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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2022-03-07 10:41:44 +1100
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>2022-03-13 12:59:35 -0400
commit64158668ac8b31626a8ce48db4cad08496eb8340 (patch)
tree7c2704c41a6f575b5a02dc8ef75479a8439fe6a6 /fs/nfs/direct.c
parentNFSv4: keep state manager thread active if swap is enabled (diff)
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NFS: swap IO handling is slightly different for O_DIRECT IO
1/ Taking the i_rwsem for swap IO triggers lockdep warnings regarding possible deadlocks with "fs_reclaim". These deadlocks could, I believe, eventuate if a buffered read on the swapfile was attempted. We don't need coherence with the page cache for a swap file, and buffered writes are forbidden anyway. There is no other need for i_rwsem during direct IO. So never take it for swap_rw() 2/ generic_write_checks() explicitly forbids writes to swap, and performs checks that are not needed for swap. So bypass it for swap_rw(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/direct.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/direct.c42
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index eabfdab543c8..04aaf39a05cb 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ ssize_t nfs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
VM_BUG_ON(iov_iter_count(iter) != PAGE_SIZE);
if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ)
- return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, iter);
- return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, iter);
+ return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, iter, true);
+ return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, iter, true);
}
static void nfs_direct_release_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned int npages)
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* nfs_file_direct_read - file direct read operation for NFS files
* @iocb: target I/O control block
* @iter: vector of user buffers into which to read data
+ * @swap: flag indicating this is swap IO, not O_DIRECT IO
*
* We use this function for direct reads instead of calling
* generic_file_aio_read() in order to avoid gfar's check to see if
@@ -440,7 +441,8 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* client must read the updated atime from the server back into its
* cache.
*/
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
+ bool swap)
{
struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
@@ -482,12 +484,14 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
if (iter_is_iovec(iter))
dreq->flags = NFS_ODIRECT_SHOULD_DIRTY;
- nfs_start_io_direct(inode);
+ if (!swap)
+ nfs_start_io_direct(inode);
NFS_I(inode)->read_io += count;
requested = nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, iocb->ki_pos);
- nfs_end_io_direct(inode);
+ if (!swap)
+ nfs_end_io_direct(inode);
if (requested > 0) {
result = nfs_direct_wait(dreq);
@@ -876,6 +880,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* nfs_file_direct_write - file direct write operation for NFS files
* @iocb: target I/O control block
* @iter: vector of user buffers from which to write data
+ * @swap: flag indicating this is swap IO, not O_DIRECT IO
*
* We use this function for direct writes instead of calling
* generic_file_aio_write() in order to avoid taking the inode
@@ -892,7 +897,8 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* Note that O_APPEND is not supported for NFS direct writes, as there
* is no atomic O_APPEND write facility in the NFS protocol.
*/
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
+ bool swap)
{
ssize_t result, requested;
size_t count;
@@ -906,7 +912,11 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: direct write(%pD2, %zd@%Ld)\n",
file, iov_iter_count(iter), (long long) iocb->ki_pos);
- result = generic_write_checks(iocb, iter);
+ if (swap)
+ /* bypass generic checks */
+ result = iov_iter_count(iter);
+ else
+ result = generic_write_checks(iocb, iter);
if (result <= 0)
return result;
count = result;
@@ -937,16 +947,20 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
dreq->iocb = iocb;
pnfs_init_ds_commit_info_ops(&dreq->ds_cinfo, inode);
- nfs_start_io_direct(inode);
+ if (swap) {
+ requested = nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, pos);
+ } else {
+ nfs_start_io_direct(inode);
- requested = nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, pos);
+ requested = nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, pos);
- if (mapping->nrpages) {
- invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
- pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end);
- }
+ if (mapping->nrpages) {
+ invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
+ pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end);
+ }
- nfs_end_io_direct(inode);
+ nfs_end_io_direct(inode);
+ }
if (requested > 0) {
result = nfs_direct_wait(dreq);