Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:15:57PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On 14 January 2016 at 18:13, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:57:42PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> Here it is:
> >>
> >> [  170.715356] inode: ec8c30b0, pages: 1
> >> [  170.719014] page_address:   (null)
> >>
> >> https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/127698/log_file
> >
> >         Lovely...  And that looks like the first time that inode hits
> > nfs_get_link().  Ho-hum...
> >
> >         Could you add WARN_ON(inode->i_mapping.nrpages) in inode_nohighmem()
> > and see if that triggers?  It really shouldn't (we hit it after iget5_locked()
> 
> Indeed :(
> 
> https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/127782/log_file

OK...  Unless I'm misreading that, we have
	* inode->i_data.flags set to GFP_USER, with no pages present in
there.
	* at some later point nfs_get_link() is called on that inode
(for the first time) and sees a page with logical offset 0 already present
in there, that page being a highmem one.

That would certainly suffice for the things to blow up...

Let's try this: in the beginning of __add_to_page_cache_locked() add
	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageHighMem(page) & !(mapping->flags & __GFP_HIGHMEM),
			page);
and see if that triggers.

<pokes around>

Arrrgh.  Try this:

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index ce5a218..8a05309 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1894,15 +1894,14 @@ int nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname)
 	attr.ia_mode = S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO;
 	attr.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE;
 
-	page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
+	page = alloc_page(GFP_USER);
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
+	kaddr = page_address(page);
 	memcpy(kaddr, symname, pathlen);
 	if (pathlen < PAGE_SIZE)
 		memset(kaddr + pathlen, 0, PAGE_SIZE - pathlen);
-	kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
 
 	trace_nfs_symlink_enter(dir, dentry);
 	error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->symlink(dir, dentry, page, pathlen, &attr);