Re: [PATCH 5/7] iomap: write iomap validity checks

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:43:53AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 01:36:41AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 11:34:10AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Now we have a locked folio, before we do anything with it we need to
> > > +	 * check that the iomap we have cached is not stale. The inode extent
> > > +	 * mapping can change due to concurrent IO in flight (e.g.
> > > +	 * IOMAP_UNWRITTEN state can change and memory reclaim could have
> > > +	 * reclaimed a previously partially written page at this index after IO
> > > +	 * completion before this write reaches this file offset) and hence we
> > > +	 * could do the wrong thing here (zero a page range incorrectly or fail
> > > +	 * to zero) and corrupt data.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (ops->iomap_valid) {
> > > +		bool iomap_valid = ops->iomap_valid(iter->inode, &iter->iomap);
> > > +
> > > +		if (!iomap_valid) {
> > > +			iter->iomap.flags |= IOMAP_F_STALE;
> > > +			status = 0;
> > > +			goto out_unlock;
> > > +		}
> > > +	}
> > 
> > So the design so far has been that everything that applies at a page (or
> > now folio) level goes into iomap_page_ops, not iomap_ops which is just
> > the generic iteration, and I think we should probably do it that way.
> 
> I disagree here -- IMHO the sequence number is an attribute of the
> iomapping, not the folio.

OFC now that I've reread iomap.h I realize that iomap_page_ops are
passed back via struct iomap, so I withdraw this comment.

--D

> > I'm a little disappointed that we need two callout almost next to each
> > other, but given that we need to validate with the folio locked, and
> > gfs2 wants the callback with the folio unlocked I think we have to do
> > it that.
> 
> <nod>
> 
> --D



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