BUG #1) All places where we call ext4_flush_completed_IO are broken
because buffered io and DIO/AIO goes through three stages
1) submitted io,
2) completed io (in i_completed_io_list) conversion pended
3) finished io (conversion done)
And by calling ext4_flush_completed_IO we will flush only
requests which were in (2) stage, which is wrong because:
1) punch_hole and truncate _must_ wait for all outstanding unwritten io
regardless to it's state.
2) fsync and nolock_dio_read should also wait because there is
a time window between end_page_writeback() and ext4_add_complete_io()
As result integrity fsync is broken in case of buffered write
to fallocated region:
fsync blkdev_completion
->filemap_write_and_wait_range
->ext4_end_bio
->end_page_writeback
<-- filemap_write_and_wait_range return
->ext4_flush_completed_IO
sees empty i_completed_io_list but pended
conversion still exist
->ext4_add_complete_io
BUG #2) Race window becomes wider due to the 'ext4: completed_io
locking cleanup V4' patch series
This patch make following changes:
1) ext4_flush_completed_io() now first try to flush completed io and when
wait for any outstanding unwritten io via ext4_unwritten_wait()
2) Rename function to more appropriate name.
3) Assert that all callers of ext4_flush_unwritten_io should hold i_mutex to
prevent endless wait
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Inode's block defrag and ext4_change_inode_journal_flag() may
affect nonlocked DIO reads result, so proper synchronization
required.
- Add missed inode_dio_wait() calls where appropriate
- Check inode state under extra i_dio_count reference.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Current unwritten extent conversion state-machine is very fuzzy.
- For unknown reason it performs conversion under i_mutex. What for?
My diagnosis:
We already protect extent tree with i_data_sem, truncate and punch_hole
should wait for DIO, so the only data we have to protect is end_io->flags
modification, but only flush_completed_IO and end_io_work modified this
flags and we can serialize them via i_completed_io_lock.
Currently all these games with mutex_trylock result in the following deadlock
truncate: kworker:
ext4_setattr ext4_end_io_work
mutex_lock(i_mutex)
inode_dio_wait(inode) ->BLOCK
DEADLOCK<- mutex_trylock()
inode_dio_done()
#TEST_CASE1_BEGIN
MNT=/mnt_scrach
unlink $MNT/file
fallocate -l $((1024*1024*1024)) $MNT/file
aio-stress -I 100000 -O -s 100m -n -t 1 -c 10 -o 2 -o 3 $MNT/file
sleep 2
truncate -s 0 $MNT/file
#TEST_CASE1_END
Or use 286's xfstests https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/blob/devel/286
This patch makes state machine simple and clean:
(1) xxx_end_io schedule final extent conversion simply by calling
ext4_add_complete_io(), which append it to ei->i_completed_io_list
NOTE1: because of (2A) work should be queued only if
->i_completed_io_list was empty, otherwise the work is scheduled already.
(2) ext4_flush_completed_IO is responsible for handling all pending
end_io from ei->i_completed_io_list
Flushing sequence consists of following stages:
A) LOCKED: Atomically drain completed_io_list to local_list
B) Perform extents conversion
C) LOCKED: move converted io's to to_free list for final deletion
This logic depends on context which we was called from.
D) Final end_io context destruction
NOTE1: i_mutex is no longer required because end_io->flags modification
is protected by ei->ext4_complete_io_lock
Full list of changes:
- Move all completion end_io related routines to page-io.c in order to improve
logic locality
- Move open coded logic from various xx_end_xx routines to ext4_add_complete_io()
- remove EXT4_IO_END_FSYNC
- Improve SMP scalability by removing useless i_mutex which does not
protect io->flags anymore.
- Reduce lock contention on i_completed_io_lock by optimizing list walk.
- Rename ext4_end_io_nolock to end4_end_io and make it static
- Check flush completion status to ext4_ext_punch_hole(). Because it is
not good idea to punch blocks from corrupted inode.
Changes since V3 (in request to Jan's comments):
Fall back to active flush_completed_IO() approach in order to prevent
performance issues with nolocked DIO reads.
Changes since V2:
Fix use-after-free caused by race truncate vs end_io_work
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Delete any instances of include module.h that were not strictly
required. In the case of ext2, the declaration of MODULE_LICENSE
etc. were in inode.c but the module_init/exit were in super.c, so
relocate the MODULE_LICENCE/AUTHOR block to super.c which makes it
consistent with ext3 and ext4 at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
At least initially if the bigalloc feature is enabled, we will not
support non-extent mapped inodes, online resizing, online defrag, or
the FITRIM ioctl. This simplifies the initial implementation.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
While running extended fsx tests to verify the first
two patches, a similar bug was also found in the
truncate operation.
This bug happens because the truncate routine only zeros
the unblock aligned portion of the last page. This means
that the block aligned portions of the page appearing after
i_size are left unzeroed, and the buffer heads still mapped.
This bug is corrected by using ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers
in the truncate routine to zero the partial page and unmap
the buffer headers.
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There is a race between ext4 buffer write and direct_IO read with
dioread_nolock mount option enabled. The problem is that we clear
PageWriteback flag during end_io time but will do
uninitialized-to-initialized extent conversion later with dioread_nolock.
If an O_direct read request comes in during this period, ext4 will return
zero instead of the recently written data.
This patch checks whether there are any pending uninitialized-to-initialized
extent conversion requests before doing O_direct read to close the race.
Note that this is just a bandaid fix. The fundamental issue is that we
clear PageWriteback flag before we really complete an IO, which is
problem-prone. To fix the fundamental issue, we may need to implement an
extent tree cache that we can use to look up pending to-be-converted extents.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (60 commits)
ext4: prevent memory leaks from ext4_mb_init_backend() on error path
ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #
ext4: use ext4_msg() instead of printk in mballoc
ext4: use ext4_kvzalloc()/ext4_kvmalloc() for s_group_desc and s_group_info
ext4: introduce ext4_kvmalloc(), ext4_kzalloc(), and ext4_kvfree()
ext4: use the correct error exit path in ext4_init_inode_table()
ext4: add missing kfree() on error return path in add_new_gdb()
ext4: change umode_t in tracepoint headers to be an explicit __u16
ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()
ext4: Fix overflow caused by missing cast in ext4_fallocate()
ext4: add action of moving index in ext4_ext_rm_idx for Punch Hole
ext4: simplify parameters of reserve_backup_gdb()
ext4: simplify parameters of add_new_gdb()
ext4: remove lock_buffer in bclean() and setup_new_group_blocks()
ext4: simplify journal handling in setup_new_group_blocks()
ext4: let setup_new_group_blocks() set multiple bits at a time
ext4: fix a typo in ext4_group_extend()
ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() handle 0 blocks quickly
ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() return an error code
ext4: rename ext4_add_groupblocks() to ext4_group_add_blocks()
...
Fix up conflict in fs/ext4/inode.c: commit aacfc19c62 ("fs: simplify
the blockdev_direct_IO prototype") had changed the ext4_ind_direct_IO()
function for the new simplified calling convention, while commit
dae1e52cb1 ("ext4: move ext4_ind_* functions from inode.c to
indirect.c") moved the function to another file.
I found that ext4_ext_find_goal() and ext4_find_near()
share the same code for returning a coloured start block
based on i_block_group.
We can refactor this into a common function so that they
don't diverge in the future.
Thanks to adilger for suggesting the new function name.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch moves functions from inode.c to indirect.c.
The moved functions are ext4_ind_* functions and their helpers.
Functions called from inode.c are declared extern.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Dmitry Monakhov
Paul Gortmaker
Theodore Ts'o
Allison Henderson
Jiaying Zhang
Linus Torvalds
Eric Sandeen
Amir Goldstein