Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> says:
This fixes one (of multiple) sparse warnings in fs-writeback.c, and
then reshuffles the code a bit that only the proper high level API
instead of low-level helpers is exported.
* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112054403.1470586-1-hch@lst.de:
writeback: wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode out of line
writeback: add a __releases annoation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112054403.1470586-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This allows exporting this high-level interface only while keeping
wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode private in fs-writeback.c and unexporting
__inode_attach_wb.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112054403.1470586-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This shuts up a sparse lock context tracking warning.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112054403.1470586-2-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Most of the callers of wbc_account_cgroup_owner() are converting a folio
to page before calling the function. wbc_account_cgroup_owner() is
converting the page back to a folio to call mem_cgroup_css_from_folio().
Convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner() to take a folio instead of a page,
and convert all callers to pass a folio directly except f2fs.
Convert the page to folio for all the callers from f2fs as they were the
only callers calling wbc_account_cgroup_owner() with a page. As f2fs is
already in the process of converting to folios, these call sites might
also soon be calling wbc_account_cgroup_owner() with a folio directly in
the future.
No functional changes. Only compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240926140121.203821-1-kernel@pankajraghav.com
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Most commonly neither I_LRU_ISOLATING nor I_SYNC are set, but the stock
kernel takes a back-to-back relock trip to check for them.
It probably can be avoided altogether, but for now massage things back
to just one lock acquire.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813143626.1573445-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
When deactivating any type of superblock, it had to wait for the in-flight
wb switches to be completed. wb switches are executed in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()
which needs to acquire the wb_switch_rwsem and races against sync_inodes_sb().
If there are too much dirty data in the superblock, the waiting time may increase
significantly.
For superblocks without cgroup writeback such as tmpfs, they have nothing to
do with the wb swithes, so the flushing can be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240726030525.180330-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
writeback_inodes_sb doesn't have return value, just remove unnecessary
return in it.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-7-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Commit e8e8a0c6c9 ("writeback: move nr_pages == 0 logic to one
location") removed parameter nr_pages of __wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi
and we try to writeback all dirty pages in __wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi
now. Just correct stale comment.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-6-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The dirtied_before is only used when b_io is not empty, so only calculate
when b_io is not empty.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-5-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Remove unused parameter wb of finish_writeback_work.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-4-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
For case there is no more inodes for IO in io list from last wb_writeback,
We may bail out early even there is inode in dirty list should be written
back. Only bail out when we queued once to avoid missing dirtied inode.
This is from code reading...
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
[brauner@kernel.org: fold in memory corruption fix from Jan in [1]]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405132346.bid7gibby3lxxhez@quack3 [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
In kupdate writeback, only expired inode (have been dirty for longer than
dirty_expire_interval) is supposed to be written back. However, kupdate
writeback will writeback non-expired inode left in b_io or b_more_io from
last wb_writeback. As a result, writeback will keep being triggered
unexpected when we keep dirtying pages even dirty memory is under
threshold and inode is not expired. To be more specific:
Assume dirty background threshold is > 1G and dirty_expire_centisecs is
> 60s. When we running fio -size=1G -invalidate=0 -ioengine=libaio
--time_based -runtime=60... (keep dirtying), the writeback will keep
being triggered as following:
wb_workfn
wb_do_writeback
wb_check_background_flush
/*
* Wb dirty background threshold starts at 0 if device was idle and
* grows up when bandwidth of wb is updated. So a background
* writeback is triggered.
*/
wb_over_bg_thresh
/*
* Dirtied inode will be written back and added to b_more_io list
* after slice used up (because we keep dirtying the inode).
*/
wb_writeback
Writeback is triggered per dirty_writeback_centisecs as following:
wb_workfn
wb_do_writeback
wb_check_old_data_flush
/*
* Write back inode left in b_io and b_more_io from last wb_writeback
* even the inode is non-expired and it will be added to b_more_io
* again as slice will be used up (because we keep dirtying the
* inode)
*/
wb_writeback
Fix this by moving non-expired inode to dirty list instead of more io
list for kupdate writeback in requeue_inode.
Test as following:
/* make it more easier to observe the issue */
echo 300000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
/* create a idle device */
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdb
mount /dev/vdb /bdi1/
/* run buffer write with fio */
fio -name test -filename=/bdi1/file -size=800M -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \
-iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=60 -invalidate=0
Fio result before fix (run three tests):
1360MB/s
1329MB/s
1455MB/s
Fio result after fix (run three tests):
1737MB/s
1729MB/s
1789MB/s
Writeback for non-expired inode is gone as expeted. Observe this with trace
writeback_start and writeback_written as following:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/writeback_start/enab
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/writeback_written/enable
cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The wb_wakeup_delayed is only used in fs-writeback.c. Move it to
fs-writeback.c after defination of wb_wakeup and make it static.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240118203339.764093-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Move the resource pinning-for-writeback from fscache code to netfslib code.
This is used to keep a cache backing object pinned whilst we have dirty
pages on the netfs inode in the pagecache such that VM writeback will be
able to reach it.
Whilst we're at it, switch the parameters of netfs_unpin_writeback() to
match ->write_inode() so that it can be used for that directly.
Note that this mechanism could be more generically useful than that for
network filesystems. Quite often they have to keep around other resources
(e.g. authentication tokens or network connections) until the writeback is
complete.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Rename and export helpers that get write access to a mount. They
are used in overlayfs to get write access to the upper mount.
- Print the pretty name of the root device on boot failure. This
helps in scenarios where we would usually only print
"unknown-block(1,2)".
- Add an internal SB_I_NOUMASK flag. This is another part in the
endless POSIX ACL saga in a way.
When POSIX ACLs are enabled via SB_POSIXACL the vfs cannot strip
the umask because if the relevant inode has POSIX ACLs set it might
take the umask from there. But if the inode doesn't have any POSIX
ACLs set then we apply the umask in the filesytem itself. So we end
up with:
(1) no SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in vfs
(2) SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in filesystem
The umask semantics associated with SB_POSIXACL allowed filesystems
that don't even support POSIX ACLs at all to raise SB_POSIXACL
purely to avoid umask stripping. That specifically means NFS v4 and
Overlayfs. NFS v4 does it because it delegates this to the server
and Overlayfs because it needs to delegate umask stripping to the
upper filesystem, i.e., the filesystem used as the writable layer.
This went so far that SB_POSIXACL is raised eve on kernels that
don't even have POSIX ACL support at all.
Stop this blatant abuse and add SB_I_NOUMASK which is an internal
superblock flag that filesystems can raise to opt out of umask
handling. That should really only be the two mentioned above. It's
not that we want any filesystems to do this. Ideally we have all
umask handling always in the vfs.
- Make overlayfs use SB_I_NOUMASK too.
- Now that we have SB_I_NOUMASK, stop checking for SB_POSIXACL in
IS_POSIXACL() if the kernel doesn't have support for it. This is a
very old patch but it's only possible to do this now with the wider
cleanup that was done.
- Follow-up work on fake path handling from last cycle. Citing mostly
from Amir:
When overlayfs was first merged, overlayfs files of regular files
and directories, the ones that are installed in file table, had a
"fake" path, namely, f_path is the overlayfs path and f_inode is
the "real" inode on the underlying filesystem.
In v6.5, we took another small step by introducing of the
backing_file container and the file_real_path() helper. This change
allowed vfs and filesystem code to get the "real" path of an
overlayfs backing file. With this change, we were able to make
fsnotify work correctly and report events on the "real" filesystem
objects that were accessed via overlayfs.
This method works fine, but it still leaves the vfs vulnerable to
new code that is not aware of files with fake path. A recent
example is commit db1d1e8b98 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get
the i_version"). This commit uses direct referencing to f_path in
IMA code that otherwise uses file_inode() and file_dentry() to
reference the filesystem objects that it is measuring.
This contains work to switch things around: instead of having
filesystem code opt-in to get the "real" path, have generic code
opt-in for the "fake" path in the few places that it is needed.
Is it far more likely that new filesystems code that does not use
the file_dentry() and file_real_path() helpers will end up causing
crashes or averting LSM/audit rules if we keep the "fake" path
exposed by default.
This change already makes file_dentry() moot, but for now we did
not change this helper just added a WARN_ON() in ovl_d_real() to
catch if we have made any wrong assumptions.
After the dust settles on this change, we can make file_dentry() a
plain accessor and we can drop the inode argument to ->d_real().
- Switch struct file to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This looks like a small
change but it really isn't and I would like to see everyone on
their tippie toes for any possible bugs from this work.
Essentially we've been doing most of what SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for
files since a very long time because of the nasty interactions
between the SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor garbage collection. So
extending it makes a lot of sense but it is a subtle change. There
are almost no places that fiddle with file rcu semantics directly
and the ones that did mess around with struct file internal under
rcu have been made to stop doing that because it really was always
dodgy.
I forgot to put in the link tag for this change and the discussion
in the commit so adding it into the merge message:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Cleanups:
- Various smaller pipe cleanups including the removal of a spin lock
that was only used to protect against writes without pipe_lock()
from O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE aka watch queues. As that was never
implemented remove the additional locking from pipe_write().
- Annotate struct watch_filter with the new __counted_by attribute.
- Clarify do_unlinkat() cleanup so that it doesn't look like an extra
iput() is done that would cause issues.
- Simplify file cleanup when the file has never been opened.
- Use module helper instead of open-coding it.
- Predict error unlikely for stale retry.
- Use WRITE_ONCE() for mount expiry field instead of just commenting
that one hopes the compiler doesn't get smart.
Fixes:
- Fix readahead on block devices.
- Fix writeback when layztime is enabled and inodes whose timestamp
is the only thing that changed reside on wb->b_dirty_time. This
caused excessively large zombie memory cgroup when lazytime was
enabled as such inodes weren't handled fast enough.
- Convert BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() in open_last_lookups()"
* tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
file, i915: fix file reference for mmap_singleton()
vfs: Convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in open_last_lookups
writeback, cgroup: switch inodes with dirty timestamps to release dying cgwbs
chardev: Simplify usage of try_module_get()
ovl: rely on SB_I_NOUMASK
fs: fix umask on NFS with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=n
fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
fs: get mnt_writers count for an open backing file's real path
vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked
vfs: predict the error in retry_estale as unlikely
backing file: free directly
vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices
io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked()
file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
vfs: shave work on failed file open
fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput()
watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by
fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue
fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()
...
The cgwb cleanup routine will try to release the dying cgwb by switching
the attached inodes. It fetches the attached inodes from wb->b_attached
list, omitting the fact that inodes only with dirty timestamps reside in
wb->b_dirty_time list, which is the case when lazytime is enabled. This
causes enormous zombie memory cgroup when lazytime is enabled, as inodes
with dirty timestamps can not be switched to a live cgwb for a long time.
It is reasonable not to switch cgwb for inodes with dirty data, as
otherwise it may break the bandwidth restrictions. However since the
writeback of inode metadata is not accounted for, let's also switch
inodes with dirty timestamps to avoid zombie memory and block cgroups
when laztytime is enabled.
Fixes: c22d70a162 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231014125511.102978-1-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
When writing back an inode and performing an fsync on it concurrently, a
deadlock issue may arise as shown below. In each writeback iteration, a
clean inode is requeued to the wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero
pages_skipped, without anything actually being written. This causes an
infinite loop and prevents the plug from being flushed, resulting in a
deadlock. We now avoid requeuing the clean inode to prevent this issue.
wb_writeback fsync (inode-Y)
blk_start_plug(&plug)
for (;;) {
iter i-1: some reqs with page-X added into plug->mq_list // f2fs node page-X with PG_writeback
filemap_fdatawrite
__filemap_fdatawrite_range // write inode-Y with sync_mode WB_SYNC_ALL
do_writepages
f2fs_write_data_pages
__f2fs_write_data_pages // wb_sync_req[DATA]++ for WB_SYNC_ALL
f2fs_write_cache_pages
f2fs_write_single_data_page
f2fs_do_write_data_page
f2fs_outplace_write_data
f2fs_update_data_blkaddr
f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback
wait_on_page_writeback // wait for f2fs node page-X
iter i:
progress = __writeback_inodes_wb(wb, work)
. writeback_sb_inodes
. __writeback_single_inode // write inode-Y with sync_mode WB_SYNC_NONE
. . do_writepages
. . f2fs_write_data_pages
. . . __f2fs_write_data_pages // skip writepages due to (wb_sync_req[DATA]>0)
. . . wbc->pages_skipped += get_dirty_pages(inode) // wbc->pages_skipped = 1
. if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)) // i_state = I_SYNC | I_SYNC_QUEUED
. total_wrote++; // total_wrote = 1
. requeue_inode // requeue inode-Y to wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero pages_skipped
if (progress) // progress = 1
continue;
iter i+1:
queue_io
// similar process with iter i, infinite for-loop !
}
blk_finish_plug(&plug) // flush plug won't be called
Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230916045131.957929-1-guochunhai@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Make the naming consistent with the earlier introduced
super_lock_{read,write}() helpers.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230818-vfs-super-fixes-v3-v3-2-9f0b1876e46b@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Patch series "cgroup: eliminate atomic rstat flushing", v5.
A previous patch series [1] changed most atomic rstat flushing contexts to
become non-atomic. This was done to avoid an expensive operation that
scales with # cgroups and # cpus to happen with irqs disabled and
scheduling not permitted. There were two remaining atomic flushing
contexts after that series. This series tries to eliminate them as well,
eliminating atomic rstat flushing completely.
The two remaining atomic flushing contexts are:
(a) wb_over_bg_thresh()->mem_cgroup_wb_stats()
(b) mem_cgroup_threshold()->mem_cgroup_usage()
For (a), flushing needs to be atomic as wb_writeback() calls
wb_over_bg_thresh() with a spinlock held. However, it seems like the call
to wb_over_bg_thresh() doesn't need to be protected by that spinlock, so
this series proposes a refactoring that moves the call outside the lock
criticial section and makes the stats flushing in mem_cgroup_wb_stats()
non-atomic.
For (b), flushing needs to be atomic as mem_cgroup_threshold() is called
with irqs disabled. We only flush the stats when calculating the root
usage, as it is approximated as the sum of some memcg stats (file, anon,
and optionally swap) instead of the conventional page counter. This
series proposes changing this calculation to use the global stats instead,
eliminating the need for a memcg stat flush.
After these 2 contexts are eliminated, we no longer need
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic() or cgroup_rstat_flush_atomic(). We can
remove them and simplify the code.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230330191801.1967435-1-yosryahmed@google.com/
This patch (of 5):
wb_over_bg_thresh() calls mem_cgroup_wb_stats() which invokes an rstat
flush, which can be expensive on large systems. Currently,
wb_writeback() calls wb_over_bg_thresh() within a lock section, so we
have to do the rstat flush atomically. On systems with a lot of
cpus and/or cgroups, this can cause us to disable irqs for a long time,
potentially causing problems.
Move the call to wb_over_bg_thresh() outside the lock section in
preparation to make the rstat flush in mem_cgroup_wb_stats() non-atomic.
The list_empty(&wb->work_list) check should be okay outside the lock
section of wb->list_lock as it is protected by a separate lock
(wb->work_lock), and wb_over_bg_thresh() doesn't seem like it is
modifying any of wb->b_* lists the wb->list_lock is protecting.
Also, the loop seems to be already releasing and reacquring the
lock, so this refactoring looks safe.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230421174020.2994750-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230421174020.2994750-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'for-6.4/block-2023-05-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux
Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
- MD pull request via Song:
- Improve raid5 sequential IO performance on spinning disks, which
fixes a regression since v6.0 (Jan Kara)
- Fix bitmap offset types, which fixes an issue introduced in this
merge window (Jonathan Derrick)
- Cleanup of hweight type used for cgroup writeback (Maxim)
- Fix a regression with the "has_submit_bio" changes across partitions
(Ming)
- Cleanup of QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM clearing.
We used to set this flag on queues non blk-mq queues, and hence some
drivers clear it unconditionally. Since all of these have since been
converted to true blk-mq drivers, drop the useless clear as the bit
is not set (Chaitanya)
- Fix the flags being set in a bio for a flush for drbd (Christoph)
- Cleanup and deduplication of the code handling setting block device
capacity (Damien)
- Fix for ublk handling IO timeouts (Ming)
- Fix for a regression in blk-cgroup teardown (Tao)
- NBD documentation and code fixes (Eric)
- Convert blk-integrity to using device_attributes rather than a second
kobject to manage lifetimes (Thomas)
* tag 'for-6.4/block-2023-05-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
ublk: add timeout handler
drbd: correctly submit flush bio on barrier
mailmap: add mailmap entries for Jens Axboe
block: Skip destroyed blkg when restart in blkg_destroy_all()
writeback: fix call of incorrect macro
md: Fix bitmap offset type in sb writer
md/raid5: Improve performance for sequential IO
docs nbd: userspace NBD now favors github over sourceforge
block nbd: use req.cookie instead of req.handle
uapi nbd: add cookie alias to handle
uapi nbd: improve doc links to userspace spec
blk-integrity: register sysfs attributes on struct device
blk-integrity: convert to struct device_attribute
blk-integrity: use sysfs_emit
block/drivers: remove dead clear of random flag
block: sync part's ->bd_has_submit_bio with disk's
block: Cleanup set_capacity()/bdev_set_nr_sectors()
the variable 'history' is of type u16, it may be an error
that the hweight32 macro was used for it
I guess macro hweight16 should be used
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 2a81490811 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection")
Signed-off-by: Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230119104443.3002-1-korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
KASAN report null-ptr-deref:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0
Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task sync/943
CPU: 5 PID: 943 Comm: sync Tainted: 6.3.0-rc5-next-20230406-dirty #461
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0xc0
print_report+0x2ba/0x340
kasan_report+0xc4/0x120
kasan_check_range+0x1b7/0x2e0
__kasan_check_write+0x24/0x40
bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0
sync_inodes_sb+0x195/0x630
sync_inodes_one_sb+0x3a/0x50
iterate_supers+0x106/0x1b0
ksys_sync+0x98/0x160
[...]
==================================================================
The race that causes the above issue is as follows:
cpu1 cpu2
-------------------------|-------------------------
inode_switch_wbs
INIT_WORK(&isw->work, inode_switch_wbs_work_fn)
queue_rcu_work(isw_wq, &isw->work)
// queue_work async
inode_switch_wbs_work_fn
wb_put_many(old_wb, nr_switched)
percpu_ref_put_many
ref->data->release(ref)
cgwb_release
queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work)
// queue_work async
&wb->release_work
cgwb_release_workfn
ksys_sync
iterate_supers
sync_inodes_one_sb
sync_inodes_sb
bdi_split_work_to_wbs
kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC)
// alloc memory failed
percpu_ref_exit
ref->data = NULL
kfree(data)
wb_get(wb)
percpu_ref_get(&wb->refcnt)
percpu_ref_get_many(ref, 1)
atomic_long_add(nr, &ref->data->count)
atomic64_add(i, v)
// trigger null-ptr-deref
bdi_split_work_to_wbs() traverses &bdi->wb_list to split work into all
wbs. If the allocation of new work fails, the on-stack fallback will be
used and the reference count of the current wb is increased afterwards.
If cgroup writeback membership switches occur before getting the reference
count and the current wb is released as old_wd, then calling wb_get() or
wb_put() will trigger the null pointer dereference above.
This issue was introduced in v4.3-rc7 (see fix tag1). Both
sync_inodes_sb() and __writeback_inodes_sb_nr() calls to
bdi_split_work_to_wbs() can trigger this issue. For scenarios called via
sync_inodes_sb(), originally commit 7fc5854f8c ("writeback: synchronize
sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches") reduced the
possibility of the issue by adding wb_switch_rwsem, but in v5.14-rc1 (see
fix tag2) removed the "inode_io_list_del_locked(inode, old_wb)" from
inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() so that wb->state contains WB_has_dirty_io,
thus old_wb is not skipped when traversing wbs in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(),
and the issue becomes easily reproducible again.
To solve this problem, percpu_ref_exit() is called under RCU protection to
avoid race between cgwb_release_workfn() and bdi_split_work_to_wbs().
Moreover, replace wb_get() with wb_tryget() in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(),
and skip the current wb if wb_tryget() fails because the wb has already
been shutdown.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230410130826.1492525-1-libaokun1@huawei.com
Fixes: b817525a4a ("writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying ones")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Cc: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Only one caller doesn't have a folio, so move the page_folio() call to
that one caller from mem_cgroup_css_from_folio().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116192507.2146150-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In the past we had several use-after-free issues with inodes getting
added to writeback lists after evict() removed them. These are painful
to debug so add some asserts to catch the problem earlier. The only
non-obvious change in the commit is that we need to tweak
redirty_tail_locked() to avoid triggering assertion in
inode_io_list_move_locked().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221212113633.29181-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
After commit cbfecb927f ("fs: record I_DIRTY_TIME even if inode
already has I_DIRTY_INODE") writeback_single_inode can push inode with
I_DIRTY_TIME set to b_dirty_time list. In case of freeing inode with
I_DIRTY_TIME set this can happen after deletion of inode from i_io_list
at evict. Stack trace is following.
evict
fat_evict_inode
fat_truncate_blocks
fat_flush_inodes
writeback_inode
sync_inode_metadata(inode, sync=0)
writeback_single_inode(inode, wbc) <- wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE
This will lead to use after free in flusher thread.
Similar issue can be triggered if writeback_single_inode in the
stack trace update inode->i_io_list. Add explicit check to avoid it.
Fixes: cbfecb927f ("fs: record I_DIRTY_TIME even if inode already has I_DIRTY_INODE")
Reported-by: syzbot+6ba92bd00d5093f7e371@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Feldsherov <feldsherov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115202001.324188-1-feldsherov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently the I_DIRTY_TIME will never get set if the inode already has
I_DIRTY_INODE with assumption that it supersedes I_DIRTY_TIME. That's
true, however ext4 will only update the on-disk inode in
->dirty_inode(), not on actual writeback. As a result if the inode
already has I_DIRTY_INODE state by the time we get to
__mark_inode_dirty() only with I_DIRTY_TIME, the time was already filled
into on-disk inode and will not get updated until the next I_DIRTY_INODE
update, which might never come if we crash or get a power failure.
The problem can be reproduced on ext4 by running xfstest generic/622
with -o iversion mount option.
Fix it by allowing I_DIRTY_TIME to be set even if the inode already has
I_DIRTY_INODE. Also make sure that the case is properly handled in
writeback_single_inode() as well. Additionally changes in
xfs_fs_dirty_inode() was made to accommodate for I_DIRTY_TIME in flag.
Thanks Jan Kara for suggestions on how to make this work properly.
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825100657.44217-1-lczerner@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister gets called to stop further
writeback and wait for associated delayed work to complete. However,
wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation dwork after
this has completed, which can result in the timer attempting to access the
just freed bdi_writeback.
Fix this by checking if the bdi_writeback is alive, similar to when
scheduling writeback work.
Since this requires wb->work_lock, and wb_inode_writeback_end() may get
called from interrupt, switch wb->work_lock to an irqsafe lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220801155034.3772543-1-khazhy@google.com
Fixes: 45a2966fd6 ("writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload")
Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit b35250c081 ("writeback: Protect inode->i_io_list with
inode->i_lock") made inode->i_io_list not only protected by
wb->list_lock but also inode->i_lock, but inode_io_list_move_locked()
was missed. Add lock there and also update comment describing
things protected by inode->i_lock. This also fixes a race where
__mark_inode_dirty() could move inode under flush worker's hands
and thus sync(2) could miss writing some inodes.
Fixes: b35250c081 ("writeback: Protect inode->i_io_list with inode->i_lock")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524150540.12552-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jchao Sun <sunjunchao2870@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull writeback and ext2 cleanups from Jan Kara:
"One small ext2 cleanup and one writeback spelling fix"
* tag 'fs_for_v5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
writeback: fix typo in comment
fs: ext2: Fix duplicate included linux/dax.h
We have run into an issue that a task gets stuck in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() when perform I/O stress testing.
The reason we observed is that an I_DIRTY_PAGES inode with lots
of dirty pages is in b_dirty_time list and standard background
writeback cannot writeback the inode.
After studing the relevant code, the following scenario may lead
to the issue:
task1 task2
----- -----
fuse_flush
write_inode_now //in b_dirty_time
writeback_single_inode
__writeback_single_inode
fuse_write_end
filemap_dirty_folio
__xa_set_mark:PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
lock inode->i_lock
if mapping tagged PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES
unlock inode->i_lock
__mark_inode_dirty:I_DIRTY_PAGES
lock inode->i_lock
-was dirty,inode stays in
-b_dirty_time
unlock inode->i_lock
if(!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_All))
-not true,so nothing done
This patch moves the dirty inode to b_dirty list when the inode
currently is not queued in b_io or b_more_io list at the end of
writeback_single_inode.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4 ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510023514.27399-1-jing.xia@unisoc.com
PF_SWAPWRITE has been redundant since v3.2 commit ee72886d8e ("mm:
vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim").
Coincidentally, NeilBrown's current patch "remove inode_congested()"
deletes may_write_to_inode(), which appeared to be the one function which
took notice of PF_SWAPWRITE. But if you study the old logic, and the
conditions under which may_write_to_inode() was called, you discover that
flag and function have been pointless for a decade.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/75e80e7-742d-e3bd-531-614db8961e4@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
inode_congested() reports if the backing-device for the inode is
congested. No bdi reports congestion any more, so this always returns
'false'.
So remove inode_congested() and related functions, and remove the call
sites, assuming that inode_congested() always returns 'false'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164549983741.9187.2174285592262191311.stgit@noble.brown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rename blk_flush_plug to __blk_flush_plug and add a wrapper that includes
the NULL check instead of open coding that check everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127070549.1377856-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_needs_flush_plug fails to account for the cb_list, which needs
flushing as well. Remove it and just check if there is a plug instead
of poking into the internals of the plug structure.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127070549.1377856-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull fscache rewrite from David Howells:
"This is a set of patches that rewrites the fscache driver and the
cachefiles driver, significantly simplifying the code compared to
what's upstream, removing the complex operation scheduling and object
state machine in favour of something much smaller and simpler.
The series is structured such that the first few patches disable
fscache use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles
driver entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away
with without causing build failures in the network filesystems.
The patches after that recreate fscache and then cachefiles,
attempting to add the pieces in a logical order. Finally, the
filesystems are reenabled and then the very last patch changes the
documentation.
[!] Note: I have dropped the cifs patch for the moment, leaving local
caching in cifs disabled. I've been having trouble getting that
working. I think I have it done, but it needs more testing (there
seem to be some test failures occurring with v5.16 also from
xfstests), so I propose deferring that patch to the end of the
merge window.
WHY REWRITE?
============
Fscache's operation scheduling API was intended to handle sequencing
of cache operations, which were all required (where possible) to run
asynchronously in parallel with the operations being done by the
network filesystem, whilst allowing the cache to be brought online and
offline and to interrupt service for invalidation.
With the advent of the tmpfile capacity in the VFS, however, an
opportunity arises to do invalidation much more simply, without having
to wait for I/O that's actually in progress: Cachefiles can simply
create a tmpfile, cut over the file pointer for the backing object
attached to a cookie and abandon the in-progress I/O, dismissing it
upon completion.
Future work here would involve using Omar Sandoval's vfs_link() with
AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] to allow an extant file to be displaced by a new
hard link from a tmpfile as currently I have to unlink the old file
first.
These patches can also simplify the object state handling as I/O
operations to the cache don't all have to be brought to a stop in
order to invalidate a file. To that end, and with an eye on to writing
a new backing cache model in the future, I've taken the opportunity to
simplify the indexing structure.
I've separated the index cookie concept from the file cookie concept
by C type now. The former is now called a "volume cookie" (struct
fscache_volume) and there is a container of file cookies. There are
then just the two levels. All the index cookie levels are collapsed
into a single volume cookie, and this has a single printable string as
a key. For instance, an AFS volume would have a key of something like
"afs,example.com,1000555", combining the filesystem name, cell name
and volume ID. This is freeform, but must not have '/' chars in it.
I've also eliminated all pointers back from fscache into the network
filesystem. This required the duplication of a little bit of data in
the cookie (cookie key, coherency data and file size), but it's not
actually that much. This gets rid of problems with making sure we keep
netfs data structures around so that the cache can access them.
These patches mean that most of the code that was in the drivers
before is simply gone and those drivers are now almost entirely new
code. That being the case, there doesn't seem any particular reason to
try and maintain bisectability across it. Further, there has to be a
point in the middle where things are cut over as there's a single
point everything has to go through (ie. /dev/cachefiles) and it can't
be in use by two drivers at once.
ISSUES YET OUTSTANDING
======================
There are some issues still outstanding, unaddressed by this patchset,
that will need fixing in future patchsets, but that don't stop this
series from being usable:
(1) The cachefiles driver needs to stop using the backing filesystem's
metadata to store information about what parts of the cache are
populated. This is not reliable with modern extent-based
filesystems.
Fixing this is deferred to a separate patchset as it involves
negotiation with the network filesystem and the VM as to how much
data to download to fulfil a read - which brings me on to (2)...
(2) NFS (and CIFS with the dropped patch) do not take account of how
the cache would like I/O to be structured to meet its granularity
requirements. Previously, the cache used page granularity, which
was fine as the network filesystems also dealt in page
granularity, and the backing filesystem (ext4, xfs or whatever)
did whatever it did out of sight. However, we now have folios to
deal with and the cache will now have to store its own metadata to
track its contents.
The change I'm looking at making for cachefiles is to store
content bitmaps in one or more xattrs and making a bit in the map
correspond to something like a 256KiB block. However, the size of
an xattr and the fact that they have to be read/updated in one go
means that I'm looking at covering 1GiB of data per 512-byte map
and storing each map in an xattr. Cachefiles has the potential to
grow into a fully fledged filesystem of its very own if I'm not
careful.
However, I'm also looking at changing things even more radically
and going to a different model of how the cache is arranged and
managed - one that's more akin to the way, say, openafs does
things - which brings me on to (3)...
(3) The way cachefilesd does culling is very inefficient for large
caches and it would be better to move it into the kernel if I can
as cachefilesd has to keep asking the kernel if it can cull a
file. Changing the way the backend works would allow this to be
addressed.
BITS THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL
==============================
There are some bits I've added that may be controversial:
(1) I've provided a flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, that cachefiles uses to check
if a files is already being used by some other kernel service
(e.g. a duplicate cachefiles cache in the same directory) and
reject it if it is. This isn't entirely necessary, but it helps
prevent accidental data corruption.
I don't want to use S_SWAPFILE as that has other effects, but
quite possibly swapon() should set S_KERNEL_FILE too.
Note that it doesn't prevent userspace from interfering, though
perhaps it should. (I have made it prevent a marked directory from
being rmdir-able).
(2) Cachefiles wants to keep the backing file for a cookie open whilst
we might need to write to it from network filesystem writeback.
The problem is that the network filesystem unuses its cookie when
its file is closed, and so we have nothing pinning the cachefiles
file open and it will get closed automatically after a short time
to avoid EMFILE/ENFILE problems.
Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being
done due to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will
oops if we try to open a file in that context because they want to
access current->fs or suchlike.
To get around this, I added the following:
(A) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network
filesystem inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the
cookie caching that inode.
(B) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that
is set when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty
page from i_pages - at which point it clears
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this flag.
This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB
can be done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
that clears I_DIRTY_PAGES.
(C) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set,
sets I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to
pin the cache resources.
(D) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by
->write_inode() to unuse the cookie.
(E) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when
the inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This
cleans up any lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.
The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the
cache as well as to the server.
For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that
should allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the
dirty regions separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and
is also going to be affected by folios, one way or another, since
it deals with pages"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510611.1641942444@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> # 9p
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com # afs
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> # ceph
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com> # nfs
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com> # nfs
* tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (67 commits)
9p, afs, ceph, nfs: Use current_is_kswapd() rather than gfpflags_allow_blocking()
fscache: Add a tracepoint for cookie use/unuse
fscache: Rewrite documentation
ceph: add fscache writeback support
ceph: conversion to new fscache API
nfs: Implement cache I/O by accessing the cache directly
nfs: Convert to new fscache volume/cookie API
9p: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
9p: Use fscache indexing rewrite and reenable caching
afs: Skip truncation on the server of data we haven't written yet
afs: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
afs: Convert afs to use the new fscache API
fscache, cachefiles: Display stat of culling events
fscache, cachefiles: Display stats of no-space events
cachefiles: Allow cachefiles to actually function
fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data
cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines
cachefiles: Implement cookie resize for truncate
cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling
...
Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that need to be
written to it. However, we don't want to keep the file open indefinitely,
as that causes EMFILE/ENFILE/ENOMEM problems.
Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being done due
to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will oops if we try to
open a file in that context because they want to access current->fs or
other resources that have already been dismantled.
To get around this, I added the following:
(1) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network filesystem
inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the cookie caching
that inode.
(2) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that is set
when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty page from
i_pages - at which point it clears I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this
flag.
This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB can be
done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY that clears
I_DIRTY_PAGES.
(3) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set, sets
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to pin the cache
resources.
(4) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by ->write_inode()
to unuse the cookie.
(5) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when the
inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This cleans up any
lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.
The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the cache as
well as to the server.
For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that should
allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the dirty regions
separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and is also going to be
affected by folios, one way or another, since it deals with pages
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819615157.215744.17623791756928043114.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906917856.143852.8224898306177154573.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967124567.1823006.14188359004568060298.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021524705.640689.17824932021727663017.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
This gets the statistics correct for large folios by modifying the
counters by the number of pages in the folio instead of by 1.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Hi Linus,
Please, pull the following hardening fixes and cleanups that I've
been collecting during the last development cycle. All of them have
been baking in linux-next.
Fix -Wcast-function-type error:
- firewire: Remove function callback casts (Oscar Carter)
Fix application of sizeof operator:
- firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer (jing yangyang)
Replace open coded instances with size_t saturating arithmetic helpers:
- assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments (Len Baker)
- writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
Flexible array transformation:
- KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member (Len Baker)
Use 2-factor argument multiplication form:
- nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
Thanks
--
Gustavo
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Merge tag 'kspp-misc-fixes-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux
Pull hardening fixes and cleanups from Gustavo A. R. Silva:
"Various hardening fixes and cleanups that I've been collecting during
the last development cycle:
Fix -Wcast-function-type error:
- firewire: Remove function callback casts (Oscar Carter)
Fix application of sizeof operator:
- firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer (jing yangyang)
Replace open coded instances with size_t saturating arithmetic
helpers:
- assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments
(Len Baker)
- writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len
Baker)
- aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
(Len Baker)
Flexible array transformation:
- KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member (Len
Baker)
Use 2-factor argument multiplication form:
- nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R.
Silva)
- xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)"
* tag 'kspp-misc-fixes-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
firewire: Remove function callback casts
nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc()
firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer
dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member
aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc()
assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments
As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.
In this case these are not actually dynamic sizes: all the operands
involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to
refactor them anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of
code.
So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() functions.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed
manually.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Consolidate the various helpers into a single blk_flush_plug helper that
takes a plk_plug and the from_scheduler bool and switch all callsites to
call it directly. Checks that the plug is non-NULL must be performed by
the caller, something that most already do anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020144119.142582-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"173 patches.
Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits)
mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
mm: KSM: fix data type
selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
...
Currently cgroup_writeback_by_id calls mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to get dirty
pages for a memcg. However mem_cgroup_wb_stats() does a lot more than
just get the number of dirty pages. Just directly get the number of dirty
pages instead of calling mem_cgroup_wb_stats(). Also
cgroup_writeback_by_id() is only called for best-effort dirty flushing, so
remove the unused 'nr' parameter and no need to explicitly flush memcg
stats.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210722182627.2267368-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
