linux-toradex.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch v5.13-rc3

mm: fix typos in comments

2021-05-07T07:26:35+00:00

Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few
very obvious grammar mistakes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page-writeback: simplify memcg handling in test_clear_page_writeback()

2021-04-30T18:20:37+00:00

Page writeback doesn't hold a page reference, which allows truncate to
free a page the second PageWriteback is cleared.  This used to require
special attention in test_clear_page_writeback(), where we had to be
careful not to rely on the unstable page->memcg binding and look up all
the necessary information before clearing the writeback flag.

Since commit 073861ed77b6 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and
BUG_ON(PageWriteback)") test_clear_page_writeback() is called with an
explicit reference on the page, and this dance is no longer needed.

Use unlock_page_memcg() and dec_lruvec_page_state() directly.

This removes the last user of the lock_page_memcg() return value, change
it to void.  Touch up the comments in there as well.  This also removes
the last extern user of __unlock_page_memcg(), make it static.  Further,
it removes the last user of dec_lruvec_state(), delete it, along with a
few other unused helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YCQbYAWg4nvBFL6h@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/writeback: Add wait_on_page_writeback_killable

2021-03-23T20:54:29+00:00

This is the killable version of wait_on_page_writeback.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320054104.1300774-3-willy@infradead.org

mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks

2021-01-05T19:33:00+00:00

Ever since commit 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common()
logic") we've had some very occasional reports of BUG_ON(PageWriteback)
in write_cache_pages(), which we thought we already fixed in commit
073861ed77b6 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)").

But syzbot just reported another one, even with that commit in place.

And it turns out that there's a simpler way to trigger the BUG_ON() than
the one Hugh found with page re-use.  It all boils down to the fact that
the page writeback is ostensibly serialized by the page lock, but that
isn't actually really true.

Yes, the people _setting_ writeback all do so under the page lock, but
the actual clearing of the bit - and waking up any waiters - happens
without any page lock.

This gives us this fairly simple race condition:

  CPU1 = end previous writeback
  CPU2 = start new writeback under page lock
  CPU3 = write_cache_pages()

  CPU1          CPU2            CPU3
  ----          ----            ----

  end_page_writeback()
    test_clear_page_writeback(page)
    ... delayed...

                lock_page();
                set_page_writeback()
                unlock_page()

                                lock_page()
                                wait_on_page_writeback();

    wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
    .. wakes up CPU3 ..

                                BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));

where the BUG_ON() happens because we woke up the PG_writeback bit
becasue of the _previous_ writeback, but a new one had already been
started because the clearing of the bit wasn't actually atomic wrt the
actual wakeup or serialized by the page lock.

The reason this didn't use to happen was that the old logic in waiting
on a page bit would just loop if it ever saw the bit set again.

The nice proper fix would probably be to get rid of the whole "wait for
writeback to clear, and then set it" logic in the writeback path, and
replace it with an atomic "wait-to-set" (ie the same as we have for page
locking: we set the page lock bit with a single "lock_page()", not with
"wait for lock bit to clear and then set it").

However, out current model for writeback is that the waiting for the
writeback bit is done by the generic VFS code (ie write_cache_pages()),
but the actual setting of the writeback bit is done much later by the
filesystem ".writepages()" function.

IOW, to make the writeback bit have that same kind of "wait-to-set"
behavior as we have for page locking, we'd have to change our roughly
~50 different writeback functions.  Painful.

Instead, just make "wait_on_page_writeback()" loop on the very unlikely
situation that the PG_writeback bit is still set, basically re-instating
the old behavior.  This is very non-optimal in case of contention, but
since we only ever set the bit under the page lock, that situation is
controlled.

Reported-by: syzbot+2fc0712f8f8b8b8fa0ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)

2020-11-24T23:23:19+00:00

Twice now, when exercising ext4 looped on shmem huge pages, I have crashed
on the PF_ONLY_HEAD check inside PageWaiters(): ext4_finish_bio() calling
end_page_writeback() calling wake_up_page() on tail of a shmem huge page,
no longer an ext4 page at all.

The problem is that PageWriteback is not accompanied by a page reference
(as the NOTE at the end of test_clear_page_writeback() acknowledges): as
soon as TestClearPageWriteback has been done, that page could be removed
from page cache, freed, and reused for something else by the time that
wake_up_page() is reached.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200827122019.GC14765@casper.infradead.org/
Matthew Wilcox suggested avoiding or weakening the PageWaiters() tail
check; but I'm paranoid about even looking at an unreferenced struct page,
lest its memory might itself have already been reused or hotremoved (and
wake_up_page_bit() may modify that memory with its ClearPageWaiters()).

Then on crashing a second time, realized there's a stronger reason against
that approach.  If my testing just occasionally crashes on that check,
when the page is reused for part of a compound page, wouldn't it be much
more common for the page to get reused as an order-0 page before reaching
wake_up_page()?  And on rare occasions, might that reused page already be
marked PageWriteback by its new user, and already be waited upon?  What
would that look like?

It would look like BUG_ON(PageWriteback) after wait_on_page_writeback()
in write_cache_pages() (though I have never seen that crash myself).

Matthew Wilcox explaining this to himself:
 "page is allocated, added to page cache, dirtied, writeback starts,

  --- thread A ---
  filesystem calls end_page_writeback()
        test_clear_page_writeback()
  --- context switch to thread B ---
  truncate_inode_pages_range() finds the page, it doesn't have writeback set,
  we delete it from the page cache.  Page gets reallocated, dirtied, writeback
  starts again.  Then we call write_cache_pages(), see
  PageWriteback() set, call wait_on_page_writeback()
  --- context switch back to thread A ---
  wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
  ... thread B is woken, but because the wakeup was for the old use of
  the page, PageWriteback is still set.

  Devious"

And prior to 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
this would have been much less likely: before that, wake_page_function()'s
non-exclusive case would stop walking and not wake if it found Writeback
already set again; whereas now the non-exclusive case proceeds to wake.

I have not thought of a fix that does not add a little overhead: the
simplest fix is for end_page_writeback() to get_page() before calling
test_clear_page_writeback(), then put_page() after wake_up_page().

Was there a chance of missed wakeups before, since a page freed before
reaching wake_up_page() would have PageWaiters cleared?  I think not,
because each waiter does hold a reference on the page.  This bug comes
when the old use of the page, the one we do TestClearPageWriteback on,
had *no* waiters, so no additional page reference beyond the page cache
(and whoever racily freed it).  The reuse of the page has a waiter
holding a reference, and its own PageWriteback set; but the belated
wake_up_page() has woken the reuse to hit that BUG_ON(PageWriteback).

Reported-by: syzbot+3622cea378100f45d59f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Qian Cai 
Fixes: 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page-writeback: support tail pages in wait_for_stable_page

2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00

page->mapping is undefined for tail pages, so operate exclusively on the
head page.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: replace BDI_CAP_NO_{WRITEBACK,ACCT_DIRTY} with a single flag

2020-09-24T19:43:39+00:00

Replace the two negative flags that are always used together with a
single positive flag that indicates the writeback capability instead
of two related non-capabilities.  Also remove the pointless wrappers
to just check the flag.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: invert BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB

2020-09-24T19:43:39+00:00

Replace BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB with a positive BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT to
make the checks more obvious.  Also remove the pointless
bdi_cap_account_writeback wrapper that just obsfucates the check.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: replace BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES with a queue and a sb flag

2020-09-24T19:43:39+00:00

The BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES is one of the few bits of information in the
backing_dev_info shared between the block drivers and the writeback code.
To help untangling the dependency replace it with a queue flag and a
superblock flag derived from it.  This also helps with the case of e.g.
a file system requiring stable writes due to its own checksumming, but
not forcing it on other users of the block device like the swap code.

One downside is that we an't support the stable_pages_required bdi
attribute in sysfs anymore.  It is replaced with a queue attribute which
also is writable for easier testing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm: remove vm_total_pages

2020-08-07T18:33:28+00:00

The global variable "vm_total_pages" is a relic from older days.  There is
only a single user that reads the variable - build_all_zonelists() - and
the first thing it does is update it.

Use a local variable in build_all_zonelists() instead and remove the
global variable.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang 
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619132410.23859-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds