linux/mm
Jan Kara ac401cc782 dax: New fault locking
Currently DAX page fault locking is racy.

CPU0 (write fault)		CPU1 (read fault)

__dax_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped
				  get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0)
				    -> not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&bh))
    if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
      get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks
  if (page) -> no
				  if (!buffer_mapped(&bh))
				    if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
				    } else {
				      dax_load_hole();
				    }
  dax_insert_mapping()

And we are in a situation where we fail in dax_radix_entry() with -EIO.

Another problem with the current DAX page fault locking is that there is
no race-free way to clear dirty tag in the radix tree. We can always
end up with clean radix tree and dirty data in CPU cache.

We fix the first problem by introducing locking of exceptional radix
tree entries in DAX mappings acting very similarly to page lock and thus
synchronizing properly faults against the same mapping index. The same
lock can later be used to avoid races when clearing radix tree dirty
tag.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
2016-05-19 15:20:54 -06:00
..
kasan mm, kasan: fix compilation for CONFIG_SLAB 2016-04-01 17:03:37 -05:00
backing-dev.c writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition 2016-03-31 12:26:25 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c
cma.c
cma.h
cma_debug.c
compaction.c
debug.c
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
failslab.c
filemap.c dax: New fault locking 2016-05-19 15:20:54 -06:00
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-04-14 19:31:34 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c thp: fix typo in khugepaged_scan_pmd() 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, oom: introduce oom reaper 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
Makefile mm, kasan: SLAB support 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memory-failure.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
memory.c mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
memtest.c
migrate.c
mincore.c mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: don't imply PROT_EXEC on non-exec fs 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-04-14 19:31:34 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue task if it is on the oom_reaper_list head 2016-04-01 17:03:37 -05:00
page-writeback.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc: prevent merging between isolated and other pageblocks 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation.c: fix the function comments 2016-04-01 17:03:37 -05:00
page_owner.c
page_poison.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-removal' 2016-04-04 10:50:24 -07:00
shmem.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
slab.c mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
slab.h mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
slab_common.c mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
slob.c
slub.c mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_state.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
swapfile.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
truncate.c dax: New fault locking 2016-05-19 15:20:54 -06:00
userfaultfd.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
util.c
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c
workingset.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00