linux-ext4 - [PATCH 5/6] ext4: Implement allocation of pre-zeroed blocks

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Message-Id: <1444822227-29984-6-git-send-email-jack@suse.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:30:26 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] ext4: Implement allocation of pre-zeroed blocks

DAX page fault path needs to get blocks that are pre-zeroed to avoid
races when two concurrent page faults happen in the same block of a
file. Implement support for this in ext4_map_blocks().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h              |  4 ++++
 fs/ext4/extents.c           |  8 ++++++++
 fs/ext4/inode.c             | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 include/trace/events/ext4.h |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index e1bfcfff4655..bc3192a88b5c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -553,6 +553,10 @@ enum {
 #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE		0x0080
 	/* Convert written extents to unwritten */
 #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN	0x0100
+	/* Write zeros to newly created written extents */
+#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO			0x0200
+#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_ZERO		(EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE |\
+					EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO)
 
 /*
  * The bit position of these flags must not overlap with any of the
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 0fac5a21145f..ab0779b8bd5d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4039,6 +4039,14 @@ ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 	/* IO end_io complete, convert the filled extent to written */
 	if (flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT) {
+		if (flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO) {
+			if (allocated > map->m_len)
+				allocated = map->m_len;
+			err = ext4_issue_zeroout(inode, map->m_lblk, newblock,
+						 allocated);
+			if (err < 0)
+				goto out2;
+		}
 		ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio(handle, inode, map,
 							   ppath);
 		if (ret >= 0) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 56d743ea4084..dd120ba4ece9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ found:
 		if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO) &&
 		    ext4_es_lookup_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, &es)) {
 			if (ext4_es_is_written(&es))
-				goto has_zeroout;
+				goto out_sem;
 		}
 		status = map->m_flags & EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN ?
 				EXTENT_STATUS_UNWRITTEN : EXTENT_STATUS_WRITTEN;
@@ -654,11 +654,24 @@ found:
 			status |= EXTENT_STATUS_DELAYED;
 		ret = ext4_es_insert_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, map->m_len,
 					    map->m_pblk, status);
-		if (ret < 0)
+		if (ret < 0) {
 			retval = ret;
+			goto out_sem;
+		}
+
+		if (flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO &&
+		    map->m_flags & EXT4_MAP_MAPPED &&
+		    map->m_flags & EXT4_MAP_NEW) {
+			ret = ext4_issue_zeroout(inode, map->m_lblk,
+						 map->m_pblk, map->m_len);
+			if (ret) {
+				retval = ret;
+				goto out_sem;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
-has_zeroout:
+out_sem:
 	up_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
 	if (retval > 0 && map->m_flags & EXT4_MAP_MAPPED) {
 		ret = check_block_validity(inode, map);
@@ -3041,6 +3054,7 @@ int ext4_get_block_dax(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 		   struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
 {
 	int flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO | EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UNWRIT_EXT;
+
 	if (create)
 		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE;
 	ext4_debug("ext4_get_block_dax: inode %lu, create flag %d\n",
diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
index 5f2ace56efc5..4e4b2fa78609 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ struct extent_status;
 	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT,		"CONVERT" },		\
 	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL,	"METADATA_NOFAIL" },	\
 	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE,		"NO_NORMALIZE" },	\
-	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE,		"KEEP_SIZE" })
+	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE,		"KEEP_SIZE" },		\
+	{ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO,			"ZERO" })
 
 #define show_mflags(flags) __print_flags(flags, "",	\
 	{ EXT4_MAP_NEW,		"N" },			\
-- 
2.1.4

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