| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <18844.3238.965571.619560@edward.zelnet.ru>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:27:02 +0300
From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>, peterz@...radead.org,
npiggin@...e.de, rmh3093@...il.com, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 1/2] vfs: add/use update_page_accounting
Andrew Morton writes:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:26:16 +0300
> Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:43:28 +0300
> > > Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> + */
> > >> +int set_page_dirty_notag(struct page *page)
> > >> +{
> > >> + struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
> > >> +
> > >> + if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
> > >> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
> > >> + if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
> > >> + /*
> > >> + * The accounting functions rely on
> > >> + * being atomic wrt interrupts.
> > >> + */
> > >> + unsigned long flags;
> > >> + local_irq_save(flags);
> > >> + __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> > >> + __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
> > >> + BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
> > >> + task_dirty_inc(current);
> > >> + task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
> > >> + local_irq_restore(flags);
> > >> + }
> > >> + __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
> > >> + return 1;
> > >> + }
> > >> + return 0;
> > >> +}
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'll maintain this in -mm, alongside the resier4 patches which need it.
> > >
> > > Of course, this rather obviates the purpose - if someone changes, say,
> > > __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() then they won't similarly update
> > > set_page_dirty_notag(). Oh well.
> > >
> > > This problem would fix itself if those two functions were to
> > > substantially share code.
> >
> > It will fix the problem only partially:
> > there is one more friend __set_page_dirty() in buffer.c
>
> But all three functions do the same thing?
>
> if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
> __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
> BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
> task_dirty_inc(current);
> task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
> }
>
> ?
Yup, exactly the same.
>
> > Maybe it makes sense to add comments with warnings
> > in all such places, or create a header file with a static inline
> > function update_page_accounting() ?
>
> Could just uninline the helper function I guess - if you look, those
> four statements already involve doing a heck of a lot of stuff.
>
> Try it, see how it looks?
>
Done.
Please, review.
Add/use a helper function update_page_accounting().
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@...il.com>
---
fs/buffer.c | 9 +--------
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
mm/page-writeback.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- mmotm.orig/fs/buffer.c
+++ mmotm/fs/buffer.c
@@ -803,14 +803,7 @@ static int __set_page_dirty(struct page
spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */
WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));
-
- if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
- __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
- __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
- BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- task_dirty_inc(current);
- task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
- }
+ update_page_accounting(page, mapping);
radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
}
--- mmotm.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ mmotm/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct pa
int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page);
int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc,
struct page *page);
+void update_page_accounting(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page);
--- mmotm.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ mmotm/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1198,6 +1198,20 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct
}
/*
+ * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
+ * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
+ */
+void update_page_accounting(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+ __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
+ task_dirty_inc(current);
+ task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
* For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
* its radix tree.
*
@@ -1226,13 +1240,7 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct pa
if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
- if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
- __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
- __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
- BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- task_dirty_inc(current);
- task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
- }
+ update_page_accounting(page, mapping);
radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
}
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists