mm: fadvise: avoid fadvise for fs without backing device

The fadvise() manpage is silent on fadvise()'s effect on memory-based
filesystems (shmem, hugetlbfs & ramfs) and pseudo file systems (procfs,
sysfs, kernfs).  The current implementaion of fadvise is mostly a noop
for such filesystems except for FADV_DONTNEED which will trigger
expensive remote LRU cache draining.  This patch makes the noop of
fadvise() on such file systems very explicit.

However this change has two side effects for ramfs and one for tmpfs.
First fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) could remove the unmapped clean zero'ed
pages of ramfs (allocated through read, readahead & read fault) and
tmpfs (allocated through read fault).  Also fadvise(FADV_WILLNEED) could
create such clean zero'ed pages for ramfs.  This change removes those
possibilities.

One of our generic libraries does fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED).  Recently we
observed high latency in fadvise() and noticed that the users have
started using tmpfs files and the latency was due to expensive remote
LRU cache draining.  For normal tmpfs files (have data written on them),
fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) will always trigger the unneeded remote cache
draining.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/fadvise.c

@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
+	bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host);
+
+	if (IS_DAX(inode) || (bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info)) {
 		switch (advice) {
 		case POSIX_FADV_NORMAL:
 		case POSIX_FADV_RANDOM:
@@ -75,8 +77,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice)
 	else
 		endbyte--;		/* inclusive */
 
-	bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host);
-
 	switch (advice) {
 	case POSIX_FADV_NORMAL:
 		f.file->f_ra.ra_pages = bdi->ra_pages;