dax: New fault locking
Currently DAX page fault locking is racy. CPU0 (write fault) CPU1 (read fault) __dax_fault() __dax_fault() get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped if (!buffer_mapped(&bh)) if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks if (page) -> no if (!buffer_mapped(&bh)) if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) { } else { dax_load_hole(); } dax_insert_mapping() And we are in a situation where we fail in dax_radix_entry() with -EIO. Another problem with the current DAX page fault locking is that there is no race-free way to clear dirty tag in the radix tree. We can always end up with clean radix tree and dirty data in CPU cache. We fix the first problem by introducing locking of exceptional radix tree entries in DAX mappings acting very similarly to page lock and thus synchronizing properly faults against the same mapping index. The same lock can later be used to avoid races when clearing radix tree dirty tag. Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
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