[Cluster-devel] [PATCH v11 16/25] fs: Convert mpage_readpages to mpage_readahead

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:36:13AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 23:39 Uhr schrieb Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy at infradead.org>
> >
> > Implement the new readahead aop and convert all callers (block_dev,
> > exfat, ext2, fat, gfs2, hpfs, isofs, jfs, nilfs2, ocfs2, omfs, qnx6,
> > reiserfs & udf).  The callers are all trivial except for GFS2 & OCFS2.
> 
> This patch leads to an ABBA deadlock in xfstest generic/095 on gfs2.
> 
> Our lock hierarchy is such that the inode cluster lock ("inode glock")
> for an inode needs to be taken before any page locks in that inode's
> address space.

How does that work for ...

writepage:              yes, unlocks (see below)
readpage:               yes, unlocks
invalidatepage:         yes
releasepage:            yes
freepage:               yes
isolate_page:           yes
migratepage:            yes (both)
putback_page:           yes
launder_page:           yes
is_partially_uptodate:  yes
error_remove_page:      yes

Is there a reason that you don't take the glock in the higher level
ops which are called before readhead gets called?  I'm looking at XFS,
and it takes the xfs_ilock SHARED in xfs_file_buffered_aio_read()
(called from xfs_file_read_iter).

Not that after -rc1 is a great time to be upending the locking model in
a filesystem ... but then, this has been baking in -mm for ten weeks and
the GFS2 mailing list has been on the cc for the patches for five months,
so I don't have a lot of sympathy for this.