[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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