linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] fs: move list_lru_destroy() to destroy_super

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Message-ID: <ZHfRiUjiK/Z0yuUX@dread.disaster.area>
Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:00:25 +1000
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@...ux.dev>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tkhai@...ru, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev,
        vbabka@...e.cz, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org,
        djwong@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com, paulmck@...nel.org,
        muchun.song@...ux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] fs: move list_lru_destroy() to destroy_super_work()

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:57:37AM +0000, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>
> 
> The patch makes s_dentry_lru and s_inode_lru be destroyed
> later from the workqueue. This is preparation to split
> unregister_shrinker(super_block::s_shrink) in two stages,
> and to call finalize stage from destroy_super_work().
> 
> Note, that generic filesystem shrinker unregistration
> is safe to be split in two stages right after this
> patch, since super_cache_count() and super_cache_scan()
> have a deal with s_dentry_lru and s_inode_lru only.
> 
> But there are two exceptions: XFS and SHMEM, which
> define .nr_cached_objects() and .free_cached_objects()
> callbacks. These two do not allow us to do the splitting
> right after this patch. They touch fs-specific data,
> which is destroyed earlier, than destroy_super_work().
> So, we can't call unregister_shrinker_delayed_finalize()
> from destroy_super_work() because of them, and next
> patches make preparations to make this possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
> ---
>  fs/super.c | 17 +++++------------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
> index 8d8d68799b34..2ce4c72720f3 100644
> --- a/fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/super.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ static void destroy_super_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  							destroy_work);
>  	int i;
>  
> +	WARN_ON(list_lru_count(&s->s_dentry_lru));
> +	WARN_ON(list_lru_count(&s->s_inode_lru));
> +	list_lru_destroy(&s->s_dentry_lru);
> +	list_lru_destroy(&s->s_inode_lru);
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < SB_FREEZE_LEVELS; i++)
>  		percpu_free_rwsem(&s->s_writers.rw_sem[i]);
>  	kfree(s);
> @@ -177,8 +182,6 @@ static void destroy_unused_super(struct super_block *s)
>  	if (!s)
>  		return;
>  	up_write(&s->s_umount);
> -	list_lru_destroy(&s->s_dentry_lru);
> -	list_lru_destroy(&s->s_inode_lru);
>  	security_sb_free(s);
>  	put_user_ns(s->s_user_ns);
>  	kfree(s->s_subtype);
> @@ -287,8 +290,6 @@ static void __put_super(struct super_block *s)
>  {
>  	if (!--s->s_count) {
>  		list_del_init(&s->s_list);
> -		WARN_ON(s->s_dentry_lru.node);
> -		WARN_ON(s->s_inode_lru.node);

Why are you removing the wanrings from here? Regardless of where
we tear down the lru lists, they *must* be empty here otherwise we
have a memory leak. Hence I don't think these warnings should be
moved at all.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com