On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:00 AM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:28:24PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > PF_FSTRANS which is used to avoid transaction reservation recursion, is
> > dropped since commit 9070733b4efa ("xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to
> > PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS") and commit 7dea19f9ee63 ("mm: introduce
> > memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API") and replaced by PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which
> > means to avoid filesystem reclaim recursion.
> >
> > As these two flags have different meanings, we'd better reintroduce
> > PF_FSTRANS back. To avoid wasting the space of PF_* flags in task_struct,
> > we can reuse the current->journal_info to do that, per Willy. As the
> > check of transaction reservation recursion is used by XFS only, we can
> > move the check into xfs_vm_writepage(s), per Dave.
> >
> > To better abstract that behavoir, two new helpers are introduced, as
> > follows,
> > - xfs_trans_context_active
> > To check whehter current is in fs transcation or not
> > - xfs_trans_context_swap
> > Transfer the transaction context when rolling a permanent transaction
> >
> > These two new helpers are instroduced in xfs_trans.h.
> >
> > Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 7 -------
> > fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 3 +++
> > fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> > index 10cc7979ce38..3c53fa6ce64d 100644
> > --- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> > +++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> > @@ -1458,13 +1458,6 @@ iomap_do_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, void *data)
> > PF_MEMALLOC))
> > goto redirty;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
> > - * never be called in a recursive filesystem reclaim context.
> > - */
> > - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS))
> > - goto redirty;
> > -
> > /*
> > * Is this page beyond the end of the file?
> > *
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> > index 2371187b7615..0da0242d42c3 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> > @@ -568,6 +568,16 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
> > {
> > struct xfs_writepage_ctx wpc = { };
> >
> > + /*
> > + * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
> > + * never be called while in a filesystem transaction.
> > + */
> > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(xfs_trans_context_active())) {
> > + redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
> > + unlock_page(page);
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > return iomap_writepage(page, wbc, &wpc.ctx, &xfs_writeback_ops);
> > }
> >
> > @@ -579,6 +589,13 @@ xfs_vm_writepages(
> > struct xfs_writepage_ctx wpc = { };
> >
> > xfs_iflags_clear(XFS_I(mapping->host), XFS_ITRUNCATED);
> > + /*
> > + * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
> > + * never be called while in a filesystem transaction.
> > + */
> > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(xfs_trans_context_active()))
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > return iomap_writepages(mapping, wbc, &wpc.ctx, &xfs_writeback_ops);
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> > index fe20398a214e..08d4916ffb13 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> > @@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ xfs_trans_dup(
> > tp->t_rtx_res = tp->t_rtx_res_used;
> > ntp->t_pflags = tp->t_pflags;
>
> This one line (ntp->t_pflags = tp->t_pflags) should move to
> xfs_trans_context_swap.
>
Make sense to me.
Will update it.
> --D
>
> >
> > + /* Associate the new transaction with this thread. */
> > + xfs_trans_context_swap(tp, ntp);
> > +
> > /* move deferred ops over to the new tp */
> > xfs_defer_move(ntp, tp);
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h
> > index 44b11c64a15e..d596a375e3bf 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h
> > @@ -268,16 +268,38 @@ xfs_trans_item_relog(
> > return lip->li_ops->iop_relog(lip, tp);
> > }
> >
> > +static inline bool
> > +xfs_trans_context_active(void)
> > +{
> > + /* Use journal_info to indicate current is in a transaction */
> > + return current->journal_info != NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline void
> > xfs_trans_context_set(struct xfs_trans *tp)
> > {
> > + ASSERT(!current->journal_info);
> > + current->journal_info = tp;
> > tp->t_pflags = memalloc_nofs_save();
> > }
> >
> > static inline void
> > xfs_trans_context_clear(struct xfs_trans *tp)
> > {
> > + ASSERT(current->journal_info == tp);
> > + current->journal_info = NULL;
> > memalloc_nofs_restore(tp->t_pflags);
> > }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Transfer the transaction context when rolling a permanent
> > + * transaction.
> > + */
> > +static inline void
> > +xfs_trans_context_swap(struct xfs_trans *tp, struct xfs_trans *ntp)
> > +{
> > + ASSERT(current->journal_info == tp);
> > + current->journal_info = ntp;
> > +}
> > +
> > #endif /* __XFS_TRANS_H__ */
> > --
> > 2.18.4
> >
--
Thanks
Yafang
