linux.git/fs/dax.c, branch v4.16

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2018-02-03T21:49:22+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups

mm: add unmap_mapping_pages()

2018-02-01T01:18:37+00:00

Several users of unmap_mapping_range() would prefer to express their
range in pages rather than bytes.  Unfortuately, on a 32-bit kernel, you
have to remember to cast your page number to a 64-bit type before
shifting it, and four places in the current tree didn't remember to do
that.  That's a sign of a bad interface.

Conveniently, unmap_mapping_range() actually converts from bytes into
pages, so hoist the guts of unmap_mapping_range() into a new function
unmap_mapping_pages() and convert the callers which want to use pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206142627.GD32044@bombadil.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reported-by: "zhangyi (F)" 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/dax.c: release PMD lock even when there is no PMD support in DAX

2018-02-01T01:18:34+00:00

follow_pte_pmd() can theoretically return after having acquired a PMD
lock, even when DAX was not compiled with CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD.

Release the PMD lock unconditionally.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180118133839.20587-1-jschoenh@amazon.de
Fixes: f729c8c9b24f ("dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean")
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()

2018-01-07T21:38:43+00:00

Ext4 needs to pass through error from its iomap handler to the page
fault handler so that it can properly detect ENOSPC and force
transaction commit and retry the fault (and block allocation). Add
argument to dax_iomap_fault() for passing such error.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Revert "mm: replace p??_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths"

2017-12-16T02:53:22+00:00

This reverts commits 5c9d2d5c269c, c7da82b894e9, and e7fe7b5cae90.

We'll probably need to revisit this, but basically we should not
complicate the get_user_pages_fast() case, and checking the actual page
table protection key bits will require more care anyway, since the
protection keys depend on the exact state of the VM in question.

Particularly when doing a "remote" page lookup (ie in somebody elses VM,
not your own), you need to be much more careful than this was.  Dave
Hansen says:

 "So, the underlying bug here is that we now a get_user_pages_remote()
  and then go ahead and do the p*_access_permitted() checks against the
  current PKRU. This was introduced recently with the addition of the
  new p??_access_permitted() calls.

  We have checks in the VMA path for the "remote" gups and we avoid
  consulting PKRU for them. This got missed in the pkeys selftests
  because I did a ptrace read, but not a *write*. I also didn't
  explicitly test it against something where a COW needed to be done"

It's also not entirely clear that it makes sense to check the protection
key bits at this level at all.  But one possible eventual solution is to
make the get_user_pages_fast() case just abort if it sees protection key
bits set, which makes us fall back to the regular get_user_pages() case,
which then has a vma and can do the check there if we want to.

We'll see.

Somewhat related to this all: what we _do_ want to do some day is to
check the PAGE_USER bit - it should obviously always be set for user
pages, but it would be a good check to have back.  Because we have no
generic way to test for it, we lost it as part of moving over from the
architecture-specific x86 GUP implementation to the generic one in
commit e585513b76f7 ("x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic
get_user_page_fast() implementation").

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: replace pmd_write with pmd_access_permitted in fault + gup paths

2017-11-30T02:40:42+00:00

The 'access_permitted' helper is used in the gup-fast path and goes
beyond the simple _PAGE_RW check to also:

 - validate that the mapping is writable from a protection keys
   standpoint

 - validate that the pte has _PAGE_USER set since all fault paths where
   pmd_write is must be referencing user-memory.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151043111049.2842.15241454964150083466.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong "

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...

mm, pagevec: remove cold parameter for pagevecs

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

Every pagevec_init user claims the pages being released are hot even in
cases where it is unlikely the pages are hot.  As no one cares about the
hotness of pages being released to the allocator, just ditch the
parameter.

No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal.  The
parameter is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless
parameter copied everywhere.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, truncate: do not check mapping for every page being truncated

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

During truncation, the mapping has already been checked for shmem and
dax so it's known that workingset_update_node is required.

This patch avoids the checks on mapping for each page being truncated.
In all other cases, a lookup helper is used to determine if
workingset_update_node() needs to be called.  The one danger is that the
API is slightly harder to use as calling workingset_update_node directly
without checking for dax or shmem mappings could lead to surprises.
However, the API rarely needs to be used and hopefully the comment is
enough to give people the hint.

sparsetruncate (tiny)
                              4.14.0-rc4             4.14.0-rc4
                             oneirq-v1r1        pickhelper-v1r1
Min          Time      141.00 (   0.00%)      140.00 (   0.71%)
1st-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      141.00 (   0.70%)
2nd-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.00%)
3rd-qrtle    Time      143.00 (   0.00%)      143.00 (   0.00%)
Max-90%      Time      144.00 (   0.00%)      144.00 (   0.00%)
Max-95%      Time      147.00 (   0.00%)      145.00 (   1.36%)
Max-99%      Time      195.00 (   0.00%)      191.00 (   2.05%)
Max          Time      230.00 (   0.00%)      205.00 (  10.87%)
Amean        Time      144.37 (   0.00%)      143.82 (   0.38%)
Stddev       Time       10.44 (   0.00%)        9.00 (  13.74%)
Coeff        Time        7.23 (   0.00%)        6.26 (  13.41%)
Best99%Amean Time      143.72 (   0.00%)      143.34 (   0.26%)
Best95%Amean Time      142.37 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.26%)
Best90%Amean Time      142.19 (   0.00%)      141.85 (   0.24%)
Best75%Amean Time      141.92 (   0.00%)      141.58 (   0.24%)
Best50%Amean Time      141.69 (   0.00%)      141.31 (   0.27%)
Best25%Amean Time      141.38 (   0.00%)      140.97 (   0.29%)

As you'd expect, the gain is marginal but it can be detected.  The
differences in bonnie are all within the noise which is not surprising
given the impact on the microbenchmark.

radix_tree_update_node_t is a callback for some radix operations that
optionally passes in a private field.  The only user of the callback is
workingset_update_node and as it no longer requires a mapping, the
private field is removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless

2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00

This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback
which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ...
and it is an optimization for those users.  Everyone else is unaffected
by it.

When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under
the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range).  But that notification is not necessary
in all cases.

This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end.  It also adds documentation in all
those cases explaining why.

Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this:

For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when
device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page
table to access a process virtual address space).  There is only 2 cases
when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table
lock when clearing a pte/pmd:

  A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end
  B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault
     on zero page, __replace_page(), ...)

Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write
to a page that might now be used by something completely different.

Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence
to happen:
  - take page table lock
  - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify())
  - set page table entry to point to new page

If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting
the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for
the device.

Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/
PASID):

Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we
assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too).

[Time N] -----------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {try to write to addrA}
CPU-thread-1  {try to write to addrB}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA and populate device TLB}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB and populate device TLB}
[Time N+1] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+2] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {write to addrA which is a write to new page}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {write to addrB which is a write to new page}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+4] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+5] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA from old page}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB from new page}

So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a
notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value
for addrB before seing the new value for addrA.  This break total memory
ordering for the device.

When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected
page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock.  This
is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right
after releasing page table lock before calling
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW.

[jglisse@redhat.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Alistair Popple 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Andrew Donnellan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds