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Message-ID: <f84e1519-812b-ee19-ddb6-6670a02a0c40@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 11:42:14 +0800
From: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>, hch@....de, houtao1@...wei.com,
 axboe@...nel.dk
Cc: linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 yi.zhang@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com, johnny.chenyi@...wei.com,
 "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] brd: use page reference to protect page lifetime

Friendly ping ...

在 2025/08/11 14:56, Yu Kuai 写道:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> 
> As discussed [1], hold rcu for copying data from/to page is too heavy,
> it's better to protect page with rcu around for page lookup and then
> grab a reference to prevent page to be freed by discard.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/eb41cab3-5946-4fe3-a1be-843dd6fca159@kernel.dk/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> ---
> Changes from v2:
>   - move xas_reset() to error path;
>   - remove unnecessary checking xa_is_value();
> Changes from v1:
>   - refer to filemap_get_entry(), use xas_load + xas_reload to fix
>   concurrent problems.
> 
>   drivers/block/brd.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
> index 0c2eabe14af3..9778259b30d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/brd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
> @@ -44,45 +44,74 @@ struct brd_device {
>   };
>   
>   /*
> - * Look up and return a brd's page for a given sector.
> + * Look up and return a brd's page with reference grabbed for a given sector.
>    */
>   static struct page *brd_lookup_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
>   {
> -	return xa_load(&brd->brd_pages, sector >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT);
> +	struct page *page;
> +	XA_STATE(xas, &brd->brd_pages, sector >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT);
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +repeat:
> +	page = xas_load(&xas);
> +	if (xas_retry(&xas, page)) {
> +		xas_reset(&xas);
> +		goto repeat;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!page)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
> +		xas_reset(&xas);
> +		goto repeat;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (unlikely(page != xas_reload(&xas))) {
> +		put_page(page);
> +		xas_reset(&xas);
> +		goto repeat;
> +	}
> +out:
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> +	return page;
>   }
>   
>   /*
>    * Insert a new page for a given sector, if one does not already exist.
> + * The returned page will grab reference.
>    */
>   static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector,
>   		blk_opf_t opf)
> -	__releases(rcu)
> -	__acquires(rcu)
>   {
>   	gfp_t gfp = (opf & REQ_NOWAIT) ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_NOIO;
>   	struct page *page, *ret;
>   
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>   	page = alloc_page(gfp | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> -	if (!page) {
> -		rcu_read_lock();
> +	if (!page)
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	}
>   
>   	xa_lock(&brd->brd_pages);
>   	ret = __xa_cmpxchg(&brd->brd_pages, sector >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT, NULL,
>   			page, gfp);
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> -	if (ret) {
> +	if (!ret) {
> +		brd->brd_nr_pages++;
> +		get_page(page);
> +		xa_unlock(&brd->brd_pages);
> +		return page;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!xa_is_err(ret)) {
> +		get_page(ret);
>   		xa_unlock(&brd->brd_pages);
> -		__free_page(page);
> -		if (xa_is_err(ret))
> -			return ERR_PTR(xa_err(ret));
> +		put_page(page);
>   		return ret;
>   	}
> -	brd->brd_nr_pages++;
> +
>   	xa_unlock(&brd->brd_pages);
> -	return page;
> +	put_page(page);
> +	return ERR_PTR(xa_err(ret));
>   }
>   
>   /*
> @@ -95,7 +124,7 @@ static void brd_free_pages(struct brd_device *brd)
>   	pgoff_t idx;
>   
>   	xa_for_each(&brd->brd_pages, idx, page) {
> -		__free_page(page);
> +		put_page(page);
>   		cond_resched();
>   	}
>   
> @@ -117,7 +146,6 @@ static bool brd_rw_bvec(struct brd_device *brd, struct bio *bio)
>   
>   	bv.bv_len = min_t(u32, bv.bv_len, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
>   
> -	rcu_read_lock();
>   	page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
>   	if (!page && op_is_write(opf)) {
>   		page = brd_insert_page(brd, sector, opf);
> @@ -135,13 +163,13 @@ static bool brd_rw_bvec(struct brd_device *brd, struct bio *bio)
>   			memset(kaddr, 0, bv.bv_len);
>   	}
>   	kunmap_local(kaddr);
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>   
>   	bio_advance_iter_single(bio, &bio->bi_iter, bv.bv_len);
> +	if (page)
> +		put_page(page);
>   	return true;
>   
>   out_error:
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>   	if (PTR_ERR(page) == -ENOMEM && (opf & REQ_NOWAIT))
>   		bio_wouldblock_error(bio);
>   	else
> @@ -149,13 +177,6 @@ static bool brd_rw_bvec(struct brd_device *brd, struct bio *bio)
>   	return false;
>   }
>   
> -static void brd_free_one_page(struct rcu_head *head)
> -{
> -	struct page *page = container_of(head, struct page, rcu_head);
> -
> -	__free_page(page);
> -}
> -
>   static void brd_do_discard(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector, u32 size)
>   {
>   	sector_t aligned_sector = round_up(sector, PAGE_SECTORS);
> @@ -170,7 +191,7 @@ static void brd_do_discard(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector, u32 size)
>   	while (aligned_sector < aligned_end && aligned_sector < rd_size * 2) {
>   		page = __xa_erase(&brd->brd_pages, aligned_sector >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT);
>   		if (page) {
> -			call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, brd_free_one_page);
> +			put_page(page);
>   			brd->brd_nr_pages--;
>   		}
>   		aligned_sector += PAGE_SECTORS;
> 


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