git: kernel - KVABIO stabilization
Matthew Dillon
dillon at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Mon Oct 16 11:30:34 PDT 2017
commit b3f55d8892ebb4d588921f0e08b1774035fa5ffa
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date: Tue Oct 3 20:06:04 2017 -0700
kernel - KVABIO stabilization
* bp->b_cpumask must be cleared in vfs_vmio_release().
* Generally speaking, it is generally desireable for the kernel to set
B_KVABIO when flushing or disposing of a buffer, as long as b_cpumask
is also correct. This avoids unnecessary synchronization when
underlying device drivers support KVABIO, even if the filesystem does
not.
* In findblk() we cannot just gratuitously clear B_KVABIO. We must issue
a bkvasync_all() to clear the flag in order to ensure proper
synchronization with the caller's desired B_KVABIO state.
* It was intended that bkvasync_all() clear the B_KVABIO flag. Make
sure it does.
* In contrast, B_KVABIO can always be set at any time, so long as the
cpumask is cleared whenever the mappings are changed, and also as long
as the caller's B_KVABIO state is respected if the buffer is later
returned to the caller in a locked state. If the buffer will simply
be disposed of by the kernel instead, the flag can be set. The
wrapper (typically a vn_strategy() or dev_dstrategy() call) will clear
the flag via bkvasync_all() if the target does not support KVABIO.
* Kernel support code outside of filesystem and device drivers is
expected to support KVABIO.
* nvtruncbuf() and nvextendbuf() now use bread_kvabio() (i.e. they now
properly support KVABIO).
* The buf_countdeps(), buf_checkread(), and buf_checkwrite() callbacks
call bkvasync_all() in situations where the vnode does not support
KVABIO. This is because the kernel might have set the flag for other
incidental operations even if the filesystem did not.
* As per above, devfs_spec_strategy() now sets B_KVABIO and properly
calls bkvasync() when it needs to operate directly on buf->b_data.
* Fix bug in tmpfs(). tmpfs() was using bread_kvabio() as intended,
but failed to call bkvasync() prior to operating directly on
buf->b_data (prior to calling uiomovebp()).
* Any VFS function that calls BUF_LOCK*() itself may also have to
call bkvasync_all() if it wishes to operate directly on buf->b_data,
even if the VFS is not KVABIO aware. This is because the VFS bypassed
the normal buffer cache APIs to obtain a locked buffer.
Summary of changes:
sys/kern/vfs_bio.c | 13 +++++++++----
sys/kern/vfs_vm.c | 6 ++++--
sys/sys/buf2.h | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
sys/vfs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c | 12 ++++++++----
sys/vfs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vnops.c | 2 ++
sys/vfs/ufs/ffs_softdep.c | 5 +++++
6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/b3f55d8892ebb4d588921f0e08b1774035fa5ffa
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