kernel/linux.git/mm/readahead.c, branch v6.1.168

mm/readahead: fix large folio support in async readahead

2025-01-09T12:30:06+00:00

commit 158cdce87c8c172787063998ad5dd3e2f658b963 upstream. When testing large folio support with XFS on our servers, we observed that only a few large folios are mapped when reading large files via mmap. After a thorough analysis, I identified it was caused by the `/sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb` setting. On our test servers, this parameter is set to 128KB. After I tune it to 2MB, the large folio can work as expected. However, I believe the large folio behavior should not be dependent on the value of read_ahead_kb. It would be more robust if the kernel can automatically adopt to it. With /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb set to 128KB and performing a sequential read on a 1GB file using MADV_HUGEPAGE, the differences in /proc/meminfo are as follows: - before this patch FileHugePages: 18432 kB FilePmdMapped: 4096 kB - after this patch FileHugePages: 1067008 kB FilePmdMapped: 1048576 kB This shows that after applying the patch, the entire 1GB file is mapped to huge pages. The stable list is CCed, as without this patch, large folios don't function optimally in the readahead path. It's worth noting that if read_ahead_kb is set to a larger value that isn't aligned with huge page sizes (e.g., 4MB + 128KB), it may still fail to map to hugepages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241108141710.9721-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206083025.3478-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Fixes: 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings") Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Tested-by: kernel test robot Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

2024-05-17T09:56:21+00:00

commit 30153e4466647a17eebfced13eede5cbe4290e69 upstream. See commit f2c817bed58d ("mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path"), ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large folio. INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0 pid:7494 ppid:1 flags:0x00000200 Call trace: __switch_to+0x14c/0x240 __schedule+0x82c/0xdd0 schedule+0x58/0xf0 io_schedule+0x24/0xa0 __folio_lock+0x130/0x300 migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918 migrate_pages+0x350/0x700 compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38 compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118 try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248 __alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110 alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130 folio_alloc+0x20/0x78 filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0 page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308 ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8 page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8 filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8 filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0 filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280 ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4] vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118 splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288 do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108 do_sendfile+0x328/0x468 __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x4c/0x1f8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426112938.124740-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead") Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Zhang Yi Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

readahead: avoid multiple marked readahead pages

2024-03-15T14:48:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit ab4443fe3ca6298663a55c4a70efc6c3ce913ca6 ] ra_alloc_folio() marks a page that should trigger next round of async readahead. However it rounds up computed index to the order of page being allocated. This can however lead to multiple consecutive pages being marked with readahead flag. Consider situation with index == 1, mark == 1, order == 0. We insert order 0 page at index 1 and mark it. Then we bump order to 1, index to 2, mark (still == 1) is rounded up to 2 so page at index 2 is marked as well. Then we bump order to 2, index is incremented to 4, mark gets rounded to 4 so page at index 4 is marked as well. The fact that multiple pages get marked within a single readahead window confuses the readahead logic and results in readahead window being trimmed back to 1. This situation is triggered in particular when maximum readahead window size is not a power of two (in the observed case it was 768 KB) and as a result sequential read throughput suffers. Fix the problem by rounding 'mark' down instead of up. Because the index is naturally aligned to 'order', we are guaranteed 'rounded mark' == index iff 'mark' is within the page we are allocating at 'index' and thus exactly one page is marked with readahead flag as required by the readahead code and sequential read performance is restored. This effectively reverts part of commit b9ff43dd2743 ("mm/readahead: Fix readahead with large folios"). The commit changed the rounding with the rationale: "... we were setting the readahead flag on the folio which contains the last byte read from the block. This is wrong because we will trigger readahead at the end of the read without waiting to see if a subsequent read is going to use the pages we just read." Although this is true, the fact is this was always the case with read sizes not aligned to folio boundaries and large folios in the page cache just make the situation more obvious (and frequent). Also for sequential read workloads it is better to trigger the readahead earlier rather than later. It is true that the difference in the rounding and thus earlier triggering of the readahead can result in reading more for semi-random workloads. However workloads really suffering from this seem to be rare. In particular I have verified that the workload described in commit b9ff43dd2743 ("mm/readahead: Fix readahead with large folios") of reading random 100k blocks from a file like: [reader] bs=100k rw=randread numjobs=1 size=64g runtime=60s is not impacted by the rounding change and achieves ~70MB/s in both cases. [jack@suse.cz: fix one more place where mark rounding was done as well] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153254.5206-1-jack@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240104085839.21029-1-jack@suse.cz Fixes: b9ff43dd2743 ("mm/readahead: Fix readahead with large folios") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Guo Xuenan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices

2023-11-20T10:51:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7116c0af4b8414b2f19fdb366eea213cbd9d91c2 ] Readahead was factored to call generic_fadvise. That refactor added an S_ISREG restriction which broke readahead on block devices. In addition to S_ISREG, this change checks S_ISBLK to fix block device readahead. There is no change in behavior with any file type besides block devices in this change. Fixes: 3d8f7615319b ("vfs: implement readahead(2) using POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED") Signed-off-by: Reuben Hawkins Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231003015704.2415-1-reubenhwk@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: add PSI accounting around ->read_folio and ->readahead calls

2022-09-20T14:24:38+00:00

PSI tries to account for the cost of bringing back in pages discarded by the MM LRU management. Currently the prime place for that is hooked into the bio submission path, which is a rather bad place: - it does not actually account I/O for non-block file systems, of which we have many - it adds overhead and a layering violation to the block layer Add the accounting into the two places in the core MM code that read pages into an address space by calling into ->read_folio and ->readahead so that the entire file system operations are covered, to broaden the coverage and allow removing the accounting in the block layer going forward. As psi_memstall_enter can deal with nested calls this will not lead to double accounting even while the bio annotations are still present. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915094200.139713-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

filemap: Fix serialization adding transparent huge pages to page cache

2022-06-23T16:22:00+00:00

Commit 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead") introduced support for using large folios for filebacked pages if the filesystem supports it. page_cache_ra_order() was introduced to allocate and add these large folios to the page cache. However adding pages to the page cache should be serialized against truncation and hole punching by taking invalidate_lock. Not doing so can lead to data races resulting in stale data getting added to the page cache and marked up-to-date. See commit 730633f0b7f9 ("mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock") for more details. This issue was found by inspection but a testcase revealed it was possible to observe in practice on XFS. Fix this by taking invalidate_lock in page_cache_ra_order(), to mirror what is done for the non-thp case in page_cache_ra_unbounded(). Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

filemap: Don't release a locked folio

2022-06-09T20:24:25+00:00

We must hold a reference over the call to filemap_release_folio(), otherwise the page cache will put the last reference to the folio before we unlock it, leading to splats like this: BUG: Bad page state in process u8:5 pfn:1ab1f4 page:ffffea0006ac7d00 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x28b1de pfn:0x1ab1f4 flags: 0x17ff80000040001(locked|reclaim|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfff) raw: 017ff80000040001 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 000000000028b1de 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set It's an error path, so it doesn't see much testing. Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong Fixes: a42634a6c07d ("readahead: Use a folio in read_pages()") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2022-05-31T21:10:54+00:00

Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt: - Support for the Svpbmt extension, which allows memory attributes to be encoded in pages - Support for the Allwinner D1's implementation of page-based memory attributes - Support for running rv32 binaries on rv64 systems, via the compat subsystem - Support for kexec_file() - Support for the new generic ticket-based spinlocks, which allows us to also move to qrwlock. These should have already gone in through the asm-geneic tree as well - A handful of cleanups and fixes, include some larger ones around atomics and XIP * tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits) RISC-V: Prepare dropping week attribute from arch_kexec_apply_relocations[_add] riscv: compat: Using seperated vdso_maps for compat_vdso_info RISC-V: Fix the XIP build RISC-V: Split out the XIP fixups into their own file RISC-V: ignore xipImage RISC-V: Avoid empty create_*_mapping definitions riscv: Don't output a bogus mmu-type on a no MMU kernel riscv: atomic: Add custom conditional atomic operation implementation riscv: atomic: Optimize dec_if_positive functions riscv: atomic: Cleanup unnecessary definition RISC-V: Load purgatory in kexec_file RISC-V: Add purgatory RISC-V: Support for kexec_file on panic RISC-V: Add kexec_file support RISC-V: use memcpy for kexec_file mode kexec_file: Fix kexec_file.c build error for riscv platform riscv: compat: Add COMPAT Kbuild skeletal support riscv: compat: ptrace: Add compat_arch_ptrace implement riscv: compat: signal: Add rt_frame implementation riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head ...

Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache

2022-05-25T02:55:07+00:00

Pull page cache updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Appoint myself page cache maintainer - Fix how scsicam uses the page cache - Use the memalloc_nofs_save() API to replace AOP_FLAG_NOFS - Remove the AOP flags entirely - Remove pagecache_write_begin() and pagecache_write_end() - Documentation updates - Convert several address_space operations to use folios: - is_dirty_writeback - readpage becomes read_folio - releasepage becomes release_folio - freepage becomes free_folio - Change filler_t to require a struct file pointer be the first argument like ->read_folio * tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (107 commits) nilfs2: Fix some kernel-doc comments Appoint myself page cache maintainer fs: Remove aops->freepage secretmem: Convert to free_folio nfs: Convert to free_folio orangefs: Convert to free_folio fs: Add free_folio address space operation fs: Convert drop_buffers() to use a folio fs: Change try_to_free_buffers() to take a folio jbd2: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio jbd2: Convert jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers to take a folio reiserfs: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio fs: Remove last vestiges of releasepage ubifs: Convert to release_folio reiserfs: Convert to release_folio orangefs: Convert to release_folio ocfs2: Convert to release_folio nilfs2: Remove comment about releasepage nfs: Convert to release_folio jfs: Convert to release_folio ...

Merge tag 'for-5.19/block-2022-05-22' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2022-05-23T20:56:39+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: "Here are the core block changes for 5.19. This contains: - blk-throttle accounting fix (Laibin) - Series removing redundant assignments (Michal) - Expose bio cache via the bio_set, so that DM can use it (Mike) - Finish off the bio allocation interface cleanups by dealing with the weirdest member of the family. bio_kmalloc combines a kmalloc for the bio and bio_vecs with a hidden bio_init call and magic cleanup semantics (Christoph) - Clean up the block layer API so that APIs consumed by file systems are (almost) only struct block_device based, so that file systems don't have to poke into block layer internals like the request_queue (Christoph) - Clean up the blk_execute_rq* API (Christoph) - Clean up various lose end in the blk-cgroup code to make it easier to follow in preparation of reworking the blkcg assignment for bios (Christoph) - Fix use-after-free issues in BFQ when processes with merged queues get moved to different cgroups (Jan) - BFQ fixes (Jan) - Various fixes and cleanups (Bart, Chengming, Fanjun, Julia, Ming, Wolfgang, me)" * tag 'for-5.19/block-2022-05-22' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (83 commits) blk-mq: fix typo in comment bfq: Remove bfq_requeue_request_body() bfq: Remove superfluous conversion from RQ_BIC() bfq: Allow current waker to defend against a tentative one bfq: Relax waker detection for shared queues blk-cgroup: delete rcu_read_lock_held() WARN_ON_ONCE() blk-throttle: Set BIO_THROTTLED when bio has been throttled blk-cgroup: Remove unnecessary rcu_read_lock/unlock() blk-cgroup: always terminate io.stat lines block, bfq: make bfq_has_work() more accurate block, bfq: protect 'bfqd->queued' by 'bfqd->lock' block: cleanup the VM accounting in submit_bio block: Fix the bio.bi_opf comment block: reorder the REQ_ flags blk-iocost: combine local_stat and desc_stat to stat block: improve the error message from bio_check_eod block: allow passing a NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone/bio_init_clone block: remove superfluous calls to blkcg_bio_issue_init kthread: unexport kthread_blkcg blk-cgroup: cleanup blkcg_maybe_throttle_current ...