Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"55 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl,
misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2,
hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (55 commits)
lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit
arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup
delayacct: track delays from memory compact
Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact
delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it
delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable
delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio
panic: remove oops_id
panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings
fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner
FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait()
hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region
nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs
fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE
const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs
...
congestion_wait() in this context is just a sleep - block devices do not
support congestion signalling any more.
The goal for this wait, which was introduced in commit ae78bf9c4f
("[PATCH] add -o flush for fat") is to wait for any recently written
data to get to storage. We currently have no direct mechanism to do
this, so a simple wait that behaves identically to the current
congestion_wait() is the best we can do.
This is a step towards removing congestion_wait()
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163936544519.22433.13400436295732112065@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
neighboring fields.
Add struct_group() to mark the "info" region (containing struct DInfo
and struct DXInfo structs) in struct hfsplus_cat_folder and struct
hfsplus_cat_file that are written into directly, so the compiler can
correctly reason about the expected size of the writes.
"pahole" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct
hfsplus_cat_folder nor struct hfsplus_cat_file. "objdump -d" shows no
object code changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211119192851.1046717-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN. For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed. But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,
jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
xfs-reclaim/sdf
Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:
rcu_tasks_kthre
rcu_tasks_rude_
rcu_tasks_trace
poll_mpt3sas0_s
ext4-rsv-conver
xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
audit_send_repl
ecryptfs-kthrea
vfio-irqfd-clea
jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
...
We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads. Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.
One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task->comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows. Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path. Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach. See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/
After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:
rcu_tasks_kthread
rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
poll_mpt3sas0_statu
ext4-rsv-conversion
xfs-reclaim/sdf1
xfs-blockgc/sdf1
xfs-inodegc/sdf1
audit_send_reply
ecryptfs-kthread
vfio-irqfd-cleanup
jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit cc5f2704c9 ("proc/vmcore: convert oldmem_pfn_is_ram callback
to more generic vmcore callbacks"), we added detection of surprise
vmcore_cb unregistration after the vmcore was already opened. Once
detected, we warn the user and simulate reading zeroes from that point
on when accessing the vmcore.
The basic reason was that unexpected unregistration, for example, by
manually unbinding a driver from a device after opening the vmcore, is
not supported and could result in reading oldmem the vmcore_cb would
have actually prohibited while registered. However, something like that
can similarly be trigger by a user that's really looking for trouble
simply by unbinding the relevant driver before opening the vmcore -- or
by disallowing loading the driver in the first place. So it's actually
of limited help.
Currently, unregistration can only be triggered via virtio-mem when
manually unbinding the driver from the device inside the VM; there is no
way to trigger it from the hypervisor, as hypervisors don't allow for
unplugging virtio-mem devices -- ripping out system RAM from a VM
without coordination with the guest is usually not a good idea.
The important part is that unbinding the driver and unregistering the
vmcore_cb while concurrently reading the vmcore won't crash the system,
and that is handled by the rwsem.
To make the mechanism more future proof, let's remove the "read zero"
part, but leave the warning in place. For example, we could have a
future driver (like virtio-balloon) that will contact the hypervisor to
figure out if we already populated a page for a given PFN.
Hotunplugging such a device and consequently unregistering the vmcore_cb
could be triggered from the hypervisor without harming the system even
while kdump is running. In that case, we don't want to silently end up
with a vmcore that contains wrong data, because the user inside the VM
might be unaware of the hypervisor action and might easily miss the
warning in the log.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211111192243.22002-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, we've tried to address some performance issues in
f2fs_checkpoint and direct IO flows. Also, there was a work to enhance
the page cache management used for compression. Other than them, we've
done typical work including sysfs, code clean-ups, tracepoint, sanity
check, in addition to bug fixes on corner cases.
Enhancements:
- use iomap for direct IO
- try to avoid lock contention to improve f2fs_ckpt speed
- avoid unnecessary memory allocation in compression flow
- POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drops the page cache containing compression
pages
- add some sysfs entries (gc_urgent_high_remaining, pending_discard)
Bug fixes:
- try not to expose unwritten blocks to user by DIO (this was added
to avoid merge conflict; another patch is coming to address other
missing case)
- relax minor error condition for file pinning feature used in
Android OTA
- fix potential deadlock case in compression flow
- should not truncate any block on pinned file
In addition, we've done some code clean-ups and tracepoint/sanity
check improvement"
* tag 'f2fs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (29 commits)
f2fs: do not allow partial truncation on pinned file
f2fs: remove redunant invalidate compress pages
f2fs: Simplify bool conversion
f2fs: don't drop compressed page cache in .{invalidate,release}page
f2fs: fix to reserve space for IO align feature
f2fs: fix to check available space of CP area correctly in update_ckpt_flags()
f2fs: support fault injection to f2fs_trylock_op()
f2fs: clean up __find_inline_xattr() with __find_xattr()
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on last xattr entry in __f2fs_setxattr()
f2fs: do not bother checkpoint by f2fs_get_node_info
f2fs: avoid down_write on nat_tree_lock during checkpoint
f2fs: compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file
f2fs: avoid EINVAL by SBI_NEED_FSCK when pinning a file
f2fs: add gc_urgent_high_remaining sysfs node
f2fs: fix to do sanity check in is_alive()
f2fs: fix to avoid panic in is_alive() if metadata is inconsistent
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on inode type during garbage collection
f2fs: avoid duplicate call of mark_inode_dirty
f2fs: show number of pending discard commands
f2fs: support POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drop compressed page cache
...
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"virtio,vdpa,qemu_fw_cfg: features, cleanups, and fixes.
- partial support for < MAX_ORDER - 1 granularity for virtio-mem
- driver_override for vdpa
- sysfs ABI documentation for vdpa
- multiqueue config support for mlx5 vdpa
- and misc fixes, cleanups"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (42 commits)
vdpa/mlx5: Fix tracking of current number of VQs
vdpa/mlx5: Fix is_index_valid() to refer to features
vdpa: Protect vdpa reset with cf_mutex
vdpa: Avoid taking cf_mutex lock on get status
vdpa/vdpa_sim_net: Report max device capabilities
vdpa: Use BIT_ULL for bit operations
vdpa/vdpa_sim: Configure max supported virtqueues
vdpa/mlx5: Report max device capabilities
vdpa: Support reporting max device capabilities
vdpa/mlx5: Restore cur_num_vqs in case of failure in change_num_qps()
vdpa: Add support for returning device configuration information
vdpa/mlx5: Support configuring max data virtqueue
vdpa/mlx5: Fix config_attr_mask assignment
vdpa: Allow to configure max data virtqueues
vdpa: Read device configuration only if FEATURES_OK
vdpa: Sync calls set/get config/status with cf_mutex
vdpa/mlx5: Distribute RX virtqueues in RQT object
vdpa: Provide interface to read driver features
vdpa: clean up get_config_size ret value handling
virtio_ring: mark ring unused on error
...
Pull orangefs fixes from Mike Marshall:
"Two fixes:
- Fix the size of a memory allocation in orangefs_bufmap_alloc()
(Christophe JAILLET)
- Use default_groups in kobj_type (Greg KH)"
* tag 'for-linus-5.17-ofs-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux:
orangefs: Fix the size of a memory allocation in orangefs_bufmap_alloc()
orangefs: use default_groups in kobj_type
Pull cifs updates from Steve French:
- multichannel patches mostly related to improving reconnect behavior
- minor cleanup patches
* tag '5.17-rc-part1-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: fix FILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFO definition
cifs: move superblock magic defitions to magic.h
cifs: Fix smb311_update_preauth_hash() kernel-doc comment
cifs: avoid race during socket reconnect between send and recv
cifs: maintain a state machine for tcp/smb/tcon sessions
cifs: fix hang on cifs_get_next_mid()
cifs: take cifs_tcp_ses_lock for status checks
cifs: reconnect only the connection and not smb session where possible
cifs: add WARN_ON for when chan_count goes below minimum
cifs: adjust DebugData to use chans_need_reconnect for conn status
cifs: use the chans_need_reconnect bitmap for reconnect status
cifs: track individual channel status using chans_need_reconnect
cifs: remove redundant assignment to pointer p
Prior to Linux v5.4 devtmpfs used mount_single() which treats the given
mount options as "remount" options, so it updates the configuration of
the single super_block on each mount.
Since that was changed, the mount options used for devtmpfs are ignored.
This is a regression which affect systemd - which mounts devtmpfs with
"-o mode=755,size=4m,nr_inodes=1m".
This patch restores the "remount" effect by calling reconfigure_single()
Fixes: d401727ea0 ("devtmpfs: don't mix {ramfs,shmem}_fill_super() with mount_single()")
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 2b3d047870 ("unicode: Add utf8-data module") changed the
generated utf8data file from 'utf8data.h' to 'utf8data.c', but didn't
change the comments or the .gitignore to match.
The comments should be updated too, but at least they don't cause any
visible breakage. But the gitignore file needs changing to avoid git
complaining about untracked files.
Fixes: 2b3d047870 ("unicode: Add utf8-data module")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
"This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
along the way.
The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
the stack.
Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
are the big successes for dead code removal this round.
A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
they were fixing.
There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
rebasing.
Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
removed. Issues where task->exit_code was examined with
signal->group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.
There are several loosely related changes included because I am
cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.
The original postings of these changes can be found at:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"
* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
taskstats: Cleanup the use of task->exit_code
exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/<pid>/stat
exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
exit: Remove profile_task_exit & profile_munmap
signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
coredump: Stop setting signal->group_exit_task
signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal->core_state
signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal->core_state
exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
...
Pull unicode updates from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:
"This includes patches from Christoph Hellwig to split the large data
tables of the unicode subsystem into a loadable module, which allow
users to not have them around if case-insensitive filesystems are not
to be used. It also includes minor code fixes to unicode and its
users, from the same author.
All the patches here have been on linux-next releases for the past
months"
* tag 'unicode-for-next-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode:
unicode: only export internal symbols for the selftests
unicode: Add utf8-data module
unicode: cache the normalization tables in struct unicode_map
unicode: move utf8cursor to utf8-selftest.c
unicode: simplify utf8len
unicode: remove the unused utf8{,n}age{min,max} functions
unicode: pass a UNICODE_AGE() tripple to utf8_load
unicode: mark the version field in struct unicode_map unsigned
unicode: remove the charset field from struct unicode_map
f2fs: simplify f2fs_sb_read_encoding
ext4: simplify ext4_sb_read_encoding
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New:
- The Real Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tool is added to the tools
directory.
- Can safely filter on user space pointers with: field.ustring ~
"match-string"
- eprobes can now be filtered like any other event.
- trace_marker(_raw) now uses stream_open() to allow multiple threads
to safely write to it. Note, this could possibly break existing
user space, but we will not know until we hear about it, and then
can revert the change if need be.
- New field in events to display when bottom halfs are disabled.
- Sorting of the ftrace functions are now done at compile time
instead of at bootup.
Infrastructure changes to support future efforts:
- Added __rel_loc type for trace events. Similar to __data_loc but
the offset to the dynamic data is based off of the location of the
descriptor and not the beginning of the event. Needed for user
defined events.
- Some simplification of event trigger code.
- Make synthetic events process its callback better to not hinder
other event callbacks that are registered. Needed for user defined
events.
And other small fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (50 commits)
tracing: Add ustring operation to filtering string pointers
rtla: Add rtla timerlat hist documentation
rtla: Add rtla timerlat top documentation
rtla: Add rtla timerlat documentation
rtla: Add rtla osnoise hist documentation
rtla: Add rtla osnoise top documentation
rtla: Add rtla osnoise man page
rtla: Add Documentation
rtla/timerlat: Add timerlat hist mode
rtla: Add timerlat tool and timelart top mode
rtla/osnoise: Add the hist mode
rtla/osnoise: Add osnoise top mode
rtla: Add osnoise tool
rtla: Helper functions for rtla
rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool
tracing/osnoise: Properly unhook events if start_per_cpu_kthreads() fails
tracing: Remove duplicate warnings when calling trace_create_file()
tracing/kprobes: 'nmissed' not showed correctly for kretprobe
tracing: Add test for user space strings when filtering on string pointers
tracing: Have syscall trace events use trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve()
...
Pull exfat updates from Namjae Jeon:
- Fix ->i_blocks truncation issue that still exists elsewhere.
- Four cleanups & typos fixes.
- Move super block magic number to magic.h
- Fix missing REQ_SYNC in exfat_update_bhs().
* tag 'exfat-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat:
exfat: fix missing REQ_SYNC in exfat_update_bhs()
exfat: remove argument 'sector' from exfat_get_dentry()
exfat: move super block magic number to magic.h
exfat: fix i_blocks for files truncated over 4 GiB
exfat: reuse exfat_inode_info variable instead of calling EXFAT_I()
exfat: make exfat_find_location() static
exfat: fix typos in comments
exfat: simplify is_valid_cluster()
Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
"Bruce has announced he is leaving Red Hat at the end of the month and
is stepping back from his role as NFSD co-maintainer. As a result,
this includes a patch removing him from the MAINTAINERS file.
There is one patch in here that Jeff Layton was carrying in the locks
tree. Since he had only one for this cycle, he asked us to send it to
you via the nfsd tree.
There continues to be 0-day reports from Robert Morris @MIT. This time
we include a fix for a crash in the COPY_NOTIFY operation.
Highlights:
- Bruce steps down as NFSD maintainer
- Prepare for dynamic nfsd thread management
- More work on supporting re-exporting NFS mounts
- One fs/locks patch on behalf of Jeff Layton
Notable bug fixes:
- Fix zero-length NFSv3 WRITEs
- Fix directory cinfo on FS's that do not support iversion
- Fix WRITE verifiers for stable writes
- Fix crash on COPY_NOTIFY with a special state ID"
* tag 'nfsd-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (51 commits)
SUNRPC: Fix sockaddr handling in svcsock_accept_class trace points
SUNRPC: Fix sockaddr handling in the svc_xprt_create_error trace point
fs/locks: fix fcntl_getlk64/fcntl_setlk64 stub prototypes
nfsd: fix crash on COPY_NOTIFY with special stateid
MAINTAINERS: remove bfields
NFSD: Move fill_pre_wcc() and fill_post_wcc()
Revert "nfsd: skip some unnecessary stats in the v4 case"
NFSD: Trace boot verifier resets
NFSD: Rename boot verifier functions
NFSD: Clean up the nfsd_net::nfssvc_boot field
NFSD: Write verifier might go backwards
nfsd: Add a tracepoint for errors in nfsd4_clone_file_range()
NFSD: De-duplicate net_generic(nf->nf_net, nfsd_net_id)
NFSD: De-duplicate net_generic(SVC_NET(rqstp), nfsd_net_id)
NFSD: Clean up nfsd_vfs_write()
nfsd: Replace use of rwsem with errseq_t
NFSD: Fix verifier returned in stable WRITEs
nfsd: Retry once in nfsd_open on an -EOPENSTALE return
nfsd: Add errno mapping for EREMOTEIO
nfsd: map EBADF
...
Pull 9p updates from Dominique Martinet:
"Fixes, split 9p_net_fd, and new reviewer:
- fix possible uninitialized memory usage for setattr
- fix fscache reading hole in a file just after it's been grown
- split net/9p/trans_fd.c in its own module like other transports.
The new transport module defaults to 9P_NET and is autoloaded if
required so users should not be impacted
- add Christian Schoenebeck to 9p reviewers
- some more trivial cleanup"
* tag '9p-for-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux:
9p: fix enodata when reading growing file
net/9p: show error message if user 'msize' cannot be satisfied
MAINTAINERS: 9p: add Christian Schoenebeck as reviewer
9p: only copy valid iattrs in 9P2000.L setattr implementation
9p: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
net/p9: load default transports
9p/xen: autoload when xenbus service is available
9p/trans_fd: split into dedicated module
fs: 9p: remove unneeded variable
9p/trans_virtio: Fix typo in the comment for p9_virtio_create()
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"146 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (146 commits)
mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
...
The size of FILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFO.ShortName must be 24 bytes, not 12
(see MS-FSCC documentation).
Signed-off-by: Eugene Korenevsky <ekorenevsky@astralinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Add the description of @server in smb311_update_preauth_hash()
kernel-doc comment to remove warning found by running scripts/kernel-doc,
which is caused by using 'make W=1'.
fs/cifs/smb2misc.c:856: warning: Function parameter or member 'server'
not described in 'smb311_update_preauth_hash'
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Pass "end - 1" instead of "end" when walking the interval tree in
hugetlb_vmdelete_list() to fix an inclusive vs. exclusive bug. The two
callers that pass a non-zero "end" treat it as exclusive, whereas the
interval tree iterator expects an inclusive "last". E.g. punching a
hole in a file that precisely matches the size of a single hugepage,
with a vma starting right on the boundary, will result in
unmap_hugepage_range() being called twice, with the second call having
start==end.
The off-by-one error doesn't cause functional problems as
__unmap_hugepage_range() turns into a massive nop due to
short-circuiting its for-loop on "address < end". But, the mmu_notifier
invocations to invalid_range_{start,end}() are passed a bogus zero-sized
range, which may be unexpected behavior for secondary MMUs.
The bug was exposed by commit ed922739c9 ("KVM: Use interval tree to
do fast hva lookup in memslots"), currently queued in the KVM tree for
5.17, which added a WARN to detect ranges with start==end.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211228234257.1926057-1-seanjc@google.com
Fixes: 1bfad99ab4 ("hugetlbfs: hugetlb_vmtruncate_list() needs to take a range to delete")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+4e697fe80a31aa7efe21@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a
memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying. Some of
these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as:
- a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on
- a need to check for the process being signalled between failures
- the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed
- the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an
extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy.
Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all
cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for
most devices.
It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that
the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout.
This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that
responsibility. Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call
this function passing the GFP flags that were used. It will wait
however is appropriate.
For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever
gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests. If blocking is allowed without
__GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or
waited for a while, before failing. So there is no need for much
further waiting. memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current
jiffie ends. If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have
waited much if at all. In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about
200ms. This is the delay that most current loops uses.
linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now,
but linux/backing-dev.h does not.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch to add anonymous vma names causes a build failure in some
configurations:
include/linux/mm_types.h: In function 'is_same_vma_anon_name':
include/linux/mm_types.h:924:37: error: implicit declaration of function 'strcmp' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
924 | return name && vma_name && !strcmp(name, vma_name);
| ^~~~~~
include/linux/mm_types.h:22:1: note: 'strcmp' is defined in header '<string.h>'; did you forget to '#include <string.h>'?
This should not really be part of linux/mm_types.h in the first place,
as that header is meant to only contain structure defintions and need a
minimum set of indirect includes itself.
While the header clearly includes more than it should at this point,
let's not make it worse by including string.h as well, which would pull
in the expensive (compile-speed wise) fortify-string logic.
Move the new functions into a separate header that only needs to be
included in a couple of locations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211207125710.2503446-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: "mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory"
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in
use. At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases
there are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous
memory, and multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big
objects, etc.). Each of these layers usually has its own tools to
inspect its usage; malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through
heap inspection tools, and for direct syscalls there is usually no way
to track them.
On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages
mapped in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.
unique mappings, backing, etc. This can account for real physical
memory usage even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses
heavily to share as many private COW pages as possible between
processes), Kernel SamePage Merging, and clean zero pages. It produces
a measurement of the pages that only exist in that process (USS, for
unique), and a measurement of the physical memory usage of that process
with the cost of shared pages being evenly split between processes that
share them (PSS).
If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap
walking tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or
for every layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking
logic, in which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory
across the whole system.
Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that somebody
needs to clean up on crashes. It needs to be readable while the process
is still running, so it has to have some sort of synchronization with
every layer of userspace. Efficiently tracking the ranges requires
reimplementing something like the kernel vma trees, and linking to it
from every layer of userspace. It requires more memory, more syscalls,
more runtime cost, and more complexity to separately track regions that
the kernel is already tracking.
This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas. The names of named
anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as
[anon:<name>].
Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling
prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name)
Setting the name to NULL clears it. The name length limit is 80 bytes
including NUL-terminator and is checked to contain only printable ascii
characters (including space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.
Ascii strings are being used to have a descriptive identifiers for vmas,
which can be understood by the users reading /proc/pid/maps or
/proc/pid/smaps. Names can be standardized for a given system and they
can include some variable parts such as the name of the allocator or a
library, tid of the thread using it, etc.
The name is stored in a pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string. Anonymous vmas with the same
name (equivalent strings) and are otherwise mergeable will be merged.
The name pointers are not shared between vmas even if they contain the
same name. The name pointer is stored in a union with fields that are
only used on file-backed mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.
CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME kernel configuration is introduced to enable this
feature. It keeps the feature disabled by default to prevent any
additional memory overhead and to avoid confusing procfs parsers on
systems which are not ready to support named anonymous vmas.
The patch is based on the original patch developed by Colin Cross, more
specifically on its latest version [1] posted upstream by Sumit Semwal.
It used a userspace pointer to store vma names. In that design, name
pointers could be shared between vmas. However during the last
upstreaming attempt, Kees Cook raised concerns [2] about this approach
and suggested to copy the name into kernel memory space, perform
validity checks [3] and store as a string referenced from
vm_area_struct.
One big concern is about fork() performance which would need to strdup
anonymous vma names. Dave Hansen suggested experimenting with
worst-case scenario of forking a process with 64k vmas having longest
possible names [4]. I ran this experiment on an ARM64 Android device
and recorded a worst-case regression of almost 40% when forking such a
process.
This regression is addressed in the followup patch which replaces the
pointer to a name with a refcounted structure that allows sharing the
name pointer between vmas of the same name. Instead of duplicating the
string during fork() or when splitting a vma it increments the refcount.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200901161459.11772-4-sumit.semwal@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031031.D32EF57ED@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031022.3834F692@keescook/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5d0358ab-8c47-2f5f-8e43-23b89d6a8e95@intel.com/
Changes for prctl(2) manual page (in the options section):
PR_SET_VMA
Sets an attribute specified in arg2 for virtual memory areas
starting from the address specified in arg3 and spanning the
size specified in arg4. arg5 specifies the value of the attribute
to be set. Note that assigning an attribute to a virtual memory
area might prevent it from being merged with adjacent virtual
memory areas due to the difference in that attribute's value.
Currently, arg2 must be one of:
PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME
Set a name for anonymous virtual memory areas. arg5 should
be a pointer to a null-terminated string containing the
name. The name length including null byte cannot exceed
80 bytes. If arg5 is NULL, the name of the appropriate
anonymous virtual memory areas will be reset. The name
can contain only printable ascii characters (including
space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.
This feature is available only if the kernel is built with
the CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME option enabled.
[surenb@google.com: docs: proc.rst: /proc/PID/maps: fix malformed table]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123185928.2513763-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb: rebased over v5.15-rc6, replaced userpointer with a kernel copy,
added input sanitization and CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME config. The bulk of the
work here was done by Colin Cross, therefore, with his permission, keeping
him as the author]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit c1f6925e10 ("mm: put readahead pages in cache earlier") causes
the read performance of squashfs to deteriorate.Through testing, we find
that the performance will be back by closing the readahead of squashfs.
So we want to learn the way of ubifs, provides backing_dev_info and
disable read-ahead
We tested the following data by fio.
squashfs image blocksize=128K
test command:
fio --name basic --bs=? --filename="/mnt/test_file" --rw=? --iodepth=1 --ioengine=psync --runtime=200 --time_based
turn on squashfs readahead in 5.10 kernel
bs(k) read/randread MB/s
4 randread 271
128 randread 231
1024 randread 246
4 read 310
128 read 245
1024 read 247
turn off squashfs readahead in 5.10 kernel
bs(k) read/randread MB/s
4 randread 293
128 randread 330
1024 randread 363
4 read 338
128 read 360
1024 read 365
turn on squashfs readahead and revert the
commit c1f6925e1091("mm: put readahead
pages in cache earlier") in 5.10 kernel
bs(k) read/randread MB/s
4 randread 289
128 randread 306
1024 randread 335
4 read 337
128 read 336
1024 read 338
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211116113141.1391026-1-zhengliang6@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liang <zhengliang6@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The comments for the file should not be in kernel-doc format:
/**
* attrib.c - NTFS attribute operations. Part of the Linux-NTFS
as it causes it to be incorrectly identified for function
ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), causing some warnings found by running
scripts/kernel-doc.:
fs/ntfs/attrib.c:25: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format: * ntfs_map_runlist_nolock - map (a part of) a runlist of an ntfs inode
fs/ntfs/attrib.c:71: warning: Function parameter or member 'ni' not described in 'ntfs_map_runlist_nolock'
fs/ntfs/attrib.c:71: warning: Function parameter or member 'vcn' not described in 'ntfs_map_runlist_nolock'
fs/ntfs/attrib.c:71: warning: Function parameter or member 'ctx' not described in 'ntfs_map_runlist_nolock'
fs/ntfs/attrib.c:71: warning: expecting prototype for attrib.c - NTFS attribute operations. Part of the Linux(). Prototype was for ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() instead
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106015145.67067-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull xfs fixes from Darrick Wong:
"These are the last few obvious fixes that I found while stress testing
online fsck for XFS prior to initiating a design review of the whole
giant machinery.
- Fix a minor locking inconsistency in readdir
- Fix incorrect fs feature bit validation for secondary superblocks"
* tag 'xfs-5.17-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
xfs: fix online fsck handling of v5 feature bits on secondary supers
xfs: take the ILOCK when readdir inspects directory mapping data
This will enable cleanups down the road.
The idea is to disable cbs, then add "flush_queued_cbs" callback
as a parameter, this way drivers can flush any work
queued after callbacks have been disabled.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013105226.20225-1-mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Pull dax and libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"The bulk of this is a rework of the dax_operations API after
discovering the obstacles it posed to the work-in-progress DAX+reflink
support for XFS and other copy-on-write filesystem mechanics.
Primarily the need to plumb a block_device through the API to handle
partition offsets was a sticking point and Christoph untangled that
dependency in addition to other cleanups to make landing the
DAX+reflink support easier.
The DAX_PMEM_COMPAT option has been around for 4 years and not only
are distributions shipping userspace that understand the current
configuration API, but some are not even bothering to turn this option
on anymore, so it seems a good time to remove it per the deprecation
schedule. Recall that this was added after the device-dax subsystem
moved from /sys/class/dax to /sys/bus/dax for its sysfs organization.
All recent functionality depends on /sys/bus/dax.
Some other miscellaneous cleanups and reflink prep patches are
included as well.
Summary:
- Simplify the dax_operations API:
- Eliminate bdev_dax_pgoff() in favor of the filesystem
maintaining and applying a partition offset to all its DAX iomap
operations.
- Remove wrappers and device-mapper stacked callbacks for
->copy_from_iter() and ->copy_to_iter() in favor of moving
block_device relative offset responsibility to the
dax_direct_access() caller.
- Remove the need for an @bdev in filesystem-DAX infrastructure
- Remove unused uio helpers copy_from_iter_flushcache() and
copy_mc_to_iter() as only the non-check_copy_size() versions are
used for DAX.
- Prepare XFS for the pending (next merge window) DAX+reflink support
- Remove deprecated DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT support
- Cleanup a straggling misuse of the GUID api"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (38 commits)
iomap: Fix error handling in iomap_zero_iter()
ACPI: NFIT: Import GUID before use
dax: remove the copy_from_iter and copy_to_iter methods
dax: remove the DAXDEV_F_SYNC flag
dax: simplify dax_synchronous and set_dax_synchronous
uio: remove copy_from_iter_flushcache() and copy_mc_to_iter()
iomap: turn the byte variable in iomap_zero_iter into a ssize_t
memremap: remove support for external pgmap refcounts
fsdax: don't require CONFIG_BLOCK
iomap: build the block based code conditionally
dax: fix up some of the block device related ifdefs
fsdax: shift partition offset handling into the file systems
dax: return the partition offset from fs_dax_get_by_bdev
iomap: add a IOMAP_DAX flag
xfs: pass the mapping flags to xfs_bmbt_to_iomap
xfs: use xfs_direct_write_iomap_ops for DAX zeroing
xfs: move dax device handling into xfs_{alloc,free}_buftarg
ext4: cleanup the dax handling in ext4_fill_super
ext2: cleanup the dax handling in ext2_fill_super
fsdax: decouple zeroing from the iomap buffered I/O code
...
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
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