回复: [PATCH] mm/filemap: fix page end in filemap_get_read_batch

[Qian Yingjin <qian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for your quick reply！

I am okey with your modification.

Regards,

Yingjin

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发件人: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
发送时间: 2023年1月4日 22:36
收件人: coolqyj@xxxxxxx <coolqyj@xxxxxxx>
抄送: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Qian Yingjin <qian@xxxxxxx>
主题: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: fix page end in filemap_get_read_batch

 

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:21:24AM +0800, coolqyj@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Qian Yingjin <qian@xxxxxxx>
>
> I was running traces of the read code against an RAID storage
> system to understand why read requests were being misaligned
> against the underlying RAID strips. I found that the page end
> offset calculation in filemap_get_read_batch() was off by one.
>
> When a read is submitted with end offset 1048575, then it
> calculates the end page for read of 256 when it should be 255.
> "last_index" is the index of the page beyond the end of the read
> and it should be skipped when get a batch of pages for read in
> @filemap_get_read_batch().
>
> The below simple patch fixes the problem. This code was introduced
> in kernel 5.12.

Thanks for diagnosing & sending a patch.  However, I'd really prefer
to work in terms of 'max' instead of 'last_index' in that function.
Would this work for you?

+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2595,13 +2595,13 @@ static int filemap_get_pages(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
        if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
                return -EINTR;

-       filemap_get_read_batch(mapping, index, last_index, fbatch);
+       filemap_get_read_batch(mapping, index, last_index - 1, fbatch);
        if (!folio_batch_count(fbatch)) {
                if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOIO)
                        return -EAGAIN;
                page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, ra, filp, index,
                                last_index - index);
-               filemap_get_read_batch(mapping, index, last_index, fbatch);
+               filemap_get_read_batch(mapping, index, last_index - 1, fbatch);
        }
        if (!folio_batch_count(fbatch)) {
                if (iocb->ki_flags & (IOCB_NOWAIT | IOCB_WAITQ))