linux-stable.git/fs/inode.c, branch v5.16

fs: Remove FS_THP_SUPPORT

2021-11-17T15:36:35+00:00

Instead of setting a bit in the fs_flags to set a bit in the
address_space, set the bit in the address_space directly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-09T18:11:53+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "87 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (pagecache and hugetlb),
  procfs, misc, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, kallsyms, ramfs,
  init, codafs, nilfs2, hfs, crash_dump, signals, seq_file, fork,
  sysvfs, kcov, gdb, resource, selftests, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (87 commits)
  ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
  ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files
  selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files
  virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem
  kernel/resource: disallow access to exclusive system RAM regions
  kernel/resource: clean up and optimize iomem_is_exclusive()
  scripts/gdb: handle split debug for vmlinux
  kcov: replace local_irq_save() with a local_lock_t
  kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task()
  kcov: allocate per-CPU memory on the relevant node
  Documentation/kcov: define `ip' in the example
  Documentation/kcov: include types.h in the example
  sysv: use BUILD_BUG_ON instead of runtime check
  kernel/fork.c: unshare(): use swap() to make code cleaner
  seq_file: fix passing wrong private data
  seq_file: move seq_escape() to a header
  signal: remove duplicate include in signal.h
  crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h
  crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check
  ...

vfs: keep inodes with page cache off the inode shrinker LRU

2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00

Historically (pre-2.5), the inode shrinker used to reclaim only empty
inodes and skip over those that still contained page cache.  This caused
problems on highmem hosts: struct inode could put fill lowmem zones
before the cache was getting reclaimed in the highmem zones.

To address this, the inode shrinker started to strip page cache to
facilitate reclaiming lowmem.  However, this comes with its own set of
problems: the shrinkers may drop actively used page cache just because
the inodes are not currently open or dirty - think working with a large
git tree.  It further doesn't respect cgroup memory protection settings
and can cause priority inversions between containers.

Nowadays, the page cache also holds non-resident info for evicted cache
pages in order to detect refaults.  We've come to rely heavily on this
data inside reclaim for protecting the cache workingset and driving swap
behavior.  We also use it to quantify and report workload health through
psi.  The latter in turn is used for fleet health monitoring, as well as
driving automated memory sizing of workloads and containers, proactive
reclaim and memory offloading schemes.

The consequences of dropping page cache prematurely is that we're seeing
subtle and not-so-subtle failures in all of the above-mentioned
scenarios, with the workload generally entering unexpected thrashing
states while losing the ability to reliably detect it.

To fix this on non-highmem systems at least, going back to rotating
inodes on the LRU isn't feasible.  We've tried (commit a76cf1a474d7
("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")) and failed
(commit 69056ee6a8a3 ("Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many
attached pages"")).

The issue is mostly that shrinker pools attract pressure based on their
size, and when objects get skipped the shrinkers remember this as
deferred reclaim work.  This accumulates excessive pressure on the
remaining inodes, and we can quickly eat into heavily used ones, or
dirty ones that require IO to reclaim, when there potentially is plenty
of cold, clean cache around still.

Instead, this patch keeps populated inodes off the inode LRU in the
first place - just like an open file or dirty state would.  An otherwise
clean and unused inode then gets queued when the last cache entry
disappears.  This solves the problem without reintroducing the reclaim
issues, and generally is a bit more scalable than having to wade through
potentially hundreds of thousands of busy inodes.

Locking is a bit tricky because the locks protecting the inode state
(i_lock) and the inode LRU (lru_list.lock) don't nest inside the
irq-safe page cache lock (i_pages.xa_lock).  Page cache deletions are
serialized through i_lock, taken before the i_pages lock, to make sure
depopulated inodes are queued reliably.  Additions may race with
deletions, but we'll check again in the shrinker.  If additions race
with the shrinker itself, we're protected by the i_lock: if find_inode()
or iput() win, the shrinker will bail on the elevated i_count or
I_REFERENCED; if the shrinker wins and goes ahead with the inode, it
will set I_FREEING and inhibit further igets(), which will cause the
other side to create a new instance of the inode instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614211904.14420-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: export an inode_update_time helper

2021-10-26T17:08:08+00:00

If you already have an inode and need to update the time on the inode
there is no way to do this properly.  Export this helper to allow file
systems to update time on the inode so the appropriate handler is
called, either ->update_time or generic_update_time.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik 
Reviewed-by: David Sterba 
Signed-off-by: David Sterba

mm: Fully initialize invalidate_lock, amend lock class later

2021-09-17T11:39:23+00:00

The function __init_rwsem() is not part of the official API, it just a helper
function used by init_rwsem().
Changing the lock's class and name should be done by using
lockdep_set_class_and_name() after the has been fully initialized. The overhead
of the additional class struct and setting it twice is negligible and it works
across all locks.

Fully initialize the lock with init_rwsem() and then set the custom class and
name for the lock.

Fixes: 730633f0b7f95 ("mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210901084403.g4fezi23cixemlhh@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-03T17:08:28+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "173 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
  pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
  bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
  hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
  oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (173 commits)
  mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
  mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
  mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
  mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
  mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
  selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
  mm: KSM: fix data type
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
  selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
  selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
  selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
  mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
  mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
  mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
  memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
  mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
  mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
  mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  ...

fs: inode: count invalidated shadow pages in pginodesteal

2021-09-03T16:58:10+00:00

pginodesteal is supposed to capture the impact that inode reclaim has on
the page cache state.  Currently, it doesn't consider shadow pages that
get dropped this way, even though this can have a significant impact on
paging behavior, memory pressure calculations etc.

To improve visibility into these effects, make sure shadow pages get
counted when they get dropped through inode reclaim.

This changes the return value semantics of invalidate_mapping_pages()
semantics slightly, but the only two users are the inode shrinker itsel
and a usb driver that logs it for debugging purposes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614211904.14420-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock

2021-07-13T11:14:27+00:00

Currently, serializing operations such as page fault, read, or readahead
against hole punching is rather difficult. The basic race scheme is
like:

fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)			read / fault / ..
  truncate_inode_pages_range()
						  
  

Now the problem is in this way read / page fault / readahead can
instantiate pages in page cache with potentially stale data (if blocks
get quickly reused). Avoiding this race is not simple - page locks do
not work because we want to make sure there are *no* pages in given
range. inode->i_rwsem does not work because page fault happens under
mmap_sem which ranks below inode->i_rwsem. Also using it for reads makes
the performance for mixed read-write workloads suffer.

So create a new rw_semaphore in the address_space - invalidate_lock -
that protects adding of pages to page cache for page faults / reads /
readahead.

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

mm: remove nrexceptional from inode: remove BUG_ON

2021-05-05T18:27:20+00:00

clear_inode()'s BUG_ON(!mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)) is unsafe: we
know of two ways in which nodes can and do (on rare occasions) get left
behind.  Until those are fixed, do not BUG_ON() nor even WARN_ON().

Yes, this will then leak those nodes (or the next user of the struct
inode may use them); but this has been happening for years, and the new
BUG_ON(!mapping_empty) was only guilty of revealing that.  A proper fix
will follow, but no hurry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2104292229380.16080@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove nrexceptional from inode

2021-05-05T18:27:20+00:00

We no longer track anything in nrexceptional, so remove it, saving 8 bytes
per inode.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Tested-by: Vishal Verma 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds