There are cases where EXT4 is a bit too conservative sending barriers down to
the disk; there are cases where the transaction in progress is not the one
that sent the barrier (in other words: the fsync is for a file for which the
IO happened more time ago and all data was already sent to the disk).
For that case, a more performing tradeoff can be made on SSD devices (which
have the ability to flush their dram caches in a hurry on a power fail event)
where the barrier gets sent to the disk, but we don't need to wait for the
barrier to complete. Any consecutive IO will block on the barrier correctly.
Signed-off-by: Adam W. Willis <return.of.octobot@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 74aa09a7751e438bd15b5cd73f611021b7239240)
(cherry picked from commit fa3bdf1a32cac074ff52403cb9ce18eb18c7f7d1)
[ Upstream commit 3f034c374ad55773c12dd8f3c1607328e17c0072 ]
Reordered a check to avoid a possible overflow when adding len to bv_len.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204173419.782378-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55 upstream.
The special casing was originally added in pre-git history; reproducing
the commit log here:
> commit a318a92567d77
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Date: Sun Sep 21 01:42:22 2003 -0700
>
> [PATCH] Speed up direct-io hugetlbpage handling
>
> This patch short-circuits all the direct-io page dirtying logic for
> higher-order pages. Without this, we pointlessly bounce BIOs up to
> keventd all the time.
In the last twenty years, compound pages have become used for more than
just hugetlb. Rewrite these functions to operate on folios instead
of pages and remove the special case for hugetlbfs; I don't think
it's needed any more (and if it is, we can put it back in as a call
to folio_test_hugetlb()).
This was found by inspection; as far as I can tell, this bug can lead
to pages used as the destination of a direct I/O read not being marked
as dirty. If those pages are then reclaimed by the MM without being
dirtied for some other reason, they won't be written out. Then when
they're faulted back in, they will not contain the data they should.
It'll take a pretty unusual setup to produce this problem with several
races all going the wrong way.
This problem predates the folio work; it could for example have been
triggered by mmaping a THP in tmpfs and using that as the target of an
O_DIRECT read.
Fixes: 800d8c63b2e98 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
