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Commit 6facf36e authored by Lorenzo Stoakes's avatar Lorenzo Stoakes Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/filemap: clarify filemap_fault() comments for not uptodate case



The existing comments in filemap_fault() suggest that, after either a
minor fault has occurred and filemap_get_folio() found a folio in the page
cache, or a major fault arose and __filemap_get_folio(FGP_CREATE...) did
the job (having relied on do_sync_mmap_readahead() or filemap_read_folio()
to read in the folio), the only possible reason it could not be uptodate
is because of an error.

This is not so, as if, for instance, the fault occurred within a VMA which
had the VM_RAND_READ flag set (via madvise() with the MADV_RANDOM flag
specified), this would cause even synchronous readahead to fail to read in
the folio.

I confirmed this by dropping page caches and faulting in memory
madvise()'d this way, observing that this code path was reached on each
occasion.

Clarify the comments to include this case, and additionally update the
comment recently added around the invalidate lock logic to make it clear
the comment explicitly refers to the minor fault case.

In addition, while we're here, refer to folios rather than pages.

[lstoakes@gmail.com: correct identation as per Christopher's feedback]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c7014c0-6343-4e76-8697-3f84f54350bd@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230930231029.88196-1-lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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