Re: find_get_entries_tag regression bisected

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Feb 27 2019 - 13:16:54 EST


On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 9:29 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 07:35:11AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Another way to fix this would be to mask the address in dax_entry_mkclean(),
> > but I think this is cleaner.
>
> That's clearly rubbish, dax_entry_mkclean() can't possibly mask the
> address. It might be mis-aligned in another process. But ... if it's
> misaligned in another process, dax_entry_mkclean() will only clean the first
> PTE associated with the PMD; it won't clean the whole thing. I think we need
> something like this:
>
> (I'll have to split it apart to give us something to backport)

Looks good to me, care to send a formal patch?

Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>


>
> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> index 6959837cc465..09680aa0481f 100644
> --- a/fs/dax.c
> +++ b/fs/dax.c
> @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ unsigned long pgoff_address(pgoff_t pgoff, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>
> /* Walk all mappings of a given index of a file and writeprotect them */
> static void dax_entry_mkclean(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
> - unsigned long pfn)
> + pgoff_t end, unsigned long pfn)
> {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> pte_t pte, *ptep = NULL;
> @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static void dax_entry_mkclean(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
> spinlock_t *ptl;
>
> i_mmap_lock_read(mapping);
> - vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, index, index) {
> + vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, index, end) {
> struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> unsigned long address;
>
> @@ -843,9 +843,9 @@ static void dax_entry_mkclean(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
> static int dax_writeback_one(struct xa_state *xas, struct dax_device *dax_dev,
> struct address_space *mapping, void *entry)
> {
> - unsigned long pfn;
> + unsigned long pfn, index;
> long ret = 0;
> - size_t size;
> + unsigned long count;
>
> /*
> * A page got tagged dirty in DAX mapping? Something is seriously
> @@ -894,17 +894,18 @@ static int dax_writeback_one(struct xa_state *xas, struct dax_device *dax_dev,
> xas_unlock_irq(xas);
>
> /*
> - * Even if dax_writeback_mapping_range() was given a wbc->range_start
> - * in the middle of a PMD, the 'index' we are given will be aligned to
> - * the start index of the PMD, as will the pfn we pull from 'entry'.
> + * If dax_writeback_mapping_range() was given a wbc->range_start
> + * in the middle of a PMD, the 'index' we are given needs to be
> + * aligned to the start index of the PMD.
> * This allows us to flush for PMD_SIZE and not have to worry about
> * partial PMD writebacks.
> */
> pfn = dax_to_pfn(entry);
> - size = PAGE_SIZE << dax_entry_order(entry);
> + count = 1UL << dax_entry_order(entry);
> + index = xas->xa_index &~ (count - 1);
>
> - dax_entry_mkclean(mapping, xas->xa_index, pfn);
> - dax_flush(dax_dev, page_address(pfn_to_page(pfn)), size);
> + dax_entry_mkclean(mapping, index, index + count - 1, pfn);
> + dax_flush(dax_dev, page_address(pfn_to_page(pfn)), count * PAGE_SIZE);
> /*
> * After we have flushed the cache, we can clear the dirty tag. There
> * cannot be new dirty data in the pfn after the flush has completed as
> @@ -917,8 +918,7 @@ static int dax_writeback_one(struct xa_state *xas, struct dax_device *dax_dev,
> xas_clear_mark(xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
> dax_wake_entry(xas, entry, false);
>
> - trace_dax_writeback_one(mapping->host, xas->xa_index,
> - size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + trace_dax_writeback_one(mapping->host, xas->xa_index, count);
> return ret;
>
> put_unlocked:
>