linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] iomap: fix race between readahead and direct write

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Message-ID: <20200119030123.GA223124@architecture4>
Date:   Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:01:25 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
CC:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, <hch@...radead.org>,
        <darrick.wong@...cle.com>, <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <houtao1@...wei.com>, <zhengbin13@...wei.com>,
        <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iomap: fix race between readahead and direct write

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 10:51:37AM +0800, yukuai (C) wrote:
> 
> 
> Then, there might be a problem in your implementation.
> if 'use_list' is set to true here:
> +	bool use_list = mapping->a_ops->readpages;
> 
> Your code do not call add_to_page_cache_lru for the page.

IMO, if use_list == true, it will call read_pages -> .readpages
and go just like the current implementation.

->.readahead is just alloc_page and then add_to_page_cache_lru
right after in time and in principle it saves some extra page
allocation.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> +		if (use_list) {
> +			page->index = page_offset;
> +			list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
> +		} else if (!add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, page_offset,
> +					gfp_mask)) {
> +			if (nr_pages)
> +				read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool,
> +						page_offset - nr_pages,
> +						nr_pages);
> +			nr_pages = 0;
> +			continue;
> +		}
>