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* [PATCH 0/5] bio: Direct IO: convert to pin_user_pages_fast()
@ 2020-08-22  4:20 John Hubbard
  2020-08-22  4:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] iov_iter: introduce iov_iter_pin_user_pages*() routines John Hubbard
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From: John Hubbard @ 2020-08-22  4:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Alexander Viro, Christoph Hellwig, Ilya Dryomov, Jens Axboe,
	Jeff Layton, linux-xfs, linux-fsdevel, linux-block, ceph-devel,
	linux-mm, LKML, John Hubbard

Hi,

This converts the Direct IO block/bio layer over to use FOLL_PIN pages
(those acquired via pin_user_pages*()). This effectively converts
several file systems (ext4, for example) that use the common Direct IO
routines. See "Remaining work", below for a bit more detail there.

Quite a few approaches have been considered over the years. This one is
inspired by Christoph Hellwig's July, 2019 observation that there are
only 5 ITER_ types, and we can simplify handling of them for Direct IO
[1]. After working through how bio submission and completion works, I
became convinced that this is the simplest and cleanest approach to
conversion.

Not content to let well enough alone, I then continued on to the
unthinkable: adding a new flag to struct bio, whose "short int" flags
field was full, thuse triggering an expansion of the field from 16, to
32 bits. This allows for a nice assertion in bio_release_pages(), that
the bio page release mechanism matches the page acquisition mechanism.
This is especially welcome for a change that affects a lot of callers
and could really make a mess if there is a bug somewhere.

I'm unable to spot any performance implications, either theoretically or
via (rather light) performance testing, from enlarging bio.bi_flags, but
I suspect that there are maybe still valid reasons for having such a
tiny bio.bi_flags field. I just have no idea what they are. (Hardware
that knows the size of a bio? No, because there would be obvious
build-time assertions, and comments about such a constraint.) Anyway, I
can drop that patch if it seems like too much cost for too little
benefit.

And finally, as long as we're all staring at the iter_iov code, I'm
including a nice easy ceph patch, that removes one more caller of
iter_iov_get_pages().

Design notes ============

This whole approach depends on certain concepts:

1) Each struct bio instance must not mix different types of pages:
FOLL_PIN and non-FOLL_PIN pages. (By FOLL_PIN I'm referring to pages
that were acquired and pinned via pin_user_page*() routines.)
Fortunately, this is already an enforced constraint for bio's, as
evidenced by the existence and use of BIO_NO_PAGE_REF.

2) Christoph Hellwig's July, 2019 observation that there are
only 5 ITER_ types, and we can simplify handling of them for Direct IO
[1]. Accordingly, this series implements the following pseudocode:

Direct IO behavior:

    ITER_IOVEC:
        pin_user_pages_fast();
        break;

    ITER_KVEC:    // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
    ITER_BVEC:    // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
    ITER_PIPE:    // just, no :)
    ITER_DISCARD: // discard
        return -EFAULT or -ENVALID;

...which works for callers that already have sorted out which case they
are in. Such as, Direct IO in the block/bio layers.

Now, this does leave ITER_KVEC and ITER_BVEC unconverted, but on the
other hand, it's not clear that these are actually affected in the real
world, by the get_user_pages()+filesystem interaction problems of [2].
If it turns out to matter, then those can be handled too, but it's just
more refactoring and surgery to do so.

Testing
=======

Performance: no obvious regressions from running fio (direct=1: Direct
IO) on both SSD and NVMe drives.

Functionality: selected non-destructive bare metal xfstests on xfs,
ext4, btrfs, orangefs filesystems, plus LTP tests.

Note that I have only a single x86 64-bit test machine, though.

Remaining work
==============

Non-converted call sites for iter_iov_get_pages*() at the
moment include: net, crypto, cifs, ceph, vhost, fuse, nfs/direct,
vhost/scsi.

About-to-be-converted sites (in a subsequent patch) are: Direct IO for
filesystems that use the generic read/write functions.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20190724061750.GA19397@infradead.org/

[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
    https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/


John Hubbard (5):
  iov_iter: introduce iov_iter_pin_user_pages*() routines
  mm/gup: introduce pin_user_page()
  bio: convert get_user_pages_fast() --> pin_user_pages_fast()
  bio: introduce BIO_FOLL_PIN flag
  fs/ceph: use pipe_get_pages_alloc() for pipe

 block/bio.c               | 29 +++++++------
 block/blk-map.c           |  7 +--
 fs/ceph/file.c            |  3 +-
 fs/direct-io.c            | 30 ++++++-------
 fs/iomap/direct-io.c      |  2 +-
 include/linux/blk_types.h |  5 ++-
 include/linux/mm.h        |  2 +
 include/linux/uio.h       |  9 +++-
 lib/iov_iter.c            | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 mm/gup.c                  | 30 +++++++++++++
 10 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

-- 
2.28.0



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2020-08-23  6:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-23  6:57     ` John Hubbard
2020-08-24  7:36       ` John Hubbard
2020-08-24  9:20     ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-24 14:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27  3:25   ` [bio] 37abbdc72e: WARNING:at_block/bio.c:#bio_release_pages kernel test robot
2020-08-27  3:59     ` John Hubbard
2020-08-22  4:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] fs/ceph: use pipe_get_pages_alloc() for pipe John Hubbard
2020-08-24 10:53   ` Jeff Layton
2020-08-24 17:54     ` John Hubbard
2020-08-24 18:47       ` Jeff Layton
2020-08-24 18:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-24 19:02           ` John Hubbard
2020-08-25  1:20           ` [PATCH v2] " John Hubbard
2020-08-25 16:22             ` Jeff Layton
2020-08-25  1:54 ` [PATCH 0/5] bio: Direct IO: convert to pin_user_pages_fast() Al Viro
2020-08-25  2:07   ` Al Viro
2020-08-25  2:13     ` John Hubbard
2020-08-25  2:07   ` John Hubbard
2020-08-25  2:22     ` Al Viro
2020-08-25  2:27       ` John Hubbard

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