On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 04:56:13PM +0000, David Howells wrote:

+void netfs_readahead(struct readahead_control *ractl,
+		     const struct netfs_read_request_ops *ops,
+		     void *netfs_priv)
+{
+	struct netfs_read_request *rreq;
+	struct page *page;
+	unsigned int debug_index = 0;
+
+	_enter("%lx,%x", readahead_index(ractl), readahead_count(ractl));
+
+	if (readahead_count(ractl) == 0)
+		goto cleanup;
+
+	rreq = netfs_alloc_read_request(ops, netfs_priv, ractl->file);
+	if (!rreq)
+		goto cleanup;
+	rreq->mapping	= ractl->mapping;
+	rreq->start	= readahead_pos(ractl);
+	rreq->len	= readahead_length(ractl);
+
+	netfs_rreq_expand(rreq, ractl);
+
+	atomic_set(&rreq->nr_rd_ops, 1);
+	do {
+		if (!netfs_rreq_submit_slice(rreq, &debug_index))
+			break;
+
+	} while (rreq->submitted < rreq->len);
+
+	while ((page = readahead_page(ractl)))
+		put_page(page);

You don't need this pair of lines (unless I'm missing something).
read_pages() in mm/readahead.c puts the reference and unlocks any
pages which are not read by the readahead op.  Indeed, I think doing
this is buggy because you don't unlock the page.

+	/* If we decrement nr_rd_ops to 0, the ref belongs to us. */
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rreq->nr_rd_ops))
+		netfs_rreq_assess(rreq, false);
+	return;
+
+cleanup:
+	if (netfs_priv)
+		ops->cleanup(ractl->mapping, netfs_priv);
+	return;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netfs_readahead);

+int netfs_readpage(struct file *file,
+		   struct page *page,
+		   const struct netfs_read_request_ops *ops,
+		   void *netfs_priv)
+{
+	struct netfs_read_request *rreq;
+	unsigned int debug_index = 0;
+	int ret;
+
+	_enter("%lx", page->index);
+
+	rreq = netfs_alloc_read_request(ops, netfs_priv, file);
+	if (!rreq) {
+		if (netfs_priv)
+			ops->cleanup(netfs_priv, page->mapping);
+		unlock_page(page);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	rreq->mapping	= page->mapping;

FYI, this isn't going to work with swap-over-NFS.  You have to use
page_file_mapping().

+	rreq->start	= page->index * PAGE_SIZE;

and page_index() here.

I rather dislike it that swap-over-NFS uses readpage which makes this
need to exist.  If somebody were to switch SWP_FS_OPS to using kiocbs,
some of this pain could go away.