Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757749Ab3CDEEu (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:04:50 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:32818 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756245Ab3CDDnd (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:43:33 -0500 Message-Id: <20130304033717.513730902@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:38:47 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Mel Gorman , Rob van der Heij , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 100/153] mm/fadvise.c: drain all pagevecs if POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED fails to discard all pages In-Reply-To: <20130304033707.648729212@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:a11:96ff:fec6:70c4 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6239 Lines: 203 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mel Gorman commit 67d46b296a1ba1477c0df8ff3bc5e0167a0b0732 upstream. Rob van der Heij reported the following (paraphrased) on private mail. The scenario is that I want to avoid backups to fill up the page cache and purge stuff that is more likely to be used again (this is with s390x Linux on z/VM, so I don't give it as much memory that we don't care anymore). So I have something with LD_PRELOAD that intercepts the close() call (from tar, in this case) and issues a posix_fadvise() just before closing the file. This mostly works, except for small files (less than 14 pages) that remains in page cache after the face. Unfortunately Rob has not had a chance to test this exact patch but the test program below should be reproducing the problem he described. The issue is the per-cpu pagevecs for LRU additions. If the pages are added by one CPU but fadvise() is called on another then the pages remain resident as the invalidate_mapping_pages() only drains the local pagevecs via its call to pagevec_release(). The user-visible effect is that a program that uses fadvise() properly is not obeyed. A possible fix for this is to put the necessary smarts into invalidate_mapping_pages() to globally drain the LRU pagevecs if a pagevec page could not be discarded. The downside with this is that an inode cache shrink would send a global IPI and memory pressure potentially causing global IPI storms is very undesirable. Instead, this patch adds a check during fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) to check if invalidate_mapping_pages() discarded all the requested pages. If a subset of pages are discarded it drains the LRU pagevecs and tries again. If the second attempt fails, it assumes it is due to the pages being mapped, locked or dirty and does not care. With this patch, an application using fadvise() correctly will be obeyed but there is a downside that a malicious application can force the kernel to send global IPIs and increase overhead. If accepted, I would like this to be considered as a -stable candidate. It's not an urgent issue but it's a system call that is not working as advertised which is weak. The following test program demonstrates the problem. It should never report that pages are still resident but will without this patch. It assumes that CPU 0 and 1 exist. int main() { int fd; int pagesize = getpagesize(); ssize_t written = 0, expected; char *buf; unsigned char *vec; int resident, i; cpu_set_t set; /* Prepare a buffer for writing */ expected = FILESIZE_PAGES * pagesize; buf = malloc(expected + 1); if (buf == NULL) { printf("ENOMEM\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } buf[expected] = 0; memset(buf, 'a', expected); /* Prepare the mincore vec */ vec = malloc(FILESIZE_PAGES); if (vec == NULL) { printf("ENOMEM\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Bind ourselves to CPU 0 */ CPU_ZERO(&set); CPU_SET(0, &set); if (sched_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(set), &set) == -1) { perror("sched_setaffinity"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* open file, unlink and write buffer */ fd = open("fadvise-test-file", O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR); if (fd == -1) { perror("open"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } unlink("fadvise-test-file"); while (written < expected) { ssize_t this_write; this_write = write(fd, buf + written, expected - written); if (this_write == -1) { perror("write"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } written += this_write; } free(buf); /* * Force ourselves to another CPU. If fadvise only flushes the local * CPUs pagevecs then the fadvise will fail to discard all file pages */ CPU_ZERO(&set); CPU_SET(1, &set); if (sched_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(set), &set) == -1) { perror("sched_setaffinity"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* sync and fadvise to discard the page cache */ fsync(fd); if (posix_fadvise(fd, 0, expected, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) == -1) { perror("posix_fadvise"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* map the file and use mincore to see which parts of it are resident */ buf = mmap(NULL, expected, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if (buf == NULL) { perror("mmap"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (mincore(buf, expected, vec) == -1) { perror("mincore"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Check residency */ for (i = 0, resident = 0; i < FILESIZE_PAGES; i++) { if (vec[i]) resident++; } if (resident != 0) { printf("Nr unexpected pages resident: %d\n", resident); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } munmap(buf, expected); close(fd); free(vec); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Rob van der Heij Tested-by: Rob van der Heij Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/fadvise.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/fadvise.c +++ b/mm/fadvise.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include @@ -123,9 +124,22 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, lof start_index = (offset+(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); - if (end_index >= start_index) - invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index, + if (end_index >= start_index) { + unsigned long count = invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, + start_index, end_index); + + /* + * If fewer pages were invalidated than expected then + * it is possible that some of the pages were on + * a per-cpu pagevec for a remote CPU. Drain all + * pagevecs and try again. + */ + if (count < (end_index - start_index + 1)) { + lru_add_drain_all(); + invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index, end_index); + } + } break; default: ret = -EINVAL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/