On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 09:49:05PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> generic/263 is failing fsx at this point with a page spanning
> EOF that cannot be invalidated. The operations are:
>
> 1190 mapwrite 0x52c00 thru 0x5e569 (0xb96a bytes)
> 1191 mapread 0x5c000 thru 0x5d636 (0x1637 bytes)
> 1192 write 0x5b600 thru 0x771ff (0x1bc00 bytes)
>
> where 1190 extents EOF from 0x54000 to 0x5e569. When the direct IO
> write attempts to invalidate the cached page over this range, it
> fails with -EBUSY and so any attempt to do page invalidation fails.
>
> The real question is this: Why can't that page be invalidated after
> it has been written to disk and cleaned?
>
> Well, there's data on the first two buffers in the page (1k block
> size, 4k page), but the third buffer on the page (i.e. beyond EOF)
> is failing drop_buffers because it's bh->b_state == 0x3, which is
> BH_Uptodate | BH_Dirty. IOWs, there's dirty buffers beyond EOF. Say
> what?
>
> OK, set_buffer_dirty() is called on all buffers from
> __set_page_buffers_dirty(), regardless of whether the buffer is
> beyond EOF or not, which means that when we get to ->writepage,
> we have buffers marked dirty beyond EOF that we need to clean.
> So, we need to implement our own .set_page_dirty method that
> doesn't dirty buffers beyond EOF.
>
> This is messy because the buffer code is not meant to be shared
> and it has interesting locking issues on the buffer dirty bits.
> So just copy and paste it and then modify it to suit what we need.
>
> Note: the solutions the other filesystems and generic block code use
> of marking the buffers clean in ->writepage does not work for XFS.
> It still leaves dirty buffers beyond EOF and invalidations still
> fail. Hence rather than play whack-a-mole, this patch simply
> prevents those buffers from being dirtied in the first place.
>
> cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> index 11e9b4c..4c79f90 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -1753,11 +1753,69 @@ xfs_vm_readpages(
> return mpage_readpages(mapping, pages, nr_pages, xfs_get_blocks);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * This is basically a copy of __set_page_dirty_buffers() with one
> + * small tweak: buffers beyond EOF do not get marked dirty. If we mark them
> + * dirty, we'll never be able to clean them because we don't write buffers
> + * beyond EOF, and that means we can't invalidate pages that span EOF
> + * that have been marked dirty. Further, the dirty state can leak into
> + * the file interior if the file is extended, resulting in all sorts of
> + * bad things happening as the state does not match the unerlying data.
> + */
> +STATIC int
> +xfs_vm_set_page_dirty(
> + struct page *page)
> +{
> + struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
> + struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> + loff_t end_offset;
> + loff_t offset;
> + int newly_dirty;
> +
> + if (unlikely(!mapping))
> + return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
> +
> + end_offset = i_size_read(inode);
> + offset = end_offset & PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
Is this what you intended to do here?
offset = page_offset(page);
Brian
> +
> + spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
> + if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
> + struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
> + struct buffer_head *bh = head;
> +
> + do {
> + if (offset < end_offset)
> + set_buffer_dirty(bh);
> + bh = bh->b_this_page;
> + offset += 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
> + } while (bh != head);
> + }
> + newly_dirty = !TestSetPageDirty(page);
> + spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
> +
> + if (newly_dirty) {
> + /* sigh - __set_page_dirty() is static, so copy it here, too */
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> + if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageUptodate(page));
> + account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> + radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
> + page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
> + }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> + __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
> + }
> + return newly_dirty;
> +}
> +
> const struct address_space_operations xfs_address_space_operations = {
> .readpage = xfs_vm_readpage,
> .readpages = xfs_vm_readpages,
> .writepage = xfs_vm_writepage,
> .writepages = xfs_vm_writepages,
> + .set_page_dirty = xfs_vm_set_page_dirty,
> .releasepage = xfs_vm_releasepage,
> .invalidatepage = xfs_vm_invalidatepage,
> .write_begin = xfs_vm_write_begin,
> --
> 2.0.0
>
> _______________________________________________
> xfs mailing list
> xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
_______________________________________________
xfs mailing list
xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
