Jan Kara a220d6b95b Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()" ...

This reverts commit 7c877586da.

Anders and Philippe have reported that recent kernels occasionally hang
when used with NFS in readahead code.  The problem has been bisected to
7c877586da ("readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to
do_page_cache_ra()").  The cause of the problem is that ra->size can be
shrunk by read_pages() call and subsequently we end up calling
do_page_cache_ra() with negative (read huge positive) number of pages. 
Let's revert 7c877586da for now until we can find a proper way how the
logic in read_pages() and page_cache_ra_order() can coexist.  This can
lead to reduced readahead throughput due to readahead window confusion but
that's better than outright hangs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241126145208.985-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: 7c877586da ("readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()")
Reported-by: Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2024-12-05 19:54:44 -08:00

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