Reading 100KB chunks from a big file (eg dd bs=100K) leads to poor
readahead behaviour. Studying the traces in detail, I noticed two
problems.
The first is that we were setting the readahead flag on the folio which
contains the last byte read from the block. This is wrong because we
will trigger readahead at the end of the read without waiting to see
if a subsequent read is going to use the pages we just read. Instead,
we need to set the readahead flag on the first folio _after_ the one
which contains the last byte that we're reading.
The second is that we were looking for the index of the folio with the
readahead flag set to exactly match the start + size - async_size.
If we've rounded this, either down (as previously) or up (as now),
we'll think we hit a folio marked as readahead by a different read,
and try to read the wrong pages. So round the expected index to the
order of the folio we hit.
Reported-by: Guo Xuenan <guoxuenan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
- Refer to folios where appropriate, not pages (Matthew Wilcox)
- Eliminate references to the internal PG_readhead
- Use "readahead" consistently - not "read-ahead" or "read ahead"
(mostly Neil Brown)
- Clarify some sections that, on reflection, weren't very clear (Neil
Brown)
- Minor punctuation/spelling fixes (Neil Brown)
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
The skip_page argument to read_pages controls if rac->_index is
incremented before returning from the function. Just open code that in
the callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
All filesystems have now been converted to use ->readahead, so
remove the ->readpages operation and fix all the comments that
used to refer to it.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull filesystem folio updates from Matthew Wilcox:
"Primarily this series converts some of the address_space operations to
take a folio instead of a page.
Notably:
- a_ops->is_partially_uptodate() takes a folio instead of a page and
changes the type of the 'from' and 'count' arguments to make it
obvious they're bytes.
- a_ops->invalidatepage() becomes ->invalidate_folio() and has a
similar type change.
- a_ops->launder_page() becomes ->launder_folio()
- a_ops->set_page_dirty() becomes ->dirty_folio() and adds the
address_space as an argument.
There are a couple of other misc changes up front that weren't worth
separating into their own pull request"
* tag 'folio-5.18b' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (53 commits)
fs: Remove aops ->set_page_dirty
fb_defio: Use noop_dirty_folio()
fs: Convert __set_page_dirty_no_writeback to noop_dirty_folio
fs: Convert __set_page_dirty_buffers to block_dirty_folio
nilfs: Convert nilfs_set_page_dirty() to nilfs_dirty_folio()
mm: Convert swap_set_page_dirty() to swap_dirty_folio()
ubifs: Convert ubifs_set_page_dirty to ubifs_dirty_folio
f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_node_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_node_folio
f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_data_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_data_folio
f2fs: Convert f2fs_set_meta_page_dirty to f2fs_dirty_meta_folio
afs: Convert afs_dir_set_page_dirty() to afs_dir_dirty_folio()
btrfs: Convert extent_range_redirty_for_io() to use folios
fs: Convert trivial uses of __set_page_dirty_nobuffers to filemap_dirty_folio
btrfs: Convert from set_page_dirty to dirty_folio
fscache: Convert fscache_set_page_dirty() to fscache_dirty_folio()
fs: Add aops->dirty_folio
fs: Remove aops->launder_page
orangefs: Convert launder_page to launder_folio
nfs: Convert from launder_page to launder_folio
fuse: Convert from launder_page to launder_folio
...
Pull folio updates from Matthew Wilcox:
- Rewrite how munlock works to massively reduce the contention on
i_mmap_rwsem (Hugh Dickins):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8e4356d-9622-a7f0-b2c-f116b5f2efea@google.com/
- Sort out the page refcount mess for ZONE_DEVICE pages (Christoph
Hellwig):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220210072828.2930359-1-hch@lst.de/
- Convert GUP to use folios and make pincount available for order-1
pages. (Matthew Wilcox)
- Convert a few more truncation functions to use folios (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Convert page_vma_mapped_walk to use PFNs instead of pages (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Convert rmap_walk to use folios (Matthew Wilcox)
- Convert most of shrink_page_list() to use a folio (Matthew Wilcox)
- Add support for creating large folios in readahead (Matthew Wilcox)
* tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (114 commits)
mm/damon: minor cleanup for damon_pa_young
selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: Support file-backed PMD folios
mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings
mm/readahead: Switch to page_cache_ra_order
mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX
mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead
mm: Support arbitrary THP sizes
mm: Make large folios depend on THP
mm: Fix READ_ONLY_THP warning
mm/filemap: Allow large folios to be added to the page cache
mm: Turn can_split_huge_page() into can_split_folio()
mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio
mm/vmscan: Turn page_check_references() into folio_check_references()
mm/vmscan: Account large folios correctly
mm/vmscan: Optimise shrink_page_list for non-PMD-sized folios
mm/vmscan: Free non-shmem folios without splitting them
mm/rmap: Constify the rmap_walk_control argument
mm/rmap: Convert rmap_walk() to take a folio
mm: Turn page_anon_vma() into folio_anon_vma()
mm/rmap: Turn page_lock_anon_vma_read() into folio_lock_anon_vma_read()
...
do_page_cache_ra() was being exposed for the benefit of
do_sync_mmap_readahead(). Switch it over to page_cache_ra_order()
partly because it's a better interface but mostly for the benefit of
the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Allocate large folios in the readahead code when the filesystem supports
them and it seems worth doing. The heuristic for choosing which folio
sizes will surely need some tuning, but this aggressive ramp-up has been
good for testing.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Using the folio here avoids checking whether it's a tail page.
This patch mostly just enables some of the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"257 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
cleanups, kfence, and damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits)
mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
selftests/damon: support watermarks
mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
...
Currently, serializing operations such as page fault, read, or readahead
against hole punching is rather difficult. The basic race scheme is
like:
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) read / fault / ..
truncate_inode_pages_range()
<create pages in page
cache here>
<update fs block mapping and free blocks>
Now the problem is in this way read / page fault / readahead can
instantiate pages in page cache with potentially stale data (if blocks
get quickly reused). Avoiding this race is not simple - page locks do
not work because we want to make sure there are *no* pages in given
range. inode->i_rwsem does not work because page fault happens under
mmap_sem which ranks below inode->i_rwsem. Also using it for reads makes
the performance for mixed read-write workloads suffer.
So create a new rw_semaphore in the address_space - invalidate_lock -
that protects adding of pages to page cache for page faults / reads /
readahead.
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
For the case where read-ahead is disabled on the file, or if the cgroup
is congested, ensure that we can at least do 1 page of read-ahead to
make progress on the read in an async fashion. This could potentially be
larger, but it's not needed in terms of functionality, so let's error on
the side of caution as larger counts of pages may run into reclaim
issues (particularly if we're congested).
This makes sure we're not hitting the potentially sync ->readpage() path
for IO that is marked IOCB_WAITQ, which could cause us to block. It also
means we'll use the same path for IO, regardless of whether or not
read-ahead happens to be disabled on the lower level device.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Hao_Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com>
[axboe: updated for new ractl API]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Patch series "Readahead patches for 5.9/5.10".
These are infrastructure for both the THP patchset and for the fscache
rewrite,
For both pieces of infrastructure being build on top of this patchset, we
want the ractl to be available higher in the call-stack.
For David's work, he wants to add the 'critical page' to the ractl so that
he knows which page NEEDS to be brought in from storage, and which ones
are nice-to-have. We might want something similar in block storage too.
It used to be simple -- the first page was the critical one, but then mmap
added fault-around and so for that usecase, the middle page is the
critical one. Anyway, I don't have any code to show that yet, we just
know that the lowest point in the callchain where we have that information
is do_sync_mmap_readahead() and so the ractl needs to start its life
there.
For THP, we havew the code that needs it. It's actually the apex patch to
the series; the one which finally starts to allocate THPs and present them
to consenting filesystems:
798bcf30ab
This patch (of 8):
Allow for a more concise definition of a struct readahead_control.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903140844.14194-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903140844.14194-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Many kernel-doc comments in mm/ have the return value descriptions
either misformatted or omitted at all which makes kernel-doc script
unhappy:
$ make V=1 htmldocs
...
./mm/util.c:36: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup
./mm/util.c:41: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup'
./mm/util.c:57: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup_const
./mm/util.c:66: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup_const'
./mm/util.c:75: info: Scanning doc for kstrndup
./mm/util.c:83: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrndup'
...
Fixing the formatting and adding the missing return value descriptions
eliminates ~100 such warnings.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549549644-4903-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The page cache offers the ability to search for a miss in the previous or
next N locations. Rather than teach the XArray about the page cache's
definition of a miss, use xas_prev() and xas_next() to search the page
array. This should be more efficient as it does not have to start the
lookup from the top for each index.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Introduce xarray value entries and tagged pointers to replace radix
tree exceptional entries. This is a slight change in encoding to allow
the use of an extra bit (we can now store BITS_PER_LONG - 1 bits in a
value entry). It is also a change in emphasis; exceptional entries are
intimidating and different. As the comment explains, you can choose
to store values or pointers in the xarray and they are both first-class
citizens.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
