linux-kernel - [PATCH] tmpfs: fix regressions from wider use of ZERO

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Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 13:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Mark Hemment <markhemm@...glemail.com>,
        Patrice CHOTARD <patrice.chotard@...s.st.com>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com
Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix regressions from wider use of ZERO_PAGE

Chuck Lever reported fsx-based xfstests generic 075 091 112 127 failing
when 5.18-rc1 NFS server exports tmpfs: bisected to recent tmpfs change.

Whilst nfsd_splice_action() does contain some questionable handling of
repeated pages, and Chuck was able to work around there, history from
Mark Hemment makes clear that there might be similar dangers elsewhere:
it was not a good idea for me to pass ZERO_PAGE down to unknown actors.

Revert shmem_file_read_iter() to using ZERO_PAGE for holes only when
iter_is_iovec(); in other cases, use the more natural iov_iter_zero()
instead of copy_page_to_iter().  We would use iov_iter_zero() throughout,
but the x86 clear_user() is not nearly so well optimized as copy to user
(dd of 1T sparse tmpfs file takes 57 seconds rather than 44 seconds).

And now pagecache_init() does not need to SetPageUptodate(ZERO_PAGE(0)):
which had caused boot failure on arm noMMU STM32F7 and STM32H7 boards
Reported-by: Patrice CHOTARD <patrice.chotard@...s.st.com>

Reported-by: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Fixes: 56a8c8eb1eaf ("tmpfs: do not allocate pages on read")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
---

 mm/filemap.c |    6 ------
 mm/shmem.c   |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- 5.18-rc1/mm/filemap.c
+++ linux/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1063,12 +1063,6 @@ void __init pagecache_init(void)
 		init_waitqueue_head(&folio_wait_table[i]);
 
 	page_writeback_init();
-
-	/*
-	 * tmpfs uses the ZERO_PAGE for reading holes: it is up-to-date,
-	 * and splice's page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() needs to see that.
-	 */
-	SetPageUptodate(ZERO_PAGE(0));
 }
 
 /*
--- 5.18-rc1/mm/shmem.c
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2513,7 +2513,6 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
 		pgoff_t end_index;
 		unsigned long nr, ret;
 		loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode);
-		bool got_page;
 
 		end_index = i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		if (index > end_index)
@@ -2570,24 +2569,34 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
 			 */
 			if (!offset)
 				mark_page_accessed(page);
-			got_page = true;
+			/*
+			 * Ok, we have the page, and it's up-to-date, so
+			 * now we can copy it to user space...
+			 */
+			ret = copy_page_to_iter(page, offset, nr, to);
+			put_page(page);
+
+		} else if (iter_is_iovec(to)) {
+			/*
+			 * Copy to user tends to be so well optimized, but
+			 * clear_user() not so much, that it is noticeably
+			 * faster to copy the zero page instead of clearing.
+			 */
+			ret = copy_page_to_iter(ZERO_PAGE(0), offset, nr, to);
 		} else {
-			page = ZERO_PAGE(0);
-			got_page = false;
+			/*
+			 * But submitting the same page twice in a row to
+			 * splice() - or others? - can result in confusion:
+			 * so don't attempt that optimization on pipes etc.
+			 */
+			ret = iov_iter_zero(nr, to);
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * Ok, we have the page, and it's up-to-date, so
-		 * now we can copy it to user space...
-		 */
-		ret = copy_page_to_iter(page, offset, nr, to);
 		retval += ret;
 		offset += ret;
 		index += offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		offset &= ~PAGE_MASK;
 
-		if (got_page)
-			put_page(page);
 		if (!iov_iter_count(to))
 			break;
 		if (ret < nr) {