linux.git/mm/filemap.c, branch v5.7-rc2

mm: huge tmpfs: try to split_huge_page() when punching hole

2020-04-07T17:43:41+00:00

Yang Shi writes:

Currently, when truncating a shmem file, if the range is partly in a THP
(start or end is in the middle of THP), the pages actually will just get
cleared rather than being freed, unless the range covers the whole THP.
Even though all the subpages are truncated (randomly or sequentially), the
THP may still be kept in page cache.

This might be fine for some usecases which prefer preserving THP, but
balloon inflation is handled in base page size.  So when using shmem THP
as memory backend, QEMU inflation actually doesn't work as expected since
it doesn't free memory.  But the inflation usecase really needs to get the
memory freed.  (Anonymous THP will also not get freed right away, but will
be freed eventually when all subpages are unmapped: whereas shmem THP
still stays in page cache.)

Split THP right away when doing partial hole punch, and if split fails
just clear the page so that read of the punched area will return zeroes.

Hugh Dickins adds:

Our earlier "team of pages" huge tmpfs implementation worked in the way
that Yang Shi proposes; and we have been using this patch to continue to
split the huge page when hole-punched or truncated, since converting over
to the compound page implementation.  Although huge tmpfs gives out huge
pages when available, if the user specifically asks to truncate or punch a
hole (perhaps to free memory, perhaps to reduce the memcg charge), then
the filesystem should do so as best it can, splitting the huge page.

That is not always possible: any additional reference to the huge page
prevents split_huge_page() from succeeding, so the result can be flaky.
But in practice it works successfully enough that we've not seen any
problem from that.

Add shmem_punch_compound() to encapsulate the decision of when a split is
needed, and doing the split if so.  Using this simplifies the flow in
shmem_undo_range(); and the first (trylock) pass does not need to do any
page clearing on failure, because the second pass will either succeed or
do that clearing.  Following the example of zero_user_segment() when
clearing a partial page, add flush_dcache_page() and set_page_dirty() when
clearing a hole - though I'm not certain that either is needed.

But: split_huge_page() would be sure to fail if shmem_undo_range()'s
pagevec holds further references to the huge page.  The easiest way to fix
that is for find_get_entries() to return early, as soon as it has put one
compound head or tail into the pagevec.  At first this felt like a hack;
but on examination, this convention better suits all its callers - or will
do, if the slight one-page-per-pagevec slowdown in shmem_unlock_mapping()
and shmem_seek_hole_data() is transformed into a 512-page-per-pagevec
speedup by checking for compound pages there.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Yang Shi 
Cc: Alexander Duyck 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2002261959020.10801@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times

2020-04-02T16:35:30+00:00

The idea comes from a discussion between Linus and Andrea [1].

Before this patch we only allow a page fault to retry once.  We achieved
this by clearing the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY flag when doing
handle_mm_fault() the second time.  This was majorly used to avoid
unexpected starvation of the system by looping over forever to handle the
page fault on a single page.  However that should hardly happen, and after
all for each code path to return a VM_FAULT_RETRY we'll first wait for a
condition (during which time we should possibly yield the cpu) to happen
before VM_FAULT_RETRY is really returned.

This patch removes the restriction by keeping the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
flag when we receive VM_FAULT_RETRY.  It means that the page fault handler
now can retry the page fault for multiple times if necessary without the
need to generate another page fault event.  Meanwhile we still keep the
FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag so page fault handler can still identify whether a
page fault is the first attempt or not.

Then we'll have these combinations of fault flags (only considering
ALLOW_RETRY flag and TRIED flag):

  - ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED:  this means the page fault allows to
                             retry, and this is the first try

  - ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED:   this means the page fault allows to
                             retry, and this is not the first try

  - !ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault does not allow
                             to retry at all

  - !ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED:  this is forbidden and should never be used

In existing code we have multiple places that has taken special care of
the first condition above by checking against (fault_flags &
FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY).  This patch introduces a simple helper to detect
the first retry of a page fault by checking against both (fault_flags &
FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) and !(fault_flag & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED) because now
even the 2nd try will have the ALLOW_RETRY set, then use that helper in
all existing special paths.  One example is in __lock_page_or_retry(), now
we'll drop the mmap_sem only in the first attempt of page fault and we'll
keep it in follow up retries, so old locking behavior will be retained.

This will be a nice enhancement for current code [2] at the same time a
supporting material for the future userfaultfd-writeprotect work, since in
that work there will always be an explicit userfault writeprotect retry
for protected pages, and if that cannot resolve the page fault (e.g., when
userfaultfd-writeprotect is used in conjunction with swapped pages) then
we'll possibly need a 3rd retry of the page fault.  It might also benefit
other potential users who will have similar requirement like userfault
write-protection.

GUP code is not touched yet and will be covered in follow up patch.

Please read the thread below for more information.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181230154648.GB9832@redhat.com/

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Tested-by: Brian Geffon 
Cc: Bobby Powers 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Denis Plotnikov 
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Martin Cracauer 
Cc: Marty McFadden 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Maya Gokhale 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160246.9790-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: rewrite pagecache_get_page documentation

2020-04-02T16:35:27+00:00

 - These were never called PCG flags; they've been called FGP flags since
   their introduction in 2014.
 - The FGP_FOR_MMAP flag was misleadingly documented as if it was an
   alternative to FGP_CREAT instead of an option to it.
 - Rename the 'offset' parameter to 'index'.
 - Capitalisation, formatting, rewording.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Pankaj Gupta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: unexport find_get_entry

2020-04-02T16:35:26+00:00

No in-tree users (proc, madvise, memcg, mincore) can be built as a module.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Pankaj Gupta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: use vm_fault error code directly

2020-04-02T16:35:26+00:00

Use VM_FAULT_OOM instead of indirecting through vmf_error(-ENOMEM).

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Pankaj Gupta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: remove unused argument from shrink_readahead_size_eio()

2020-04-02T16:35:26+00:00

The first argument of shrink_readahead_size_eio() is not used.  Hence
remove it from the function definition and from all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583868093-24342-1-git-send-email-jrdr.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: clear page error before actual read

2020-04-02T16:35:26+00:00

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 && !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;
   ==>systemd-udevd read loopX dev<==
   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->a_ops->readpage(filp, page);

here, mapping->a_ops->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->a_ops->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->a_ops->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); <== new add
                  filler(data, page);
                  or
                  mapping->a_ops->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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583318844-22971-1-git-send-email-xianting_tian@126.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: don't bother dropping mmap_sem for zero size readahead

2020-04-02T16:35:26+00:00

When handling a page fault, we drop mmap_sem to start async readahead so
that we don't block on IO submission with mmap_sem held.  However there's
no point to drop mmap_sem in case readahead is disabled.  Handle that case
to avoid pointless dropping of mmap_sem and retrying the fault.  This was
actually reported to block mlockall(MCL_CURRENT) indefinitely.

Fixes: 6b4c9f446981 ("filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations")
Reported-by: Minchan Kim 
Reported-by: Robert Stupp 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200212101356.30759-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/filemap.c: clean up filemap_write_and_wait()

2020-01-31T18:30:37+00:00

At some point filemap_write_and_wait() and
filemap_write_and_wait_range() got the exact same implementation with
the exception of the range being specified in *_range()

Similar to other functions in fs.h which call *_range(..., 0,
LLONG_MAX), change filemap_write_and_wait() to be a static inline which
calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191129160713.30892-1-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop mmap_sem before calling balance_dirty_pages() in write fault

2019-12-01T14:29:18+00:00

One of our services is observing hanging ps/top/etc under heavy write
IO, and the task states show this is an mmap_sem priority inversion:

A write fault is holding the mmap_sem in read-mode and waiting for
(heavily cgroup-limited) IO in balance_dirty_pages():

    balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905
    balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390
    fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90
    do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400
    __handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0
    handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200
    __do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0
    page_fault+0x45/0x50

Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in
write-mode:

    call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20
    do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330
    SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock
starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this:

    call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
    proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480
    __vfs_read+0x23/0x140
    vfs_read+0x87/0x130
    SyS_read+0x42/0x90
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

To fix this, do what we do for cache read faults already: drop the
mmap_sem before calling into anything IO bound, in this case the
balance_dirty_pages() function, and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924194238.GA29030@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds