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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, luodaowen.backend@bytedance.com,
	gerry@linux.alibaba.com, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/22] cachefiles: introduce on-demand read mode
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:14:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1029982.1647872043@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjiAVezd5B9auhcP@casper.infradead.org>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> Why do you have a separate rwlock when the xarray already has its own
> spinlock?  This is usually a really bad idea.

Jeffle wants to hold a lock across the CACHEFILES_DEAD check and the xarray
access.

However, he tells xarray to do a GFP_KERNEL alloc whilst holding the rwlock:-/

David


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-cachefs@redhat.com, xiang@kernel.org, chao@kernel.org,
	linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com, bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com,
	tao.peng@linux.alibaba.com, gerry@linux.alibaba.com,
	eguan@linux.alibaba.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	luodaowen.backend@bytedance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/22] cachefiles: introduce on-demand read mode
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:14:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1029982.1647872043@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjiAVezd5B9auhcP@casper.infradead.org>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> Why do you have a separate rwlock when the xarray already has its own
> spinlock?  This is usually a really bad idea.

Jeffle wants to hold a lock across the CACHEFILES_DEAD check and the xarray
access.

However, he tells xarray to do a GFP_KERNEL alloc whilst holding the rwlock:-/

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-21 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-16 13:17 [PATCH v5 00/22] fscache,erofs: fscache-based on-demand read semantics Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 00/22] fscache, erofs: " Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 01/22] fscache: export fscache_end_operation() Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 02/22] cachefiles: extract write routine Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 03/22] cachefiles: introduce on-demand read mode Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-21 13:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 13:40     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 14:08     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:08       ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:26       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 14:26         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 15:18         ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 15:18           ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 15:21           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 15:21             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-21 15:30           ` David Howells
2022-03-21 15:30             ` David Howells
2022-03-22 17:04             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-22 17:04               ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-23  5:32               ` JeffleXu
2022-03-23  5:32                 ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:14   ` David Howells [this message]
2022-03-21 14:14     ` David Howells
2022-03-21 14:20     ` [Linux-cachefs] " Gao Xiang
2022-03-21 14:20       ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 04/22] cachefiles: notify user daemon with anon_fd when looking up cookie Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 19:37   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-16 19:37     ` kernel test robot
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 05/22] cachefiles: notify user daemon when withdrawing cookie Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 06/22] cachefiles: implement on-demand read Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 07/22] cachefiles: document on-demand read mode Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 08/22] erofs: use meta buffers for erofs_read_superblock() Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 09/22] erofs: make erofs_map_blocks() generally available Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-17  5:35   ` [Linux-cachefs] " Gao Xiang
2022-03-17  5:35     ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 10/22] erofs: add mode checking helper Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-17  5:36   ` [Linux-cachefs] " Gao Xiang
2022-03-17  5:36     ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-18  5:26     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 11/22] erofs: register global fscache volume Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 21:52   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-16 21:52     ` kernel test robot
2022-03-17  1:49   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-17  1:49     ` kernel test robot
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 12/22] erofs: add cookie context helper functions Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 13/22] erofs: add anonymous inode managing page cache of blob file Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 14/22] erofs: add erofs_fscache_read_pages() helper Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 15/22] erofs: register cookie context for bootstrap blob Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 16/22] erofs: implement fscache-based metadata read Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 17/22] erofs: implement fscache-based data read for non-inline layout Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-17  6:18   ` [Linux-cachefs] " Gao Xiang
2022-03-17  6:18     ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-18  5:29     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 18/22] erofs: implement fscache-based data read for inline layout Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 19/22] erofs: register cookie context for data blobs Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 20/22] erofs: implement fscache-based data read " Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 21/22] erofs: implement fscache-based data readahead Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-17  5:22   ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-17  5:22     ` Gao Xiang
2022-03-18  5:41     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-16 13:17 ` [PATCH v5 22/22] erofs: add 'uuid' mount option Jeffle Xu
2022-03-16 13:17   ` Jeffle Xu
2022-03-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v5 03/22] cachefiles: introduce on-demand read mode David Howells
2022-03-21 13:34   ` David Howells
2022-03-21 14:16   ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:16     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 04/22] cachefiles: notify user daemon with anon_fd when looking up cookie David Howells
2022-03-21 14:01   ` David Howells
2022-03-21 14:43   ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:43     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:05 ` [PATCH v5 06/22] cachefiles: implement on-demand read David Howells
2022-03-21 14:05   ` David Howells
2022-03-21 14:51   ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:51     ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:20 ` [PATCH v5 05/22] cachefiles: notify user daemon when withdrawing cookie David Howells
2022-03-21 14:20   ` David Howells
2022-03-21 14:31   ` JeffleXu
2022-03-21 14:31     ` JeffleXu

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