On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 03:34:11PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:10:03AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > On 2022/06/03 2:30, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:21:29PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > > > In filemap_read(), 'ra->prev_pos' is set to 'iocb->ki_pos + copied',
> > > > while it should be 'iocb->ki_ops'.
> > >
> > > Can you walk me through your reasoning which leads you to believe that
> > > it should be ki_pos instead of ki_pos + copied? As I understand it,
> > > prev_pos is the end of the previous read, not the beginning of the
> > > previous read.
> >
> > Hi, Matthew
> >
> > The main reason is the following judgement in flemap_read():
> >
> > if (iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT != -> current page
> > ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT) -> previous page
> > folio_mark_accessed(fbatch.folios[0]);
> >
> > Which means if current page is the same as previous page, don't mark
> > page accessed. However, prev_pos is set to 'ki_pos + copied' during last
> > read, which will cause 'prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT' to be current page
> > instead of previous page.
> >
> > I was thinking that if prev_pos is set to the begining of the previous
> > read, 'prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT' will be previous page as expected. Set to
> > the end of previous read is ok, however, I think the caculation of
> > previous page should be '(prev_pos - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT' instead.
>
> OK, I think Kent broke this in 723ef24b9b37 ("mm/filemap/c: break
> generic_file_buffered_read up into multiple functions"). Before:
>
> - prev_index = ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - prev_offset = ra->prev_pos & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
> ...
> - if (prev_index != index || offset != prev_offset)
> - mark_page_accessed(page);
>
> After:
> + if (iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT != ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> + mark_page_accessed(page);
>
> So surely this should have been:
>
> + if (iocb->ki_pos != ra->prev_pos)
> + mark_page_accessed(page);
>
> Kent, do you recall why you changed it the way you did?
Oh, and if this is the right diagnosis, then this is the fix for the
current tree:
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2673,8 +2673,7 @@ ssize_t filemap_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
* When a sequential read accesses a page several times, only
* mark it as accessed the first time.
*/
- if (iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT !=
- ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+ if (iocb->ki_pos != ra->prev_pos)
folio_mark_accessed(fbatch.folios[0]);
for (i = 0; i < folio_batch_count(&fbatch); i++) {
