linux-toradex.git/include/linux/shmem_fs.h, branch v5.9-rc6

tmpfs: support 64-bit inums per-sb

2020-08-07T18:33:24+00:00

The default is still set to inode32 for backwards compatibility, but
system administrators can opt in to the new 64-bit inode numbers by
either:

1. Passing inode64 on the command line when mounting, or
2. Configuring the kernel with CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64=y

The inode64 and inode32 names are used based on existing precedent from
XFS.

[hughd@google.com: Kconfig fixes]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008011928010.13320@eggly.anvils

Signed-off-by: Chris Down 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8b23758d0c66b5e2263e08baf9c4b6a7565cbd8f.1594661218.git.chris@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tmpfs: per-superblock i_ino support

2020-08-07T18:33:24+00:00

Patch series "tmpfs: inode: Reduce risk of inum overflow", v7.

In Facebook production we are seeing heavy i_ino wraparounds on tmpfs.  On
affected tiers, in excess of 10% of hosts show multiple files with
different content and the same inode number, with some servers even having
as many as 150 duplicated inode numbers with differing file content.

This causes actual, tangible problems in production.  For example, we have
complaints from those working on remote caches that their application is
reporting cache corruptions because it uses (device, inodenum) to
establish the identity of a particular cache object, but because it's not
unique any more, the application refuses to continue and reports cache
corruption.  Even worse, sometimes applications may not even detect the
corruption but may continue anyway, causing phantom and hard to debug
behaviour.

In general, userspace applications expect that (device, inodenum) should
be enough to be uniquely point to one inode, which seems fair enough.  One
might also need to check the generation, but in this case:

1. That's not currently exposed to userspace
   (ioctl(...FS_IOC_GETVERSION...) returns ENOTTY on tmpfs);
2. Even with generation, there shouldn't be two live inodes with the
   same inode number on one device.

In order to mitigate this, we take a two-pronged approach:

1. Moving inum generation from being global to per-sb for tmpfs. This
   itself allows some reduction in i_ino churn. This works on both 64-
   and 32- bit machines.
2. Adding inode{64,32} for tmpfs. This fix is supported on machines with
   64-bit ino_t only: we allow users to mount tmpfs with a new inode64
   option that uses the full width of ino_t, or CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64.

You can see how this compares to previous related patches which didn't
implement this per-superblock:

- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11254001/
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11023915/

This patch (of 2):

get_next_ino has a number of problems:

- It uses and returns a uint, which is susceptible to become overflowed
  if a lot of volatile inodes that use get_next_ino are created.
- It's global, with no specificity per-sb or even per-filesystem. This
  means it's not that difficult to cause inode number wraparounds on a
  single device, which can result in having multiple distinct inodes
  with the same inode number.

This patch adds a per-superblock counter that mitigates the second case.
This design also allows us to later have a specific i_ino size per-device,
for example, allowing users to choose whether to use 32- or 64-bit inodes
for each tmpfs mount.  This is implemented in the next commit.

For internal shmem mounts which may be less tolerant to spinlock delays,
we implement a percpu batching scheme which only takes the stat_lock at
each batch boundary.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Amir Goldstein 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1594661218.git.chris@chrisdown.name
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1986b9d63b986f08ec07a4aa4b2275e718e47d8a.1594661218.git.chris@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE

2020-04-07T17:43:38+00:00

Commit e496cf3d7821 ("thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE")
notes that it should be reverted when the PowerPC problem was fixed.  The
commit fixing the PowerPC problem (953c66c2b22a) did not revert the
commit; instead setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE to the same as
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.  Checking with Kirill and Aneesh, this was an
oversight, so remove the Kconfig symbol and undo the work of commit
e496cf3d7821.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Pankaj Gupta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs_parse: fold fs_parameter_desc/fs_parameter_spec

2020-02-07T19:48:37+00:00

The former contains nothing but a pointer to an array of the latter...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Convert ramfs, shmem, tmpfs, devtmpfs, rootfs to use the new mount API

2019-09-13T01:05:34+00:00

Convert the ramfs, shmem, tmpfs, devtmpfs and rootfs filesystems to the new
internal mount API as the old one will be obsoleted and removed.  This
allows greater flexibility in communication of mount parameters between
userspace, the VFS and the filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Note that tmpfs is slightly tricky as it can contain embedded commas, so it
can't be trivially split up using strsep() to break on commas in
generic_parse_monolithic().  Instead, tmpfs has to supply its own generic
parser.

However, if tmpfs changes, then devtmpfs and rootfs, which are wrappers
around tmpfs or ramfs, must change too - and thus so must ramfs, so these
had to be converted also.

[AV: rewritten]

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: Hugh Dickins 
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make shmem_fill_super() static

2019-09-05T18:34:28+00:00

... have callers use shmem_mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: swapoff: shmem_unuse() stop eviction without igrab()

2019-04-19T16:46:04+00:00

The igrab() in shmem_unuse() looks good, but we forgot that it gives no
protection against concurrent unmounting: a point made by Konstantin
Khlebnikov eight years ago, and then fixed in 2.6.39 by 778dd893ae78
("tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff").  The current 5.1-rc
swapoff is liable to hit "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs.
Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day..." followed by GPF.

Once again, give up on using igrab(); but don't go back to making such
heavy-handed use of shmem_swaplist_mutex as last time: that would spoil
the new design, and I expect could deadlock inside shmem_swapin_page().

Instead, shmem_unuse() just raise a "stop_eviction" count in the shmem-
specific inode, and shmem_evict_inode() wait for that to go down to 0.
Call it "stop_eviction" rather than "swapoff_busy" because it can be put
to use for others later (huge tmpfs patches expect to use it).

That simplifies shmem_unuse(), protecting it from both unlink and
unmount; and in practice lets it locate all the swap in its first try.
But do not rely on that: there's still a theoretical case, when
shmem_writepage() might have been preempted after its get_swap_page(),
before making the swap entry visible to swapoff.

[hughd@google.com: remove incorrect list_del()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1904091133570.1898@eggly.anvils
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1904081259400.1523@eggly.anvils
Fixes: b56a2d8af914 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Kelley Nielsen 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Vineeth Pillai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity

2019-03-06T05:07:18+00:00

This patch was initially posted by Kelley Nielsen.  Reposting the patch
with all review comments addressed and with minor modifications and
optimizations.  Also, folding in the fixes offered by Hugh Dickins and
Huang Ying.  Tests were rerun and commit message updated with new
results.

try_to_unuse() is of quadratic complexity, with a lot of wasted effort.
It unuses swap entries one by one, potentially iterating over all the
page tables for all the processes in the system for each one.

This new proposed implementation of try_to_unuse simplifies its
complexity to linear.  It iterates over the system's mms once, unusing
all the affected entries as it walks each set of page tables.  It also
makes similar changes to shmem_unuse.

Improvement

swapoff was called on a swap partition containing about 6G of data, in a
VM(8cpu, 16G RAM), and calls to unuse_pte_range() were counted.

Present implementation....about 1200M calls(8min, avg 80% cpu util).
Prototype.................about  9.0K calls(3min, avg 5% cpu util).

Details

In shmem_unuse(), iterate over the shmem_swaplist and, for each
shmem_inode_info that contains a swap entry, pass it to
shmem_unuse_inode(), along with the swap type.  In shmem_unuse_inode(),
iterate over its associated xarray, and store the index and value of
each swap entry in an array for passing to shmem_swapin_page() outside
of the RCU critical section.

In try_to_unuse(), instead of iterating over the entries in the type and
unusing them one by one, perhaps walking all the page tables for all the
processes for each one, iterate over the mmlist, making one pass.  Pass
each mm to unuse_mm() to begin its page table walk, and during the walk,
unuse all the ptes that have backing store in the swap type received by
try_to_unuse().  After the walk, check the type for orphaned swap
entries with find_next_to_unuse(), and remove them from the swap cache.
If find_next_to_unuse() starts over at the beginning of the type, repeat
the check of the shmem_swaplist and the walk a maximum of three times.

Change unuse_mm() and the intervening walk functions down to
unuse_pte_range() to take the type as a parameter, and to iterate over
their entire range, calling the next function down on every iteration.
In unuse_pte_range(), make a swap entry from each pte in the range using
the passed in type.  If it has backing store in the type, call
swapin_readahead() to retrieve the page and pass it to unuse_pte().

Pass the count of pages_to_unuse down the page table walks in
try_to_unuse(), and return from the walk when the desired number of
pages has been swapped back in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114153129.4852-2-vpillai@digitalocean.com
Signed-off-by: Vineeth Remanan Pillai 
Signed-off-by: Kelley Nielsen 
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: restructure memfd code

2018-06-08T00:34:35+00:00

With the addition of memfd hugetlbfs support, we now have the situation
where memfd depends on TMPFS -or- HUGETLBFS.  Previously, memfd was only
supported on tmpfs, so it made sense that the code resided in shmem.c.
In the current code, memfd is only functional if TMPFS is defined.  If
HUGETLFS is defined and TMPFS is not defined, then memfd functionality
will not be available for hugetlbfs.  This does not cause BUGs, just a
lack of potentially desired functionality.

Code is restructured in the following way:
- include/linux/memfd.h is a new file containing memfd specific
  definitions previously contained in shmem_fs.h.
- mm/memfd.c is a new file containing memfd specific code previously
  contained in shmem.c.
- memfd specific code is removed from shmem_fs.h and shmem.c.
- A new config option MEMFD_CREATE is added that is defined if TMPFS
  or HUGETLBFS is defined.

No functional changes are made to the code: restructuring only.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180415182119.4517-4-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz 
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Herrmann 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

shmem: rename functions that are memfd-related

2018-02-01T01:18:39+00:00

Those functions are called for memfd files, backed by shmem or hugetlb
(the next patches will handle hugetlb).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107122800.25517-3-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau 
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Herrmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds