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Message-ID: <87a5j67szs.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:15:28 +1000
From: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] fs/dax: Fix FS DAX page reference counts


Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> writes:

> Alistair Popple wrote:
>> FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference counts
>> without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
>> particular pages are considered free when the refcount hits one rather
>> than zero and refcounts are not added when mapping the page.
>> 
>> Tracking this requires special PTE bits (PTE_DEVMAP) and a secondary
>> mechanism for allowing GUP to hold references on the page (see
>> get_dev_pagemap). However there doesn't seem to be any reason why FS
>> DAX pages need their own reference counting scheme.
>> 
>> By treating the refcounts on these pages the same way as normal pages
>> we can remove a lot of special checks. In particular pXd_trans_huge()
>> becomes the same as pXd_leaf(), although I haven't made that change
>> here. It also frees up a valuable SW define PTE bit on architectures
>> that have devmap PTE bits defined.
>> 
>> It also almost certainly allows further clean-up of the devmap managed
>> functions, but I have left that as a future improvment.
>> 
>> This is an update to the original RFC rebased onto v6.10-rc5. Unlike
>> the original RFC it passes the same number of ndctl test suite
>> (https://github.com/pmem/ndctl) tests as my current development
>> environment does without these patches.
>
> Are you seeing the 'mmap.sh' test fail even without these patches?

No. But I also don't see it failing with these patches :)

For reference this is what I see on my test machine with or without:

[1/70] Generating version.h with a custom command
 1/13 ndctl:dax / daxdev-errors.sh          SKIP             0.06s   exit status 77
 2/13 ndctl:dax / multi-dax.sh              SKIP             0.05s   exit status 77
 3/13 ndctl:dax / sub-section.sh            SKIP             0.14s   exit status 77
 4/13 ndctl:dax / dax-dev                   OK               0.02s
 5/13 ndctl:dax / dax-ext4.sh               OK              12.97s
 6/13 ndctl:dax / dax-xfs.sh                OK              12.44s
 7/13 ndctl:dax / device-dax                OK              13.40s
 8/13 ndctl:dax / revoke-devmem             FAIL             0.31s   (exit status 250 or signal 122 SIGinvalid)
>>> TEST_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/test LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/cxl/lib:/home/apopple/ndctl/build/daxctl/lib:/home/apopple/ndctl/build/ndctl/lib NDCTL=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/ndctl/ndctl MALLOC_PERTURB_=227 DATA_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/test DAXCTL=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/daxctl/daxctl /home/apopple/ndctl/build/test/revoke_devmem

 9/13 ndctl:dax / device-dax-fio.sh         OK              32.43s
10/13 ndctl:dax / daxctl-devices.sh         SKIP             0.07s   exit status 77
11/13 ndctl:dax / daxctl-create.sh          SKIP             0.04s   exit status 77
12/13 ndctl:dax / dm.sh                     FAIL             0.08s   exit status 1
>>> MALLOC_PERTURB_=209 TEST_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/test LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/cxl/lib:/home/apopple/ndctl/build/daxctl/lib:/home/apopple/ndctl/build/ndctl/lib NDCTL=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/ndctl/ndctl DATA_PATH=/home/apopple/ndctl/test DAXCTL=/home/apopple/ndctl/build/daxctl/daxctl /home/apopple/ndctl/test/dm.sh

13/13 ndctl:dax / mmap.sh                   OK             107.57s

Ok:                 6   
Expected Fail:      0   
Fail:               2   
Unexpected Pass:    0   
Skipped:            5   
Timeout:            0   

I have been using QEMU for my testing. Maybe I missed some condition in
the unmap path though so will take another look.

> I see this with the patches, will try without in the morning.
>
>  EXT4-fs (pmem0): unmounting filesystem 26ea1463-343a-464f-9f16-91cb176dbdc7.
>  XFS (pmem0): Mounting V5 Filesystem 554953fd-c9f4-460f-bc37-f43979986b68
>  XFS (pmem0): Ending clean mount
>  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000518: 00
> T SMP PTI
>  CPU: 15 PID: 1295 Comm: mmap Tainted: G           OE    N 6.10.0-rc5+ #261
>  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20240524-3.fc40 05/24/2024
>  RIP: 0010:folio_mark_dirty+0x25/0x60
>  Code: 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 22 18 02 00 48 85 c0 74 26 48 89 c7 48
> 0 02 00 74 05 f0 80 63 02 fd <48> 8b 87 18 01 00 00 48 89 de 5b 48 8b 40 18 e9 77 90 c0 00
>  RSP: 0018:ffffb073022f7b08 EFLAGS: 00010246
>  RAX: 004ffff800002000 RBX: ffffd0d005000300 RCX: 0400000000000040
>  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f4006200000 RDI: dead000000000400
>  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff9a4b04504a30 R09: 000fffffffffffff
>  R10: ffffd0d005000300 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00007f4006200000
>  R13: ffff9a4b7c96c000 R14: ffff9a4b7daba440 R15: ffffb073022f7cb0
>  FS:  00007f4046351740(0000) GS:ffff9a4d77780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  CR2: 00007f40461ff000 CR3: 000000027aea6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
>  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x26
>   ? die_addr+0x38/0x60
>   ? exc_general_protection+0x143/0x420
>   ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
>   ? folio_mark_dirty+0x25/0x60
>   ? folio_mark_dirty+0xe/0x60
>   unmap_page_range+0xea5/0x1550
>   unmap_vmas+0xf8/0x1e0
>   unmap_region.constprop.0+0xd7/0x150
>   ? lock_is_held_type+0xd5/0x130
>   do_vmi_align_munmap.isra.0+0x3f4/0x580
>   ? mas_walk+0x101/0x1b0
>   __vm_munmap+0xa6/0x170
>   __x64_sys_munmap+0x17/0x20
>   do_syscall_64+0x75/0x190
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
>
> $ faddr2line vmlinux folio_mark_dirty+0x25
> folio_mark_dirty+0x25/0x58:
> folio_mark_dirty at mm/page-writeback.c:2860


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