linux-toradex.git/fs/fuse/file.c, branch v3.14.47

mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible

2015-01-30T01:40:52+00:00

commit 2457aec63745e235bcafb7ef312b182d8682f0fc upstream.

aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after.  Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage.  The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.

The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page.  This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.

The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.

	find_get_page
	find_lock_page
	find_or_create_page
	grab_cache_page_nowait
	grab_cache_page_write_begin

All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not.  Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.

Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job.  There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted.  This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change.  It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.

The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations.  The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing.  In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO.  The sync results are expected to be
more stable.  The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.

The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts.  Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison.  As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures.  The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.

The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.

async dd
                                    3.15.0-rc3            3.15.0-rc3
                                       vanilla           accessed-v2
ext3    Max      elapsed     13.9900 (  0.00%)     11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs	Max      elapsed      0.5100 (  0.00%)      0.4900 (  3.92%)
btrfs   Max      elapsed     12.8100 (  0.00%)     12.7800 (  0.23%)
ext4	Max      elapsed     18.6000 (  0.00%)     13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs	Max      elapsed     12.5600 (  0.00%)      2.0900 ( 83.36%)

The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.

        samples percentage
ext3       86107    0.9783  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext3       23833    0.2710  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3        5036    0.0573  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4       64566    0.8961  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext4        5322    0.0713  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4        2869    0.0384  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs        62126    1.7675  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
xfs         1904    0.0554  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs          103    0.0030  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs      10655    0.1338  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
btrfs       2020    0.0273  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs        587    0.0079  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs      59562    3.2628  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
tmpfs       1210    0.0696  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs         94    0.0054  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

callers of iov_copy_from_user_atomic() don't need pagecache_disable()

2014-11-21T17:23:06+00:00

commit 9e8c2af96e0d2d5fe298dd796fb6bc16e888a48d upstream.

... it does that itself (via kmap_atomic())

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-01-28T16:38:04+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series.  Plus
  assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place...

  There will be another pile later this week"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits)
  __dentry_path() fixes
  vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path
  vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error.
  Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read
  hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr
  nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl
  fs: remove generic_acl
  nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs
  gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  fs: make posix_acl_create more useful
  fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful
  ...

Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read

2014-01-26T13:26:42+00:00

So far I've had one ACK for this, and no other comments. So I think it
is probably time to send this via some suitable tree. I'm guessing that
the vfs tree would be the most appropriate route, but not sure that
there is one at the moment (don't see anything recent at kernel.org)
so in that case I think -mm is the "back up plan". Al, please let me
know if you will take this?

Steve.

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Following on from the "Re: [PATCH v3] vfs: fix a bug when we do some dio
reads with append dio writes" thread on linux-fsdevel, this patch is my
current version of the fix proposed as option (b) in that thread.

Removing the i_size test from the direct i/o read path at vfs level
means that filesystems now have to deal with requests which are beyond
i_size themselves. These I've divided into three sets:

 a) Those with "no op" ->direct_IO (9p, cifs, ceph)
These are obviously not going to be an issue

 b) Those with "home brew" ->direct_IO (nfs, fuse)
I've been told that NFS should not have any problem with the larger
i_size, however I've added an extra test to FUSE to duplicate the
original behaviour just to be on the safe side.

 c) Those using __blockdev_direct_IO()
These call through to ->get_block() which should deal with the EOF
condition correctly. I've verified that with GFS2 and I believe that
Zheng has verified it for ext4. I've also run the test on XFS and it
passes both before and after this change.

The part of the patch in filemap.c looks a lot larger than it really is
- there are only two lines of real change. The rest is just indentation
of the contained code.

There remains a test of i_size though, which was added for btrfs. It
doesn't cause the other filesystems a problem as the test is performed
after ->direct_IO has been called. It is possible that there is a race
that does matter to btrfs, however this patch doesn't change that, so
its still an overall improvement.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Reported-by: Zheng Liu 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fuse: support clients that don't implement 'open'

2014-01-22T18:36:59+00:00

open/release operations require userspace transitions to keep track
of the open count and to perform any FS-specific setup.  However,
for some purely read-only FSs which don't need to perform any setup
at open/release time, we can avoid the performance overhead of
calling into userspace for open/release calls.

This patch adds the necessary support to the fuse kernel modules to prevent
open/release operations from hitting in userspace. When the client returns
ENOSYS, we avoid sending the subsequent release to userspace, and also
remember this so that future opens also don't trigger a userspace
operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: don't invalidate attrs when not using atime

2014-01-22T18:36:58+00:00

Various read operations (e.g. readlink, readdir) invalidate the cached
attrs for atime changes.  This patch adds a new function
'fuse_invalidate_atime', which checks for a read-only super block and
avoids the attr invalidation in that case.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gallagher 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: writepages: protect secondary requests from fuse file release

2013-11-05T09:11:29+00:00

All async fuse requests must be supplied with extra reference to a fuse
file.  This is necessary to ensure that the fuse file is not released until
all in-flight requests are completed.  Fuse secondary writeback requests
must obey this rule as well.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: writepages: update bdi writeout when deleting secondary request

2013-11-05T09:11:28+00:00

BDI_WRITTEN counter is used to estimate bdi bandwidth.  It must be
incremented every time as bdi ends page writeback.  No matter whether it
was fulfilled by actual write or by discarding the request (e.g. due to
shrunk i_size).

Note that even before writepages patches, the case "Got truncated off
completely" was handled in fuse_send_writepage() by calling
fuse_writepage_finish() which updated BDI_WRITTEN unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: writepages: crop secondary requests

2013-11-05T09:11:27+00:00

If writeback happens while fuse is in FUSE_NOWRITE condition, the request
will be queued but not processed immediately (see fuse_flush_writepages()).
Until FUSE_NOWRITE becomes relaxed, more writebacks can happen.  They will
be queued as "secondary" requests to that first ("primary") request.

Existing implementation crops only primary request.  This is not correct
because a subsequent extending write(2) may increase i_size and then
secondary requests won't be cropped properly.  The result would be stale
data written to the server to a file offset where zeros must be.

Similar problem may happen if secondary requests are attached to an
in-flight request that was already cropped.

The patch solves the issue by cropping all secondary requests in
fuse_writepage_end().  Thanks to Miklos for idea.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: writepages: roll back changes if request not found

2013-11-05T09:11:26+00:00

fuse_writepage_in_flight() returns false if it fails to find request with
given index in fi->writepages.  Then the caller proceeds with populating
data->orig_pages[] and incrementing req->num_pages.  Hence,
fuse_writepage_in_flight() must revert changes it made in request before
returning false.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi