mm/readahead: do not allow order-1 folio
The THP machinery does not support order-1 folios because it requires meta data spanning the first 3 `struct page`s. So order-2 is the smallest large folio that we can safely create. There was a theoretical bug whereby if ra->size was 2 or 3 pages (due to the device-specific bdi->ra_pages being set that way), we could end up with order = 1. Fix this by unconditionally checking if the preferred order is 1 and if so, set it to 0. Previously this was done in a few specific places, but with this refactoring it is done just once, unconditionally, at the end of the calculation. This is a theoretical bug found during review of the code; I have no evidence to suggest this manifests in the real world (I expect all device-specific ra_pages values are much bigger than 3). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231201161045.3962614-1-ryan.roberts@arm.comSigned-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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