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There has been a long standing page cache coherence bug with direct IO. This provides part of a mechanism to fix it, currently just used by bcachefs but potentially worth promoting to the VFS. Direct IO evicts the range of the pagecache being read or written to. For reads, we need dirty pages to be written to disk, so that the read doesn't return stale data. For writes, we need to evict that range of the pagecache so that it's not stale after the write completes. However, without a locking mechanism to prevent those pages from being re-added to the pagecache - by a buffered read or page fault - page cache inconsistency is still possible. This isn't necessarily just an issue for userspace when they're playing games; filesystems may hang arbitrary state off the pagecache, and so page cache inconsistency may cause real filesystem bugs, depending on the filesystem. This is less of an issue for iomap based filesystems, but e.g. buffer heads caches disk block mappings (!) and attaches them to the pagecache, and bcachefs attaches disk reservations to pagecache pages. This issue has been hard to fix, because - we need to add a lock (henceforth called pagecache_add_lock), which would be held for the duration of the direct IO - page faults add pages to the page cache, thus need to take the same lock - dio -> gup -> page fault thus can deadlock And we cannot enforce a lock ordering with this lock, since userspace will be controlling the lock ordering (via the fd and buffer arguments to direct IOs), so we need a different method of deadlock avoidance. We need to tell the page fault handler that we're already holding a pagecache_add_lock, and since plumbing it through the entire gup() path would be highly impractical this adds a field to task_struct. Then the full method is: - in the dio path, when we first take the pagecache_add_lock, note the mapping in the current task_struct - in the page fault handler, if faults_disabled_mapping is set, we check if it's the same mapping as the one we're taking a page fault for, and if so return an error. Then we check lock ordering: if there's a lock ordering violation and trylock fails, we'll have to cycle the locks and return an error that tells the DIO path to retry: faults_disabled_mapping is also used for signalling "locks were dropped, please retry". Also relevant to this patch: mapping->invalidate_lock. mapping->invalidate_lock provides most of the required semantics - it's used by truncate/fallocate to block pages being added to the pagecache. However, since it's a rwsem, direct IOs would need to take the write side in order to block page cache adds, and would then be exclusive with each other - we'll need a new type of lock to pair with this approach. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.