linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:13:22 -0700
From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	yang@...amperecomputing.com, linmiaohe@...wei.com,
	muchun.song@...ux.dev, osalvador@...e.de,
	"Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>,
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	Zi Yan <zi.yan@...t.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
	p.raghav@...sung.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de,
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	john.g.garry@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed
 zero fill in folio_map_range()

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:07:15AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.06.24 09:57, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 08:08:15PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 02:58:57PM +0000, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> > > > From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Usually the page cache does not extend beyond the size of the inode,
> > > > therefore, no PTEs are created for folios that extend beyond the size.
> > > > 
> > > > But with LBS support, we might extend page cache beyond the size of the
> > > > inode as we need to guarantee folios of minimum order. Cap the PTE range
> > > > to be created for the page cache up to the max allowed zero-fill file
> > > > end, which is aligned to the PAGE_SIZE.
> > > 
> > > I think this is slightly misleading because we might well zero-fill
> > > to the end of the folio.  The issue is that we're supposed to SIGBUS
> > > if userspace accesses pages which lie entirely beyond the end of this
> > > file.  Can you rephrase this?
> > > 
> > > (from mmap(2))
> > >         SIGBUS Attempted access to a page of the buffer that lies beyond the end
> > >                of the mapped file.  For an explanation of the treatment  of  the
> > >                bytes  in  the  page that corresponds to the end of a mapped file
> > >                that is not a multiple of the page size, see NOTES.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The code is good though.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> > 
> > Since I've been curating the respective fstests test to test for this
> > POSIX corner case [0] I wanted to enable the test for tmpfs instead of
> > skipping it as I originally had it, and that meant also realizing mmap(2)
> > specifically says this now:
> > 
> > Huge page (Huge TLB) mappings
> 
> Confusion alert: this likely talks about hugetlb (MAP_HUGETLB), not THP and
> friends.
> 
> So it might not be required for below changes.

Thanks, I had to ask as we're dusting off this little obscure corner of
the universe. Reason I ask, is the test fails for tmpfs with huge pages,
and this patch fixes it, but it got me wondering the above applies also
to tmpfs with huge pages.

  Luis