Re: [PATCH 13/18] dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 15:19:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160502131943.GG17362@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160429195340.GG5888@linux.intel.com>

On Fri 29-04-16 13:53:40, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the
> > following can happen:
> > 
> > CPU0 (THP write fault)			CPU1 (normal read fault)
> > 
> > __dax_pmd_fault()			__dax_fault()
> >   get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped
> > 					get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0)
> > 					  -> not mapped
> >   if (!buffer_mapped(&bh) && write)
> >     get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks
> >   truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend);
> > 					dax_load_hole();
> > 
> > This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes
> > into the file done by CPU0.
> > 
> > The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the
> > situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same
> > entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for
> > serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
> > for now.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > ---
> >  fs/dax.c            | 2 +-
> >  include/linux/dax.h | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> > index d7addfab2094..388327f56fa8 100644
> > --- a/fs/dax.c
> > +++ b/fs/dax.c
> > @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_fault);
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && defined(CONFIG_BROKEN)
> >  /*
> >   * The 'colour' (ie low bits) within a PMD of a page offset.  This comes up
> >   * more often than one might expect in the below function.
> > diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
> > index 7c45ac7ea1d1..0591f4853228 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/dax.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dax.h
> > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static inline struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev,
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && defined(CONFIG_BROKEN)
> >  int dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
> >  				unsigned int flags, get_block_t);
> >  int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
> > -- 
> > 2.6.6
> 
> Ah, sorry, I think by "make PMD depend on CONFIG_BROKEN" Dan & I meant this:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 6725f59..b8fcb41 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FS_DAX_PMD
>         depends on FS_DAX
>         depends on ZONE_DEVICE
>         depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +       depends on BROKEN
>  
>  endif # BLOCK
> 
> This has the benefit that you have only one place to quickly reenable PMD code
> if/when we want to work on it.

OK, makes sense. I've changed this.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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