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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:19:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210608121915.GG5562@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210607160922.GA2945763@locust>

On Mon 07-06-21 09:09:22, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Currently, serializing operations such as page fault, read, or readahead
> > against hole punching is rather difficult. The basic race scheme is
> > like:
> > 
> > fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)			read / fault / ..
> >   truncate_inode_pages_range()
> > 						  <create pages in page
> > 						   cache here>
> >   <update fs block mapping and free blocks>
> > 
> > Now the problem is in this way read / page fault / readahead can
> > instantiate pages in page cache with potentially stale data (if blocks
> > get quickly reused). Avoiding this race is not simple - page locks do
> > not work because we want to make sure there are *no* pages in given
> > range. inode->i_rwsem does not work because page fault happens under
> > mmap_sem which ranks below inode->i_rwsem. Also using it for reads makes
> > the performance for mixed read-write workloads suffer.
> > 
> > So create a new rw_semaphore in the address_space - invalidate_lock -
> > that protects adding of pages to page cache for page faults / reads /
> > readahead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
...
> > +->fallocate implementation must be really careful to maintain page cache
> > +consistency when punching holes or performing other operations that invalidate
> > +page cache contents. Usually the filesystem needs to call
> > +truncate_inode_pages_range() to invalidate relevant range of the page cache.
> > +However the filesystem usually also needs to update its internal (and on disk)
> > +view of file offset -> disk block mapping. Until this update is finished, the
> > +filesystem needs to block page faults and reads from reloading now-stale page
> > +cache contents from the disk. VFS provides mapping->invalidate_lock for this
> > +and acquires it in shared mode in paths loading pages from disk
> > +(filemap_fault(), filemap_read(), readahead paths). The filesystem is
> > +responsible for taking this lock in its fallocate implementation and generally
> > +whenever the page cache contents needs to be invalidated because a block is
> > +moving from under a page.
> 
> Having a page cache invalidation lock isn't optional anymore, so I think
> these last two sentences could be condensed:
> 
> "...from reloading now-stale page cache contents from disk.  Since VFS
> acquires mapping->invalidate_lock in shared mode when loading pages from
> disk (filemap_fault(), filemap_read(), readahead), the fallocate
> implementation must take the invalidate_lock to prevent reloading."
> 
> > +
> > +->copy_file_range and ->remap_file_range implementations need to serialize
> > +against modifications of file data while the operation is running. For
> > +blocking changes through write(2) and similar operations inode->i_rwsem can be
> > +used. For blocking changes through memory mapping, the filesystem can use
> > +mapping->invalidate_lock provided it also acquires it in its ->page_mkwrite
> > +implementation.
> 
> Following the same line of reasoning, if taking the invalidate_lock is
> no longer optional, then the conditional language in this last sentence
> is incorrect.  How about:
> 
> "To block changes to file contents via a memory mapping during the
> operation, the filesystem must take mapping->invalidate_lock to
> coordinate with ->page_mkwrite."
> 
> The code changes look fine to me, though I'm no mm expert. ;)

OK, I've updated the documentation as you suggested. Thanks for review.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07 14:52 [PATCH 0/14 v7] fs: Hole punch vs page cache filling races Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm: Fix comments mentioning i_mutex Jan Kara
2021-06-07 15:31   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-10  9:06   ` Ming Lei
2021-06-10 10:40     ` Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 02/14] documentation: Sync file_operations members with reality Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-07 16:09   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-08 12:19     ` Jan Kara [this message]
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 04/14] mm: Add functions to lock invalidate_lock for two mappings Jan Kara
2021-06-07 15:46   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 05/14] ext4: Convert to use mapping->invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 06/14] ext2: Convert to using invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 07/14] xfs: Refactor xfs_isilocked() Jan Kara
2021-06-07 15:49   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-08 22:18   ` Dave Chinner
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 08/14] xfs: Convert to use invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-07 15:56   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-08 12:23     ` Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 09/14] xfs: Convert double locking of MMAPLOCK to use VFS helpers Jan Kara
2021-06-07 15:57   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 10/14] zonefs: Convert to using invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 11/14] f2fs: " Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 12/14] fuse: " Jan Kara
2021-06-10 12:42   ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 13/14] ceph: Fix race between hole punch and page fault Jan Kara
2021-06-07 14:52 ` [PATCH 14/14] cifs: " Jan Kara
2021-06-08 11:54 ` [PATCH 0/14 v7] fs: Hole punch vs page cache filling races Jan Kara
2021-06-15  9:17 [PATCH 0/14 v8] " Jan Kara
2021-06-15  9:17 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-06-16  5:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17 16:15   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-12 16:55 [PATCH 0/14 v9] fs: Hole punch vs page cache filling races Jan Kara
2021-07-12 16:55 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock Jan Kara
2021-07-13  1:25   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-13 11:11     ` Jan Kara
2021-07-13  6:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-13 12:35     ` Jan Kara
2021-07-15 13:40 [PATCH 0/14 v10] fs: Hole punch vs page cache filling races Jan Kara
2021-07-15 13:40 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock Jan Kara

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