mm: add folio_zero_tail() and use it in ext4

Patch series "Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()".

I'm trying to make it easier for filesystems with tailpacking / stuffing /
inline data to use folios.  The primary function here is
folio_fill_tail().  You give it a pointer to memory where the data
currently is, and it takes care of copying it into the folio at that
offset.  That works for gfs2 & iomap.  Then There's Ext4.  Rather than gin
up some kind of specialist "Here's a two pointers to two blocks of memory"
routine, just let it do its current thing, and let it call
folio_zero_tail(), which is also called by folio_fill_tail().

Other filesystems can be converted later; these ones seemed like good
examples as they're already partly or completely converted to folios.


This patch (of 3):

Instead of unmapping the folio after copying the data to it, then mapping
it again to zero the tail, provide folio_zero_tail() to zero the tail of
an already-mapped folio.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc argument ordering]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index be20cff4ba73..5ebd5e4dfbf8 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -484,6 +484,44 @@ static inline void memcpy_to_folio(struct folio *folio, size_t offset,
 }
 
 /**
+ * folio_zero_tail - Zero the tail of a folio.
+ * @folio: The folio to zero.
+ * @offset: The byte offset in the folio to start zeroing at.
+ * @kaddr: The address the folio is currently mapped to.
+ *
+ * If you have already used kmap_local_folio() to map a folio, written
+ * some data to it and now need to zero the end of the folio (and flush
+ * the dcache), you can use this function.  If you do not have the
+ * folio kmapped (eg the folio has been partially populated by DMA),
+ * use folio_zero_range() or folio_zero_segment() instead.
+ *
+ * Return: An address which can be passed to kunmap_local().
+ */
+static inline __must_check void *folio_zero_tail(struct folio *folio,
+		size_t offset, void *kaddr)
+{
+	size_t len = folio_size(folio) - offset;
+
+	if (folio_test_highmem(folio)) {
+		size_t max = PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(offset);
+
+		while (len > max) {
+			memset(kaddr, 0, max);
+			kunmap_local(kaddr);
+			len -= max;
+			offset += max;
+			max = PAGE_SIZE;
+			kaddr = kmap_local_folio(folio, offset);
+		}
+	}
+
+	memset(kaddr, 0, len);
+	flush_dcache_folio(folio);
+
+	return kaddr;
+}
+
+/**
  * memcpy_from_file_folio - Copy some bytes from a file folio.
  * @to: The destination buffer.
  * @folio: The folio to copy from.