I spent the last few weeks running down a weird regression in btrfs we were seeing in production. It turned out to be introduced by 62b37622718c, which took the following loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode); actual_end = min_t(u64, isize, end + 1); and turned it into actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1); The problem here is that the compiler is optimizing out the temporary variables used in __cmp_once, so the resulting assembly looks like this 498 actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1); 0xffffffff814b08c1 <+145>: 48 8b 44 24 28 mov 0x28(%rsp),%rax 0xffffffff814b08c6 <+150>: 48 39 45 50 cmp %rax,0x50(%rbp) 0xffffffff814b08ca <+154>: 48 89 c6 mov %rax,%rsi 0xffffffff814b08cd <+157>: 48 0f 46 75 50 cmovbe 0x50(%rbp),%rsi as you can see we read the value of the inode to compare, and then we read it a second time to assign it. This code is simply an optimization, so there's no locking to keep i_size from changing, however we really need min_t to actually return the minimum value for these two values, which it is failing to do. We've reverted that patch for now to fix the problem, but it's only a matter of time before the compiler becomes smart enough to optimize out the loff_t isize intermediate variable as well. Instead we want to make it explicit that i_size_read() should only read the value once. This will keep this class of problem from happening in the future, regardless of what the compiler chooses to do. With this change we get the following assembly generated for this code 491 actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1); 0xffffffff8148f625 <+149>: 48 8b 44 24 20 mov 0x20(%rsp),%rax ./include/linux/compiler.h: 199 __READ_ONCE_SIZE; 0xffffffff8148f62a <+154>: 4c 8b 75 50 mov 0x50(%rbp),%r14 fs/btrfs/inode.c: 491 actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1); 0xffffffff8148f62e <+158>: 49 39 c6 cmp %rax,%r14 0xffffffff8148f631 <+161>: 4c 0f 47 f0 cmova %rax,%r14 and this works out properly, we only read the value once and so we won't trip over this problem again. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e0d909d35763..0e3f887e2dc5 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ static inline loff_t i_size_read(const struct inode *inode) preempt_enable(); return i_size; #else - return inode->i_size; + return READ_ONCE(inode->i_size); #endif } @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static inline void i_size_write(struct inode *inode, loff_t i_size) inode->i_size = i_size; preempt_enable(); #else - inode->i_size = i_size; + WRITE_ONCE(inode->i_size, i_size); #endif } -- 2.21.0
