On 2018/12/14 上午6:57, Dave Chinner wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:23:37PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
Hello zhangjun,
thanks a lot for bringing this up!
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2018, 15:13:57 CET schrieb zhangjun:
Because the PagePrivate() in UBIFS is different meanings,
alloc_cma() will fail when one dirty page cache located in
the type of MIGRATE_CMA
If not adjust the 'extra_count' for dirty page,
ubifs_migrate_page() -> migrate_page_move_mapping() will
always return -EAGAIN for:
expected_count += page_has_private(page)
This causes the migration to fail until the page cache is cleaned
In general, PagePrivate() indicates that buff_head is already bound
to this page, and at the same time page_count() will also increase.
That's an invalid assumption.
We should not be trying to infer what PagePrivate() means in code
that has no business using looking at it i.e. page->private is private
information for the owner of the page, and it's life cycle and
intent are unknown to anyone other than the page owner.
e.g. on XFS, a page cache page's page->private /might/ contain a
struct iomap_page, or it might be NULL. Assigning a struct
iomap_page to the page does not change the reference count on the
page. IOWs, the page needs to be handled exactly the same
way by external code regardless of whether there is somethign
attached to page->private or not.
Hence it looks to me like the migration code is making invalid
assumptions about PagePrivate inferring reference counts and so the
migration code needs to be fixed. Requiring filesystems to work
around invalid assumptions in the migration code is a sure recipe
for problems with random filesystems using page->private for their
own internal purposes....
Cheers,
Dave.
I agree with your main point of view, but for the buffer_head based file
system this assumption is no problem,
and the parameters and comments from the migrate_page_move_mapping()
function:
* 3 for pages with a mapping and PagePrivate/PagePrivate2 set.
This assumption has been explained.
Or to accurately say that the migrate system does not currently have a
generic function for this case.
Since you call the function implemented for buffer_head, you should
follow its rules.
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