linux.git/include/linux/pagemap.h, branch v4.13-rc2

Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux

2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00

Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
  that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
  may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
  series.

  The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
  errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
  will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
  writes have made it to the backing store.

  For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
  in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
  writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
  side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
  model really sucks for userland.

  Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
  error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
  (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
  several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
  writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
  another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
  setups that coordination may even not be possible.

  But wait...it gets worse!

  The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
  call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
  and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
  callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
  userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
  back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
  because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
  (incorrectly) return 0.

  This pile aims to do three things:

   1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
      reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
      regardless of what internal callers are doing

   2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
      the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
      but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
      anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.

   3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
      error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
      lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
      filesystems should do in this situation.

  To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
  builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
  all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
  infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.

  Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
  There is a lot of work remaining here:

   1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
      initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
      simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
      filesystem trees.

   2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
      detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
      draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
      prime time yet.

  This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
  interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
      https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
  xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
  ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
  fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
  block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
  dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
  Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
  mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
  fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
  lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
  mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
  mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
  jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
  buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
  fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
  buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
  mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty

mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error

2017-07-06T11:02:26+00:00

When a writeback error occurs, we want later callers to be able to pick
up that fact when they go to wait on that writeback to complete.
Traditionally, we've used AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC flags to track that, but
that's problematic since only one "checker" will be informed when an
error occurs.

In later patches, we're going to want to convert many of these callers
to check for errors since a well-defined point in time. For now, ensure
that we can handle both sorts of checks by both setting errors in both
places when there is a writeback failure.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton

sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00

Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=>	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: Fix false-positive VM_BUG_ON() in page_cache_{get,add}_speculative()

2017-03-28T06:23:27+00:00

0day testing by Fengguang Wu triggered this crash while running Trinity:

  kernel BUG at include/linux/pagemap.h:151!
  ...
  CPU: 0 PID: 458 Comm: trinity-c0 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc2-00251-g2947ba0 #1
  ...
  Call Trace:
   __get_user_pages_fast()
   get_user_pages_fast()
   get_futex_key()
   futex_requeue()
   do_futex()
   SyS_futex()
   do_syscall_64()
   entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path()

It' VM_BUG_ON() due to false-negative in_atomic(). We call
page_cache_get_speculative() with disabled local interrupts.
It should be atomic enough.

So let's check for disabled interrupts in the VM_BUG_ON() condition
too, to resolve this.

( This got triggered by the conversion of the x86 GUP code to the
  generic GUP code. )

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: LKP 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170324114709.pcytvyb3d6ajux33@black.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: fix stray kernel-doc notation

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

Delete stray (second) function description in find_lock_page()
kernel-doc notation.

Note: scripts/kernel-doc just ignores the second function description.

Fixes: 2457aec63745e ("mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b037e9a3-516c-ec02-6c8e-fa5479747ba6@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: un-export wake_up_page functions

2017-02-23T00:41:29+00:00

These are no longer used outside mm/filemap.c, so un-export them and
make them static where possible.  These were exported specifically for
NFS use in commit a4796e37c12e ("MM: export page_wakeup functions").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103182234.30141-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Anna Schumaker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit

2016-12-25T19:54:48+00:00

Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.

This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.

The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).

This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.

Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Bob Peterson 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski 
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix false-positive WARN_ON() in truncate/invalidate for hugetlb

2016-12-01T00:32:52+00:00

Hugetlb pages have ->index in size of the huge pages (PMD_SIZE or
PUD_SIZE), not in PAGE_SIZE as other types of pages.  This means we
cannot user page_to_pgoff() to check whether we've got the right page
for the radix-tree index.

Let's introduce page_to_index() which would return radix-tree index for
given page.

We will be able to get rid of this once hugetlb will be switched to
multi-order entries.

Fixes: fc127da085c2 ("truncate: handle file thp")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161123093053.mjbnvn5zwxw5e6lk@black.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reported-by: Doug Nelson 
Tested-by: Doug Nelson 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: 	[4.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: split gfp_mask and mapping flags into separate fields

2016-10-11T22:06:34+00:00

mapping->flags currently encodes two different things into a single flag.
It contains sticky gfp_mask for page cache allocations and AS_ codes used
to report errors/enospace and other states which are mapping specific.
Condensing the two semantically unrelated things saves few bytes but it
also complicates other things.  For one thing the gfp flags space is
reduced and in fact we are already running out of available bits.  It can
be assumed that more gfp flags will be necessary later on.

To not introduce the address_space grow (at least on x86_64) we can stick
it right after private_lock because we have a hole there.

struct address_space {
        struct inode *             host;                 /*     0     8 */
        struct radix_tree_root     page_tree;            /*     8    16 */
        spinlock_t                 tree_lock;            /*    24     4 */
        atomic_t                   i_mmap_writable;      /*    28     4 */
        struct rb_root             i_mmap;               /*    32     8 */
        struct rw_semaphore        i_mmap_rwsem;         /*    40    40 */
        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
        long unsigned int          nrpages;              /*    80     8 */
        long unsigned int          nrexceptional;        /*    88     8 */
        long unsigned int          writeback_index;      /*    96     8 */
        const struct address_space_operations  * a_ops;  /*   104     8 */
        long unsigned int          flags;                /*   112     8 */
        spinlock_t                 private_lock;         /*   120     4 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
        struct list_head           private_list;         /*   128    16 */
        void *                     private_data;         /*   144     8 */

        /* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 14 */
        /* sum members: 148, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
        /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
};

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912114852.GI14524@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds