mm: put readahead pages in cache earlier

When populating the page cache for readahead, mappings that use
->readpages must populate the page cache themselves as the pages are
passed on a linked list which would normally be used for the page
cache's LRU.  For mappings that use ->readpage or the upcoming
->readahead method, we can put the pages into the page cache as soon as
they're allocated, which solves a race between readahead and direct IO.
It also lets us remove the gfp argument from read_pages().

Use the new readahead_page() API to implement the repeated calls to
->readpage(), just like most filesystems will.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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