On 10/29/2015 08:43 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Patch "mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc",
> presently staged in mmotm and linux-next, simplifies the migration of
> a PageDirty pagecache page: one stat needs moving from zone to zone
> and that's about all.
>
> It's convenient and safest for it to shift the PageDirty bit from old
> page to new, just before updating the zone stats: before copying data
> and marking the new PageUptodate. This is all done while both pages
> are isolated and locked, just as before; and just as before, there's
> a moment when the new page is visible in the radix_tree, but not yet
> PageUptodate. What's new is that it may now be briefly visible as
> PageDirty before it is PageUptodate.
>
> When I scoured the tree to see if this could cause a problem anywhere,
> the only places I found were in two similar functions __r4w_get_page():
> which look up a page with find_get_page() (not using page lock), then
> claim it's uptodate if it's PageDirty or PageWriteback or PageUptodate.
>
> I'm not sure whether that was right before, but now it might be wrong
> (on rare occasions): only claim the page is uptodate if PageUptodate.
> Or perhaps the page in question could never be migratable anyway?
>
Hi Sir Hugh
I'm sorry, I admit the code is clear as mud, but your patch below is wrong.
The *uptodate return from __r4w_get_page is not really "up-to-date" at all
actually it means: "do we need to read the page from storage" writable/dirty pages
we do not read from storage but use the newest data in memory.
r4w means read-for-write which is when we need to bring in the full stripe to
re-calculate raid5/6 . (when only the partial stripe is written)
The scenario below of: "briefly visible as PageDirty before it is PageUptodate"
is fine in this case because in both cases we do not need to read the page.
Thanks for looking
Boaz
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch is not correct!
> ---
>
> fs/exofs/inode.c | 5 +----
> fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c | 5 +----
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- 4.3-next/fs/exofs/inode.c 2015-08-30 11:34:09.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux/fs/exofs/inode.c 2015-10-28 16:55:18.795554294 -0700
> @@ -592,10 +592,7 @@ static struct page *__r4w_get_page(void
> }
> unlock_page(page);
> }
> - if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
> - *uptodate = true;
> - else
> - *uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
> + *uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
> EXOFS_DBGMSG2("index=0x%lx uptodate=%d\n", index, *uptodate);
> return page;
> } else {
> --- 4.3-next/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c 2015-10-21 18:35:07.620645439 -0700
> +++ linux/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c 2015-10-28 16:53:55.083686639 -0700
> @@ -476,10 +476,7 @@ static struct page *__r4w_get_page(void
> }
> unlock_page(page);
> }
> - if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
> - *uptodate = true;
> - else
> - *uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
> + *uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
> dprintk("%s: index=0x%lx uptodate=%d\n", __func__, index, *uptodate);
> return page;
> }
>
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