4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "shidao.ytt" shidao.ytt@alibaba-inc.com
[ Upstream commit a7ab400d6fe73d0119fdc234e9982a6f80faea9f ]
During our recent testing with fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED), we find that if given offset/length is not page-aligned, the last page will not be discarded. The tool we use is vmtouch (https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/), we map a 10KB-sized file into memory and then try to run this tool to evict the whole file mapping, but the last single page always remains staying in the memory:
$./vmtouch -e test_10K Files: 1 Directories: 0 Evicted Pages: 3 (12K) Elapsed: 2.1e-05 seconds
$./vmtouch test_10K Files: 1 Directories: 0 Resident Pages: 1/3 4K/12K 33.3% Elapsed: 5.5e-05 seconds
However when we test with an older kernel, say 3.10, this problem is gone. So we wonder if this is a regression:
$./vmtouch -e test_10K Files: 1 Directories: 0 Evicted Pages: 3 (12K) Elapsed: 8.2e-05 seconds
$./vmtouch test_10K Files: 1 Directories: 0 Resident Pages: 0/3 0/12K 0% <-- partial page also discarded Elapsed: 5e-05 seconds
After digging a little bit into this problem, we find it seems not a regression. Not discarding partial page is likely to be on purpose according to commit 441c228f817f ("mm: fadvise: document the fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages") written by Mel Gorman. He explained why partial pages should be preserved instead of being discarded when using fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED).
However, the interesting part is that the actual code did NOT work as the same as it was described, the partial page was still discarded anyway, due to a calculation mistake of `end_index' passed to invalidate_mapping_pages(). This mistake has not been fixed until recently, that's why we fail to reproduce our problem in old kernels. The fix is done in commit 18aba41cbf ("mm/fadvise.c: do not discard partial pages with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED") by Oleg Drokin.
Back to the original testing, our problem becomes that there is a special case that, if the page-unaligned `endbyte' is also the end of file, it is not necessary at all to preserve the last partial page, as we all know no one else will use the rest of it. It should be safe enough if we just discard the whole page. So we add an EOF check in this patch.
We also find a poosbile real world issue in mainline kernel. Assume such scenario: A userspace backup application want to backup a huge amount of small files (<4k) at once, the developer might (I guess) want to use fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) to save memory. However, FADV_DONTNEED won't really happen since the only page mapped is a partial page, and kernel will preserve it. Our patch also fixes this problem, since we know the endbyte is EOF, so we discard it.
Here is a simple reproducer to reproduce and verify each scenario we described above:
test_fadvise.c ============================== #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i, fd, ret, len; struct stat buf; void *addr; unsigned char *vec; char *strbuf; ssize_t pagesize = getpagesize(); ssize_t filesize;
fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR); if (fd < 0) return -1; filesize = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 10);
strbuf = malloc(filesize); memset(strbuf, 42, filesize); write(fd, strbuf, filesize); free(strbuf); fsync(fd);
len = (filesize + pagesize - 1) / pagesize; printf("length of pages: %d\n", len);
addr = mmap(NULL, filesize, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) return -1;
ret = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, filesize, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED); if (ret < 0) return -1;
vec = malloc(len); ret = mincore(addr, filesize, (void *)vec); if (ret < 0) return -1;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) printf("pages[%d]: %x\n", i, vec[i] & 0x1);
free(vec); close(fd);
return 0; } ==============================
Test 1: running on kernel with commit 18aba41cbf reverted:
[root@caspar ~]# uname -r 4.15.0-rc6.revert+ [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file1 1024 length of pages: 1 pages[0]: 0 # <-- partial page discarded [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file2 8192 length of pages: 2 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file3 10240 length of pages: 3 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 pages[2]: 0 # <-- partial page discarded
Test 2: running on mainline kernel:
[root@caspar ~]# uname -r 4.15.0-rc6+ [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024 length of pages: 1 pages[0]: 1 # <-- partial and the only page not discarded [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192 length of pages: 2 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240 length of pages: 3 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 pages[2]: 1 # <-- partial page not discarded
Test 3: running on kernel with this patch:
[root@caspar ~]# uname -r 4.15.0-rc6.patched+ [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024 length of pages: 1 pages[0]: 0 # <-- partial page and EOF, discarded [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192 length of pages: 2 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240 length of pages: 3 pages[0]: 0 pages[1]: 0 pages[2]: 0 # <-- partial page and EOF, discarded
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5222da9ee20e1695eaabb69f631f200d6e6b8876.1515132470... Signed-off-by: shidao.ytt shidao.ytt@alibaba-inc.com Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com Reviewed-by: Oliver Yang zhiche.yy@alibaba-inc.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- mm/fadvise.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/fadvise.c +++ b/mm/fadvise.c @@ -127,7 +127,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, l */ start_index = (offset+(PAGE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_SHIFT); - if ((endbyte & ~PAGE_MASK) != ~PAGE_MASK) { + /* + * The page at end_index will be inclusively discarded according + * by invalidate_mapping_pages(), so subtracting 1 from + * end_index means we will skip the last page. But if endbyte + * is page aligned or is at the end of file, we should not skip + * that page - discarding the last page is safe enough. + */ + if ((endbyte & ~PAGE_MASK) != ~PAGE_MASK && + endbyte != inode->i_size - 1) { /* First page is tricky as 0 - 1 = -1, but pgoff_t * is unsigned, so the end_index >= start_index * check below would be true and we'll discard the whole