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[172.10.233.147]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c16-20020a05622a059000b002dc93dc92d1sm4894991qtb.48.2022.03.04.21.09.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 04 Mar 2022 21:09:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 21:09:01 -0800 (PST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@ripple.anvils To: Andrew Morton cc: Mikulas Patocka , Zdenek Kabelac , Lukas Czerner , "Darrick J. Wong" , Miklos Szeredi , Christoph Hellwig , Borislav Petkov , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [PATCH mmotm] tmpfs: do not allocate pages on read Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mikulas asked in https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/alpine.LRH.2.02.2007210510230.6959@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com/ Do we still need a0ee5ec520ed ("tmpfs: allocate on read when stacked")? Lukas noticed this unusual behavior of loop device backed by tmpfs in https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211126075100.gd64odg2bcptiqeb@work/ Normally, shmem_file_read_iter() copies the ZERO_PAGE when reading holes; but if it looks like it might be a read for "a stacking filesystem", it allocates actual pages to the page cache, and even marks them as dirty. And reads from the loop device do satisfy the test that is used. This oddity was added for an old version of unionfs, to help to limit its usage to the limited size of the tmpfs mount involved; but about the same time as the tmpfs mod went in (2.6.25), unionfs was reworked to proceed differently; and the mod kept just in case others needed it. Do we still need it? I cannot answer with more certainty than "Probably not". It's nasty enough that we really should try to delete it; but if a regression is reported somewhere, then we might have to revert later. It's not quite as simple as just removing the test (as Mikulas did): xfstests generic/013 hung because splice from tmpfs failed on page not up-to-date and page mapping unset. That can be fixed just by marking the ZERO_PAGE as Uptodate, which of course it is; doing so here in shmem_file_read_iter() is distasteful, but seems to be the best way. My intention, though, was to stop using the ZERO_PAGE here altogether: surely iov_iter_zero() is better for this case? Sadly not: it relies on clear_user(), and the x86 clear_user() is slower than its copy_user(): https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2f5ca5e4-e250-a41c-11fb-a7f4ebc7e1c9@google.com/ But while we are still using the ZERO_PAGE, let's stop dirtying its struct page cacheline with unnecessary get_page() and put_page(). Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Reported-by: Lukas Czerner Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins --- mm/shmem.c | 25 +++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2501,19 +2501,10 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; pgoff_t index; unsigned long offset; - enum sgp_type sgp = SGP_READ; int error = 0; ssize_t retval = 0; loff_t *ppos = &iocb->ki_pos; - /* - * Might this read be for a stacking filesystem? Then when reading - * holes of a sparse file, we actually need to allocate those pages, - * and even mark them dirty, so it cannot exceed the max_blocks limit. - */ - if (!iter_is_iovec(to)) - sgp = SGP_CACHE; - index = *ppos >> PAGE_SHIFT; offset = *ppos & ~PAGE_MASK; @@ -2522,6 +2513,7 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) pgoff_t end_index; unsigned long nr, ret; loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode); + bool got_page; end_index = i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT; if (index > end_index) @@ -2532,15 +2524,13 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) break; } - error = shmem_getpage(inode, index, &page, sgp); + error = shmem_getpage(inode, index, &page, SGP_READ); if (error) { if (error == -EINVAL) error = 0; break; } if (page) { - if (sgp == SGP_CACHE) - set_page_dirty(page); unlock_page(page); if (PageHWPoison(page)) { @@ -2580,9 +2570,15 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) */ if (!offset) mark_page_accessed(page); + got_page = true; } else { page = ZERO_PAGE(0); - get_page(page); + /* + * Let splice page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() succeed. + */ + if (!PageUptodate(page)) + SetPageUptodate(page); + got_page = false; } /* @@ -2595,7 +2591,8 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) index += offset >> PAGE_SHIFT; offset &= ~PAGE_MASK; - put_page(page); + if (got_page) + put_page(page); if (!iov_iter_count(to)) break; if (ret < nr) {