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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-12-20 21:52:38 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-12-20 22:06:33 +0000
commitde242c0b8b365a9e348bf53143e18e9d8c9cfae8 (patch)
tree2fc83ff5848503ce16d215e317f009aed164d534 /fs/fscache
parent9dc8d9bfe4415efb61a5e9390706b8a3bffef329 (diff)
downloadlinux-de242c0b8b365a9e348bf53143e18e9d8c9cfae8.tar.bz2
NFS: Use FS-Cache invalidation
Use the new FS-Cache invalidation facility from NFS to deal with foreign changes being detected on the server rather than attempting to retire the old cookie and get a new one. The problem with the old method was that NFS did not wait for all outstanding storage and retrieval ops on the cache to complete. There was no automatic wait between the calls to ->readpages() and calls to invalidate_inode_pages2() as the latter can only wait on locked pages that have been added to the pagecache (which they haven't yet on entry to ->readpages()). This was leading to oopses like the one below when an outstanding read got cut off from its cookie by a premature release. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 IP: [<ffffffffa0075118>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x1dd/0x315 [fscache] PGD 15889067 PUD 15890067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc Pid: 4544, comm: tar Not tainted 3.1.0-rc4-fsdevel+ #1064 /DG965RY RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0075118>] [<ffffffffa0075118>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x1dd/0x315 [fscache] RSP: 0018:ffff8800158799e8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800070d41e0 RCX: ffff8800083dc1b0 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880015879960 RDI: ffff88003e627b90 RBP: ffff880015879a28 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000002 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff880015879950 R12: ffff880015879aa4 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8800083dc158 R15: ffff880015879be8 FS: 00007f671e9d87c0(0000) GS:ffff88003bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000000000000a8 CR3: 000000001587f000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process tar (pid: 4544, threadinfo ffff880015878000, task ffff880015875040) Stack: ffffffffa00b1759 ffff8800070dc158 ffff8800000213da ffff88002a286508 ffff880015879aa4 ffff880015879be8 0000000000000001 ffff88002a2866e8 ffff880015879a88 ffffffffa00b20be 00000000000200da ffff880015875040 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa00b1759>] ? nfs_fscache_wait_bit+0xd/0xd [nfs] [<ffffffffa00b20be>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x13f [nfs] [<ffffffff81095fe7>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x156/0x662 [<ffffffffa0098763>] nfs_readpages+0xee/0x187 [nfs] [<ffffffff81098a5e>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1be/0x267 [<ffffffff81098942>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0xa2/0x267 [<ffffffff81098d7b>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20 [<ffffffff8109900a>] ondemand_readahead+0x28b/0x29a [<ffffffff810990ce>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a [<ffffffff81091d8a>] generic_file_aio_read+0x2ab/0x67e [<ffffffffa008cfbe>] nfs_file_read+0xa4/0xc9 [nfs] [<ffffffff810c22c4>] do_sync_read+0xba/0xfa [<ffffffff810a62c9>] ? might_fault+0x4e/0x9e [<ffffffff81177a47>] ? security_file_permission+0x7b/0x84 [<ffffffff810c25dd>] ? rw_verify_area+0xab/0xc8 [<ffffffff810c29a4>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x13a [<ffffffff810c2a79>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c [<ffffffff813ac37b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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