On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:07:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Now RCU lookup starts.  And on another CPU we move the first dentry over
> > the third one.  copy_name() is called, it decrements the refcount down
> > to 1 (__d_free() hasn't happened yet) and doesn't schedule any freeing.
> 
> Ahh. If we were to do *all* of the copy-name name freeing under RCU,
> we'd be ok. But we don't. We do the refcount decrement immediately
> (and have to, if we want to have the rcu/refcount union). Yeah, good
> call, although I find that doubvle rcu grace period for the common
> case to be very annoying.

See below (or in followup to what you were replying to); it *is* trivial to
avoid double grace periods there.  Look: in free_dentry() we know if we want
the name freed.  So let's have __d_free() for "just free dentry" and
__d_free_ext() for "free dentry and name".  No looking at refcount in the
latter - just choose which one to call_rcu() when free_dentry() does decrement.
It's equivalent from the grace period POV to doing kfree_rcu(), but avoids
double call_rcu(); it just that in case we'd want kfree_rcu() we
schedule the call of a function that frees both.

What we get in free_dentry() is:
        * external name not shared: refcount driven to 0, RCU-delayed
call of "free dentry, free ext name"
        * external name still shared: refcount positive after decrement,
no freeing ext name
        * no external name: no ext name to free
In the last two cases we do what dentry_free() used to do, except that now
__d_free() doesn't even look for ext name.  Just frees the dentry.  If
it never had been hashed - directly called, otherwise - via call_rcu().

Does that look OK for you?

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index cb25a1a..0cf5aff 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -235,20 +235,44 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const struct dentry *dentry, 
const unsigned char *c
        return dentry_string_cmp(cs, ct, tcount);
 }
 
+struct ext_name {
+       union {
+               atomic_t count;
+               struct rcu_head head;
+       };
+       unsigned char name[];
+};
+
+static inline struct ext_name *ext_name(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+       if (likely(!dname_external(dentry)))
+               return NULL;
+       return container_of(dentry->d_name.name, struct ext_name, name[0]);
+}
+
 static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
        struct dentry *dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu);
 
        WARN_ON(!hlist_unhashed(&dentry->d_alias));
-       if (dname_external(dentry))
-               kfree(dentry->d_name.name);
+       kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); 
+}
+
+static void __d_free_ext(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+       struct dentry *dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu);
+       WARN_ON(!hlist_unhashed(&dentry->d_alias));
+       kfree(ext_name(dentry));
        kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); 
 }
 
 static void dentry_free(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
+       struct ext_name *p = ext_name(dentry);
+       if (unlikely(p) && likely(atomic_dec_and_test(&p->count)))
+               call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free_ext);
        /* if dentry was never visible to RCU, immediate free is OK */
-       if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))
+       else if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))
                __d_free(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu);
        else
                call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free);
@@ -1438,11 +1462,14 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const 
struct qstr *name)
         */
        dentry->d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1] = 0;
        if (name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) {
-               dname = kmalloc(name->len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!dname) {
+               size_t size = offsetof(struct ext_name, name) + name->len + 1;
+               struct ext_name *p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!p) {
                        kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); 
                        return NULL;
                }
+               atomic_set(&p->count, 1);
+               dname = p->name;
        } else  {
                dname = dentry->d_iname;
        }       
@@ -2372,11 +2399,10 @@ void dentry_update_name_case(struct dentry *dentry, 
struct qstr *name)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_update_name_case);
 
-static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target,
-                        bool exchange)
+static void swap_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
 {
-       if (dname_external(target)) {
-               if (dname_external(dentry)) {
+       if (unlikely(dname_external(target))) {
+               if (unlikely(dname_external(dentry))) {
                        /*
                         * Both external: swap the pointers
                         */
@@ -2392,7 +2418,7 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct 
dentry *target,
                        target->d_name.name = target->d_iname;
                }
        } else {
-               if (dname_external(dentry)) {
+               if (unlikely(dname_external(dentry))) {
                        /*
                         * dentry:external, target:internal.  Give dentry's
                         * storage to target and make dentry internal
@@ -2407,12 +2433,6 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct 
dentry *target,
                         */
                        unsigned int i;
                        BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(DNAME_INLINE_LEN, 
sizeof(long)));
-                       if (!exchange) {
-                               memcpy(dentry->d_iname, target->d_name.name,
-                                               target->d_name.len + 1);
-                               dentry->d_name.hash_len = 
target->d_name.hash_len;
-                               return;
-                       }
                        for (i = 0; i < DNAME_INLINE_LEN / sizeof(long); i++) {
                                swap(((long *) &dentry->d_iname)[i],
                                     ((long *) &target->d_iname)[i]);
@@ -2422,6 +2442,22 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct 
dentry *target,
        swap(dentry->d_name.hash_len, target->d_name.hash_len);
 }
 
+static void copy_name(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
+{
+       struct ext_name *old_name = ext_name(dentry);
+       if (unlikely(dname_external(target))) {
+               atomic_inc(&ext_name(target)->count);
+               dentry->d_name = target->d_name;
+       } else {
+               memcpy(dentry->d_iname, target->d_name.name,
+                               target->d_name.len + 1);
+               dentry->d_name.name = dentry->d_iname;
+               dentry->d_name.hash_len = target->d_name.hash_len;
+       }
+       if (unlikely(old_name) && likely(atomic_dec_and_test(&old_name->count)))
+               kfree_rcu(old_name, head);
+}
+
 static void dentry_lock_for_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
 {
        /*
@@ -2518,7 +2554,10 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct 
dentry *target,
        }
 
        /* Switch the names.. */
-       switch_names(dentry, target, exchange);
+       if (exchange)
+               swap_names(dentry, target);
+       else
+               copy_name(dentry, target);
 
        /* ... and switch them in the tree */
        if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
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