[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH] FS-Cache: Add a helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode
Suresh Jayaraman
sjayaraman at suse.de
Wed Jun 15 08:49:53 UTC 2011
On 06/14/2011 10:31 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Add an FS-Cache helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode. This will only work
> for the circumstance where the pages in the cache correspond 1:1 with the pages
> attached to an inode's page cache.
>
> This is required for CIFS and NFS: When disabling inode cookie, we were
> returning the cookie and setting cifsi->fscache to NULL but failed to
> invalidate any previously mapped pages. This resulted in "Bad page state"
> errors and manifested in other kind of errors when running fsstress. Fix it by
> uncaching mapped pages when we disable the inode cookie.
>
> This patch should fix the following oops and "Bad page state" errors seen
> during fsstress testing.
>
> [ 417.302635] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 417.304903] kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201!
> [ 417.307613] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [ 417.309860] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
> [ 417.313868] CPU 1
> [ 417.314855] Modules linked in: fuse nls_utf8 cifs sunrpc cachefiles fscache ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables joydev microcode i2c_piix4 virtio_balloon i2c_core virtio_net ipv6 virtio_blk [last unloaded: mperf]
> [ 417.328983]
> [ 417.329923] Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs
> [ 417.333928] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00bebe4>] [<ffffffffa00bebe4>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
> [ 417.338967] RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00 EFLAGS: 00010282
> [ 417.341761] RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 417.344943] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282
> [ 417.348639] RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300
> [ 417.351813] R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840
> [ 417.355522] R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0
> [ 417.358879] FS: 00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 417.362780] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 417.365651] CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [ 417.368830] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 417.372688] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [ 417.375876] Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0)
> [ 417.379863] Stack:
> [ 417.380891] 0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00
> [ 417.384864] ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380
> [ 417.388935] ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56
> [ 417.392907] Call Trace:
> [ 417.394580] [<ffffffff814757e4>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x17/0x19
> [ 417.397739] [<ffffffff8106ac56>] ? __queue_work+0x256/0x265
> [ 417.400607] [<ffffffffa00bd91f>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles]
> [ 417.403898] [<ffffffffa00a9977>] ? fscache_object_work_func+0x0/0x669 [fscache]
> [ 417.407659] [<ffffffffa00a95da>] fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache]
> [ 417.410832] [<ffffffffa00a9b33>] fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache]
> [ 417.414598] [<ffffffffa00a9977>] ? fscache_object_work_func+0x0/0x669 [fscache]
> [ 417.417956] [<ffffffff8106afb6>] process_one_work+0x186/0x298
> [ 417.420876] [<ffffffff8106b343>] worker_thread+0xda/0x15d
> [ 417.423693] [<ffffffff8106b269>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x15d
> [ 417.426546] [<ffffffff8106b269>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x15d
> [ 417.428877] [<ffffffff8106ebaf>] kthread+0x84/0x8c
> [ 417.431712] [<ffffffff8100a9e4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [ 417.434615] [<ffffffff8106eb2b>] ? kthread+0x0/0x8c
> [ 417.436809] [<ffffffff8100a9e0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> [ 417.439746] Code: 05 77 2a 48 c7 c7 ce 1c 0c a0 31 c0 e8 c6 db 3a e1 48 c7 c7 77 1f 0c a0 31 c0 e8 b8 db 3a e1 48 8b 75 98 48 89 df e8 ae 23 00 00 <0f> 0b 48 8b 55 98 f0 ff 82 20 01 00 00 48 8b 7d 90 e8 86 f5 ff
> [ 417.453802] RIP [<ffffffffa00bebe4>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
> [ 417.457781] RSP <ffff88002ce6dd00>
> [ 417.459638] ---[ end trace 1d481c9af1804caa ]---
>
>
> I tested the uncaching by the following means:
>
> (1) Create a big file on my NFS server (104857600 bytes).
>
> (2) Read the file into the cache with md5sum on the NFS client. Look in
> /proc/fs/fscache/stats:
>
> Pages : mrk=25601 unc=0
>
> (3) Open the file for read/write ("bash 5<>/warthog/bigfile"). Look in proc
> again:
>
> Pages : mrk=25601 unc=25601
>
> Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> cc: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
> ---
>
> Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 16 ++++++++
> fs/cifs/fscache.c | 1 +
> fs/fscache/page.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/nfs/fscache.c | 8 ++--
> include/linux/fscache.h | 21 +++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Indeed handling this at fscache seems a better and cleaner approach. The
patch looks good to me and I ran fsstress on a CIFS mount for about an
hour and didn't see any Oops or "Bad page errors".
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
> index a167ab8..7cc6bf2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
> @@ -673,6 +673,22 @@ storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request -
> in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time.
>
>
> +BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE
> +-----------------------
> +
> +A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages
> +attached to an inode. This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a
> +1:1 basis with the pages in the cache.
> +
> + void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
> + struct inode *inode);
> +
> +This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that
> +the pages are attached to. This function will wait for pages to finish being
> +written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally. No
> +error is returned.
> +
> +
> ==========================
> INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE
> ==========================
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/fscache.c b/fs/cifs/fscache.c
> index d368a47..7aeb344 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/fscache.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/fscache.c
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static void cifs_fscache_disable_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode)
> if (cifsi->fscache) {
> cFYI(1, "CIFS disabling inode cookie (0x%p)",
> cifsi->fscache);
> + fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(cifsi->fscache, inode);
> fscache_relinquish_cookie(cifsi->fscache, 1);
> cifsi->fscache = NULL;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/fscache/page.c b/fs/fscache/page.c
> index 0b5433d..60315b3 100644
> --- a/fs/fscache/page.c
> +++ b/fs/fscache/page.c
> @@ -971,3 +971,47 @@ void fscache_mark_pages_cached(struct fscache_retrieval *op,
> pagevec_reinit(pagevec);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscache_mark_pages_cached);
> +
> +/*
> + * Uncache all the pages in an inode that are marked PG_fscache, assuming them
> + * to be associated with the given cookie.
> + */
> +void __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
> + struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
> + struct pagevec pvec;
> + pgoff_t next;
> + int i;
> +
> + _enter("%p,%p", cookie, inode);
> +
> + if (!mapping || mapping->nrpages == 0) {
> + _leave(" [no pages]");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
> + next = 0;
> + while (next <= (loff_t)-1 &&
> + pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, next, PAGEVEC_SIZE)
> + ) {
> + for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) {
> + struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
> + pgoff_t page_index = page->index;
> +
> + ASSERTCMP(page_index, >=, next);
> + next = page_index + 1;
> +
> + if (PageFsCache(page)) {
> + __fscache_wait_on_page_write(cookie, page);
> + __fscache_uncache_page(cookie, page);
> + }
> + }
> + pagevec_release(&pvec);
> + cond_resched();
> + }
> +
> + _leave("");
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages);
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/fscache.c b/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> index ce153a6..419119c 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> @@ -259,12 +259,10 @@ static void nfs_fscache_disable_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode)
> dfprintk(FSCACHE,
> "NFS: nfsi 0x%p turning cache off\n", NFS_I(inode));
>
> - /* Need to invalidate any mapped pages that were read in before
> - * turning off the cache.
> + /* Need to uncache any pages attached to this inode that
> + * fscache knows about before turning off the cache.
> */
> - if (inode->i_mapping && inode->i_mapping->nrpages)
> - invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping);
> -
> + fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(NFS_I(inode)->fscache, inode);
> nfs_fscache_zap_inode_cookie(inode);
> }
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/fscache.h b/include/linux/fscache.h
> index 7c4d72f..9ec20de 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fscache.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fscache.h
> @@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ extern bool __fscache_check_page_write(struct fscache_cookie *, struct page *);
> extern void __fscache_wait_on_page_write(struct fscache_cookie *, struct page *);
> extern bool __fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *, struct page *,
> gfp_t);
> +extern void __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *,
> + struct inode *);
>
> /**
> * fscache_register_netfs - Register a filesystem as desiring caching services
> @@ -643,4 +645,23 @@ bool fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
> return false;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages - Uncache all an inode's pages
> + * @cookie: The cookie representing the inode's cache object.
> + * @inode: The inode to uncache pages from.
> + *
> + * Uncache all the pages in an inode that are marked PG_fscache, assuming them
> + * to be associated with the given cookie.
> + *
> + * This function may sleep. It will wait for pages that are being written out
> + * and will wait whilst the PG_fscache mark is removed by the cache.
> + */
> +static inline
> +void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
> + struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + if (fscache_cookie_valid(cookie))
> + __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(cookie, inode);
> +}
> +
> #endif /* _LINUX_FSCACHE_H */
>
--
Suresh Jayaraman
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