linux-stable.git/fs/dax.c, branch linux-4.9.y

fs/dax.c: fix inefficiency in dax_writeback_mapping_range()

2018-02-28T09:18:33+00:00

commit 1eb643d02b21412e603b42cdd96010a2ac31c05f upstream.

dax_writeback_mapping_range() fails to update iteration index when
searching radix tree for entries needing cache flushing.  Thus each
pagevec worth of entries is searched starting from the start which is
inefficient and prone to livelocks.  Update index properly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170619124531.21491-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: 9973c98ecfda3 ("dax: add support for fsync/sync")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals

2017-12-09T21:01:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit e3fce68cdbed297d927e993b3ea7b8b1cee545da ]

Currently dax_iomap_rw() takes care of invalidating page tables and
evicting hole pages from the radix tree when write(2) to the file
happens. This invalidation is only necessary when there is some block
allocation resulting from write(2). Furthermore in current place the
invalidation is racy wrt page fault instantiating a hole page just after
we have invalidated it.

So perform the page invalidation inside dax_iomap_actor() where we can
do it only when really necessary and after blocks have been allocated so
nobody will be instantiating new hole pages anymore.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: break out of iomap_file_buffered_write on fatal signals

2017-02-09T07:08:31+00:00

commit d1908f52557b3230fbd63c0429f3b4b748bf2b6d upstream.

Tetsuo has noticed that an OOM stress test which performs large write
requests can cause the full memory reserves depletion.  He has tracked
this down to the following path

	__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x436/0x4d0
	alloc_pages_current+0x97/0x1b0
	__page_cache_alloc+0x15d/0x1a0          mm/filemap.c:728
	pagecache_get_page+0x5a/0x2b0           mm/filemap.c:1331
	grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x23/0x40   mm/filemap.c:2773
	iomap_write_begin+0x50/0xd0             fs/iomap.c:118
	iomap_write_actor+0xb5/0x1a0            fs/iomap.c:190
	? iomap_write_end+0x80/0x80             fs/iomap.c:150
	iomap_apply+0xb3/0x130                  fs/iomap.c:79
	iomap_file_buffered_write+0x68/0xa0     fs/iomap.c:243
	? iomap_write_end+0x80/0x80
	xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x132/0x390 [xfs]
	? remove_wait_queue+0x59/0x60
	xfs_file_write_iter+0x90/0x130 [xfs]
	__vfs_write+0xe5/0x140
	vfs_write+0xc7/0x1f0
	? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d0/0x380
	SyS_write+0x58/0xc0
	do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x200
	entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

the oom victim has access to all memory reserves to make a forward
progress to exit easier.  But iomap_file_buffered_write and other
callers of iomap_apply loop to complete the full request.  We need to
check for fatal signals and back off with a short write instead.

As the iomap_apply delegates all the work down to the actor we have to
hook into those.  All callers that work with the page cache are calling
iomap_write_begin so we will check for signals there.  dax_iomap_actor
has to handle the situation explicitly because it copies data to the
userspace directly.  Other callers like iomap_page_mkwrite work on a
single page or iomap_fiemap_actor do not allocate memory based on the
given len.

Fixes: 68a9f5e7007c ("xfs: implement iomap based buffered write path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter

2016-10-08T01:46:28+00:00

The global zero page is used to satisfy an anonymous read fault.  If
THP(Transparent HugePage) is enabled then the global huge zero page is
used.  The global huge zero page uses an atomic counter for reference
counting and is allocated/freed dynamically according to its counter
value.

CPU time spent on that counter will greatly increase if there are a lot
of processes doing anonymous read faults.  This patch proposes a way to
reduce the access to the global counter so that the CPU load can be
reduced accordingly.

To do this, a new flag of the mm_struct is introduced:
MMF_USED_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE.  With this flag, the process only need to touch
the global counter in two cases:

 1 The first time it uses the global huge zero page;
 2 The time when mm_user of its mm_struct reaches zero.

Note that right now, the huge zero page is eligible to be freed as soon
as its last use goes away.  With this patch, the page will not be
eligible to be freed until the exit of the last process from which it
was ever used.

And with the use of mm_user, the kthread is not eligible to use huge
zero page either.  Since no kthread is using huge zero page today, there
is no difference after applying this patch.  But if that is not desired,
I can change it to when mm_count reaches zero.

Case used for test on Haswell EP:

  usemem -n 72 --readonly -j 0x200000 100G

Which spawns 72 processes and each will mmap 100G anonymous space and
then do read only access to that space sequentially with a step of 2MB.

  CPU cycles from perf report for base commit:
      54.03%  usemem   [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_huge_zero_page
  CPU cycles from perf report for this commit:
       0.11%  usemem   [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mm_get_huge_zero_page

Performance(throughput) of the workload for base commit: 1784430792
Performance(throughput) of the workload for this commit: 4726928591
164% increase.

Runtime of the workload for base commit: 707592 us
Runtime of the workload for this commit: 303970 us
50% drop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe51a88f-446a-4622-1363-ad1282d71385@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Ebru Akagunduz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax: provide an iomap based fault handler

2016-09-19T01:24:50+00:00

Very similar to the existing dax_fault function, but instead of using
the get_block callback we rely on the iomap_ops vector from iomap.c.
That also avoids having to do two calls into the file system for write
faults.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner

dax: provide an iomap based dax read/write path

2016-09-19T01:24:49+00:00

This is a much simpler implementation of the DAX read/write path
that makes use of the iomap infrastructure.  It does not try to
mirror the direct I/O calling conventions and thus doesn't have to
deal with i_dio_count or the end_io handler, but instead leaves
locking and filesystem-specific I/O completion to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner

dax: don't pass buffer_head to copy_user_dax

2016-09-19T01:24:49+00:00

This way we can use this helper for the iomap based DAX implementation
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner

dax: don't pass buffer_head to dax_insert_mapping

2016-09-19T01:24:49+00:00

This way we can use this helper for the iomap based DAX implementation
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2016-07-29T00:38:16+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...

dax: remote unused fault wrappers

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

Remove the unused wrappers dax_fault() and dax_pmd_fault().  After this
removal, rename __dax_fault() and __dax_pmd_fault() to dax_fault() and
dax_pmd_fault() respectively, and update all callers.

The dax_fault() and dax_pmd_fault() wrappers were initially intended to
capture some filesystem independent functionality around page faults
(calling sb_start_pagefault() & sb_end_pagefault(), updating file mtime
and ctime).

However, the following commits:

   5726b27b09cc ("ext2: Add locking for DAX faults")
   ea3d7209ca01 ("ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching")

added locking to the ext2 and ext4 filesystems after these common
operations but before __dax_fault() and __dax_pmd_fault() were called.
This means that these wrappers are no longer used, and are unlikely to
be used in the future.

XFS has had locking analogous to what was recently added to ext2 and
ext4 since DAX support was initially introduced by:

   6b698edeeef0 ("xfs: add DAX file operations support")

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714214049.20075-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds