The patch titled
Revert 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
revert-6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Revert 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
This patch fixed the following bug:
When prefaulting in the pages in generic_file_buffered_write(), we only
faulted in the pages for the firts segment of the iovec. If the second of
successive segment described a mmapping of the page into which we're
write()ing, and that page is not up-to-date, the fault handler tries to lock
the already-locked page (to bring it up to date) and deadlocks.
An exploit for this bug is in writev-deadlock-demo.c, in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.
(These demos assume blocksize < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE).
The problem with this fix is that it takes the kernel back to doing a single
prepare_write()/commit_write() per iovec segment. So in the worst case we'll
run prepare_write+commit_write 1024 times where we previously would have run
it once. The other problem with the fix is that it fix all the locking problems.
<insert numbers obtained via ext3-tools's writev-speed.c here>
And apparently this change killed NFS overwrite performance, because, I
suppose, it talks to the server for each prepare_write+commit_write.
So just back that patch out - we'll be fixing the deadlock by other means.
Nick says: also it only ever actually papered over the bug, because after
faulting in the pages, they might be unmapped or reclaimed.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 18 +++++++-----------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/filemap.c~revert-6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 mm/filemap.c
--- a/mm/filemap.c~revert-6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1865,21 +1865,14 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
do {
unsigned long index;
unsigned long offset;
+ unsigned long maxlen;
size_t copied;
offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */
index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
-
- /* Limit the size of the copy to the caller's write size */
- bytes = min(bytes, count);
-
- /*
- * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current segment,
- * because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't know how to walk
- * segments.
- */
- bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
+ if (bytes > count)
+ bytes = count;
/*
* Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
@@ -1887,7 +1880,10 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
* same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
* up-to-date.
*/
- fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ maxlen = cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base;
+ if (maxlen > bytes)
+ maxlen = bytes;
+ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen);
page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
if (!page) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
update-smc91x-driver-with-arm-versatile-board-info.patch
git-ipwireless_cs.patch
deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch
sync_sb_inodes-propagate-errors.patch
ext2-reservations.patch
make-copy_from_user_inatomic-not-zero-the-tail-on-i386-vs-reiser4.patch
reiser4.patch
nr_blockdev_pages-in_interrupt-warning.patch
slab-leaks3-default-y.patch
put_bh-debug.patch
kmap_atomic-debugging.patch
shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch
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