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David Howells 3ca2364401 mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
Provide a function, readahead_expand(), that expands the set of pages
specified by a readahead_control object to encompass a revised area with a
proposed size and length.

The proposed area must include all of the old area and may be expanded yet
more by this function so that the edges align on (transparent huge) page
boundaries as allocated.

The expansion will be cut short if a page already exists in either of the
areas being expanded into.  Note that any expansion made in such a case is
not rolled back.

This will be used by fscache so that reads can be expanded to cache granule
boundaries, thereby allowing whole granules to be stored in the cache, but
there are other potential users also.

Changes:
v6:
- Fold in a patch from Matthew Wilcox to tell the ondemand readahead
  algorithm about the expansion so that the next readahead starts at the
  right place[2].

v4:
- Moved the declaration of readahead_expand() to a better place[1].

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217161358.GM2858050@casper.infradead.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407201857.3582797-4-willy@infradead.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159974633888.2094769.8326206446358128373.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588479816.3465195.553952688795241765.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118131787.1232039.4863969952441067985.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161028670.2537118.13831420617039766044.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340389201.1303470.14353807284546854878.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539530488.286939.18085961677838089157.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653789422.2770958.2108046612147345000.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789069829.6155.4295672417565512161.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.