From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:32:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170911033222.GI5426@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170911003113.GO17782@dastard>
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:31:13AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> splice does not go down the direct IO path, so iomap_dio_actor()
> should never be handled a pipe as the destination for the IO data.
> Indeed, splice read has to supply the pages to be put into the pipe,
> which the DIO path does not do - it requires pages be supplied to
> it. So I'm not sure why we'd care about pipe destination limitations
> in the DIO path?
splice doesn't give a rat's arse for direct IO; it's up to filesystem.
generic_file_splice_read() simply sets up a pipe-backed iov_iter and
calls ->read_iter(), period.
iov_iter_get_pages() for pipe-backed destination does page allocation
and inserts freshly allocated pages into pipe. copy_to_iter() does
the same + copies data; copy_page_to_iter() grabs an extra reference
to page and inserts it into pipe, not that O_DIRECT ->read_iter()
had been likely to use the last one.
Normally O_DIRECT would work just fine - pages get allocated, references
to them put into pipe cyclic buffer *and* into a number of bio, bio
would get submitted and once the IO is completed we unlock the pipe,
making those pages available for readers.
With minimal care it works just fine - all you really need is
* cope with failing copy_to_... / iov_iter_get_pages().
Short read if we'd already gotten something, -EFAULT otherwise.
That goes for pipe-backed same as for iovec-backed - any ->read_iter()
that fails to handle that is already in trouble.
* make sure that iov_iter_get_pages()/iov_iter_get_pages_alloc()
is followed by iov_iter_advance() for the amount you've actually filled,
before any subsequent copy_to_iter()/copy_page_to_iter() or return
from ->read_iter(), whichever comes first. That includes the situation
when you actually hadn't filled anything at all - just remember to
do iov_iter_advance(to, 0) in that case. That's about the only
extra requirement imposed by pipes and it's not hard to satisfy.
Combination of iov_iter_advance() with iov_iter_revert() works as
usual.
Normally a filesystem doesn't need to care about splice at all -
just use generic_file_splice_read() and be done with that.
It will use the normal ->read_iter(), with whatever locking, etc.,
your filesystem would do on a normal read.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-11 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 20:59 iov_iter_pipe warning Dave Jones
2017-04-05 22:02 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-10 19:28 ` Al Viro
2017-04-10 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-10 19:57 ` Al Viro
2017-04-10 23:48 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 0:22 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 3:05 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 3:28 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 20:53 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 21:12 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 22:25 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:28 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:34 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:48 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:45 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:51 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:56 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 0:06 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 0:17 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 0:58 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 1:15 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 2:29 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 2:58 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 14:35 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 15:26 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 16:27 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 17:07 ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 19:03 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-21 17:54 ` Al Viro
2017-04-27 4:19 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-27 16:34 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-27 17:39 ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 15:29 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-28 16:43 ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 16:50 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-28 17:20 ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 18:25 ` Al Viro
2017-04-29 1:58 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-29 2:47 ` Al Viro
2017-04-29 15:51 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-29 20:46 ` [git pull] vfs.git fix (Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.) Al Viro
2017-08-07 20:18 ` iov_iter_pipe warning Dave Jones
2017-08-28 20:31 ` Dave Jones
2017-08-29 4:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-30 17:05 ` Dave Jones
2017-08-30 17:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-30 17:17 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-06 20:03 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-06 23:46 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-07 3:48 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-07 4:33 ` Al Viro
2017-09-08 1:04 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 1:07 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10 2:57 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 16:07 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10 20:05 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 20:07 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10 20:33 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 21:11 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-10 21:19 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 22:08 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-10 23:07 ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 23:15 ` Al Viro
2017-09-11 0:31 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-11 3:32 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-09-11 6:44 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-11 20:07 ` Al Viro
2017-09-11 20:17 ` Al Viro
2017-09-12 6:02 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-12 11:13 ` Al Viro
2017-09-11 12:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-11 12:51 ` Al Viro
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