Implement page discard using rcu. Each page has built-in entry rcu_head
that could be used to free the page from rcu.

Regarding the commant that "re-allocating the pages can result in
writeback deadlocks under heavy load" - if the user is in the risk of such
deadlocks, he should mount the filesystem without "-o discard".

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>

---
 drivers/block/brd.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(stru
        return page;
 }
 
+static void brd_free_page_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+       struct page *page = container_of(head, struct page, rcu_head);
+       __free_page(page);
+}
+
 static void brd_free_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
 {
        struct page *page;
@@ -147,7 +153,7 @@ static void brd_free_page(struct brd_dev
        page = radix_tree_delete(&brd->brd_pages, idx);
        spin_unlock(&brd->brd_lock);
        if (page)
-               __free_page(page);
+               call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, brd_free_page_rcu);
 }
 
 static void brd_zero_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
@@ -233,7 +239,7 @@ static void discard_from_brd(struct brd_
                 * re-allocating the pages can result in writeback
                 * deadlocks under heavy load.
                 */
-               if (0)
+               if (1)
                        brd_free_page(brd, sector);
                else
                        brd_zero_page(brd, sector);
@@ -257,22 +263,22 @@ static void copy_to_brd(struct brd_devic
 
        copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
        page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
-       BUG_ON(!page);
-
-       dst = kmap_atomic(page);
-       memcpy(dst + offset, src, copy);
-       kunmap_atomic(dst);
+       if (page) {
+               dst = kmap_atomic(page);
+               memcpy(dst + offset, src, copy);
+               kunmap_atomic(dst);
+       }
 
        if (copy < n) {
                src += copy;
                sector += copy >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
                copy = n - copy;
                page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
-               BUG_ON(!page);
-
-               dst = kmap_atomic(page);
-               memcpy(dst, src, copy);
-               kunmap_atomic(dst);
+               if (page) {
+                       dst = kmap_atomic(page);
+                       memcpy(dst, src, copy);
+                       kunmap_atomic(dst);
+               }
        }
 
        rcu_read_unlock();

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