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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Handle a write to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker</title>
<updated>2015-11-27T12:48:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
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<published>2015-11-04T15:20:42Z</published>
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commit 102f4d900c9c8f5ed89ae4746d493fe3ebd7ba64 upstream.

Handle a write being requested to the page immediately beyond the EOF
marker on a cache object.  Currently this gets an assertion failure in
CacheFiles because the EOF marker is used there to encode information about
a partial page at the EOF - which could lead to an unknown blank spot in
the file if we extend the file over it.

The problem is actually in fscache where we check the index of the page
being written against store_limit.  store_limit is set to the number of
pages that we're allowed to store by fscache_set_store_limit() - which
means it's one more than the index of the last page we're allowed to store.
The problem is that we permit writing to a page with an index _equal_ to
the store limit - when we should reject that case.

Whilst we're at it, change the triggered assertion in CacheFiles to just
return -ENOBUFS instead.

The assertion failure looks something like this:

CacheFiles: Assertion failed
1000 &lt; 7b1 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c:962!
...
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa02c9e83&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa02c9e83&gt;] cachefiles_write_page+0x273/0x2d0 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: we don't have __kernel_write() so keep using the
 open-coded equivalent]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Fix __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages()'s outer loop</title>
<updated>2011-07-21T17:59:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
</author>
<published>2011-07-21T14:02:43Z</published>
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The compiler, at least for ix86 and m68k, validly warns that the
comparison:

	next &lt;= (loff_t)-1

is always true (and it's always true also for x86-64 and probably all
other arches - as long as pgoff_t isn't wider than loff_t).  The
intention appears to be to avoid wrapping of "next", so rather than
eliminating the pointless comparison, fix the loop to indeed get exited
when "next" would otherwise wrap.

On m68k the following warning is observed:

  fs/fscache/page.c: In function '__fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages':
  fs/fscache/page.c:979: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Jayaraman &lt;sjayaraman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Add a helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode</title>
<updated>2011-07-07T20:21:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
</author>
<published>2011-07-07T11:19:48Z</published>
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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-&gt;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.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010: cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
  RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00  EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282
  RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300
  R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840
  R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0
  FS:  00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0)
  Stack:
   0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00
   ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380
   ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56
  Call Trace:
   cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles]
   fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache]
   fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache]
   process_one_work+0x186/0x298
   worker_thread+0xda/0x15d
   kthread+0x84/0x8c
   kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  RIP  cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
  ---[ 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&lt;&gt;/warthog/bigfile").  Look in proc
     again:

	Pages  : mrk=25601 unc=25601

Reported-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman &lt;sjayaraman@suse.de&gt;
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: remove dead code under CONFIG_WORKQUEUE_DEBUGFS</title>
<updated>2011-05-25T15:39:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Amerigo Wang</name>
</author>
<published>2011-05-25T00:13:11Z</published>
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There is no CONFIG_WORKQUEUE_DEBUGFS any more, so this code is dead.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work</title>
<updated>2010-07-22T20:58:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
</author>
<published>2010-07-20T20:09:01Z</published>
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Make fscache operation to use only workqueue instead of combination of
workqueue and slow-work.  FSCACHE_OP_SLOW is dropped and
FSCACHE_OP_FAST is renamed to FSCACHE_OP_ASYNC and uses newly added
fscache_op_wq workqueue to execute op-&gt;processor().
fscache_operation_init_slow() is dropped and fscache_operation_init()
now takes @processor argument directly.

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* fscache_retrieval_work() is no longer necessary as OP_ASYNC now does
  the equivalent thing.

* sysctl fscache.operation_max_active added to control concurrency.
  The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 2 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Remove unneeded null checks</title>
<updated>2010-06-01T20:32:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
</author>
<published>2010-06-01T19:58:22Z</published>
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fscache_write_op() makes unnecessary checks of the page variable to see if it
is NULL.  It can't be NULL at those points as the kernel would already have
crashed a little higher up where we examined page-&gt;index.

Furthermore, unless radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag() can return 1 but no page, a
NULL pointer crash should not be encountered there as we can only get there if
r_t_g_l_t() returned 1.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11Z</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: add missing unlock</title>
<updated>2010-03-24T23:49:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
</author>
<published>2010-03-23T14:48:37Z</published>
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Sparse complained about this missing spin_unlock()

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death</title>
<updated>2009-11-19T18:11:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
</author>
<published>2009-11-19T18:11:45Z</published>
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Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.

Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object.  Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.

The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions</title>
<updated>2009-11-19T18:11:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
</author>
<published>2009-11-19T18:11:35Z</published>
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Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [&lt;ffffffffa00782d8&gt;] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [&lt;ffffffff8104c0f1&gt;] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [&lt;ffffffffa0078240&gt;] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [&lt;ffffffffa00b671d&gt;] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [&lt;ffffffffa00927f0&gt;] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [&lt;ffffffff810885d3&gt;] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [&lt;ffffffff81093203&gt;] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [&lt;ffffffff8109372b&gt;] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [&lt;ffffffff813532fa&gt;] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [&lt;ffffffff81058df0&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [&lt;ffffffff8135330e&gt;] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [&lt;ffffffff81093aa2&gt;] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [&lt;ffffffff81093d1c&gt;] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [&lt;ffffffff81052d6c&gt;] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [&lt;ffffffff81094b13&gt;] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [&lt;ffffffff81091e24&gt;] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [&lt;ffffffff8108e743&gt;] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [&lt;ffffffff81089529&gt;] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [&lt;ffffffff8110f8c0&gt;] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [&lt;ffffffff81089ec5&gt;] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [&lt;ffffffff8103cb69&gt;] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [&lt;ffffffff8108a509&gt;] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [&lt;ffffffff8108a588&gt;] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [&lt;ffffffff8108a59e&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [&lt;ffffffff810b2e82&gt;] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [&lt;ffffffff8104c0f1&gt;] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [&lt;ffffffff810b18e1&gt;] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [&lt;ffffffff810b1a76&gt;] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [&lt;ffffffffa00e693c&gt;] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [&lt;ffffffffa0077147&gt;] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [&lt;ffffffffa0075656&gt;] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [&lt;ffffffff81082093&gt;] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [&lt;ffffffff8108239a&gt;] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [&lt;ffffffff8104c0f1&gt;] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [&lt;ffffffff810821d5&gt;] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [&lt;ffffffff8104be91&gt;] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [&lt;ffffffff8100beda&gt;] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [&lt;ffffffff8100b87c&gt;] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [&lt;ffffffff8102ef83&gt;] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [&lt;ffffffff8104be17&gt;] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [&lt;ffffffff8100bed0&gt;] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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