Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that need to be
written to it. However, we don't want to keep the file open indefinitely,
as that causes EMFILE/ENFILE/ENOMEM 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
other resources that have already been dismantled.
To get around this, I added the following:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by ->write_inode()
to unuse the cookie.
(5) 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
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>cc: linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 8 ++++++++
fs/fscache/io.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++
include/linux/fscache.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/writeback.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 91 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 67f0e88eed01..8294a60ce323 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1666,6 +1666,13 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES;
+ else if (unlikely(inode->i_state & I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB)) {
+ if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_PAGES)) {
+ inode->i_state &= ~I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB;
+ wbc->unpinned_fscache_wb = true;
+ dirty |= I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB; /* Cause write_inode */
+ }
+ }
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -1675,6 +1682,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
if (ret == 0)
ret = err;
}
+ wbc->unpinned_fscache_wb = false;
trace_writeback_single_inode(inode, wbc, nr_to_write);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/fs/fscache/io.c b/fs/fscache/io.c
index 74cde7acf434..e9e5d6758ea8 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/io.c
+++ b/fs/fscache/io.c
@@ -150,6 +150,44 @@ int __fscache_begin_read_operation(struct netfs_cache_resources *cres,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fscache_begin_read_operation);
+/**
+ * fscache_set_page_dirty - Mark page dirty and pin a cache object for writeback
+ * @page: The page being dirtied
+ * @cookie: The cookie referring to the cache object
+ *
+ * Set the dirty flag on a page and pin an in-use cache object in memory when
+ * dirtying a page so that writeback can later write to it. This is intended
+ * to be called from the filesystem's ->set_page_dirty() method.
+ *
+ * Returns 1 if PG_dirty was set on the page, 0 otherwise.
+ */
+int fscache_set_page_dirty(struct page *page, struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+ bool need_use = false;
+
+ _enter("");
+
+ if (!__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page))
+ return 0;
+ if (!fscache_cookie_valid(cookie))
+ return 1;
+
+ if (!(inode->i_state & I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB)) {
+ spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ if (!(inode->i_state & I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB)) {
+ inode->i_state |= I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB;
+ need_use = true;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+
+ if (need_use)
+ fscache_use_cookie(cookie, true);
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscache_set_page_dirty);
+
struct fscache_write_request {
struct netfs_cache_resources cache_resources;
struct address_space *mapping;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 1cb616fc1105..473ea3ff0ad4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2418,6 +2418,8 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
* Used to detect that mark_inode_dirty() should not move
* inode between dirty lists.
*
+ * I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB Inode is pinning an fscache object for writeback.
+ *
* Q: What is the difference between I_WILL_FREE and I_FREEING?
*/
#define I_DIRTY_SYNC (1 << 0)
@@ -2440,6 +2442,7 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
#define I_CREATING (1 << 15)
#define I_DONTCACHE (1 << 16)
#define I_SYNC_QUEUED (1 << 17)
+#define I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB (1 << 18)
#define I_DIRTY_INODE (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)
#define I_DIRTY (I_DIRTY_INODE | I_DIRTY_PAGES)
diff --git a/include/linux/fscache.h b/include/linux/fscache.h
index a98c5eb865a2..912ed2d7462a 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscache.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscache.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/netfs.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
#if defined(CONFIG_FSCACHE) || defined(CONFIG_FSCACHE_MODULE)
#define __fscache_available (1)
@@ -558,4 +559,44 @@ static inline void fscache_write_to_cache(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
}
+#if __fscache_available
+extern int fscache_set_page_dirty(struct page *page, struct fscache_cookie *cookie);
+#else
+#define fscache_set_page_dirty(PAGE, COOKIE) (__set_page_dirty_nobuffers((PAGE)))
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * fscache_unpin_writeback - Unpin writeback resources
+ * @wbc: The writeback control
+ * @cookie: The cookie referring to the cache object
+ *
+ * Unpin the writeback resources pinned by fscache_set_page_dirty(). This is
+ * intended to be called by the netfs's ->write_inode() method.
+ */
+static inline void fscache_unpin_writeback(struct writeback_control *wbc,
+ struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
+{
+ if (wbc->unpinned_fscache_wb)
+ fscache_unuse_cookie(cookie, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+/**
+ * fscache_clear_inode_writeback - Clear writeback resources pinned by an inode
+ * @cookie: The cookie referring to the cache object
+ * @inode: The inode to clean up
+ * @aux: Auxiliary data to apply to the inode
+ *
+ * Clear any writeback resources held by an inode when the inode is evicted.
+ * This must be called before clear_inode() is called.
+ */
+static inline void fscache_clear_inode_writeback(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
+ struct inode *inode,
+ const void *aux)
+{
+ if (inode->i_state & I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB) {
+ loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode);
+ fscache_unuse_cookie(cookie, aux, &i_size);
+ }
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_FSCACHE_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 3bfd487d1dd2..fec248ab1fec 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned for_sync:1; /* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */
+ unsigned unpinned_fscache_wb:1; /* Cleared I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB */
/*
* When writeback IOs are bounced through async layers, only the
