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Dominique Martinet
6e195b0f7c 9p: fix a bunch of checkpatch warnings
Sohaib Mohamed started a serie of tiny and incomplete checkpatch fixes but
seemingly stopped halfway -- take over and do most of it.
This is still missing net/9p/trans* and net/9p/protocol.c for a later
time...

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211102134608.1588018-3-dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
2021-11-04 21:04:25 +09:00
David Howells
eb497943fa 9p: Convert to using the netfs helper lib to do reads and caching
Convert the 9p filesystem to use the netfs helper lib to handle readpage,
readahead and write_begin, converting those into a common issue_op for the
filesystem itself to handle.  The netfs helper lib also handles reading
from fscache if a cache is available, and interleaving reads from both
sources.

This change also switches from the old fscache I/O API to the new one,
meaning that fscache no longer keeps track of netfs pages and instead does
async DIO between the backing files and the 9p file pagecache.  As a part
of this change, the handling of PG_fscache changes.  It now just means that
the cache has a write I/O operation in progress on a page (PG_locked
is used for a read I/O op).

Note that this is a cut-down version of the fscache rewrite and does not
change any of the cookie and cache coherency handling.

Changes
=======
ver #4:
  - Rebase on top of folios.
  - Don't use wait_on_page_bit_killable().

ver #3:
  - v9fs_req_issue_op() needs to terminate the subrequest.
  - v9fs_write_end() needs to call SetPageUptodate() a bit more often.
  - It's not CONFIG_{AFS,V9FS}_FSCACHE[1]
  - v9fs_init_rreq() should take a ref on the p9_fid and the cleanup should
    drop it [from Dominique Martinet].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YUm+xucHxED+1MJp@codewreck.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163162772646.438332.16323773205855053535.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163189109885.2509237.7153668924503399173.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163363943896.1980952.1226527304649419689.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163551662876.1877519.14706391695553204156.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163584179557.4023316.11089762304657644342.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk # rebase on folio
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
2021-11-03 17:45:02 +09:00
David Howells
bc86803656 9p: Fix a bunch of kerneldoc warnings shown up by W=1
Fix a bunch of kerneldoc warnings shown up by W=1 in the 9p filesystem:

 (1) Add/remove/fix kerneldoc parameters descriptions.

 (2) Move __add_fid() from between v9fs_fid_add() and its comment.

 (3) 9p's caches_show() doesn't really make sense as an API function, so
     remove the kerneldoc annotation.  It's also not prefixed with 'v9fs_'.
     Also remove the kerneldoc markers from the 9p fscache wrappers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163214005516.2945267.7000234432243167892.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163281899704.2790286.9177774252843775348.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc v2
2021-10-04 22:07:46 +01:00
Bharath Vedartham
962a991c5d 9p/cache.c: Fix memory leak in v9fs_cache_session_get_cookie
v9fs_cache_session_get_cookie assigns a random cachetag to v9ses->cachetag,
if the cachetag is not assigned previously.

v9fs_random_cachetag allocates memory to v9ses->cachetag with kmalloc and uses
scnprintf to fill it up with a cachetag.

But if scnprintf fails, v9ses->cachetag is not freed in the current
code causing a memory leak.

Fix this by freeing v9ses->cachetag it v9fs_random_cachetag fails.

This was reported by syzbot, the link to the report is below:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f012bdf297a7a4c860c38a88b44fbee43fd9bbf3

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190522194519.GA5313@bharath12345-Inspiron-5559
Reported-by: syzbot+3a030a73b6c1e9833815@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>
2019-09-03 11:07:39 +00:00
Thomas Gleixner
1f32761322 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 188
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not write to free software
  foundation 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02111 1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 27 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170026.981318839@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:29:21 -07:00
David Howells
ee1235a9a0 fscache: Pass object size in rather than calling back for it
Pass the object size in to fscache_acquire_cookie() and
fscache_write_page() rather than the netfs providing a callback by which it
can be received.  This makes it easier to update the size of the object
when a new page is written that extends the object.

The current object size is also passed by fscache to the check_aux
function, obviating the need to store it in the aux data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
2018-04-06 14:05:14 +01:00
David Howells
402cb8dda9 fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookie
Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so
that:

 (1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated.  This
     can simplify things in the cache as the information is still
     available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie.

 (2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we
     don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us.

 (3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk.
     As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no
     need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes.

 (4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily
     available.  This allows:

     (a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer
     	 rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend.

     (b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the
     	 cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated.

A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the
data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it.

The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
2018-04-04 13:41:28 +01:00
Jan Kara
26b433d0da fscache: remove unused ->now_uncached callback
Patch series "Ranged pagevec lookup", v2.

In this series I make pagevec_lookup() update the index (to be
consistent with pagevec_lookup_tag() and also as a preparation for
ranged lookups), provide ranged variant of pagevec_lookup() and use it
in places where it makes sense.  This not only removes some common code
but is also a measurable performance win for some use cases (see patch
4/10) where radix tree is sparse and searching & grabing of a page after
the end of the range has measurable overhead.

This patch (of 10):

The callback doesn't ever get called.  Remove it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726114704.7626-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
Sasha Levin
8f5fed1e91 fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
We may sleep inside a the lock, so use a mutex rather than spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-09 02:57:21 -05:00
Geyslan G. Bem
bd126e5e58 9p: remove unused 'p9_fid' struct pointer
Get rid of the useless '*fid' variable.

Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2013-11-23 16:10:31 -06:00
David Howells
94d30ae90a FS-Cache: Provide the ability to enable/disable cookies
Provide the ability to enable and disable fscache cookies.  A disabled cookie
will reject or ignore further requests to:

	Acquire a child cookie
	Invalidate and update backing objects
	Check the consistency of a backing object
	Allocate storage for backing page
	Read backing pages
	Write to backing pages

but still allows:

	Checks/waits on the completion of already in-progress objects
	Uncaching of pages
	Relinquishment of cookies

Two new operations are provided:

 (1) Disable a cookie:

	void fscache_disable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
				    bool invalidate);

     If the cookie is not already disabled, this locks the cookie against other
     dis/enablement ops, marks the cookie as being disabled, discards or
     invalidates any backing objects and waits for cessation of activity on any
     associated object.

     This is a wrapper around a chunk split out of fscache_relinquish_cookie(),
     but it reinitialises the cookie such that it can be reenabled.

     All possible failures are handled internally.  The caller should consider
     calling fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages() afterwards to make sure all page
     markings are cleared up.

 (2) Enable a cookie:

	void fscache_enable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
				   bool (*can_enable)(void *data),
				   void *data)

     If the cookie is not already enabled, this locks the cookie against other
     dis/enablement ops, invokes can_enable() and, if the cookie is not an
     index cookie, will begin the procedure of acquiring backing objects.

     The optional can_enable() function is passed the data argument and returns
     a ruling as to whether or not enablement should actually be permitted to
     begin.

     All possible failures are handled internally.  The cookie will only be
     marked as enabled if provisional backing objects are allocated.

A later patch will introduce these to NFS.  Cookie enablement during nfs_open()
is then contingent on i_writecount <= 0.  can_enable() checks for a race
between open(O_RDONLY) and open(O_WRONLY/O_RDWR).  This simplifies NFS's cookie
handling and allows us to get rid of open(O_RDONLY) accidentally introducing
caching to an inode that's open for writing already.

One operation has its API modified:

 (3) Acquire a cookie.

	struct fscache_cookie *fscache_acquire_cookie(
		struct fscache_cookie *parent,
		const struct fscache_cookie_def *def,
		void *netfs_data,
		bool enable);

     This now has an additional argument that indicates whether the requested
     cookie should be enabled by default.  It doesn't need the can_enable()
     function because the caller must prevent multiple calls for the same netfs
     object and it doesn't need to take the enablement lock because no one else
     can get at the cookie before this returns.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com
2013-09-27 18:40:25 +01:00
Joe Perches
5d3851530d 9p: Reduce object size with CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG
Reduce object size by deduplicating formats.

Use vsprintf extension %pV.
Rename P9_DPRINTK uses to p9_debug, align arguments.
Add function for _p9_debug and macro to add __func__.
Add missing "\n"s to p9_debug uses.
Remove embedded function names as p9_debug adds it.
Remove P9_EPRINTK macro and convert use to pr_<level>.
Add and use pr_fmt and pr_<level>.

$ size fs/9p/built-in.o*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  62133	    984	  16000	  79117	  1350d	fs/9p/built-in.o.new
  67342	    984	  16928	  85254	  14d06	fs/9p/built-in.o.old
$ size net/9p/built-in.o*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  88792	   4148	  22024	 114964	  1c114	net/9p/built-in.o.new
  94072	   4148	  23232	 121452	  1da6c	net/9p/built-in.o.old

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2012-01-05 10:51:44 -06:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
fd2421f544 fs/9p: When doing inode lookup compare qid details and inode mode bits.
This make sure we don't use wrong inode from the inode hash. The inode number
of the file deleted is reused by the next file system object created
and if we only use inode number for inode hash lookup we could end up
with wrong struct inode.

Also compare inode generation number. Not all Linux file system provide
st_gen in userspace. So it could be 0;

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-07-23 09:32:48 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
a78ce05d5d fs/9p: Add v9fs_inode
Switch to the fscache code to v9fs_inode. We will later use
v9fs_inode in cache=loose mode to track the inode cache
validity timeout. Ie if we find an inode in cache older
that a specific jiffie range we will consider it stale

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-03-15 09:57:39 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
2efda7998b fs/9p: [fscache] wait for page write in cached mode
We need to call fscache_wait_on_page_write in launder_page
for fscache

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-03-15 09:57:37 -05:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
David Howells
6f05416432 9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache
While building 2.6.32-rc8-git2 for Fedora I noticed the following thinko
in commit 201a15428b ("FS-Cache: Handle
pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions"):

  fs/9p/cache.c: In function '__v9fs_fscache_release_page':
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: 'vnode' undeclared (first use in this function)
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: for each function it appears in.)
  make[2]: *** [fs/9p/cache.o] Error 1

Fix the 9P filesystem to correctly construct the argument to
fscache_maybe_release_page().

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> [from identical patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> [from identical patch]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 07:35:11 -08:00
David Howells
201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
60e78d2c99 9p: Add fscache support to 9p
This patch adds a persistent, read-only caching facility for
9p clients using the FS-Cache caching backend.

When the fscache facility is enabled, each inode is associated
with a corresponding vcookie which is an index into the FS-Cache
indexing tree. The FS-Cache indexing tree is indexed at 3 levels:
- session object associated with each mount.
- inode/vcookie
- actual data (pages)

A cache tag is chosen randomly for each session. These tags can
be read off /sys/fs/9p/caches and can be passed as a mount-time
parameter to re-attach to the specified caching session.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00