This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destination
to the 6.11-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:
netfs-cancel-dirty-folios-that-have-no-storage-desti.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a93470e020e28cd01c2b74775cccf2886a1b1d67
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 29 12:23:11 2024 +0100
netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destination
[ Upstream commit 8f246b7c0a1be0882374f2ff831a61f0dbe77678 ]
Kafs wants to be able to cache the contents of directories (and symlinks),
but whilst these are downloaded from the server with the FS.FetchData RPC
op and similar, the same as for regular files, they can't be updated by
FS.StoreData, but rather have special operations (FS.MakeDir, etc.).
Now, rather than redownloading a directory's content after each change made
to that directory, kafs modifies the local blob. This blob can be saved
out to the cache, and since it's using netfslib, kafs just marks the folios
dirty and lets ->writepages() on the directory take care of it, as for an
regular file.
This is fine as long as there's a cache as although the upload stream is
disabled, there's a cache stream to drive the procedure. But if the cache
goes away in the meantime, suddenly there's no way do any writes and the
code gets confused, complains "R=%x: No submit" to dmesg and leaves the
dirty folio hanging.
Fix this by just cancelling the store of the folio if neither stream is
active. (If there's no cache at the time of dirtying, we should just not
mark the folio dirty).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-23-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
index 9486e54b1e563..b08673d97470c 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
@@ -410,13 +410,17 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
folio_unlock(folio);
if (fgroup == NETFS_FOLIO_COPY_TO_CACHE) {
- if (!fscache_resources_valid(&wreq->cache_resources)) {
+ if (!cache->avail) {
trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_cancel_copy);
netfs_issue_write(wreq, upload);
netfs_folio_written_back(folio);
return 0;
}
trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_store_copy);
+ } else if (!upload->avail && !cache->avail) {
+ trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_cancel_store);
+ netfs_folio_written_back(folio);
+ return 0;
} else if (!upload->construct) {
trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_store);
} else {
diff --git a/include/trace/events/netfs.h b/include/trace/events/netfs.h
index 606b4a0f92dae..edcc3b3a3ecf8 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/netfs.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/netfs.h
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
EM(netfs_streaming_cont_filled_page, "mod-streamw-f+") \
/* The rest are for writeback */ \
EM(netfs_folio_trace_cancel_copy, "cancel-copy") \
+ EM(netfs_folio_trace_cancel_store, "cancel-store") \
EM(netfs_folio_trace_clear, "clear") \
EM(netfs_folio_trace_clear_cc, "clear-cc") \
EM(netfs_folio_trace_clear_g, "clear-g") \
