Re: [RFC PATCH 09/53] netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO vs buffered I/O locking

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Oct 16 2023 - 11:57:07 EST


On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 17:03 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Borrow NFS's direct-vs-buffered I/O locking into netfslib. Similar code is
> also used in ceph.
>
> Modify it to have the correct checker annotations for i_rwsem lock
> acquisition/release and to return -ERESTARTSYS if waits are interrupted.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> ---
> fs/netfs/Makefile | 1 +
> fs/netfs/locking.c | 209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/netfs.h | 10 ++
> 3 files changed, 220 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 fs/netfs/locking.c
>
> diff --git a/fs/netfs/Makefile b/fs/netfs/Makefile
> index cd22554d9048..647ce1935674 100644
> --- a/fs/netfs/Makefile
> +++ b/fs/netfs/Makefile
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ netfs-y := \
> buffered_read.o \
> io.o \
> iterator.o \
> + locking.o \
> main.o \
> misc.o \
> objects.o
> diff --git a/fs/netfs/locking.c b/fs/netfs/locking.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..fecca8ea6322
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/fs/netfs/locking.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * I/O and data path helper functionality.
> + *
> + * Borrowed from NFS Copyright (c) 2016 Trond Myklebust
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/netfs.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * inode_dio_wait_interruptible - wait for outstanding DIO requests to finish
> + * @inode: inode to wait for
> + *
> + * Waits for all pending direct I/O requests to finish so that we can
> + * proceed with a truncate or equivalent operation.
> + *
> + * Must be called under a lock that serializes taking new references
> + * to i_dio_count, usually by inode->i_mutex.
> + */
> +static int inode_dio_wait_interruptible(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count))
> + return 0;
> +
> + wait_queue_head_t *wq = bit_waitqueue(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
> + DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(q, &inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
> +
> + for (;;) {
> + prepare_to_wait(wq, &q.wq_entry, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> + if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count))
> + break;
> + if (signal_pending(current))
> + break;
> + schedule();
> + }
> + finish_wait(wq, &q.wq_entry);
> +
> + return atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count) ? -ERESTARTSYS : 0;
> +}
> +
> +/* Call with exclusively locked inode->i_rwsem */
> +static int netfs_block_o_direct(struct netfs_inode *ictx)
> +{
> + if (!test_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags))
> + return 0;
> + clear_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags);
> + return inode_dio_wait_interruptible(&ictx->inode);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_start_io_read - declare the file is being used for buffered reads
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a buffered read operation is about to start, and ensure
> + * that we block all direct I/O.
> + * On exit, the function ensures that the NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT flag is unset,
> + * and holds a shared lock on inode->i_rwsem to ensure that the flag
> + * cannot be changed.
> + * In practice, this means that buffered read operations are allowed to
> + * execute in parallel, thanks to the shared lock, whereas direct I/O
> + * operations need to wait to grab an exclusive lock in order to set
> + * NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT.
> + * Note that buffered writes and truncates both take a write lock on
> + * inode->i_rwsem, meaning that those are serialised w.r.t. the reads.
> + */
> +int netfs_start_io_read(struct inode *inode)
> + __acquires(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + struct netfs_inode *ictx = netfs_inode(inode);
> +
> + /* Be an optimist! */
> + if (down_read_interruptible(&inode->i_rwsem) < 0)
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + if (test_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags) == 0)
> + return 0;
> + up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
> +
> + /* Slow path.... */
> + if (down_write_killable(&inode->i_rwsem) < 0)
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + if (netfs_block_o_direct(ictx) < 0) {
> + up_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + }
> + downgrade_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_end_io_read - declare that the buffered read operation is done
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a buffered read operation is done, and release the shared
> + * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
> + */
> +void netfs_end_io_read(struct inode *inode)
> + __releases(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_start_io_write - declare the file is being used for buffered writes
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a buffered read operation is about to start, and ensure
> + * that we block all direct I/O.
> + */
> +int netfs_start_io_write(struct inode *inode)
> + __acquires(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + struct netfs_inode *ictx = netfs_inode(inode);
> +
> + if (down_write_killable(&inode->i_rwsem) < 0)
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + if (netfs_block_o_direct(ictx) < 0) {
> + up_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_end_io_write - declare that the buffered write operation is done
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a buffered write operation is done, and release the
> + * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
> + */
> +void netfs_end_io_write(struct inode *inode)
> + __releases(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + up_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> +}
> +
> +/* Call with exclusively locked inode->i_rwsem */
> +static int netfs_block_buffered(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + struct netfs_inode *ictx = netfs_inode(inode);
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (!test_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags)) {
> + set_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags);
> + if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages != 0) {
> + unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, 0, 0, 0);
> + ret = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + clear_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags);
> + return ret;
> + }
> + }
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_start_io_direct - declare the file is being used for direct i/o
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a direct I/O operation is about to start, and ensure
> + * that we block all buffered I/O.
> + * On exit, the function ensures that the NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT flag is set,
> + * and holds a shared lock on inode->i_rwsem to ensure that the flag
> + * cannot be changed.
> + * In practice, this means that direct I/O operations are allowed to
> + * execute in parallel, thanks to the shared lock, whereas buffered I/O
> + * operations need to wait to grab an exclusive lock in order to clear
> + * NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT.
> + * Note that buffered writes and truncates both take a write lock on
> + * inode->i_rwsem, meaning that those are serialised w.r.t. O_DIRECT.
> + */
> +int netfs_start_io_direct(struct inode *inode)
> + __acquires(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + struct netfs_inode *ictx = netfs_inode(inode);
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* Be an optimist! */
> + if (down_read_interruptible(&inode->i_rwsem) < 0)
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + if (test_bit(NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT, &ictx->flags) != 0)
> + return 0;
> + up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
> +
> + /* Slow path.... */
> + if (down_write_killable(&inode->i_rwsem) < 0)
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> + ret = netfs_block_buffered(inode);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + up_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> + return ret;
> + }
> + downgrade_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * netfs_end_io_direct - declare that the direct i/o operation is done
> + * @inode: file inode
> + *
> + * Declare that a direct I/O operation is done, and release the shared
> + * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
> + */
> +void netfs_end_io_direct(struct inode *inode)
> + __releases(inode->i_rwsem)
> +{
> + up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
> +}
> diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h
> index 02e888c170da..33d4487a91e9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netfs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netfs.h
> @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ struct netfs_inode {
> loff_t remote_i_size; /* Size of the remote file */
> loff_t zero_point; /* Size after which we assume there's no data
> * on the server */
> + unsigned long flags;
> +#define NETFS_ICTX_ODIRECT 0 /* The file has DIO in progress */
> };
>
> /*
> @@ -315,6 +317,13 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
> struct iov_iter *new,
> iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags);
>
> +int netfs_start_io_read(struct inode *inode);
> +void netfs_end_io_read(struct inode *inode);
> +int netfs_start_io_write(struct inode *inode);
> +void netfs_end_io_write(struct inode *inode);
> +int netfs_start_io_direct(struct inode *inode);
> +void netfs_end_io_direct(struct inode *inode);
> +
> /**
> * netfs_inode - Get the netfs inode context from the inode
> * @inode: The inode to query
> @@ -341,6 +350,7 @@ static inline void netfs_inode_init(struct netfs_inode *ctx,
> ctx->ops = ops;
> ctx->remote_i_size = i_size_read(&ctx->inode);
> ctx->zero_point = ctx->remote_i_size;
> + ctx->flags = 0;
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FSCACHE)
> ctx->cache = NULL;
> #endif
>

It's nice to see this go into common code, but why not go ahead and
convert ceph (and possibly NFS) to use this? Is there any reason not to?

--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>