On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:30:07AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > As I said, I think I can fix the NFS problem by simply unmapping the > > > page inside ->writepage() whenever we know the write request was > > > originally set up by a page fault. > > > > The biggest outstanding problem we have remaining is get_user_pages. > > Callers are only required to hold a ref on the page and then they > > can call set_page_dirty at any point after that. > > > > I have a half-done patch somewhere to add a put_user_pages, and then > > we could probably go from there to pinning the fs metadata (whether > > by using the page lock or something else, I don't quite know). > > Hi everyone, > > Sorry for digging up an old thread, but is there any reason we can't > just use page_mkwrite here? I'd love to get rid of the btrfs code to > detect places that use set_page_dirty without a page_mkwrite. It is because page_mkwrite must be called before the page is dirtied (it may fail, it theoretically may do something crazy with the previous clean page data). And in several places I think it gets called from a nasty context. It hasn't fallen completely off my radar. fsblock has the same issue (although I've just been ignoring gup writes into fsblock fs for the time being). I have a basic idea of what to do... It would be nice to change calling convention of get_user_pages and take the page lock. Database people might scream, in which case we could only take the page lock for filesystems that define ->page_mkwrite (so shared mem segments avoid the overhead). Lock ordering might get a bit interesting, but if we can have callers ensure they always submit and release partially fulfilled requirests, then we can always trylock them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
