mm: stop filemap_read() from grabbing a superfluous page

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Under some circumstances, filemap_read() will allocate sufficient pages
to read to the end of the file, call readahead/readpages on them and
copy the data over - and then it will allocate another page at the EOF
and call readpage on that and then ignore it.  This is unnecessary and a
waste of time and resources.

filemap_read() *does* check for this, but only after it has already done
the allocation and I/O.  Fix this by checking before calling
filemap_get_pages() also.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163472463105.3126792.7056099385135786492.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588481358.3465195.16552616179674485179.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163456863216.2614702.6384850026368833133.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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David Howells 2021-11-05 13:36:49 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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