Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in pagecache

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:53:48PM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> In previous patch, an application could put part of its text section in
> THP via madvise(). These THPs will be protected from writes when the
> application is still running (TXTBSY). However, after the application
> exits, the file is available for writes.
> 
> This patch avoids writes to file THP by dropping page cache for the file
> when the file is open for write. A new counter nr_thps is added to struct
> address_space. In do_last(), if the file is open for write and nr_thps
> is non-zero, we drop page cache for the whole file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> ---
>  fs/inode.c         |  3 +++
>  fs/namei.c         | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/fs.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/filemap.c       |  1 +
>  mm/khugepaged.c    |  4 +++-
>  5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index df6542ec3b88..518113a4e219 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
>  	mapping->flags = 0;
>  	mapping->wb_err = 0;
>  	atomic_set(&mapping->i_mmap_writable, 0);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
> +	atomic_set(&mapping->nr_thps, 0);
> +#endif
>  	mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
>  	mapping->private_data = NULL;
>  	mapping->writeback_index = 0;
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 20831c2fbb34..de64f24b58e9 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -3249,6 +3249,22 @@ static int lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
>  	return error;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * The file is open for write, so it is not mmapped with VM_DENYWRITE. If
> + * it still has THP in page cache, drop the whole file from pagecache
> + * before processing writes. This helps us avoid handling write back of
> + * THP for now.
> + */
> +static inline void release_file_thp(struct file *file)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
> +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> +
> +	if (inode_is_open_for_write(inode) && filemap_nr_thps(inode->i_mapping))
> +		truncate_pagecache(inode, 0);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Handle the last step of open()
>   */
> @@ -3418,7 +3434,11 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd,
>  		goto out;
>  opened:
>  	error = ima_file_check(file, op->acc_mode);
> -	if (!error && will_truncate)
> +	if (error)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	release_file_thp(file);

What protects against re-fill the file with THP in parallel?


-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov