Hi, Thank you very much for your suggestion. Will certainly do that. With best regards, Sergei. On 01.08.2019 17:11, Gao Xiang wrote:
Hi, I just took a glance, maybe due to commit 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") I simply reverted it just now and it seems fine... but I haven't digged into this commit. Maybe you could Cc NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> for some more advice and I have no idea whether it's an expected behavior or not... Thanks, Gao Xiang On 2019/8/1 14:16, Sergei Turchanov wrote:Hello! (I sent this e-mail two weeks ago with no feedback. Does anyone care? Wrong mailing list? Anything....?) Seeking (to an offset within file size) in /proc/meminfo is broken in 4.19.59. It does seek to a desired position, but reading from that position returns the remainder of file and then a whole copy of file. This doesn't happen with /proc/vmstat or /proc/self/maps for example. Seeking did work correctly in kernel 4.14.47. So it seems something broke in the way. Background: this kind of access pattern (seeking to /proc/meminfo) is used by libvirt-lxc fuse driver for virtualized view of /proc/meminfo. So that /proc/meminfo is broken in guests when running kernel 4.19.x. $ ./test /proc/meminfo 0 # Works as expected MemTotal: 394907728 kB MemFree: 173738328 kB ... DirectMap2M: 13062144 kB DirectMap1G: 390070272 kB ----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ ./test 1024 # returns a copy of file after the remainder Will seek to 1024 Data read at offset 1024 gePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 0 kB DirectMap4k: 245204 kB DirectMap2M: 13062144 kB DirectMap1G: 390070272 kB MemTotal: 394907728 kB MemFree: 173738328 kB MemAvailable: 379989680 kB Buffers: 355812 kB Cached: 207216224 kB ... DirectMap2M: 13062144 kB DirectMap1G: 390070272 kB As you see, after "DirectMap1G:" line, a whole copy of /proc/meminfo returned by "read". Test program: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define SIZE 1024 char buf[SIZE + 1]; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; ssize_t rd; off_t ofs = 0; if (argc < 2) { printf("Usage: test <file> [<offset>]\n"); exit(1); } if (-1 == (fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY))) { perror("open failed"); exit(1); } if (argc > 2) { ofs = atol(argv[2]); } printf("Will seek to %ld\n", ofs); if (-1 == (lseek(fd, ofs, SEEK_SET))) { perror("lseek failed"); exit(1); } for (;; ofs += rd) { printf("\n\nData read at offset %ld\n", ofs); if (-1 == (rd = read(fd, buf, SIZE))) { perror("read failed"); exit(1); } buf[rd] = '\0'; printf(buf); if (rd < SIZE) { break; } } return 0; }
