f2fs: change atomic and volatile write policies

This patch adds two new ioctls to release inmemory pages grabbed by atomic
writes.
 o f2fs_ioc_abort_volatile_write
  - If transaction was failed, all the grabbed pages and data should be written.
 o f2fs_ioc_release_volatile_write
  - This is to enhance the performance of PERSIST mode in sqlite.

In order to avoid huge memory consumption which causes OOM, this patch changes
volatile writes to use normal dirty pages, instead blocked flushing to the disk
as long as system does not suffer from memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index ec58bb2373fc..8c9bf3d6cb7d 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ static inline bool __has_cursum_space(struct f2fs_summary_block *sum, int size,
 #define F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_WRITE	_IO(F2FS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 1)
 #define F2FS_IOC_COMMIT_ATOMIC_WRITE	_IO(F2FS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 2)
 #define F2FS_IOC_START_VOLATILE_WRITE	_IO(F2FS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 3)
+#define F2FS_IOC_RELEASE_VOLATILE_WRITE	_IO(F2FS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 4)
+#define F2FS_IOC_ABORT_VOLATILE_WRITE	_IO(F2FS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 5)
 
 #if defined(__KERNEL__) && defined(CONFIG_COMPAT)
 /*
@@ -1113,6 +1115,7 @@ enum {
 	FI_NEED_IPU,		/* used for ipu per file */
 	FI_ATOMIC_FILE,		/* indicate atomic file */
 	FI_VOLATILE_FILE,	/* indicate volatile file */
+	FI_DROP_CACHE,		/* drop dirty page cache */
 	FI_DATA_EXIST,		/* indicate data exists */
 };
 
@@ -1220,6 +1223,11 @@ static inline bool f2fs_is_volatile_file(struct inode *inode)
 	return is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(inode), FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
 }
 
+static inline bool f2fs_is_drop_cache(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(inode), FI_DROP_CACHE);
+}
+
 static inline void *inline_data_addr(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct f2fs_inode *ri = F2FS_INODE(page);