Re: [PATCH v3 10/18] mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() tohandle non page aligned ranges

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 17:18:58 EST


On Tue 09-04-13 11:14:19, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> This commit changes truncate_inode_pages_range() so it can handle non
> page aligned regions of the truncate. Currently we can hit BUG_ON when
> the end of the range is not page aligned, but we can handle unaligned
> start of the range.
>
> Being able to handle non page aligned regions of the page can help file
> system punch_hole implementations and save some work, because once we're
> holding the page we might as well deal with it right away.
>
> In previous commits we've changed ->invalidatepage() prototype to accept
> 'length' argument to be able to specify range to invalidate. No we can
> use that new ability in truncate_inode_pages_range().
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/truncate.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> index fdba083..e2e8a8a 100644
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -203,35 +195,58 @@ int invalidate_inode_page(struct page *page)
> * We pass down the cache-hot hint to the page freeing code. Even if the
> * mapping is large, it is probably the case that the final pages are the most
> * recently touched, and freeing happens in ascending file offset order.
> + *
> + * Note that since ->invalidatepage() accepts range to invalidate
> + * truncate_inode_pages_range is able to handle cases where lend + 1 is not
> + * page aligned properly.
> */
> void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
> {
> - const pgoff_t start = (lstart + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> - const unsigned partial = lstart & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
> - struct pagevec pvec;
> - pgoff_t index;
> - pgoff_t end;
> - int i;
> + pgoff_t start; /* inclusive */
> + pgoff_t end; /* exclusive */
> + unsigned int partial_start; /* inclusive */
> + unsigned int partial_end; /* exclusive */
> + struct pagevec pvec;
> + pgoff_t index;
> + int i;
>
> cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping);
> if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
> return;
>
> - BUG_ON((lend & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1)) != (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1));
> - end = (lend >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
> + /* Offsets within partial pages */
> + partial_start = lstart & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
> + partial_end = (lend + 1) & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
> +
> + /*
> + * 'start' and 'end' always covers the range of pages to be fully
> + * truncated. Partial pages are covered with 'partial_start' at the
> + * start of the range and 'partial_end' at the end of the range.
> + * Note that 'end' is exclusive while 'lend' is inclusive.
> + */
> + start = (lstart + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> + if (lend == -1)
> + /*
> + * lend == -1 indicates end-of-file so we have to set 'end'
> + * to the highest possible pgoff_t and since the type is
> + * unsigned we're using -1.
> + */
> + end = -1;
> + else
> + end = (lend + 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>
> pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
> index = start;
> - while (index <= end && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
> - min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {
> + while (index < end && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
> + min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE))) {
So does this really work when end == -1 and file has ULONG_MAX pages?
Previously it did but now you seem of skip the last page... Otherwise the
patch looks good to me.

Honza

> mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
> for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) {
> struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
>
> /* We rely upon deletion not changing page->index */
> index = page->index;
> - if (index > end)
> + if (index >= end)
> break;
>
> if (!trylock_page(page))
> @@ -250,27 +265,56 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> index++;
> }
>
> - if (partial) {
> + if (partial_start) {
> struct page *page = find_lock_page(mapping, start - 1);
> if (page) {
> + unsigned int top = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
> + if (start > end) {
> + /* Truncation within a single page */
> + top = partial_end;
> + partial_end = 0;
> + }
> wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> - truncate_partial_page(page, partial);
> + zero_user_segment(page, partial_start, top);
> + cleancache_invalidate_page(mapping, page);
> + if (page_has_private(page))
> + do_invalidatepage(page, partial_start,
> + top - partial_start);
> unlock_page(page);
> page_cache_release(page);
> }
> }
> + if (partial_end) {
> + struct page *page = find_lock_page(mapping, end);
> + if (page) {
> + wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> + zero_user_segment(page, 0, partial_end);
> + cleancache_invalidate_page(mapping, page);
> + if (page_has_private(page))
> + do_invalidatepage(page, 0,
> + partial_end);
> + unlock_page(page);
> + page_cache_release(page);
> + }
> + }
> + /*
> + * If the truncation happened within a single page no pages
> + * will be released, just zeroed, so we can bail out now.
> + */
> + if (start >= end)
> + return;
>
> index = start;
> for ( ; ; ) {
> cond_resched();
> if (!pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
> - min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {
> + min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE))) {
> if (index == start)
> break;
> index = start;
> continue;
> }
> - if (index == start && pvec.pages[0]->index > end) {
> + if (index == start && pvec.pages[0]->index >= end) {
> pagevec_release(&pvec);
> break;
> }
> @@ -280,7 +324,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space *mapping,
>
> /* We rely upon deletion not changing page->index */
> index = page->index;
> - if (index > end)
> + if (index >= end)
> break;
>
> lock_page(page);
> @@ -601,10 +645,8 @@ void truncate_pagecache_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
> * This rounding is currently just for example: unmap_mapping_range
> * expands its hole outwards, whereas we want it to contract the hole
> * inwards. However, existing callers of truncate_pagecache_range are
> - * doing their own page rounding first; and truncate_inode_pages_range
> - * currently BUGs if lend is not pagealigned-1 (it handles partial
> - * page at start of hole, but not partial page at end of hole). Note
> - * unmap_mapping_range allows holelen 0 for all, and we allow lend -1.
> + * doing their own page rounding first. Note that unmap_mapping_range
> + * allows holelen 0 for all, and we allow lend -1 for end of file.
> */
>
> /*
> --
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SUSE Labs, CR
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