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<title>netfs: Fix is-caching check in read-retry</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:07:58+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-12-16T20:34:45+00:00</published>
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netfs: Fix is-caching check in read-retry

The read-retry code checks the NETFS_RREQ_COPY_TO_CACHE flag to determine
if there might be failed reads from the cache that need turning into reads
from the server, with the intention of skipping the complicated part if it
can.  The code that set the flag, however, got lost during the read-side
rewrite.

Fix the check to see if the cache_resources are valid instead.  The flag
can then be removed.

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3752048.1734381285@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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netfs: Fix is-caching check in read-retry

The read-retry code checks the NETFS_RREQ_COPY_TO_CACHE flag to determine
if there might be failed reads from the cache that need turning into reads
from the server, with the intention of skipping the complicated part if it
can.  The code that set the flag, however, got lost during the read-side
rewrite.

Fix the check to see if the cache_resources are valid instead.  The flag
can then be removed.

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3752048.1734381285@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Work around recursion by abandoning retry if nothing read</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:07:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T13:50:08+00:00</published>
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syzkaller reported recursion with a loop of three calls (netfs_rreq_assess,
netfs_retry_reads and netfs_rreq_terminated) hitting the limit of the stack
during an unbuffered or direct I/O read.

There are a number of issues:

 (1) There is no limit on the number of retries.

 (2) A subrequest is supposed to be abandoned if it does not transfer
     anything (NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS), but that isn't checked under all
     circumstances.

 (3) The actual root cause, which is this:

	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&amp;rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding))
		netfs_rreq_terminated(rreq, ...);

     When we do a retry, we bump the rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding counter to
     prevent the final cleanup phase running before we've finished
     dispatching the retries.  The problem is if we hit 0, we have to do
     the cleanup phase - but we're in the cleanup phase and end up
     repeating the retry cycle, hence the recursion.

Work around the problem by limiting the number of retries.  This is based
on Lizhi Xu's patch[1], and makes the following changes:

 (1) Replace NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS with NETFS_SREQ_MADE_PROGRESS and make
     the filesystem set it if it managed to read or write at least one byte
     of data.  Clear this bit before issuing a subrequest.

 (2) Add a -&gt;retry_count member to the subrequest and increment it any time
     we do a retry.

 (3) Remove the NETFS_SREQ_RETRYING flag as it is superfluous with
     -&gt;retry_count.  If the latter is non-zero, we're doing a retry.

 (4) Abandon a subrequest if retry_count is non-zero and we made no
     progress.

 (5) Use -&gt;retry_count in both the write-side and the read-size.

[?] Question: Should I set a hard limit on retry_count in both read and
    write?  Say it hits 50, we always abandon it.  The problem is that
    these changes only mitigate the issue.  As long as it made at least one
    byte of progress, the recursion is still an issue.  This patch
    mitigates the problem, but does not fix the underlying cause.  I have
    patches that will do that, but it's an intrusive fix that's currently
    pending for the next merge window.

The oops generated by KASAN looks something like:

   BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000482ff48 (stack is ffffc90004830000..ffffc90004838000)
   Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
   ...
   RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0x25/0xc60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4686
    ...
    mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4646 [inline]
    __lock_acquire+0x906/0x3ce0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5156
    lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
    local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:29 [inline]
    ___slab_alloc+0x123/0x1880 mm/slub.c:3695
    __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x56/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3908
    __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3961 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4122 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a7/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:4141
    radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0x1e8/0x350 lib/radix-tree.c:253
    idr_get_free+0x528/0xa40 lib/radix-tree.c:1506
    idr_alloc_u32+0x191/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:46
    idr_alloc+0xc1/0x130 lib/idr.c:87
    p9_tag_alloc+0x394/0x870 net/9p/client.c:321
    p9_client_prepare_req+0x19f/0x4d0 net/9p/client.c:644
    p9_client_zc_rpc.constprop.0+0x105/0x880 net/9p/client.c:793
    p9_client_read_once+0x443/0x820 net/9p/client.c:1570
    p9_client_read+0x13f/0x1b0 net/9p/client.c:1534
    v9fs_issue_read+0x115/0x310 fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:74
    netfs_retry_read_subrequests fs/netfs/read_retry.c:60 [inline]
    netfs_retry_reads+0x153a/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:232
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    ...
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_dispatch_unbuffered_reads fs/netfs/direct_read.c:103 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read fs/netfs/direct_read.c:127 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter_locked+0x12f6/0x19b0 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:221
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter+0xc5/0x100 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:256
    v9fs_file_read_iter+0xbf/0x100 fs/9p/vfs_file.c:361
    do_iter_readv_writev+0x614/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:832
    vfs_readv+0x4cf/0x890 fs/read_write.c:1025
    do_preadv fs/read_write.c:1142 [inline]
    __do_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1192 [inline]
    __se_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1187 [inline]
    __x64_sys_preadv+0x22d/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1187
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1fc6f64c40a9d143cfb6
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108034020.3695718-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-9-dhowells@redhat.com
Tested-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Lizhi Xu &lt;lizhi.xu@windriver.com&gt;
cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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syzkaller reported recursion with a loop of three calls (netfs_rreq_assess,
netfs_retry_reads and netfs_rreq_terminated) hitting the limit of the stack
during an unbuffered or direct I/O read.

There are a number of issues:

 (1) There is no limit on the number of retries.

 (2) A subrequest is supposed to be abandoned if it does not transfer
     anything (NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS), but that isn't checked under all
     circumstances.

 (3) The actual root cause, which is this:

	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&amp;rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding))
		netfs_rreq_terminated(rreq, ...);

     When we do a retry, we bump the rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding counter to
     prevent the final cleanup phase running before we've finished
     dispatching the retries.  The problem is if we hit 0, we have to do
     the cleanup phase - but we're in the cleanup phase and end up
     repeating the retry cycle, hence the recursion.

Work around the problem by limiting the number of retries.  This is based
on Lizhi Xu's patch[1], and makes the following changes:

 (1) Replace NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS with NETFS_SREQ_MADE_PROGRESS and make
     the filesystem set it if it managed to read or write at least one byte
     of data.  Clear this bit before issuing a subrequest.

 (2) Add a -&gt;retry_count member to the subrequest and increment it any time
     we do a retry.

 (3) Remove the NETFS_SREQ_RETRYING flag as it is superfluous with
     -&gt;retry_count.  If the latter is non-zero, we're doing a retry.

 (4) Abandon a subrequest if retry_count is non-zero and we made no
     progress.

 (5) Use -&gt;retry_count in both the write-side and the read-size.

[?] Question: Should I set a hard limit on retry_count in both read and
    write?  Say it hits 50, we always abandon it.  The problem is that
    these changes only mitigate the issue.  As long as it made at least one
    byte of progress, the recursion is still an issue.  This patch
    mitigates the problem, but does not fix the underlying cause.  I have
    patches that will do that, but it's an intrusive fix that's currently
    pending for the next merge window.

The oops generated by KASAN looks something like:

   BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000482ff48 (stack is ffffc90004830000..ffffc90004838000)
   Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
   ...
   RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0x25/0xc60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4686
    ...
    mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4646 [inline]
    __lock_acquire+0x906/0x3ce0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5156
    lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
    local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:29 [inline]
    ___slab_alloc+0x123/0x1880 mm/slub.c:3695
    __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x56/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3908
    __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3961 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4122 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a7/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:4141
    radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0x1e8/0x350 lib/radix-tree.c:253
    idr_get_free+0x528/0xa40 lib/radix-tree.c:1506
    idr_alloc_u32+0x191/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:46
    idr_alloc+0xc1/0x130 lib/idr.c:87
    p9_tag_alloc+0x394/0x870 net/9p/client.c:321
    p9_client_prepare_req+0x19f/0x4d0 net/9p/client.c:644
    p9_client_zc_rpc.constprop.0+0x105/0x880 net/9p/client.c:793
    p9_client_read_once+0x443/0x820 net/9p/client.c:1570
    p9_client_read+0x13f/0x1b0 net/9p/client.c:1534
    v9fs_issue_read+0x115/0x310 fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:74
    netfs_retry_read_subrequests fs/netfs/read_retry.c:60 [inline]
    netfs_retry_reads+0x153a/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:232
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    ...
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_dispatch_unbuffered_reads fs/netfs/direct_read.c:103 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read fs/netfs/direct_read.c:127 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter_locked+0x12f6/0x19b0 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:221
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter+0xc5/0x100 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:256
    v9fs_file_read_iter+0xbf/0x100 fs/9p/vfs_file.c:361
    do_iter_readv_writev+0x614/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:832
    vfs_readv+0x4cf/0x890 fs/read_write.c:1025
    do_preadv fs/read_write.c:1142 [inline]
    __do_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1192 [inline]
    __se_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1187 [inline]
    __x64_sys_preadv+0x22d/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1187
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1fc6f64c40a9d143cfb6
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108034020.3695718-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-9-dhowells@redhat.com
Tested-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Lizhi Xu &lt;lizhi.xu@windriver.com&gt;
cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cachefiles, netfs: Fix write to partial block at EOF</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T10:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-12T11:44:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c4f1450ecccc5311db87f806998eda1c824c4e35'/>
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Because it uses DIO writes, cachefiles is unable to make a write to the
backing file if that write is not aligned to and sized according to the
backing file's DIO block alignment.  This makes it tricky to handle a write
to the cache where the EOF on the network file is not correctly aligned.

To get around this, netfslib attempts to tell the driver it is calling how
much more data there is available beyond the EOF that it can use to pad the
write (netfslib preclears the part of the folio above the EOF).  However,
it tries to tell the cache what the maximum length is, but doesn't
calculate this correctly; and, in any case, cachefiles actually ignores the
value and just skips the block.

Fix this by:

 (1) Change the value passed to indicate the amount of extra data that can
     be added to the operation (now -&gt;submit_extendable_to).  This is much
     simpler to calculate as it's just the end of the folio minus the top
     of the data within the folio - rather than having to account for data
     spread over multiple folios.

 (2) Make cachefiles add some of this data if the subrequest it is given
     ends at the network file's i_size if the extra data is sufficient to
     pad out to a whole block.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-22-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Because it uses DIO writes, cachefiles is unable to make a write to the
backing file if that write is not aligned to and sized according to the
backing file's DIO block alignment.  This makes it tricky to handle a write
to the cache where the EOF on the network file is not correctly aligned.

To get around this, netfslib attempts to tell the driver it is calling how
much more data there is available beyond the EOF that it can use to pad the
write (netfslib preclears the part of the folio above the EOF).  However,
it tries to tell the cache what the maximum length is, but doesn't
calculate this correctly; and, in any case, cachefiles actually ignores the
value and just skips the block.

Fix this by:

 (1) Change the value passed to indicate the amount of extra data that can
     be added to the operation (now -&gt;submit_extendable_to).  This is much
     simpler to calculate as it's just the end of the folio minus the top
     of the data within the folio - rather than having to account for data
     spread over multiple folios.

 (2) Make cachefiles add some of this data if the subrequest it is given
     ends at the network file's i_size if the extra data is sufficient to
     pad out to a whole block.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-22-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Speed up buffered reading</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T10:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T23:40:22+00:00</published>
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Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Simplify the writeback code</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T10:20:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-06T06:48:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=983cdcf8fe141b0ce16bc71959a5dc55bcb0764d'/>
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Use the new folio_queue structures to simplify the writeback code.  The
problem with referring to the i_pages xarray directly is that we may have
gaps in the sequence of folios we're writing from that we need to skip when
we're removing the writeback mark from the folios we're writing back from.

At the moment the code tries to deal with this by carefully tracking the
gaps in each writeback stream (eg. write to server and write to cache) and
divining when there's a gap that spans folios (something that's not helped
by folios not being a consistent size).

Instead, the folio_queue buffer contains pointers only the folios we're
dealing with, has them in ascending order and indicates a gap by placing
non-consequitive folios next to each other.  This makes it possible to
track where we need to clean up to by just keeping track of where we've
processed to on each stream and taking the minimum.

Note that the I/O iterator is always rounded up to the end of the folio,
even if that is beyond the EOF position, so that the cache can do DIO from
the page.  The excess space is cleared, though mmapped writes clobber it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-18-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Use the new folio_queue structures to simplify the writeback code.  The
problem with referring to the i_pages xarray directly is that we may have
gaps in the sequence of folios we're writing from that we need to skip when
we're removing the writeback mark from the folios we're writing back from.

At the moment the code tries to deal with this by carefully tracking the
gaps in each writeback stream (eg. write to server and write to cache) and
divining when there's a gap that spans folios (something that's not helped
by folios not being a consistent size).

Instead, the folio_queue buffer contains pointers only the folios we're
dealing with, has them in ascending order and indicates a gap by placing
non-consequitive folios next to each other.  This makes it possible to
track where we need to clean up to by just keeping track of where we've
processed to on each stream and taking the minimum.

Note that the I/O iterator is always rounded up to the end of the folio,
even if that is beyond the EOF position, so that the cache can do DIO from
the page.  The excess space is cleared, though mmapped writes clobber it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-18-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iter</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T10:20:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-29T20:47:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4'/>
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Make the netfs write-side routines use the new folio_queue struct to hold a
rolling buffer of folios, with the issuer adding folios at the tail and the
collector removing them from the head as they're processed instead of using
an xarray.

This will allow a subsequent patch to simplify the write collector.

The primary mark (as tested by folioq_is_marked()) is used to note if the
corresponding folio needs putting.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Make the netfs write-side routines use the new folio_queue struct to hold a
rolling buffer of folios, with the issuer adding folios at the tail and the
collector removing them from the head as they're processed instead of using
an xarray.

This will allow a subsequent patch to simplify the write collector.

The primary mark (as tested by folioq_is_marked()) is used to note if the
corresponding folio needs putting.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE</title>
<updated>2024-09-05T09:00:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-09T08:43:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c57de2a9259d7dc18a7a425fca91c77502263d8a'/>
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Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE as it isn't used anymore.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE as it isn't used anymore.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Reserve netfs_sreq_source 0 as unset/unknown</title>
<updated>2024-09-05T09:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-09T08:45:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=51e9a86a4f75c6dc8531407b2ab2ccc4ad137e5a'/>
<id>51e9a86a4f75c6dc8531407b2ab2ccc4ad137e5a</id>
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Reserve the 0-valued netfs_sreq_source to mean unset or unknown so that it
can be seen in the trace as such rather than appearing as
download-from-server when it's going to get switched to something else.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-9-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Reserve the 0-valued netfs_sreq_source to mean unset or unknown so that it
can be seen in the trace as such rather than appearing as
download-from-server when it's going to get switched to something else.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-9-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Move max_len/max_nr_segs from netfs_io_subrequest to netfs_io_stream</title>
<updated>2024-09-05T09:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T08:02:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=52d55922e0f1db1f580c9f91c174d2392bfad481'/>
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Move max_len/max_nr_segs from struct netfs_io_subrequest to struct
netfs_io_stream as we only issue one subreq at a time and then don't need
these values again for that subreq unless and until we have to retry it -
in which case we want to renegotiate them.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Move max_len/max_nr_segs from struct netfs_io_subrequest to struct
netfs_io_stream as we only issue one subreq at a time and then don't need
these values again for that subreq unless and until we have to retry it -
in which case we want to renegotiate them.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs, cifs: Move CIFS_INO_MODIFIED_ATTR to netfs_inode</title>
<updated>2024-09-05T09:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-05T10:26:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=73425800ac948cb78063b897a0c345d788f3594d'/>
<id>73425800ac948cb78063b897a0c345d788f3594d</id>
<content type='text'>
Move CIFS_INO_MODIFIED_ATTR to netfs_inode as NETFS_ICTX_MODIFIED_ATTR and
then make netfs_perform_write() set it.  This means that cifs doesn't need
to implement the -&gt;post_modify() hook.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Paulo Alcantara &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-7-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Move CIFS_INO_MODIFIED_ATTR to netfs_inode as NETFS_ICTX_MODIFIED_ATTR and
then make netfs_perform_write() set it.  This means that cifs doesn't need
to implement the -&gt;post_modify() hook.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Paulo Alcantara &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-7-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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