f2fs: change atomic and volatile write policies

This patch adds two new ioctls to release inmemory pages grabbed by atomic
writes.
 o f2fs_ioc_abort_volatile_write
  - If transaction was failed, all the grabbed pages and data should be written.
 o f2fs_ioc_release_volatile_write
  - This is to enhance the performance of PERSIST mode in sqlite.

In order to avoid huge memory consumption which causes OOM, this patch changes
volatile writes to use normal dirty pages, instead blocked flushing to the disk
as long as system does not suffer from memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 67 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 3c27e0ecb3bc..5139f90e92c1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -836,6 +836,19 @@ static long f2fs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int f2fs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+	/* some remained atomic pages should discarded */
+	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))
+		commit_inmem_pages(inode, true);
+	if (f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode)) {
+		set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_DROP_CACHE);
+		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
+		clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_DROP_CACHE);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #define F2FS_REG_FLMASK		(~(FS_DIRSYNC_FL | FS_TOPDIR_FL))
 #define F2FS_OTHER_FLMASK	(FS_NODUMP_FL | FS_NOATIME_FL)
 
@@ -909,26 +922,20 @@ out:
 static int f2fs_ioc_start_atomic_write(struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
-	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
 
 	if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
 		return -EACCES;
 
-	f2fs_balance_fs(sbi);
+	f2fs_balance_fs(F2FS_I_SB(inode));
+
+	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))
+		return 0;
 
 	set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
 
 	return f2fs_convert_inline_inode(inode);
 }
 
-static int f2fs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
-{
-	/* some remained atomic pages should discarded */
-	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode) || f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode))
-		commit_inmem_pages(inode, true);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static int f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write(struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
@@ -949,6 +956,7 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write(struct file *filp)
 
 	ret = f2fs_sync_file(filp, 0, LONG_MAX, 0);
 	mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
+	clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -959,11 +967,56 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_start_volatile_write(struct file *filp)
 	if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
 		return -EACCES;
 
+	if (f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode))
+		return 0;
+
 	set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
 
 	return f2fs_convert_inline_inode(inode);
 }
 
+static int f2fs_ioc_release_volatile_write(struct file *filp)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
+
+	if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
+		return -EACCES;
+
+	if (!f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode))
+		return 0;
+
+	punch_hole(inode, 0, F2FS_BLKSIZE);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int f2fs_ioc_abort_volatile_write(struct file *filp)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
+		return -EACCES;
+
+	ret = mnt_want_write_file(filp);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	f2fs_balance_fs(F2FS_I_SB(inode));
+
+	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode)) {
+		commit_inmem_pages(inode, false);
+		clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
+	}
+
+	if (f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode)) {
+		clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
+		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
+		set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
+	}
+	mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int f2fs_ioc_fitrim(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
@@ -1007,6 +1060,10 @@ long f2fs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		return f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write(filp);
 	case F2FS_IOC_START_VOLATILE_WRITE:
 		return f2fs_ioc_start_volatile_write(filp);
+	case F2FS_IOC_RELEASE_VOLATILE_WRITE:
+		return f2fs_ioc_release_volatile_write(filp);
+	case F2FS_IOC_ABORT_VOLATILE_WRITE:
+		return f2fs_ioc_abort_volatile_write(filp);
 	case FITRIM:
 		return f2fs_ioc_fitrim(filp, arg);
 	default: