From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620B3C169C4 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6B52075D for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729760AbfBFLMJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2019 06:12:09 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45240 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729757AbfBFLMI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2019 06:12:08 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CFD1C065F63; Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.176.1] (ovpn-112-2.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.112.2]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EA4C18B84; Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:12:07 +0000 (UTC) From: "Benjamin Coddington" To: "Trond Myklebust" Cc: anna.schumaker@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Don't use page_file_mapping after removing the page Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 06:12:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3EF9B995-18CA-4DAA-AA85-47A42A1D52B5@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <22D43CDC-BB14-4C8F-A10E-DF7816EBF0B0@redhat.com> <9857F7D4-FA2E-43D0-8D4B-4C753A81687C@redhat.com> <628931F4-B625-4430-96FF-268CF926934A@redhat.com> <602aa0cc867676254cf09d6e329eb6a8f7345920.camel@hammerspace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org On 5 Feb 2019, at 5:23, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > On 4 Feb 2019, at 16:40, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> What about the case when the page is in the swap cache? Is that also >> safe? > > I think the case you'd like me to consider is when a file on NFS has its > mapping backed by pages that are in swap. In that case, it makes no sense > to check the count of pages in the swap file's mapping to determine whether > to set NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA. We actually want to optimize away the > revalidation if the NFS file lacks mapped pages. All this makes me nervous about breaking swap, and is probably not appropriate for a fix here so I am going to drop this approach. Ben