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There has been a recurring problem, that when a tmpfs volume is being filled by racing threads, some fail with ENOSPC (or consequent SIGBUS or EFAULT) even though all allocations were within the permitted size. This was a problem since early days, but magnified and complicated by the addition of huge pages. We have often worked around it by adding some slop to the tmpfs size, but it's hard to say how much is needed, and some users prefer not to do that e.g. keeping sparse files in a tightly tailored tmpfs helps to prevent accidental writing to holes. This comes from the allocation sequence: 1. check page cache for existing folio 2. check and reserve from vm_enough_memory 3. check and account from size of tmpfs 4. if huge, check page cache for overlapping folio 5. allocate physical folio, huge or small 6. check and charge from mem cgroup limit 7. add to page cache (but maybe another folio already got in). Concurrent tasks allocating at the same position could deplete the size allowance and fail. Doing vm_enough_memory and size checks before the folio allocation was intentional (to limit the load on the page allocator from this source) and still has some virtue; but memory cgroup never did that, so I think it's better reordered to favour predictable behaviour. 1. check page cache for existing folio 2. if huge, check page cache for overlapping folio 3. allocate physical folio, huge or small 4. check and charge from mem cgroup limit 5. add to page cache (but maybe another folio already got in) 6. check and reserve from vm_enough_memory 7. check and account from size of tmpfs. The folio lock held from allocation onwards ensures that the !uptodate folio cannot be used by others, and can safely be deleted from the cache if checks 6 or 7 subsequently fail (and those waiting on folio lock already check that the folio was not truncated once they get the lock); and the early addition to page cache ensures that racers find it before they try to duplicate the accounting. Seize the opportunity to tidy up shmem_get_folio_gfp()'s ENOSPC retrying, which can be combined inside the new shmem_alloc_and_add_folio(): doing 2 splits twice (once huge, once nonhuge) is not exactly equivalent to trying 5 splits (and giving up early on huge), but let's keep it simple unless more complication proves necessary. Userfaultfd is a foreign country: they do things differently there, and for good reason - to avoid mmap_lock deadlock. Leave ordering in shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() untouched for now, but I would rather like to mesh it better with shmem_get_folio_gfp() in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/22ddd06-d919-33b-1219-56335c1bf28e@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
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