On 2022/6/27 18:19, Jan Kara wrote:
On Sat 25-06-22 11:11:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 03:07:50PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
I'm not sure I get the context 100% right but pages getting randomly dirty
behind filesystem's back can still happen - most commonly with RDMA and
similar stuff which calls set_page_dirty() on pages it has got from
pin_user_pages() once the transfer is done. page_maybe_dma_pinned() should
be usable within filesystems to detect such cases and protect the
filesystem but so far neither me nor John Hubbart has got to implement this
in the generic writeback infrastructure + some filesystem as a sample case
others could copy...
Well, so far the strategy elsewhere seems to be to just ignore pages
only dirtied through get_user_pages. E.g. iomap skips over pages
reported as holes, and ext4_writepage complains about pages without
buffers and then clears the dirty bit and continues.
I'm kinda surprised that btrfs wants to treat this so special
especially as more of the btrfs page and sub-page status will be out
of date as well.
I agree btrfs probably needs a different solution than what it is currently
doing if they want to get things right. I just wanted to make it clear that
the code you are ripping out may be a wrong solution but to a real problem.
IHMO I believe btrfs should also ignore such dirty but not managed by fs
pages.
But I still have a small concern here.
Is it ensured that, after RDMA dirtying the pages, would we finally got
a proper notification to fs that those pages are marked written?
If not, I would guess those pages would never got a chance to be written
back.
If yes, then I'm totally fine to go the ignoring path.
Thanks,
Qu
Honza
