Merge tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong:
 "We've got some big changes for this release -- I'm very happy to be
  landing willy's work to enable large folios for the page cache for
  general read and write IOs when the fs can make contiguous space
  allocations, and Ritesh's work to track sub-folio dirty state to
  eliminate the write amplification problems inherent in using large
  folios.

  As a bonus, io_uring can now process write completions in the caller's
  context instead of bouncing through a workqueue, which should reduce
  io latency dramatically. IOWs, XFS should see a nice performance bump
  for both IO paths.

  Summary:

   - Make large writes to the page cache fill sparse parts of the cache
     with large folios, then use large memcpy calls for the large folio.

   - Track the per-block dirty state of each large folio so that a
     buffered write to a single byte on a large folio does not result in
     a (potentially) multi-megabyte writeback IO.

   - Allow some directio completions to be performed in the initiating
     task's context instead of punting through a workqueue. This will
     reduce latency for some io_uring requests"

* tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  iomap: support IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions
  iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP
  iomap: only set iocb->private for polled bio
  iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
  iomap: use an unsigned type for IOMAP_DIO_* defines
  iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io()
  iomap: Add per-block dirty state tracking to improve performance
  iomap: Allocate ifs in ->write_begin() early
  iomap: Refactor iomap_write_delalloc_punch() function out
  iomap: Use iomap_punch_t typedef
  iomap: Fix possible overflow condition in iomap_write_delalloc_scan
  iomap: Add some uptodate state handling helpers for ifs state bitmap
  iomap: Drop ifs argument from iomap_set_range_uptodate()
  iomap: Rename iomap_page to iomap_folio_state and others
  iomap: Copy larger chunks from userspace
  iomap: Create large folios in the buffered write path
  filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios
  filemap: Add fgf_t typedef
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 6e833ed0b22ea7..b7e5a3841aa4a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -376,10 +376,17 @@ invalidate_lock before invalidating page cache in truncate / hole punch
 path (and thus calling into ->invalidate_folio) to block races between page
 cache invalidation and page cache filling functions (fault, read, ...).
 
-->release_folio() is called when the kernel is about to try to drop the
-buffers from the folio in preparation for freeing it.  It returns false to
-indicate that the buffers are (or may be) freeable.  If ->release_folio is
-NULL, the kernel assumes that the fs has no private interest in the buffers.
+->release_folio() is called when the MM wants to make a change to the
+folio that would invalidate the filesystem's private data.  For example,
+it may be about to be removed from the address_space or split.  The folio
+is locked and not under writeback.  It may be dirty.  The gfp parameter
+is not usually used for allocation, but rather to indicate what the
+filesystem may do to attempt to free the private data.  The filesystem may
+return false to indicate that the folio's private data cannot be freed.
+If it returns true, it should have already removed the private data from
+the folio.  If a filesystem does not provide a ->release_folio method,
+the pagecache will assume that private data is buffer_heads and call
+try_to_free_buffers().
 
 ->free_folio() is called when the kernel has dropped the folio
 from the page cache.