This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
afs: Alter dirty range encoding in page->private
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
afs-alter-dirty-range-encoding-in-page-private.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1945578a43a3b46a3a5683e0143feaae9abd6ce0
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 26 13:57:44 2020 +0000
afs: Alter dirty range encoding in page->private
[ Upstream commit 65dd2d6072d393a3aa14ded8afa9a12f27d9c8ad ]
Currently, page->private on an afs page is used to store the range of
dirtied data within the page, where the range includes the lower bound, but
excludes the upper bound (e.g. 0-1 is a range covering a single byte).
This, however, requires a superfluous bit for the last-byte bound so that
on a 4KiB page, it can say 0-4096 to indicate the whole page, the idea
being that having both numbers the same would indicate an empty range.
This is unnecessary as the PG_private bit is clear if it's an empty range
(as is PG_dirty).
Alter the way the dirty range is encoded in page->private such that the
upper bound is reduced by 1 (e.g. 0-0 is then specified the same single
byte range mentioned above).
Applying this to both bounds frees up two bits, one of which can be used in
a future commit.
This allows the afs filesystem to be compiled on ppc32 with 64K pages;
without this, the following warnings are seen:
../fs/afs/internal.h: In function 'afs_page_dirty_to':
../fs/afs/internal.h:881:15: warning: right shift count >= width of type [-Wshift-count-overflow]
881 | return (priv >> __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) & __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_MASK;
| ^~
../fs/afs/internal.h: In function 'afs_page_dirty':
../fs/afs/internal.h:886:28: warning: left shift count >= width of type [-Wshift-count-overflow]
886 | return ((unsigned long)to << __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) | from;
| ^~
Fixes: 4343d00872e1 ("afs: Get rid of the afs_writeback record")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
index 523bf9698ecdc..fc96c090893f7 100644
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ struct afs_vnode_cache_aux {
* splitting the field into two parts. However, we need to represent a range
* 0...PAGE_SIZE inclusive, so we can't support 64K pages on a 32-bit system.
*/
-#if PAGE_SIZE > 32768
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
#define __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_MASK 0xffffffffUL
#define __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT 32
#else
@@ -877,12 +877,12 @@ static inline size_t afs_page_dirty_from(unsigned long priv)
static inline size_t afs_page_dirty_to(unsigned long priv)
{
- return (priv >> __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) & __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_MASK;
+ return ((priv >> __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) & __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_MASK) + 1;
}
static inline unsigned long afs_page_dirty(size_t from, size_t to)
{
- return ((unsigned long)to << __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) | from;
+ return ((unsigned long)(to - 1) << __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_SHIFT) | from;
}
#include <trace/events/afs.h>
diff --git a/fs/afs/write.c b/fs/afs/write.c
index ea1768b3c0b56..1a49f5c89342e 100644
--- a/fs/afs/write.c
+++ b/fs/afs/write.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int afs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
/* We want to store information about how much of a page is altered in
* page->private.
*/
- BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE > 32768 && sizeof(page->private) < 8);
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE - 1 > __AFS_PAGE_PRIV_MASK && sizeof(page->private) < 8);
page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
if (!page)
