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<title>mm/filemap.c: clear page error before actual read</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:14:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xianting Tian</name>
<email>xianting_tian@126.com</email>
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<published>2020-04-02T04:04:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit faffdfa04fa11ccf048cebdde73db41ede0679e0 ]

Mount failure issue happens under the scenario: Application forked dozens
of threads to mount the same number of cramfs images separately in docker,
but several mounts failed with high probability.  Mount failed due to the
checking result of the page(read from the superblock of loop dev) is not
uptodate after wait_on_page_locked(page) returned in function cramfs_read:

   wait_on_page_locked(page);
   if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
      ...
   }

The reason of the checking result of the page not uptodate: systemd-udevd
read the loopX dev before mount, because the status of loopX is Lo_unbound
at this time, so loop_make_request directly trigger the calling of io_end
handler end_buffer_async_read, which called SetPageError(page).  So It
caused the page can't be set to uptodate in function
end_buffer_async_read:

   if(page_uptodate &amp;&amp; !PageError(page)) {
      SetPageUptodate(page);
   }

Then mount operation is performed, it used the same page which is just
accessed by systemd-udevd above, Because this page is not uptodate, it
will launch a actual read via submit_bh, then wait on this page by calling
wait_on_page_locked(page).  When the I/O of the page done, io_end handler
end_buffer_async_read is called, because no one cleared the page
error(during the whole read path of mount), which is caused by
systemd-udevd reading, so this page is still in "PageError" status, which
can't be set to uptodate in function end_buffer_async_read, then caused
mount failure.

But sometimes mount succeed even through systemd-udeved read loopX dev
just before, The reason is systemd-udevd launched other loopX read just
between step 3.1 and 3.2, the steps as below:

1, loopX dev default status is Lo_unbound;
2, systemd-udved read loopX dev (page is set to PageError);
3, mount operation
   1) set loopX status to Lo_bound;
   ==&gt;systemd-udevd read loopX dev&lt;==
   2) read loopX dev(page has no error)
   3) mount succeed

As the loopX dev status is set to Lo_bound after step 3.1, so the other
loopX dev read by systemd-udevd will go through the whole I/O stack, part
of the call trace as below:

   SYS_read
      vfs_read
          do_sync_read
              blkdev_aio_read
                 generic_file_aio_read
                     do_generic_file_read:
                        ClearPageError(page);
                        mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(filp, page);

here, mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage() is blkdev_readpage.  In latest kernel,
some function name changed, the call trace as below:

   blkdev_read_iter
      generic_file_read_iter
         generic_file_buffered_read:
            /*
             * A previous I/O error may have been due to temporary
             * failures, eg. mutipath errors.
             * Pg_error will be set again if readpage fails.
             */
            ClearPageError(page);
            /* Start the actual read. The read will unlock the page*/
            error=mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(flip, page);

We can see ClearPageError(page) is called before the actual read,
then the read in step 3.2 succeed.

This patch is to add the calling of ClearPageError just before the actual
read of read path of cramfs mount.  Without the patch, the call trace as
below when performing cramfs mount:

   do_mount
      cramfs_read
         cramfs_blkdev_read
            read_cache_page
               do_read_cache_page:
                  filler(data, page);
                  or
                  mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(data, page);

With the patch, the call trace as below when performing mount:

   do_mount
      cramfs_read
         cramfs_blkdev_read
            read_cache_page:
               do_read_cache_page:
                  ClearPageError(page); &lt;== new add
                  filler(data, page);
                  or
                  mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(data, page);

With the patch, mount operation trigger the calling of
ClearPageError(page) before the actual read, the page has no error if no
additional page error happen when I/O done.

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian &lt;xianting_tian@126.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;yubin@h3c.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583318844-22971-1-git-send-email-xianting_tian@126.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit faffdfa04fa11ccf048cebdde73db41ede0679e0 ]

Mount failure issue happens under the scenario: Application forked dozens
of threads to mount the same number of cramfs images separately in docker,
but several mounts failed with high probability.  Mount failed due to the
checking result of the page(read from the superblock of loop dev) is not
uptodate after wait_on_page_locked(page) returned in function cramfs_read:

   wait_on_page_locked(page);
   if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
      ...
   }

The reason of the checking result of the page not uptodate: systemd-udevd
read the loopX dev before mount, because the status of loopX is Lo_unbound
at this time, so loop_make_request directly trigger the calling of io_end
handler end_buffer_async_read, which called SetPageError(page).  So It
caused the page can't be set to uptodate in function
end_buffer_async_read:

   if(page_uptodate &amp;&amp; !PageError(page)) {
      SetPageUptodate(page);
   }

Then mount operation is performed, it used the same page which is just
accessed by systemd-udevd above, Because this page is not uptodate, it
will launch a actual read via submit_bh, then wait on this page by calling
wait_on_page_locked(page).  When the I/O of the page done, io_end handler
end_buffer_async_read is called, because no one cleared the page
error(during the whole read path of mount), which is caused by
systemd-udevd reading, so this page is still in "PageError" status, which
can't be set to uptodate in function end_buffer_async_read, then caused
mount failure.

But sometimes mount succeed even through systemd-udeved read loopX dev
just before, The reason is systemd-udevd launched other loopX read just
between step 3.1 and 3.2, the steps as below:

1, loopX dev default status is Lo_unbound;
2, systemd-udved read loopX dev (page is set to PageError);
3, mount operation
   1) set loopX status to Lo_bound;
   ==&gt;systemd-udevd read loopX dev&lt;==
   2) read loopX dev(page has no error)
   3) mount succeed

As the loopX dev status is set to Lo_bound after step 3.1, so the other
loopX dev read by systemd-udevd will go through the whole I/O stack, part
of the call trace as below:

   SYS_read
      vfs_read
          do_sync_read
              blkdev_aio_read
                 generic_file_aio_read
                     do_generic_file_read:
                        ClearPageError(page);
                        mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(filp, page);

here, mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage() is blkdev_readpage.  In latest kernel,
some function name changed, the call trace as below:

   blkdev_read_iter
      generic_file_read_iter
         generic_file_buffered_read:
            /*
             * A previous I/O error may have been due to temporary
             * failures, eg. mutipath errors.
             * Pg_error will be set again if readpage fails.
             */
            ClearPageError(page);
            /* Start the actual read. The read will unlock the page*/
            error=mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(flip, page);

We can see ClearPageError(page) is called before the actual read,
then the read in step 3.2 succeed.

This patch is to add the calling of ClearPageError just before the actual
read of read path of cramfs mount.  Without the patch, the call trace as
below when performing cramfs mount:

   do_mount
      cramfs_read
         cramfs_blkdev_read
            read_cache_page
               do_read_cache_page:
                  filler(data, page);
                  or
                  mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(data, page);

With the patch, the call trace as below when performing mount:

   do_mount
      cramfs_read
         cramfs_blkdev_read
            read_cache_page:
               do_read_cache_page:
                  ClearPageError(page); &lt;== new add
                  filler(data, page);
                  or
                  mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;readpage(data, page);

With the patch, mount operation trigger the calling of
ClearPageError(page) before the actual read, the page has no error if no
additional page error happen when I/O done.

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian &lt;xianting_tian@126.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;yubin@h3c.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583318844-22971-1-git-send-email-xianting_tian@126.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T18:21:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:34:45+00:00</published>
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commit c3aab9a0bd91b696a852169479b7db1ece6cbf8c upstream.

Functions like filemap_write_and_wait_range() should do nothing if inode
has no dirty pages or pages currently under writeback.  But they anyway
construct struct writeback_control and this does some atomic operations if
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK=y - on fast path it locks inode-&gt;i_lock and
updates state of writeback ownership, on slow path might be more work.
Current this path is safely avoided only when inode mapping has no pages.

For example generic_file_read_iter() calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()
at each O_DIRECT read - pretty hot path.

This patch skips starting new writeback if mapping has no dirty tags set.
If writeback is already in progress filemap_write_and_wait_range() will
wait for it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156378816804.1087.8607636317907921438.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c3aab9a0bd91b696a852169479b7db1ece6cbf8c upstream.

Functions like filemap_write_and_wait_range() should do nothing if inode
has no dirty pages or pages currently under writeback.  But they anyway
construct struct writeback_control and this does some atomic operations if
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK=y - on fast path it locks inode-&gt;i_lock and
updates state of writeback ownership, on slow path might be more work.
Current this path is safely avoided only when inode mapping has no pages.

For example generic_file_read_iter() calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()
at each O_DIRECT read - pretty hot path.

This patch skips starting new writeback if mapping has no dirty tags set.
If writeback is already in progress filemap_write_and_wait_range() will
wait for it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156378816804.1087.8607636317907921438.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: add filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors()</title>
<updated>2019-07-28T06:29:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>zwisler@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-20T21:05:37+00:00</published>
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commit aa0bfcd939c30617385ffa28682c062d78050eba upstream.

In the spirit of filemap_fdatawait_range() and
filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(), introduce
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors() which both takes a range upon
which to wait and does not clear errors from the address space.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit aa0bfcd939c30617385ffa28682c062d78050eba upstream.

In the spirit of filemap_fdatawait_range() and
filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(), introduce
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors() which both takes a range upon
which to wait and does not clear errors from the address space.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: use new return type vm_fault_t</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T00:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Souptick Joarder</name>
<email>jrdr.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T00:08:00+00:00</published>
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Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler in struct
vm_operations_struct.  For now, this is just documenting that the
function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno.  Once all
instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180511190542.GA2412@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler in struct
vm_operations_struct.  For now, this is just documenting that the
function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno.  Once all
instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180511190542.GA2412@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/filemap.c: fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert()</title>
<updated>2018-04-21T00:18:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-20T21:56:20+00:00</published>
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f2fs specifies the __GFP_ZERO flag for allocating some of its pages.
Unfortunately, the page cache also uses the mapping's GFP flags for
allocating radix tree nodes.  It always masked off the __GFP_HIGHMEM
flag, and masks off __GFP_ZERO in some paths, but not all.  That causes
radix tree nodes to be allocated with a NULL list_head, which causes
backtraces like:

  __list_del_entry+0x30/0xd0
  list_lru_del+0xac/0x1ac
  page_cache_tree_insert+0xd8/0x110

The __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 flags would also be able to sneak through
if they are ever used.  Fix them all by using GFP_RECLAIM_MASK at the
innermost location, and remove it from earlier in the callchain.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411060320.14458-2-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 449dd6984d0e ("mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Fries &lt;cfries@google.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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f2fs specifies the __GFP_ZERO flag for allocating some of its pages.
Unfortunately, the page cache also uses the mapping's GFP flags for
allocating radix tree nodes.  It always masked off the __GFP_HIGHMEM
flag, and masks off __GFP_ZERO in some paths, but not all.  That causes
radix tree nodes to be allocated with a NULL list_head, which causes
backtraces like:

  __list_del_entry+0x30/0xd0
  list_lru_del+0xac/0x1ac
  page_cache_tree_insert+0xd8/0x110

The __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 flags would also be able to sneak through
if they are ever used.  Fix them all by using GFP_RECLAIM_MASK at the
innermost location, and remove it from earlier in the callchain.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411060320.14458-2-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 449dd6984d0e ("mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Fries &lt;cfries@google.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/filemap.c: provide dummy filemap_page_mkwrite() for NOMMU</title>
<updated>2018-04-14T00:10:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-13T22:35:27+00:00</published>
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Building orangefs on MMU-less machines now results in a link error
because of the newly introduced use of the filemap_page_mkwrite()
function:

  ERROR: "filemap_page_mkwrite" [fs/orangefs/orangefs.ko] undefined!

This adds a dummy version for it, similar to the existing
generic_file_mmap and generic_file_readonly_mmap stubs in the same file,
to avoid the link error without adding #ifdefs in each file system that
uses these.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105555.2439976-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: a5135eeab2e5 ("orangefs: implement vm_ops-&gt;fault")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Brandenburg &lt;martin@omnibond.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Marshall &lt;hubcap@omnibond.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Building orangefs on MMU-less machines now results in a link error
because of the newly introduced use of the filemap_page_mkwrite()
function:

  ERROR: "filemap_page_mkwrite" [fs/orangefs/orangefs.ko] undefined!

This adds a dummy version for it, similar to the existing
generic_file_mmap and generic_file_readonly_mmap stubs in the same file,
to avoid the link error without adding #ifdefs in each file system that
uses these.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105555.2439976-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: a5135eeab2e5 ("orangefs: implement vm_ops-&gt;fault")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Brandenburg &lt;martin@omnibond.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Marshall &lt;hubcap@omnibond.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>page cache: use xa_lock</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:36:56+00:00</published>
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Remove the address_space -&gt;tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to
the radix_tree_root.  Rename the address_space -&gt;page_tree to -&gt;i_pages,
since we don't really care that it's a tree.

[willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove the address_space -&gt;tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to
the radix_tree_root.  Rename the address_space -&gt;page_tree to -&gt;i_pages,
since we don't really care that it's a tree.

[willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/filemap.c: remove include of hardirq.h</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T01:18:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.s@alibaba-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T00:16:34+00:00</published>
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in_atomic() has been moved to include/linux/preempt.h, and the filemap.c
doesn't use in_atomic() directly at all, so it sounds unnecessary to
include hardirq.h.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509985319-38633-1-git-send-email-yang.s@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.s@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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in_atomic() has been moved to include/linux/preempt.h, and the filemap.c
doesn't use in_atomic() directly at all, so it sounds unnecessary to
include hardirq.h.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509985319-38633-1-git-send-email-yang.s@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.s@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'afs-next-20171113' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T19:41:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T19:41:22+00:00</published>
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Pull AFS updates from David Howells:
 "kAFS filesystem driver overhaul.

  The major points of the overhaul are:

   (1) Preliminary groundwork is laid for supporting network-namespacing
       of kAFS. The remainder of the namespacing work requires some way
       to pass namespace information to submounts triggered by an
       automount. This requires something like the mount overhaul that's
       in progress.

   (2) sockaddr_rxrpc is used in preference to in_addr for holding
       addresses internally and add support for talking to the YFS VL
       server. With this, kAFS can do everything over IPv6 as well as
       IPv4 if it's talking to servers that support it.

   (3) Callback handling is overhauled to be generally passive rather
       than active. 'Callbacks' are promises by the server to tell us
       about data and metadata changes. Callbacks are now checked when
       we next touch an inode rather than actively going and looking for
       it where possible.

   (4) File access permit caching is overhauled to store the caching
       information per-inode rather than per-directory, shared over
       subordinate files. Whilst older AFS servers only allow ACLs on
       directories (shared to the files in that directory), newer AFS
       servers break that restriction.

       To improve memory usage and to make it easier to do mass-key
       removal, permit combinations are cached and shared.

   (5) Cell database management is overhauled to allow lighter locks to
       be used and to make cell records autonomous state machines that
       look after getting their own DNS records and cleaning themselves
       up, in particular preventing races in acquiring and relinquishing
       the fscache token for the cell.

   (6) Volume caching is overhauled. The afs_vlocation record is got rid
       of to simplify things and the superblock is now keyed on the cell
       and the numeric volume ID only. The volume record is tied to a
       superblock and normal superblock management is used to mediate
       the lifetime of the volume fscache token.

   (7) File server record caching is overhauled to make server records
       independent of cells and volumes. A server can be in multiple
       cells (in such a case, the administrator must make sure that the
       VL services for all cells correctly reflect the volumes shared
       between those cells).

       Server records are now indexed using the UUID of the server
       rather than the address since a server can have multiple
       addresses.

   (8) File server rotation is overhauled to handle VMOVED, VBUSY (and
       similar), VOFFLINE and VNOVOL indications and to handle rotation
       both of servers and addresses of those servers. The rotation will
       also wait and retry if the server says it is busy.

   (9) Data writeback is overhauled. Each inode no longer stores a list
       of modified sections tagged with the key that authorised it in
       favour of noting the modified region of a page in page-&gt;private
       and storing a list of keys that made modifications in the inode.

       This simplifies things and allows other keys to be used to
       actually write to the server if a key that made a modification
       becomes useless.

  (10) Writable mmap() is implemented. This allows a kernel to be build
       entirely on AFS.

  Note that Pre AFS-3.4 servers are no longer supported, though this can
  be added back if necessary (AFS-3.4 was released in 1998)"

* tag 'afs-next-20171113' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (35 commits)
  afs: Protect call-&gt;state changes against signals
  afs: Trace page dirty/clean
  afs: Implement shared-writeable mmap
  afs: Get rid of the afs_writeback record
  afs: Introduce a file-private data record
  afs: Use a dynamic port if 7001 is in use
  afs: Fix directory read/modify race
  afs: Trace the sending of pages
  afs: Trace the initiation and completion of client calls
  afs: Fix documentation on # vs % prefix in mount source specification
  afs: Fix total-length calculation for multiple-page send
  afs: Only progress call state at end of Tx phase from rxrpc callback
  afs: Make use of the YFS service upgrade to fully support IPv6
  afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation
  afs: Move server rotation code into its own file
  afs: Add an address list concept
  afs: Overhaul cell database management
  afs: Overhaul permit caching
  afs: Overhaul the callback handling
  afs: Rename struct afs_call server member to cm_server
  ...
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Pull AFS updates from David Howells:
 "kAFS filesystem driver overhaul.

  The major points of the overhaul are:

   (1) Preliminary groundwork is laid for supporting network-namespacing
       of kAFS. The remainder of the namespacing work requires some way
       to pass namespace information to submounts triggered by an
       automount. This requires something like the mount overhaul that's
       in progress.

   (2) sockaddr_rxrpc is used in preference to in_addr for holding
       addresses internally and add support for talking to the YFS VL
       server. With this, kAFS can do everything over IPv6 as well as
       IPv4 if it's talking to servers that support it.

   (3) Callback handling is overhauled to be generally passive rather
       than active. 'Callbacks' are promises by the server to tell us
       about data and metadata changes. Callbacks are now checked when
       we next touch an inode rather than actively going and looking for
       it where possible.

   (4) File access permit caching is overhauled to store the caching
       information per-inode rather than per-directory, shared over
       subordinate files. Whilst older AFS servers only allow ACLs on
       directories (shared to the files in that directory), newer AFS
       servers break that restriction.

       To improve memory usage and to make it easier to do mass-key
       removal, permit combinations are cached and shared.

   (5) Cell database management is overhauled to allow lighter locks to
       be used and to make cell records autonomous state machines that
       look after getting their own DNS records and cleaning themselves
       up, in particular preventing races in acquiring and relinquishing
       the fscache token for the cell.

   (6) Volume caching is overhauled. The afs_vlocation record is got rid
       of to simplify things and the superblock is now keyed on the cell
       and the numeric volume ID only. The volume record is tied to a
       superblock and normal superblock management is used to mediate
       the lifetime of the volume fscache token.

   (7) File server record caching is overhauled to make server records
       independent of cells and volumes. A server can be in multiple
       cells (in such a case, the administrator must make sure that the
       VL services for all cells correctly reflect the volumes shared
       between those cells).

       Server records are now indexed using the UUID of the server
       rather than the address since a server can have multiple
       addresses.

   (8) File server rotation is overhauled to handle VMOVED, VBUSY (and
       similar), VOFFLINE and VNOVOL indications and to handle rotation
       both of servers and addresses of those servers. The rotation will
       also wait and retry if the server says it is busy.

   (9) Data writeback is overhauled. Each inode no longer stores a list
       of modified sections tagged with the key that authorised it in
       favour of noting the modified region of a page in page-&gt;private
       and storing a list of keys that made modifications in the inode.

       This simplifies things and allows other keys to be used to
       actually write to the server if a key that made a modification
       becomes useless.

  (10) Writable mmap() is implemented. This allows a kernel to be build
       entirely on AFS.

  Note that Pre AFS-3.4 servers are no longer supported, though this can
  be added back if necessary (AFS-3.4 was released in 1998)"

* tag 'afs-next-20171113' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (35 commits)
  afs: Protect call-&gt;state changes against signals
  afs: Trace page dirty/clean
  afs: Implement shared-writeable mmap
  afs: Get rid of the afs_writeback record
  afs: Introduce a file-private data record
  afs: Use a dynamic port if 7001 is in use
  afs: Fix directory read/modify race
  afs: Trace the sending of pages
  afs: Trace the initiation and completion of client calls
  afs: Fix documentation on # vs % prefix in mount source specification
  afs: Fix total-length calculation for multiple-page send
  afs: Only progress call state at end of Tx phase from rxrpc callback
  afs: Make use of the YFS service upgrade to fully support IPv6
  afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation
  afs: Move server rotation code into its own file
  afs: Add an address list concept
  afs: Overhaul cell database management
  afs: Overhaul permit caching
  afs: Overhaul the callback handling
  afs: Rename struct afs_call server member to cm_server
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove __GFP_COLD</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:38:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=453f85d43fa9ee243f0fc3ac4e1be45615301e3f'/>
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As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold
pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that
allocation requests can take advantage of.  Juding from the users of
__GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying
other sites instead of actually measuring the impact.  Remove the
__GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page
allocator.

This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the
per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu
list can often fit in the L3 cache.  Hence, there is only a potential
benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop.  It's
even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance
of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the
zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway.

The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the
allocation path and not the free path.  A page fault microbenchmark was
tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising
given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the
fault path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold
pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that
allocation requests can take advantage of.  Juding from the users of
__GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying
other sites instead of actually measuring the impact.  Remove the
__GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page
allocator.

This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the
per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu
list can often fit in the L3 cache.  Hence, there is only a potential
benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop.  It's
even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance
of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the
zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway.

The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the
allocation path and not the free path.  A page fault microbenchmark was
tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising
given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the
fault path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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