linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/6] ext4: Use i_mutex to serialize unaligned AIO DIO

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Message-Id: <1455897582-13292-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:59:38 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] ext4: Use i_mutex to serialize unaligned AIO DIO

Currently we've used hashed aio_mutex to serialize unaligned AIO DIO.
However the code cleanups that happened after 2011 when the lock was
introduced made aio_mutex acquired at almost the same places where we
already have exclusion using i_mutex. So just use i_mutex for the
exclusion of unaligned AIO DIO.

The change moves waiting for pending unwritten extent conversion under
i_mutex. That makes special handling of O_APPEND writes unnecessary and
also avoids possible livelocking of unaligned AIO DIO with aligned one
(nothing was preventing contiguous stream of aligned AIO DIOs to let
unaligned AIO DIO wait forever).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h  |  3 ---
 fs/ext4/file.c  | 32 +++++++++++++-------------------
 fs/ext4/super.c |  5 +----
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 1046621ef64d..b02b2e58805a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3284,10 +3284,7 @@ static inline void ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(struct inode *inode)
 #define EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ		37
 #define ext4_ioend_wq(v)   (&ext4__ioend_wq[((unsigned long)(v)) %\
 					    EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
-#define ext4_aio_mutex(v)  (&ext4__aio_mutex[((unsigned long)(v)) %\
-					     EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
 extern wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
-extern struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
 
 #define EXT4_RESIZING	0
 extern int ext4_resize_begin(struct super_block *sb);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 1126436dada1..7d5fb122fd26 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -93,31 +93,29 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
-	struct mutex *aio_mutex = NULL;
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 	int o_direct = iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT;
+	int unaligned_aio = 0;
 	int overwrite = 0;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
+	inode_lock(inode);
+	ret = generic_write_checks(iocb, from);
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		goto out;
+
 	/*
-	 * Unaligned direct AIO must be serialized; see comment above
-	 * In the case of O_APPEND, assume that we must always serialize
+	 * Unaligned direct AIO must be serialized among each other as zeroing
+	 * of partial blocks of two competing unaligned AIOs can result in data
+	 * corruption.
 	 */
-	if (o_direct &&
-	    ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS) &&
+	if (o_direct && ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS) &&
 	    !is_sync_kiocb(iocb) &&
-	    (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_APPEND ||
-	     ext4_unaligned_aio(inode, from, iocb->ki_pos))) {
-		aio_mutex = ext4_aio_mutex(inode);
-		mutex_lock(aio_mutex);
+	    ext4_unaligned_aio(inode, from, iocb->ki_pos)) {
+		unaligned_aio = 1;
 		ext4_unwritten_wait(inode);
 	}
 
-	inode_lock(inode);
-	ret = generic_write_checks(iocb, from);
-	if (ret <= 0)
-		goto out;
-
 	/*
 	 * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit
 	 * is smaller than s_maxbytes, which is for extent-mapped files.
@@ -139,7 +137,7 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 		blk_start_plug(&plug);
 
 		/* check whether we do a DIO overwrite or not */
-		if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode) && !aio_mutex &&
+		if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode) && !unaligned_aio &&
 		    !file->f_mapping->nrpages && pos + length <= i_size_read(inode)) {
 			struct ext4_map_blocks map;
 			unsigned int blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
@@ -181,14 +179,10 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 	if (o_direct)
 		blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 
-	if (aio_mutex)
-		mutex_unlock(aio_mutex);
 	return ret;
 
 out:
 	inode_unlock(inode);
-	if (aio_mutex)
-		mutex_unlock(aio_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 3ed01ec011d7..6d8a01b4f535 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5321,7 +5321,6 @@ MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext4");
 
 /* Shared across all ext4 file systems */
 wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
-struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
 
 static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 {
@@ -5334,10 +5333,8 @@ static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 	/* Build-time check for flags consistency */
 	ext4_check_flag_values();
 
-	for (i = 0; i < EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ; i++) {
-		mutex_init(&ext4__aio_mutex[i]);
+	for (i = 0; i < EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ; i++)
 		init_waitqueue_head(&ext4__ioend_wq[i]);
-	}
 
 	err = ext4_init_es();
 	if (err)
-- 
2.6.2

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