Hi,
A couple of weeks have gone by without further comments about this patch.
Are you interested in the minor cleanups and added comments, or is the v2 patch
in -next good enough?
Apparently Mel Gorman's interested in this patchset too. Mel: Most of stable
pages part 2 are already in upstream for 3.9... except this piece. Are you
interested in having this piece in 3.9 also? Or is 3.10 good enough for
everyone?
--D
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:02:59PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Walking a bio's page mappings has proved problematic, so create a new bio flag
> to indicate that a bio's data needs to be snapshotted in order to guarantee
> stable pages during writeback. Next, for the one user (ext3/jbd) of
> snapshotting, hook all the places where writes can be initiated without
> PG_writeback set, and set BIO_SNAP_STABLE there. We must also flag journal
> "metadata" bios for stable writeout, since file data can be written through
> the
> journal. Finally, the MS_SNAP_STABLE mount flag (only used by ext3) is now
> superfluous, so get rid of it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.w...@oracle.com>
>
> [darrick.w...@oracle.com: Fold in a couple of small cleanups from akpm]
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 9 ++++++++-
> fs/ext3/super.c | 1 -
> fs/jbd/commit.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> include/linux/blk_types.h | 3 ++-
> include/linux/buffer_head.h | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 1 -
> mm/bounce.c | 21 +--------------------
> mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ----
> 8 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index b4dcb34..71578d6 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -2949,7 +2949,7 @@ static void guard_bh_eod(int rw, struct bio *bio,
> struct buffer_head *bh)
> }
> }
>
> -int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head * bh)
> +int _submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long bio_flags)
> {
> struct bio *bio;
> int ret = 0;
> @@ -2984,6 +2984,7 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head * bh)
>
> bio->bi_end_io = end_bio_bh_io_sync;
> bio->bi_private = bh;
> + bio->bi_flags |= bio_flags;
>
> /* Take care of bh's that straddle the end of the device */
> guard_bh_eod(rw, bio, bh);
> @@ -2997,6 +2998,12 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head * bh)
> bio_put(bio);
> return ret;
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(_submit_bh);
> +
> +int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head *bh)
> +{
> + return _submit_bh(rw, bh, 0);
> +}
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(submit_bh);
>
> /**
> diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
> index fb5120a..3dc48cc 100644
> --- a/fs/ext3/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
> @@ -2067,7 +2067,6 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb,
> void *data, int silent)
> test_opt(sb,DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA ? "journal":
> test_opt(sb,DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA ? "ordered":
> "writeback");
> - sb->s_flags |= MS_SNAP_STABLE;
>
> return 0;
>
> diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
> index 86b39b1..11bb11f 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
> @@ -162,8 +162,17 @@ static void journal_do_submit_data(struct buffer_head
> **wbuf, int bufs,
>
> for (i = 0; i < bufs; i++) {
> wbuf[i]->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
> - /* We use-up our safety reference in submit_bh() */
> - submit_bh(write_op, wbuf[i]);
> + /*
> + * Here we write back pagecache data that may be mmaped. Since
> + * we cannot afford to clean the page and set PageWriteback
> + * here due to lock ordering (page lock ranks above transaction
> + * start), the data can change while IO is in flight. Tell the
> + * block layer it should bounce the bio pages if stable data
> + * during write is required.
> + *
> + * We use up our safety reference in submit_bh().
> + */
> + _submit_bh(write_op, wbuf[i], 1 << BIO_SNAP_STABLE);
> }
> }
>
> @@ -667,7 +676,17 @@ start_journal_io:
> clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
> set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
> bh->b_end_io = journal_end_buffer_io_sync;
> - submit_bh(write_op, bh);
> + /*
> + * In data=journal mode, here we can end up
> + * writing pagecache data that might be
> + * mmapped. Since we can't afford to clean the
> + * page and set PageWriteback (see the comment
> + * near the other use of _submit_bh()), the
> + * data can change while the write is in
> + * flight. Tell the block layer to bounce the
> + * bio pages if stable pages are required.
> + */
> + _submit_bh(write_op, bh, 1 << BIO_SNAP_STABLE);
> }
> cond_resched();
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> index cdf1119..22990cf 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> @@ -111,12 +111,13 @@ struct bio {
> #define BIO_FS_INTEGRITY 9 /* fs owns integrity data, not block layer */
> #define BIO_QUIET 10 /* Make BIO Quiet */
> #define BIO_MAPPED_INTEGRITY 11/* integrity metadata has been remapped */
> +#define BIO_SNAP_STABLE 12 /* bio data must be snapshotted during
> write */
>
> /*
> * Flags starting here get preserved by bio_reset() - this includes
> * BIO_POOL_IDX()
> */
> -#define BIO_RESET_BITS 12
> +#define BIO_RESET_BITS 13
>
> #define bio_flagged(bio, flag) ((bio)->bi_flags & (1 << (flag)))
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
> index 5afc4f9..4c16c4a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
> +++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ void ll_rw_block(int, int, struct buffer_head * bh[]);
> int sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh);
> int __sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int rw);
> void write_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int rw);
> +int _submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long bio_flags);
> int submit_bh(int, struct buffer_head *);
> void write_boundary_block(struct block_device *bdev,
> sector_t bblock, unsigned blocksize);
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> index c7fc1e6..a4ed56c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> @@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
> #define MS_STRICTATIME (1<<24) /* Always perform atime updates */
>
> /* These sb flags are internal to the kernel */
> -#define MS_SNAP_STABLE (1<<27) /* Snapshot pages during writeback, if
> needed */
> #define MS_NOSEC (1<<28)
> #define MS_BORN (1<<29)
> #define MS_ACTIVE (1<<30)
> diff --git a/mm/bounce.c b/mm/bounce.c
> index 5f89017..a5c2ec3 100644
> --- a/mm/bounce.c
> +++ b/mm/bounce.c
> @@ -181,32 +181,13 @@ static void bounce_end_io_read_isa(struct bio *bio, int
> err)
> #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
> static int must_snapshot_stable_pages(struct request_queue *q, struct bio
> *bio)
> {
> - struct page *page;
> - struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
> - struct address_space *mapping;
> - struct bio_vec *from;
> - int i;
> -
> if (bio_data_dir(bio) != WRITE)
> return 0;
>
> if (!bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(&q->backing_dev_info))
> return 0;
>
> - /*
> - * Based on the first page that has a valid mapping, decide whether or
> - * not we have to employ bounce buffering to guarantee stable pages.
> - */
> - bio_for_each_segment(from, bio, i) {
> - page = from->bv_page;
> - mapping = page_mapping(page);
> - if (!mapping)
> - continue;
> - bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
> - return mapping->host->i_sb->s_flags & MS_SNAP_STABLE;
> - }
> -
> - return 0;
> + return test_bit(BIO_SNAP_STABLE, &bio->bi_flags);
> }
> #else
> static int must_snapshot_stable_pages(struct request_queue *q, struct bio
> *bio)
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index efe6814..4514ad7 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -2311,10 +2311,6 @@ void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page)
>
> if (!bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(bdi))
> return;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
> - if (mapping->host->i_sb->s_flags & MS_SNAP_STABLE)
> - return;
> -#endif /* CONFIG_NEED_BOUNCE_POOL */
>
> wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> }
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