Re: [PATCH v9 7/8] block: Convert bio_iov_iter_get_pages to use iov_iter_extract_pages

From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 15:27:06 EST


On 1/24/23 09:01, David Howells wrote:
This will pin pages or leave them unaltered rather than getting a ref on
them as appropriate to the iterator.

The pages need to be pinned for DIO rather than having refs taken on them to
prevent VM copy-on-write from malfunctioning during a concurrent fork() (the
result of the I/O could otherwise end up being affected by/visible to the
child process).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---

Notes:
ver #8)
- Split the patch up a bit [hch].
- We should only be using pinned/non-pinned pages and not ref'd pages,
so adjust the comments appropriately.
ver #7)
- Don't treat BIO_PAGE_REFFED/PINNED as being the same as FOLL_GET/PIN.
ver #5)
- Transcribe the FOLL_* flags returned by iov_iter_extract_pages() to
BIO_* flags and got rid of bi_cleanup_mode.
- Replaced BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED in the preceding patch.

block/bio.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index fc45aaa97696..936301519e6c 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ static int bio_iov_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
}
if (same_page)
- put_page(page);
+ bio_release_page(bio, page);
return 0;
}
@@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ static int bio_iov_add_zone_append_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
queue_max_zone_append_sectors(q), &same_page) != len)
return -EINVAL;
if (same_page)
- put_page(page);
+ bio_release_page(bio, page);
return 0;
}
@@ -1237,10 +1237,10 @@ static int bio_iov_add_zone_append_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
* @bio: bio to add pages to
* @iter: iov iterator describing the region to be mapped
*
- * Pins pages from *iter and appends them to @bio's bvec array. The
- * pages will have to be released using put_page() when done.
- * For multi-segment *iter, this function only adds pages from the
- * next non-empty segment of the iov iterator.
+ * Extracts pages from *iter and appends them to @bio's bvec array. The pages
+ * will have to be cleaned up in the way indicated by the BIO_PAGE_PINNED flag.
+ * For a multi-segment *iter, this function only adds pages from the next
+ * non-empty segment of the iov iterator.
*/
static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
{
@@ -1272,9 +1272,9 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
* result to ensure the bio's total size is correct. The remainder of
* the iov data will be picked up in the next bio iteration.
*/
- size = iov_iter_get_pages(iter, pages,
- UINT_MAX - bio->bi_iter.bi_size,
- nr_pages, &offset, extraction_flags);
+ size = iov_iter_extract_pages(iter, &pages,
+ UINT_MAX - bio->bi_iter.bi_size,
+ nr_pages, extraction_flags, &offset);

A quite minor point: it seems like the last two args got reversed more
or less by accident. It's not worth re-spinning or anything, but it
seems better to leave the order the same between these two routines.

Either way, though,

Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

if (unlikely(size <= 0))
return size ? size : -EFAULT;
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
iov_iter_revert(iter, left);
out:
while (i < nr_pages)
- put_page(pages[i++]);
+ bio_release_page(bio, pages[i++]);
return ret;
}
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
return 0;
}
- bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_PAGE_REFFED);
+ bio_set_cleanup_mode(bio, iter);
do {
ret = __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(bio, iter);
} while (!ret && iov_iter_count(iter) && !bio_full(bio, 0));