Re: Page migration issue with UBIFS

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Mar 16 2016 - 10:22:05 EST


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:18:50AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 15.03.2016 um 16:37 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >>> Or if ->page_mkwrite() was called, why the page is not dirty?
> >>
> >> BTW: UBIFS does not implement ->migratepage(), could this be a problem?
> >
> > This might be the reason. I can't reall make sense of
> > buffer_migrate_page, but it seems to migrate buffer_head state to
> > the new page.
> >
> > I'd love to know why CMA even tries to migrate pages that don't have a
> > ->migratepage method, this seems incredibly dangerous to me.
>
> FYI, with a dummy ->migratepage() which returns only -EINVAL UBIFS does no
> longer explode upon page migration.
> Tomorrow I'll do more tests to make sure.

Could you check if something like this would fix the issue.
Completely untested.

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 065c88f8e4b8..9da34120dc5e 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
#include "ubifs.h"
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/migrate.h>

static int read_block(struct inode *inode, void *addr, unsigned int block,
struct ubifs_data_node *dn)
@@ -1452,6 +1453,20 @@ static int ubifs_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
return ret;
}

+static int ubifs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct page *newpage, struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
+{
+ if (PagePrivate(page)) {
+ SetPagePrivate(newpage);
+ __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(newpage);
+ }
+
+ if (PageChecked(page))
+ SetPageChecked(newpage);
+
+ return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
+}
+
static int ubifs_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t unused_gfp_flags)
{
/*
@@ -1591,6 +1606,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations ubifs_file_address_operations = {
.write_end = ubifs_write_end,
.invalidatepage = ubifs_invalidatepage,
.set_page_dirty = ubifs_set_page_dirty,
+ .migratepage = ubifs_migrate_page,
.releasepage = ubifs_releasepage,
};

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Kirill A. Shutemov