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Message-ID: <7444ba50-20ba-4908-9f46-0fda488f905b@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:49:52 +0800
From: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Hou Tao <houtao@...weicloud.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Matthew Wilcox
<willy@...radead.org>, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
houtao1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] virtiofs: fix the warning for kernel direct IO
On 8/14/24 3:46 PM, Hou Tao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/14/2024 2:34 PM, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>> Hi, Tao,
>>
>> On 4/26/24 10:39 PM, Hou Tao wrote:
>>> From: Hou Tao <houtao1@...wei.com>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The patch set aims to fix the warning related to an abnormal size
>>> parameter of kmalloc() in virtiofs. Patch #1 fixes it by introducing
>>> use_pages_for_kvec_io option in fuse_conn and enabling it in virtiofs.
>>> Beside the abnormal size parameter for kmalloc, the gfp parameter is
>>> also questionable: GFP_ATOMIC is used even when the allocation occurs
>>> in a kworker context. Patch #2 fixes it by using GFP_NOFS when the
>>> allocation is initiated by the kworker. For more details, please check
>>> the individual patches.
>>>
>>> As usual, comments are always welcome.
>>>
>>> Change Log:
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> * introduce use_pages_for_kvec_io for virtiofs. When the option is
>>> enabled, fuse will use iov_iter_extract_pages() to construct a page
>>> array and pass the pages array instead of a pointer to virtiofs.
>>> The benefit is twofold: the length of the data passed to virtiofs is
>>> limited by max_pages, and there is no memory copy compared with v2.
>>>
>>> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240228144126.2864064-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com/
>>> * limit the length of ITER_KVEC dio by max_pages instead of the
>>> newly-introduced max_nopage_rw. Using max_pages make the ITER_KVEC
>>> dio being consistent with other rw operations.
>>> * replace kmalloc-allocated bounce buffer by using a bounce buffer
>>> backed by scattered pages when the length of the bounce buffer for
>>> KVEC_ITER dio is larger than PAG_SIZE, so even on hosts with
>>> fragmented memory, the KVEC_ITER dio can be handled normally by
>>> virtiofs. (Bernd Schubert)
>>> * merge the GFP_NOFS patch [1] into this patch-set and use
>>> memalloc_nofs_{save|restore}+GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOFS
>>> (Benjamin Coddington)
>>>
>>> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240103105929.1902658-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com/
>>>
>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240105105305.4052672-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com/
>>>
>>> Hou Tao (2):
>>> virtiofs: use pages instead of pointer for kernel direct IO
>>> virtiofs: use GFP_NOFS when enqueuing request through kworker
>>>
>>> fs/fuse/file.c | 12 ++++++++----
>>> fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 3 +++
>>> fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
>>> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>>
>> We also encountered the same issue as [1] these days when attempting to
>> insmod a module with ~6MB size, which is upon a virtiofs filesystem.
>>
>> It would be much helpful if this issue has a standard fix in the
>> upstream. I see there will be v4 when reading through the mailing
>> thread. Glad to know if there's any update to this series.
>
> Being busy with other stuff these days. I hope to send v4 before next
> weekend.
Many thanks, Tao.
--
Thanks,
Jingbo
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