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Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive() to allow potential missed wakeups
to be debugged.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-32-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Make FS.FetchData and YFS.FetchData an asynchronous operation in that the
request is queued in AF_RXRPC and then we return to the caller rather than
waiting. Processing of the returning packets is then done inline if it's a
synchronous VFS/VM call (readdir, read_folio, sync DIO, prep for write) or
offloaded to a workqueue if asynchronous VM calls (eg. readahead, async
DIO).
This reduces the chain of workqueues invoking workqueues and cuts out some
of the overhead, driving rxrpc data extraction and netfslib read collection
from a thread that's going to block to completion anyway if possible.
The ->done() call op is also split with ->immediate_cancel() handling the
cancellation on failure to begin the call and ->done() handling the rest.
This means that the AFS async FetchData code doesn't try to terminate the
netfs subrequest twice.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-26-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Now that directory and symlink reads go through netfslib, the afs_read
struct is mostly redundant with almost all data duplicated in the
netfs_io_request and netfs_io_subrequest structs that are also available
any time we're doing a fetch.
Eliminate afs_read by moving the one field we still need there to the
afs_call struct (we may be given a different amount of data than what we
asked for and have to track what remains of that) and using the
netfs_io_subrequest directly instead.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-24-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Use netfslib to read symlinks, thereby allowing them to be cached by
fscache and cachefiles.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-23-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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In the AFS ecosystem, directories are just a special type of file that is
downloaded and parsed locally. Download is done by the same mechanism as
ordinary files and the data can be cached. There is one important semantic
restriction on directories over files: the client must download the entire
directory in one go because, for example, the server could fabricate the
contents of the blob on the fly with each download and give a different
image each time.
So that we can cache the directory download, switch AFS directory support
over to using the netfslib single-object API, thereby allowing directory
content to be stored in the local cache.
To make this work, the following changes are made:
(1) A directory's contents are now stored in a folio_queue chain attached
to the afs_vnode (inode) struct rather than its associated pagecache,
though multipage folios are still used to hold the data. The folio
queue is discarded when the directory inode is evicted.
This also helps with the phasing out of ITER_XARRAY.
(2) Various directory operations are made to use and unuse the cache
cookie.
(3) The content checking, content dumping and content iteration are now
performed with a standard iov_iter iterator over the contents of the
folio queue.
(4) Iteration and modification must be done with the vnode's validate_lock
held. In conjunction with (1), this means that the iteration can be
done without the need to lock pages or take extra refs on them, unlike
when accessing ->i_pages.
(5) Convert to using netfs_read_single() to read data.
(6) Provide a ->writepages() to call netfs_writeback_single() to save the
data to the cache according to the VM's scheduling whilst holding the
validate_lock read-locked as (4).
(7) Change local directory image editing functions:
(a) Provide a function to get a specific block by number from the
folio_queue as we can no longer use the i_pages xarray to locate
folios by index. This uses a cursor to remember the current
position as we need to iterate through the directory contents.
The block is kmapped before being returned.
(b) Make the function in (a) extend the directory by an extra folio if
we run out of space.
(c) Raise the check of the block free space counter, for those blocks
that have one, higher in the function to eliminate a call to get a
block.
(d) Remove the page unlocking and putting done during the editing
loops. This is no longer necessary as the folio_queue holds the
references and the pages are no longer in the pagecache.
(e) Mark the inode dirty and pin the cache usage till writeback at the
end of a successful edit.
(8) Don't set the large_folios flag on the inode as we do the allocation
ourselves rather than the VM doing it automatically.
(9) Mark the inode as being a single object that isn't uploaded to the
server.
(10) Enable caching on directories.
(11) Only set the upload key for writeback for regular files.
Notes:
(*) We keep the ->release_folio(), ->invalidate_folio() and
->migrate_folio() ops as we set the mapping pointer on the folio.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-22-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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In a future patch, AFS directory caching will go through netfslib and this
will involve, at times, running on behalf of ->lookup(), which doesn't
provide us with a file from which we can get an authentication key.
If a file isn't provided, make afs_init_request() get a key from the
process's keyrings instead when setting up a read.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-21-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Drop the was_async argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated(). Almost
every caller is either in process context and passes false. Some
filesystems delegate the call to a workqueue to avoid doing the work in
their network message queue parsing thread.
The only exception is netfs_cache_read_terminated() which handles
completion in the cache - which is usually a callback from the backing
filesystem in softirq context, though it can be from process context if an
error occurred. In this case, delegate to a workqueue.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiVC5Cgyz6QKXFu6fTaA6h4CjexDR-OV9kL6Vo5x9v8=A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-10-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Drop the error argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated() in favour of
passing the value in subreq->error.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-9-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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afs_retry_request() is supposed to be pointed to by the afs_req_ops netfs
operations table, but the pointer got lost somewhere. The function is used
during writeback to rotate through the authentication keys that were in
force when the file was modified locally.
Fix this by adding the pointer to the function.
Fixes: 1ecb146f7cd8 ("netfs, afs: Use writeback retry to deal with alternate keys")
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1690847.1726346402@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:
(1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
versions. The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.
(2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
done in the I/O thread. Multiple subrequests can be processes
simultaneously.
(3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.
Notes:
(*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
before RPC requests can be transmitted.
(*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.
(*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
file and altered to use folio_queue. Note that the copy to the cache
now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
folios to be copied into it. This allows it to use part of the
writeback I/O code.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Perform AFS read subrequests in a work item rather than in the calling
thread. For normal buffered reads, this will allow the calling thread to
copy data from the pagecache to the application at the same time as the
demarshalling thread is shovelling data from skbuffs into the pagecache.
This will also allow the RA mark to trigger a new read before we've
finished shovelling the data from the current one.
Note: This would be a bit safer if the FS.FetchData RPC ops returned the
metadata (including the data version number) before returning the data.
This would allow me to flush the pagecache before installing the new data.
In future, it may be possible to asynchronously flush the pagecache either
side of the region being read.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-19-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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If a program is watching a file on a 9p mount, it won't see any change in
size if the file being exported by the server is changed directly in the
source filesystem, presumably because 9p doesn't have change notifications,
and because netfs skips the reads if the file is empty.
Fix this by attempting to read the full size specified when a DIO read is
requested (such as when 9p is operating in unbuffered mode) and dealing
with a short read if the EOF was less than the expected read.
To make this work, filesystems using netfslib must not set
NETFS_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL if performing a DIO read where that read hit the EOF.
I don't want to mandatorily clear this flag in netfslib for DIO because,
say, ceph might make a read from an object that is not completely filled,
but does not reside at the end of file - and so we need to clear the
excess.
This can be tested by watching an empty file over 9p within a VM (such as
in the ktest framework):
while true; do read content; if [ -n "$content" ]; then echo $content; break; fi; done < /host/tmp/foo
then writing something into the empty file. The watcher should immediately
display the file content and break out of the loop. Without this fix, it
remains in the loop indefinitely.
Fixes: 80105ed2fd27 ("9p: Use netfslib read/write_iter")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218916
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1229195.1723211769@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org>
cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Use a hook in the new writeback code's retry algorithm to rotate the keys
once all the outstanding subreqs have failed rather than doing it
separately on each subreq.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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Cut over to using the new writeback code. The old code is #ifdef'd out or
otherwise removed from compilation to avoid conflicts and will be removed
in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org>
cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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Implement the helpers for the new write code in afs. There's now an
optional ->prepare_write() that allows the filesystem to set the parameters
for the next write, such as maximum size and maximum segment count, and an
->issue_write() that is called to initiate an (asynchronous) write
operation.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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Use writepages-based flushing invalidation instead of
invalidate_inode_pages2() and ->launder_folio(). This will allow
->launder_folio() to be removed eventually.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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In __afs_break_callback() we might check ->cb_nr_mmap and if it's non-zero
do queue_work(&vnode->cb_work). In afs_drop_open_mmap() we decrement
->cb_nr_mmap and do flush_work(&vnode->cb_work) if it reaches zero.
The trouble is, there's nothing to prevent __afs_break_callback() from
seeing ->cb_nr_mmap before the decrement and do queue_work() after both
the decrement and flush_work(). If that happens, we might be in trouble -
vnode might get freed before the queued work runs.
__afs_break_callback() is always done under ->cb_lock, so let's make
sure that ->cb_nr_mmap can change from non-zero to zero while holding
->cb_lock (the spinlock component of it - it's a seqlock and we don't
need to mess with the counter).
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This extends the netfs helper library that network filesystems can use
to replace their own implementations. Both afs and 9p are ported. cifs
is ready as well but the patches are way bigger and will be routed
separately once this is merged. That will remove lots of code as well.
The overal goal is to get high-level I/O and knowledge of the page
cache and ouf of the filesystem drivers. This includes knowledge about
the existence of pages and folios
The pull request converts afs and 9p. This removes about 800 lines of
code from afs and 300 from 9p. For 9p it is now possible to do writes
in larger than a page chunks. Additionally, multipage folio support
can be turned on for 9p. Separate patches exist for cifs removing
another 2000+ lines. I've included detailed information in the
individual pulls I took.
Summary:
- Add NFS-style (and Ceph-style) locking around DIO vs buffered I/O
calls to prevent these from happening at the same time.
- Support for direct and unbuffered I/O.
- Support for write-through caching in the page cache.
- O_*SYNC and RWF_*SYNC writes use write-through rather than writing
to the page cache and then flushing afterwards.
- Support for write-streaming.
- Support for write grouping.
- Skip reads for which the server could only return zeros or EOF.
- The fscache module is now part of the netfs library and the
corresponding maintainer entry is updated.
- Some helpers from the fscache subsystem are renamed to mark them as
belonging to the netfs library.
- Follow-up fixes for the netfs library.
- Follow-up fixes for the 9p conversion"
* tag 'vfs-6.8.netfs' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (50 commits)
netfs: Fix wrong #ifdef hiding wait
cachefiles: Fix signed/unsigned mixup
netfs: Fix the loop that unmarks folios after writing to the cache
netfs: Fix interaction between write-streaming and cachefiles culling
netfs: Count DIO writes
netfs: Mark netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() static
netfs: Fix proc/fs/fscache symlink to point to "netfs" not "../netfs"
netfs: Rearrange netfs_io_subrequest to put request pointer first
9p: Use length of data written to the server in preference to error
9p: Do a couple of cleanups
9p: Fix initialisation of netfs_inode for 9p
cachefiles: Fix __cachefiles_prepare_write()
9p: Use netfslib read/write_iter
afs: Use the netfs write helpers
netfs: Export the netfs_sreq tracepoint
netfs: Optimise away reads above the point at which there can be no data
netfs: Implement a write-through caching option
netfs: Provide a launder_folio implementation
netfs: Provide a writepages implementation
netfs, cachefiles: Pass upper bound length to allow expansion
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Overhaul the third party-induced invalidation handling, making use of the
previously added volume-level event counters (cb_scrub and cb_ro_snapshot)
that are now being parsed out of the VolSync record returned by the
fileserver in many of its replies.
This allows better handling of RO (and Backup) volumes. Since these are
snapshot of a RW volume that are updated atomically simultantanously across
all servers that host them, they only require a single callback promise for
the entire volume. The currently upstream code assumes that RO volumes
operate in the same manner as RW volumes, and that each file has its own
individual callback - which means that it does a status fetch for *every*
file in a RO volume, whether or not the volume got "released" (volume
callback breaks can occur for other reasons too, such as the volumeserver
taking ownership of a volume from a fileserver).
To this end, make the following changes:
(1) Change the meaning of the volume's cb_v_break counter so that it is
now a hint that we need to issue a status fetch to work out the state
of a volume. cb_v_break is incremented by volume break callbacks and
by server initialisation callbacks.
(2) Add a second counter, cb_v_check, to the afs_volume struct such that
if this differs from cb_v_break, we need to do a check. When the
check is complete, cb_v_check is advanced to what cb_v_break was at
the start of the status fetch.
(3) Move the list of mmap'd vnodes to the volume and trigger removal of
PTEs that map to files on a volume break rather than on a server
break.
(4) When a server reinitialisation callback comes in, use the
server-to-volume reverse mapping added in a preceding patch to iterate
over all the volumes using that server and clear the volume callback
promises for that server and the general volume promise as a whole to
trigger reanalysis.
(5) Replace the AFS_VNODE_CB_PROMISED flag with an AFS_NO_CB_PROMISE
(TIME64_MIN) value in the cb_expires_at field, reducing the number of
checks we need to make.
(6) Change afs_check_validity() to quickly see if various event counters
have been incremented or if the vnode or volume callback promise is
due to expire/has expired without making any changes to the state.
That is now left to afs_validate() as this may get more complicated in
future as we may have to examine server records too.
(7) Overhaul afs_validate() so that it does a single status fetch if we
need to check the state of either the vnode or the volume - and do so
under appropriate locking. The function does the following steps:
(A) If the vnode/volume is no longer seen as valid, then we take the
vnode validation lock and, if the volume promise has expired, the
volume check lock also. The latter prevents redundant checks being
made to find out if a new version of the volume got released.
(B) If a previous RPC call found that the volsync changed unexpectedly
or that a RO volume was updated, then we unmap all PTEs pointing to
the file to stop mmap being used for access.
(C) If the vnode is still seen to be of uncertain validity, then we
perform an FS.FetchStatus RPC op to jointly update the volume status
and the vnode status. This assessment is done as part of parsing the
reply:
If the RO volume creation timestamp advances, cb_ro_snapshot is
incremented; if either the creation or update timestamps changes in
an unexpected way, the cb_scrub counter is incremented
If the Data Version returned doesn't match the copy we have
locally, then we ask for the pagecache to be zapped. This takes
care of handling RO update.
(D) If cb_scrub differs between volume and vnode, the vnode's
pagecache is zapped and the vnode's cb_scrub is updated unless the
file is marked as having been deleted.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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Make afs use the netfs write helpers.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Simplify error handling a bit by moving it from the afs_addr_cursor struct
to the afs_operation and afs_vl_cursor structs and using the error
prioritisation function for accumulating errors from multiple sources (AFS
tries to rotate between multiple fileservers, some of which may be
inaccessible or in some state of offlinedness).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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Wrap most op->error accesses with inline funcs which will make it easier
for a subsequent patch to replace op->error with something else. Two
functions are added to this end:
(1) afs_op_error() - Get the error code.
(2) afs_op_set_error() - Set the error code.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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Add three iov_iter structs:
(1) Add an iov_iter (->iter) to the I/O request to describe the
unencrypted-side buffer.
(2) Add an iov_iter (->io_iter) to the I/O request to describe the
encrypted-side I/O buffer. This may be a different size to the buffer
in (1).
(3) Add an iov_iter (->io_iter) to the I/O subrequest to describe the part
of the I/O buffer for that subrequest.
This will allow future patches to point to a bounce buffer instead for
purposes of handling oversize writes, decryption (where we want to save the
encrypted data to the cache) and decompression.
These iov_iters persist for the lifetime of the (sub)request, and so can be
accessed multiple times without worrying about them being deallocated upon
return to the caller.
The network filesystem must appropriately advance the iterator before
terminating the request.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Provide default invalidate_folio and release_folio calls. These will need
to interact with invalidation correctly at some point. They will be needed
if netfslib is to make use of folio->private for its own purposes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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AFS currently uses folio->private to store the range of bytes within a
folio that have been modified - the idea being that if we have, say, a 2MiB
folio and someone writes a single byte, we only have to write back that
single page and not the whole 2MiB folio - thereby saving on network
bandwidth.
Remove this, at least for now, and accept the extra network load (which
doesn't matter in the common case of writing a whole file at a time from
beginning to end).
This makes folio->private available for netfslib to use.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Move the resource pinning-for-writeback from fscache code to netfslib code.
This is used to keep a cache backing object pinned whilst we have dirty
pages on the netfs inode in the pagecache such that VM writeback will be
able to reach it.
Whilst we're at it, switch the parameters of netfs_unpin_writeback() to
match ->write_inode() so that it can be used for that directly.
Note that this mechanism could be more generically useful than that for
network filesystems. Quite often they have to keep around other resources
(e.g. authentication tokens or network connections) until the writeback is
complete.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Remove ->begin_cache_operation() in favour of just calling fscache directly.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
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Replace pointers to generic_file_splice_read() with calls to
filemap_splice_read().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-29-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Provide a splice_read wrapper for AFS to call afs_validate() before going
into generic_file_splice_read() so that we're likely to have a callback
promise from the server.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-16-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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For the map_pages() method, we need a test that does not sleep. The page
fault handler will continue to call the fault() method where we can sleep
and do the full revalidation there.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230327174515.1811532-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We're trying to get rid of the ->writepage() hook[1]. Stop afs from using
it by unlocking the page and calling afs_writepages_region() rather than
folio_write_one().
A flag is passed to afs_writepages_region() to indicate that it should only
write a single region so that we don't flush the entire file in
->write_begin(), but do add other dirty data to the region being written to
try and reduce the number of RPC ops.
This requires ->migrate_folio() to be implemented, so point that at
filemap_migrate_folio() for files and also for symlinks and directories.
This can be tested by turning on the afs_folio_dirty tracepoint and then
doing something like:
xfs_io -c "w 2223 7000" -c "w 15000 22222" -c "w 23 7" /afs/my/test/foo
and then looking in the trace to see if the write at position 15000 gets
stored before page 0 gets dirtied for the write at position 23.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221113162902.883850-1-hch@lst.de/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166876785552.222254.4403222906022558715.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
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READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.
Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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check_write_begin() will unlock and put the folio when return
non-zero. So we should avoid unlocking and putting it twice in
netfs layer.
Change the way ->check_write_begin() works in the following two ways:
(1) Pass it a pointer to the folio pointer, allowing it to unlock and put
the folio prior to doing the stuff it wants to do, provided it clears
the folio pointer.
(2) Change the return values such that 0 with folio pointer set means
continue, 0 with folio pointer cleared means re-get and all error
codes indicating an error (no special treatment for -EAGAIN).
[ bagasdotme: use Sphinx code text syntax for *foliop pointer ]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/56423
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf169f43-8ee7-8697-25da-0204d1b4343e@redhat.com
Co-developed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
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The netfs_io_request cleanup op is now always in a position to be given a
pointer to a netfs_io_request struct, so this can be passed in instead of
the mapping and private data arguments (both of which are included in the
struct).
So rename the ->cleanup op to ->free_request (to match ->init_request) and
pass in the I/O pointer.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
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While randstruct was satisfied with using an open-coded "void *" offset
cast for the netfs_i_context <-> inode casting, __builtin_object_size() as
used by FORTIFY_SOURCE was not as easily fooled. This was causing the
following complaint[1] from gcc v12:
In file included from include/linux/string.h:253,
from include/linux/ceph/ceph_debug.h:7,
from fs/ceph/inode.c:2:
In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
inlined from 'netfs_i_context_init' at include/linux/netfs.h:326:2,
inlined from 'ceph_alloc_inode' at fs/ceph/inode.c:463:2:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:242:25: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
242 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fix this by embedding a struct inode into struct netfs_i_context (which
should perhaps be renamed to struct netfs_inode). The struct inode
vfs_inode fields are then removed from the 9p, afs, ceph and cifs inode
structs and vfs_inode is then simply changed to "netfs.inode" in those
filesystems.
Further, rename netfs_i_context to netfs_inode, get rid of the
netfs_inode() function that converted a netfs_i_context pointer to an
inode pointer (that can now be done with &ctx->inode) and rename the
netfs_i_context() function to netfs_inode() (which is now a wrapper
around container_of()).
Most of the changes were done with:
perl -p -i -e 's/vfs_inode/netfs.inode/'g \
`git grep -l 'vfs_inode' -- fs/{9p,afs,ceph,cifs}/*.[ch]`
Kees suggested doing it with a pair structure[2] and a special
declarator to insert that into the network filesystem's inode
wrapper[3], but I think it's cleaner to embed it - and then it doesn't
matter if struct randomisation reorders things.
Dave Chinner suggested using a filesystem-specific VFS_I() function in
each filesystem to convert that filesystem's own inode wrapper struct
into the VFS inode struct[4].
Version #2:
- Fix a couple of missed name changes due to a disabled cifs option.
- Rename nfs_i_context to nfs_inode
- Use "netfs" instead of "nic" as the member name in per-fs inode wrapper
structs.
[ This also undoes commit 507160f46c55 ("netfs: gcc-12: temporarily
disable '-Wattribute-warning' for now") that is no longer needed ]
Fixes: bc899ee1c898 ("netfs: Add a netfs inode context")
Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d2ad3a3d7bdd794c6efb562d2f2b655fb67756b9.camel@kernel.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517210230.864239-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518202212.2322058-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524101205.GI2306852@dread.disaster.area/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165296786831.3591209.12111293034669289733.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165305805651.4094995.7763502506786714216.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk # v2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A straightforward conversion as they already work in terms of folios.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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This function mostly used folios already, and only a few minor changes
were needed.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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This is straightforward because netfs already worked in terms of folios.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull netfs updates from David Howells:
"Netfs prep for write helpers.
Having had a go at implementing write helpers and content encryption
support in netfslib, it seems that the netfs_read_{,sub}request
structs and the equivalent write request structs were almost the same
and so should be merged, thereby requiring only one set of
alloc/get/put functions and a common set of tracepoints.
Merging the structs also has the advantage that if a bounce buffer is
added to the request struct, a read operation can be performed to fill
the bounce buffer, the contents of the buffer can be modified and then
a write operation can be performed on it to send the data wherever it
needs to go using the same request structure all the way through. The
I/O handlers would then transparently perform any required crypto.
This should make it easier to perform RMW cycles if needed.
The potentially common functions and structs, however, by their names
all proclaim themselves to be associated with the read side of things.
The bulk of these changes alter this in the following ways:
- Rename struct netfs_read_{,sub}request to netfs_io_{,sub}request.
- Rename some enums, members and flags to make them more appropriate.
- Adjust some comments to match.
- Drop "read"/"rreq" from the names of common functions. For
instance, netfs_get_read_request() becomes netfs_get_request().
- The ->init_rreq() and ->issue_op() methods become ->init_request()
and ->issue_read(). I've kept the latter as a read-specific
function and in another branch added an ->issue_write() method.
The driver source is then reorganised into a number of files:
fs/netfs/buffered_read.c Create read reqs to the pagecache
fs/netfs/io.c Dispatchers for read and write reqs
fs/netfs/main.c Some general miscellaneous bits
fs/netfs/objects.c Alloc, get and put functions
fs/netfs/stats.c Optional procfs statistics.
and future development can be fitted into this scheme, e.g.:
fs/netfs/buffered_write.c Modify the pagecache
fs/netfs/buffered_flush.c Writeback from the pagecache
fs/netfs/direct_read.c DIO read support
fs/netfs/direct_write.c DIO write support
fs/netfs/unbuffered_write.c Write modifications directly back
Beyond the above changes, there are also some changes that affect how
things work:
- Make fscache_end_operation() generally available.
- In the netfs tracing header, generate enums from the symbol ->
string mapping tables rather than manually coding them.
- Add a struct for filesystems that uses netfslib to put into their
inode wrapper structs to hold extra state that netfslib is
interested in, such as the fscache cookie. This allows netfslib
functions to be set in filesystem operation tables and jumped to
directly without having to have a filesystem wrapper.
- Add a member to the struct added above to track the remote inode
length as that may differ if local modifications are buffered. We
may need to supply an appropriate EOF pointer when storing data (in
AFS for example).
- Pass extra information to netfs_alloc_request() so that the
->init_request() hook can access it and retain information to
indicate the origin of the operation.
- Make the ->init_request() hook return an error, thereby allowing a
filesystem that isn't allowed to cache an inode (ceph or cifs, for
example) to skip readahead.
- Switch to using refcount_t for subrequests and add tracepoints to
log refcount changes for the request and subrequest structs.
- Add a function to consolidate dispatching a read request. Similar
code is used in three places and another couple are likely to be
added in the future"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2639515.1648483225@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
* tag 'netfs-prep-20220318' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
afs: Maintain netfs_i_context::remote_i_size
netfs: Keep track of the actual remote file size
netfs: Split some core bits out into their own file
netfs: Split fs/netfs/read_helper.c
netfs: Rename read_helper.c to io.c
netfs: Prepare to split read_helper.c
netfs: Add a function to consolidate beginning a read
netfs: Add a netfs inode context
ceph: Make ceph_init_request() check caps on readahead
netfs: Change ->init_request() to return an error code
netfs: Refactor arguments for netfs_alloc_read_request
netfs: Adjust the netfs_failure tracepoint to indicate non-subreq lines
netfs: Trace refcounting on the netfs_io_subrequest struct
netfs: Trace refcounting on the netfs_io_request struct
netfs: Adjust the netfs_rreq tracepoint slightly
netfs: Split netfs_io_* object handling out
netfs: Finish off rename of netfs_read_request to netfs_io_request
netfs: Rename netfs_read_*request to netfs_io_*request
netfs: Generate enums from trace symbol mapping lists
fscache: export fscache_end_operation()
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Add a netfs_i_context struct that should be included in the network
filesystem's own inode struct wrapper, directly after the VFS's inode
struct, e.g.:
struct my_inode {
struct {
/* These must be contiguous */
struct inode vfs_inode;
struct netfs_i_context netfs_ctx;
};
};
The netfs_i_context struct so far contains a single field for the network
filesystem to use - the cache cookie:
struct netfs_i_context {
...
struct fscache_cookie *cache;
};
Three functions are provided to help with this:
(1) void netfs_i_context_init(struct inode *inode,
const struct netfs_request_ops *ops);
Initialise the netfs context and set the operations.
(2) struct netfs_i_context *netfs_i_context(struct inode *inode);
Find the netfs context from the VFS inode.
(3) struct inode *netfs_inode(struct netfs_i_context *ctx);
Find the VFS inode from the netfs context.
Changes
=======
ver #4)
- Fix netfs_is_cache_enabled() to check cookie->cache_priv to see if a
cache is present[3].
- Fix netfs_skip_folio_read() to zero out all of the page, not just some
of it[3].
ver #3)
- Split out the bit to move ceph cap-getting on readahead into
ceph_init_request()[1].
- Stick in a comment to the netfs inode structs indicating the contiguity
requirements[2].
ver #2)
- Adjust documentation to match.
- Use "#if IS_ENABLED()" in netfs_i_cookie(), not "#ifdef".
- Move the cap check from ceph_readahead() to ceph_init_request() to be
called from netfslib.
- Remove ceph_readahead() and use netfs_readahead() directly instead.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8af0d47f17d89c06bbf602496dd845f2b0bf25b3.camel@kernel.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/beaf4f6a6c2575ed489adb14b257253c868f9a5c.camel@kernel.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3536452.1647421585@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622984545.3564931.15691742939278418580.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678213320.1200972.16807551936267647470.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692909854.2099075.9535537286264248057.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/306388.1647595110@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Change the request initialisation function to return an error code so that
the network filesystem can return a failure (ENOMEM, for example).
This will also allow ceph to abort a ->readahead() op if the server refuses
to give it a cap allowing local caching from within the netfslib framework
(errors aren't passed back through ->readahead(), so returning, say,
-ENOBUFS will cause the op to be aborted).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678212401.1200972.16537041523832944934.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692905398.2099075.5238033621684646524.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
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Adjust helper function names and comments after mass rename of
struct netfs_read_*request to struct netfs_io_*request.
Changes
=======
ver #2)
- Make the changes in the docs also.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622992433.3564931.6684311087845150271.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678196111.1200972.5001114956865989528.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692892567.2099075.13895804222087028813.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
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Rename netfs_read_*request to netfs_io_*request so that the same structures
can be used for the write helpers too.
perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_read_(request|subrequest)/netfs_io_$1/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_read_\(sub\|\)request'`
perl -p -i -e 's/nr_rd_ops/nr_outstanding/g' \
`git grep -l nr_rd_ops`
perl -p -i -e 's/nr_wr_ops/nr_copy_ops/g' \
`git grep -l nr_wr_ops`
perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_read_source/netfs_io_source/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_read_source'`
perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_io_request_ops/netfs_request_ops/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_io_request_ops'`
perl -p -i -e 's/init_rreq/init_request/g' \
`git grep -l 'init_rreq'`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622988070.3564931.7089670190434315183.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678195157.1200972.366609966927368090.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692891535.2099075.18435198075367420588.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
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Convert all users of fscache_set_page_dirty to use fscache_dirty_folio.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> # orangefs
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> # afs
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Straightforward conversion.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> # orangefs
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> # afs
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We know the page is in the page cache, not the swap cache. If we ever
support folios larger than 2GB, afs_invalidate_dirty() will need to be
fixed, but that's a larger project.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> # orangefs
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> # afs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull fscache rewrite from David Howells:
"This is a set of patches that rewrites the fscache driver and the
cachefiles driver, significantly simplifying the code compared to
what's upstream, removing the complex operation scheduling and object
state machine in favour of something much smaller and simpler.
The series is structured such that the first few patches disable
fscache use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles
driver entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away
with without causing build failures in the network filesystems.
The patches after that recreate fscache and then cachefiles,
attempting to add the pieces in a logical order. Finally, the
filesystems are reenabled and then the very last patch changes the
documentation.
[!] Note: I have dropped the cifs patch for the moment, leaving local
caching in cifs disabled. I've been having trouble getting that
working. I think I have it done, but it needs more testing (there
seem to be some test failures occurring with v5.16 also from
xfstests), so I propose deferring that patch to the end of the
merge window.
WHY REWRITE?
============
Fscache's operation scheduling API was intended to handle sequencing
of cache operations, which were all required (where possible) to run
asynchronously in parallel with the operations being done by the
network filesystem, whilst allowing the cache to be brought online and
offline and to interrupt service for invalidation.
With the advent of the tmpfile capacity in the VFS, however, an
opportunity arises to do invalidation much more simply, without having
to wait for I/O that's actually in progress: Cachefiles can simply
create a tmpfile, cut over the file pointer for the backing object
attached to a cookie and abandon the in-progress I/O, dismissing it
upon completion.
Future work here would involve using Omar Sandoval's vfs_link() with
AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] to allow an extant file to be displaced by a new
hard link from a tmpfile as currently I have to unlink the old file
first.
These patches can also simplify the object state handling as I/O
operations to the cache don't all have to be brought to a stop in
order to invalidate a file. To that end, and with an eye on to writing
a new backing cache model in the future, I've taken the opportunity to
simplify the indexing structure.
I've separated the index cookie concept from the file cookie concept
by C type now. The former is now called a "volume cookie" (struct
fscache_volume) and there is a container of file cookies. There are
then just the two levels. All the index cookie levels are collapsed
into a single volume cookie, and this has a single printable string as
a key. For instance, an AFS volume would have a key of something like
"afs,example.com,1000555", combining the filesystem name, cell name
and volume ID. This is freeform, but must not have '/' chars in it.
I've also eliminated all pointers back from fscache into the network
filesystem. This required the duplication of a little bit of data in
the cookie (cookie key, coherency data and file size), but it's not
actually that much. This gets rid of problems with making sure we keep
netfs data structures around so that the cache can access them.
These patches mean that most of the code that was in the drivers
before is simply gone and those drivers are now almost entirely new
code. That being the case, there doesn't seem any particular reason to
try and maintain bisectability across it. Further, there has to be a
point in the middle where things are cut over as there's a single
point everything has to go through (ie. /dev/cachefiles) and it can't
be in use by two drivers at once.
ISSUES YET OUTSTANDING
======================
There are some issues still outstanding, unaddressed by this patchset,
that will need fixing in future patchsets, but that don't stop this
series from being usable:
(1) The cachefiles driver needs to stop using the backing filesystem's
metadata to store information about what parts of the cache are
populated. This is not reliable with modern extent-based
filesystems.
Fixing this is deferred to a separate patchset as it involves
negotiation with the network filesystem and the VM as to how much
data to download to fulfil a read - which brings me on to (2)...
(2) NFS (and CIFS with the dropped patch) do not take account of how
the cache would like I/O to be structured to meet its granularity
requirements. Previously, the cache used page granularity, which
was fine as the network filesystems also dealt in page
granularity, and the backing filesystem (ext4, xfs or whatever)
did whatever it did out of sight. However, we now have folios to
deal with and the cache will now have to store its own metadata to
track its contents.
The change I'm looking at making for cachefiles is to store
content bitmaps in one or more xattrs and making a bit in the map
correspond to something like a 256KiB block. However, the size of
an xattr and the fact that they have to be read/updated in one go
means that I'm looking at covering 1GiB of data per 512-byte map
and storing each map in an xattr. Cachefiles has the potential to
grow into a fully fledged filesystem of its very own if I'm not
careful.
However, I'm also looking at changing things even more radically
and going to a different model of how the cache is arranged and
managed - one that's more akin to the way, say, openafs does
things - which brings me on to (3)...
(3) The way cachefilesd does culling is very inefficient for large
caches and it would be better to move it into the kernel if I can
as cachefilesd has to keep asking the kernel if it can cull a
file. Changing the way the backend works would allow this to be
addressed.
BITS THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL
==============================
There are some bits I've added that may be controversial:
(1) I've provided a flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, that cachefiles uses to check
if a files is already being used by some other kernel service
(e.g. a duplicate cachefiles cache in the same directory) and
reject it if it is. This isn't entirely necessary, but it helps
prevent accidental data corruption.
I don't want to use S_SWAPFILE as that has other effects, but
quite possibly swapon() should set S_KERNEL_FILE too.
Note that it doesn't prevent userspace from interfering, though
perhaps it should. (I have made it prevent a marked directory from
being rmdir-able).
(2) Cachefiles wants to keep the backing file for a cookie open whilst
we might need to write to it from network filesystem writeback.
The problem is that the network filesystem unuses its cookie when
its file is closed, and so we have nothing pinning the cachefiles
file open and it will get closed automatically after a short time
to avoid EMFILE/ENFILE problems.
Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being
done due to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will
oops if we try to open a file in that context because they want to
access current->fs or suchlike.
To get around this, I added the following:
(A) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network
filesystem inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the
cookie caching that inode.
(B) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that
is set when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty
page from i_pages - at which point it clears
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this flag.
This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB
can be done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
that clears I_DIRTY_PAGES.
(C) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set,
sets I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to
pin the cache resources.
(D) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by
->write_inode() to unuse the cookie.
(E) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when
the inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This
cleans up any lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.
The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the
cache as well as to the server.
For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that
should allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the
dirty regions separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and
is also going to be affected by folios, one way or another, since
it deals with pages"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510611.1641942444@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> # 9p
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com # afs
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> # ceph
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com> # nfs
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com> # nfs
* tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (67 commits)
9p, afs, ceph, nfs: Use current_is_kswapd() rather than gfpflags_allow_blocking()
fscache: Add a tracepoint for cookie use/unuse
fscache: Rewrite documentation
ceph: add fscache writeback support
ceph: conversion to new fscache API
nfs: Implement cache I/O by accessing the cache directly
nfs: Convert to new fscache volume/cookie API
9p: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
9p: Use fscache indexing rewrite and reenable caching
afs: Skip truncation on the server of data we haven't written yet
afs: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
afs: Convert afs to use the new fscache API
fscache, cachefiles: Display stat of culling events
fscache, cachefiles: Display stats of no-space events
cachefiles: Allow cachefiles to actually function
fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data
cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines
cachefiles: Implement cookie resize for truncate
cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling
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gfpflags_allow_blocking()
In 9p, afs ceph, and nfs, gfpflags_allow_blocking() (which wraps a
test for __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM being set) is used to determine if
->releasepage() should wait for the completion of a DIO write to fscache
with something like:
if (folio_test_fscache(folio)) {
if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp) || !(gfp & __GFP_FS))
return false;
folio_wait_fscache(folio);
}
Instead, current_is_kswapd() should be used instead.
Note that this is based on a patch originally by Zhaoyang Huang[1]. In
addition to extending it to the other network filesystems and putting it on
top of my fscache rewrite, it also needs to include linux/swap.h in a bunch
of places. Can current_is_kswapd() be moved to linux/mm.h?
Changes
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ver #5:
- Dropping the changes for cifs.
Originally-signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Co-developed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1638952658-20285-1-git-send-email-huangzhaoyang@gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021590773.640689.16777975200823659231.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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When writing to the server from afs_writepage() or afs_writepages(), copy
the data to the cache object too.
To make this possible, the cookie must have its active users count
incremented when the page is dirtied and kept incremented until we manage
to clean up all the pages. This allows the writeback to take place after
the last file struct is released.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819662333.215744.7531373404219224438.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906970998.143852.674420788614608063.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967176564.1823006.16666056085593949570.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021570208.640689.9193494979708031862.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Change the afs filesystem to support the new afs driver.
The following changes have been made:
(1) The fscache_netfs struct is no more, and there's no need to register
the filesystem as a whole. There's also no longer a cell cookie.
(2) The volume cookie is now an fscache_volume cookie, allocated with
fscache_acquire_volume(). This function takes three parameters: a
string representing the "volume" in the index, a string naming the
cache to use (or NULL) and a u64 that conveys coherency metadata for
the volume.
For afs, I've made it render the volume name string as:
"afs,<cell>,<volume_id>"
and the coherency data is currently 0.
(3) The fscache_cookie_def is no more and needed information is passed
directly to fscache_acquire_cookie(). The cache no longer calls back
into the filesystem, but rather metadata changes are indicated at
other times.
fscache_acquire_cookie() is passed the same keying and coherency
information as before, except that these are now stored in big endian
form instead of cpu endian. This makes the cache more copyable.
(4) fscache_use_cookie() and fscache_unuse_cookie() are called when a file
is opened or closed to prevent a cache file from being culled and to
keep resources to hand that are needed to do I/O.
fscache_use_cookie() is given an indication if the cache is likely to
be modified locally (e.g. the file is open for writing).
fscache_unuse_cookie() is given a coherency update if we had the file
open for writing and will update that.
(5) fscache_invalidate() is now given uptodate auxiliary data and a file
size. It can also take a flag to indicate if this was due to a DIO
write. This is wrapped into afs_fscache_invalidate() now for
convenience.
(6) fscache_resize() now gets called from the finalisation of
afs_setattr(), and afs_setattr() does use/unuse of the cookie around
the call to support this.
(7) fscache_note_page_release() is called from afs_release_page().
(8) Use a killable wait in nfs_vm_page_mkwrite() when waiting for
PG_fscache to be cleared.
Render the parts of the cookie key for an afs inode cookie as big endian.
Changes
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ver #2:
- Use gfpflags_allow_blocking() rather than using flag directly.
- fscache_acquire_volume() now returns errors.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819661382.215744.1485608824741611837.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906970002.143852.17678518584089878259.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967174665.1823006.1301789965454084220.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021568841.640689.6684240152253400380.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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