ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure

Pages in the page cache belonging to ext3 data files are released via
the ext3_releasepage() function specified in the ext3 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 try_to_free_pages() function which calls
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, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 541d5e4f7f6e..6900ff05e3ab 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -682,6 +682,26 @@ static struct dentry *ext3_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
                                     ext3_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
+ * jbd 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 = EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal;
+
+        WARN_ON(PageChecked(page));
+        if (!page_has_buffers(page))
+                return 0;
+        if (journal)
+                return 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))
@@ -746,6 +766,7 @@ static const struct super_operations ext3_sops = {
         .quota_read     = ext3_quota_read,
         .quota_write    = ext3_quota_write,
 #endif
+        .bdev_try_to_free_page = bdev_try_to_free_page,
 };
 
 static const struct export_operations ext3_export_ops = {