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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1012011224460.18014@tigran.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:31:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
Adding Nick Piggin back to the Cc.
I do think it needs to be freepage(struct address_space *, struct page *),
even if you happen not to need to know the mapping in the NFS case.
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 11:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Trond Myklebust
> > <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmm... Looking again at the problem, it appears that the same callback
> > > needs to be added to truncate_complete_page() and
> > > invalidate_complete_page2(). Otherwise we end up in a situation where
> > > the page can sometimes be removed from the page cache without calling
> > > freepage().
> >
> > Yes, I think any caller of __remove_from_page_cache() should do it
> > once it has dropped all locks.
> >
> > And to be consistent with that rule, even in the __remove_mapping()
> > function I suspect the code to call ->freepage() might as well be done
> > only in the __remove_from_page_cache() case (ie not in the
> > PageSwapCache() case).
> >
> > Then, add the case to the end of "remove_page_cache()" itself, and now
> > it's really easy to just grep for __remove_from_page_cache() and make
> > sure they all do it.
> >
> > That sounds sane, no?
> >
> > Linus
>
> Something like the following then?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From 3a46d5eab1ac6efe9dfaf873e23de7589e0acccc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:35:19 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache
>
> NFS needs to be able to release objects that are stored in the page
> cache once the page itself is no longer visible from the page cache.
>
> This patch adds a callback to the address space operations that allows
> filesystems to perform page cleanups once the page has been removed
> from the page cache.
>
> Original patch by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> [trondmy: cover the cases of invalidate_inode_pages2() and
> truncate_inode_pages()]
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 5 +++++
> Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 5 +++++
> include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
> mm/truncate.c | 8 ++++++++
> mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++
> 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> index a91f308..06d6b71 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ prototypes:
> sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
> int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
> int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
> + void (*freepage)(struct page *);
> int (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
> loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
> int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
> @@ -193,6 +194,7 @@ perform_write: no n/a yes
> bmap: no
> invalidatepage: no yes
> releasepage: no yes
> +freepage: no yes
> direct_IO: no
> launder_page: no yes
>
> @@ -288,6 +290,9 @@ buffers from the page in preparation for freeing it. It returns zero to
> indicate that the buffers are (or may be) freeable. If ->releasepage is zero,
> the kernel assumes that the fs has no private interest in the buffers.
>
> + ->freepage() is called when the kernel is done dropping the page
> +from the page cache.
> +
> ->launder_page() may be called prior to releasing a page if
> it is still found to be dirty. It returns zero if the page was successfully
> cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> index ed7e5ef..76de6fd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> @@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
> sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
> int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
> int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
> + void (*freepage)(struct page *);
> ssize_t (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
> loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
> struct page* (*get_xip_page)(struct address_space *, sector_t,
> @@ -679,6 +680,10 @@ struct address_space_operations {
> need to ensure this. Possibly it can clear the PageUptodate
> bit if it cannot free private data yet.
>
> + freepage: freepage is called once the page is no longer visible in
> + the page cache in order to allow the cleanup of any private
> + data.
> +
> direct_IO: called by the generic read/write routines to perform
> direct_IO - that is IO requests which bypass the page cache
> and transfer data directly between the storage and the
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index c9e06cc..090f0ea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
> sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
> void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
> int (*releasepage) (struct page *, gfp_t);
> + void (*freepage)(struct page *);
> ssize_t (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
> loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
> int (*get_xip_mem)(struct address_space *, pgoff_t, int,
> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> index ba887bf..76ab2a8 100644
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
> clear_page_mlock(page);
> remove_from_page_cache(page);
> ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
> +
> + if (mapping->a_ops->freepage)
> + mapping->a_ops->freepage(page);
> +
> page_cache_release(page); /* pagecache ref */
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -390,6 +394,10 @@ invalidate_complete_page2(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
> __remove_from_page_cache(page);
> spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
> +
> + if (mapping->a_ops->freepage)
> + mapping->a_ops->freepage(page);
> +
> page_cache_release(page); /* pagecache ref */
> return 1;
> failed:
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index d31d7ce..c6fc55d 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -497,6 +497,9 @@ static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
> __remove_from_page_cache(page);
> spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
> +
> + if (mapping->a_ops->freepage)
> + mapping->a_ops->freepage(page);
> }
>
> return 1;
> --
> 1.7.3.2
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