ -1227,6 +1241,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
 	.write_begin	= blkdev_write_begin,
 	.write_end	= blkdev_write_end,
 	.writepages	= generic_writepages,
+	.releasepage	= blkdev_releasepage,
 	.direct_IO	= blkdev_direct_IO,
 };
 
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index ddba069..d5fd449 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ int get_sb_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 		}
 
 		s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
+		bdev->bd_super = s;
 	}
 
 	return simple_set_mnt(mnt, s);
@@ -819,6 +820,7 @@ void kill_block_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	struct block_device *bdev = sb->s_bdev;
 	fmode_t mode = sb->s_mode;
 
+	bdev->bd_super = 0;
 	generic_shutdown_super(sb);
 	sync_blockdev(bdev);
 	close_bdev_exclusive(bdev, mode);