Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 11:57:04 +0530
From:   Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@...browski.org>, tytso@....edu,
        jack@...e.cz, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        hch@...radead.org, david@...morbit.com, darrick.wong@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] ext4: move inode extension/truncate code out from
 ->iomap_end() callback



On 10/3/19 5:04 PM, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> In preparation for implementing the iomap direct I/O write path
> modifications, the inode extension/truncate code needs to be moved out
> from ext4_iomap_end(). For direct I/O, if the current code remained
> within ext4_iomap_end() it would behave incorrectly. Updating the
> inode size prior to converting unwritten extents to written extents
> will potentially allow a racing direct I/O read operation to find
> unwritten extents before they've been correctly converted.
> 
> The inode extension/truncate code has been moved out into a new helper
> ext4_handle_inode_extension(). This function has been designed so that
> it can be used by both DAX and direct I/O paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@...browski.org>

checkpatch shows some whitespaces error in your comments
in this patch.
But apart from that, patch looks good to me.
You may add:

Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>


> ---
>   fs/ext4/file.c  | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   fs/ext4/inode.c | 48 +-----------------------------
>   2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
> index 69ac042fb74b..2883711e8a33 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>   #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
>   #include "xattr.h"
>   #include "acl.h"
> +#include "truncate.h"
> 
>   static bool ext4_dio_supported(struct inode *inode)
>   {
> @@ -233,12 +234,82 @@ static ssize_t ext4_write_checks(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>   	return iov_iter_count(from);
>   }
> 
> +static int ext4_handle_inode_extension(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
> +				       ssize_t written, size_t count)
> +{
> +	int ret = 0;
> +	handle_t *handle;
> +	bool truncate = false;
> +	u8 blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
> +	ext4_lblk_t written_blk, end_blk;
> +
> +	/*
> +         * Note that EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize can get extended up to
> +         * inode->i_size while the IO was running due to writeback of
> +         * delalloc blocks. But the code in ext4_iomap_alloc() is careful
> +         * to use zeroed / unwritten extents if this is possible and thus
> +         * we won't leave uninitialized blocks in a file even if we didn't
> +         * succeed in writing as much as we planned.
> +         */
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(i_size_read(inode) < EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize);
> +	if (offset + count <= EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize)
> +		return written < 0 ? written : 0;
> +
> +	if (written < 0) {
> +		ret = written;
> +		goto truncate;
> +	}
> +
> +	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
> +	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
> +		goto truncate;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (ext4_update_inode_size(inode, offset + written))
> +		ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We may need to truncate allocated but not written blocks
> +	 * beyond EOF.
> +	 */
> +	written_blk = ALIGN(offset + written, 1 << blkbits);
> +	end_blk = ALIGN(offset + count, 1 << blkbits);
> +	if (written_blk < end_blk && ext4_can_truncate(inode))
> +		truncate = true;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Remove the inode from the orphan list if it has been
> +	 * extended and everything went OK.
> +	 */
> +	if (!truncate && inode->i_nlink)
> +		ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
> +	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> +
> +	if (truncate) {
> +truncate:
> +		ext4_truncate_failed_write(inode);
> +		/*
> +		 * If the truncate operation failed early, then the
> +		 * inode may still be on the orphan list. In that
> +		 * case, we need to try remove the inode from the
> +		 * in-memory linked list.
> +		 */
> +		if (inode->i_nlink)
> +			ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
> +	}
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
>   static ssize_t
>   ext4_dax_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>   {
> -	struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
> +	int error;
>   	ssize_t ret;
> +	size_t count;
> +	loff_t offset;
> +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
> 
>   	if (!inode_trylock(inode)) {
>   		if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
> @@ -255,7 +326,13 @@ ext4_dax_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto out;
> 
> +	offset = iocb->ki_pos;
> +	count = iov_iter_count(from);
>   	ret = dax_iomap_rw(iocb, from, &ext4_iomap_ops);
> +
> +	error = ext4_handle_inode_extension(inode, offset, ret, count);
> +	if (error)
> +		ret = error;
>   out:
>   	inode_unlock(inode);
>   	if (ret > 0)
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 159ffb92f82d..d616062b603e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -3592,53 +3592,7 @@ static int ext4_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
>   static int ext4_iomap_end(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
>   			  ssize_t written, unsigned flags, struct iomap *iomap)
>   {
> -	int ret = 0;
> -	handle_t *handle;
> -	int blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
> -	bool truncate = false;
> -
> -	if (!(flags & IOMAP_WRITE) || (flags & IOMAP_FAULT))
> -		return 0;
> -
> -	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
> -	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
> -		ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
> -		goto orphan_del;
> -	}
> -	if (ext4_update_inode_size(inode, offset + written))
> -		ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
> -	/*
> -	 * We may need to truncate allocated but not written blocks beyond EOF.
> -	 */
> -	if (iomap->offset + iomap->length >
> -	    ALIGN(inode->i_size, 1 << blkbits)) {
> -		ext4_lblk_t written_blk, end_blk;
> -
> -		written_blk = (offset + written) >> blkbits;
> -		end_blk = (offset + length) >> blkbits;
> -		if (written_blk < end_blk && ext4_can_truncate(inode))
> -			truncate = true;
> -	}
> -	/*
> -	 * Remove inode from orphan list if we were extending a inode and
> -	 * everything went fine.
> -	 */
> -	if (!truncate && inode->i_nlink &&
> -	    !list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan))
> -		ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
> -	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> -	if (truncate) {
> -		ext4_truncate_failed_write(inode);
> -orphan_del:
> -		/*
> -		 * If truncate failed early the inode might still be on the
> -		 * orphan list; we need to make sure the inode is removed from
> -		 * the orphan list in that case.
> -		 */
> -		if (inode->i_nlink)
> -			ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
> -	}
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>   }
> 
>   const struct iomap_ops ext4_iomap_ops = {
> 

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