On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:47:47AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> The root cause, of course, is that we delay decrementing the refcount on
> dentry_free() path... One variant is to rip freeing these suckers out of
> __d_free() and have dentry_free() do atomic_dec_and_test + kfree_rcu.
> That works (and we don't need to set DCACHE_RCUACCESS in copy_name();
> the interesting part of never-hashed case is for short names anyway), but
> the cost is twice the number of rcu callbacks on freeing long-name dentries.
> Is that really painful enough to care? If not, something like the following
> would do; if it is... well, we could probably do make free_dentry() mark
> dentry->d_flags for __d_free() with "free the external name hanging off
> this one" in case if refcount decrement has ended up with zero. Doable,
> but more complicated (and somewhat messy, since ->d_lock is not held
> at that point; OTOH, we could play with ->d_name instead of ->d_flags...).
> Anyway, the delta below might suffice. Comments?
Now that I've got some sleep... It's easy to avoid extra call_rcu, of
course - just have two variants of __d_free(), one freeing the external
name (always called via call_rcu()) and another just freeing the dentry
itself. So free_dentry() would
* decrement the refcount on external name and if that has reached
zero - call_rcu the full variant.
* if there had been no external name or if its refcount has not
reached zero - call_rcu the variant that just frees dentry itself or
just do a direct call of the same if dentry has never been RCU-visible.
One thing that worries me is the barriers that might be needed on assignments
to ->d_name.name. We should be no worse than we are right now - either RCU
accessors are careful enough with ACCESS_ONCE() and everything's fine,
or they are not, in which case we already have a bug in mainline - swapping
->d_name followed by dput() and freeing of target is no better than
copying ->d_name from target to source followed by kfree_rcu() of what
used to be ->d_name.name of source. IOW, if RCU lookup could pick
a value of ->d_name.name that got obsolete by d_move() happening
before our read_lock_rcu(), we would be in trouble anyway - it might
already have had its freeing RCU-scheduled and thus not delayed
by read_lock_rcu() done afterwards. So I think the patch below doesn't
introduce new problems of that sort, but I'd really appreciate if RCU
people would take a look at the situation with barriers in that area.
Are those ACCESS_ONCE() in dentry_cmp() and prepend_name() enough, or
do we need some barriers in switch_names() as well?
Folks, care to review and test the following?
Allow sharing external names after __d_move()
* external dentry names get a small structure prepended to them
(struct ext_name).
* it contains an atomic refcount, matching the number of struct dentry
instances that have ->d_name.name pointing to that ext name. The
first thing free_dentry() does is decrementing refcount of ext name,
so the instances between the call of free_dentry() and RCU-delayed
actual freeing do not contribute.
* __d_move(x, y, false) makes the name of x equal to the name of y,
external or not. If y has an external name, extra reference is grabbed
and put into x->d_name.name. If x used to have an external name, the
reference to it is dropped and, should it reach zero, freeing is scheduled
via kfree_rcu().
All non-RCU accesses to dentry ext name are safe wrt freeing since they
all should happen before free_dentry() is called. RCU accesses might run
into a dentry seen by free_dentry() or into an old name that got already
dropped by __d_move(); however, in both cases dentry must have been
alive and refer to that name at some point after we'd done rcu_read_lock(),
which means that any freeing must be still pending.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index cb25a1a..0cf5aff 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -235,20 +235,44 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char *c
return dentry_string_cmp(cs, ct, tcount);
}
+struct ext_name {
+ union {
+ atomic_t count;
+ struct rcu_head head;
+ };
+ unsigned char name[];
+};
+
+static inline struct ext_name *ext_name(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ if (likely(!dname_external(dentry)))
+ return NULL;
+ return container_of(dentry->d_name.name, struct ext_name, name[0]);
+}
+
static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *head)
{
struct dentry *dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu);
WARN_ON(!hlist_unhashed(&dentry->d_alias));
- if (dname_external(dentry))
- kfree(dentry->d_name.name);
+ kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
+}
+
+static void __d_free_ext(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu);
+ WARN_ON(!hlist_unhashed(&dentry->d_alias));
+ kfree(ext_name(dentry));
kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
}
static void dentry_free(struct dentry *dentry)
{
+ struct ext_name *p = ext_name(dentry);
+ if (unlikely(p) && likely(atomic_dec_and_test(&p->count)))
+ call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free_ext);
/* if dentry was never visible to RCU, immediate free is OK */
- if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))
+ else if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))
__d_free(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu);
else
call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free);
@@ -1438,11 +1462,14 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const
struct qstr *name)
*/
dentry->d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1] = 0;
if (name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) {
- dname = kmalloc(name->len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dname) {
+ size_t size = offsetof(struct ext_name, name) + name->len + 1;
+ struct ext_name *p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p) {
kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
return NULL;
}
+ atomic_set(&p->count, 1);
+ dname = p->name;
} else {
dname = dentry->d_iname;
}
@@ -2372,11 +2399,10 @@ void dentry_update_name_case(struct dentry *dentry,
struct qstr *name)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_update_name_case);
-static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target,
- bool exchange)
+static void swap_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
{
- if (dname_external(target)) {
- if (dname_external(dentry)) {
+ if (unlikely(dname_external(target))) {
+ if (unlikely(dname_external(dentry))) {
/*
* Both external: swap the pointers
*/
@@ -2392,7 +2418,7 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct
dentry *target,
target->d_name.name = target->d_iname;
}
} else {
- if (dname_external(dentry)) {
+ if (unlikely(dname_external(dentry))) {
/*
* dentry:external, target:internal. Give dentry's
* storage to target and make dentry internal
@@ -2407,12 +2433,6 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct
dentry *target,
*/
unsigned int i;
BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(DNAME_INLINE_LEN,
sizeof(long)));
- if (!exchange) {
- memcpy(dentry->d_iname, target->d_name.name,
- target->d_name.len + 1);
- dentry->d_name.hash_len =
target->d_name.hash_len;
- return;
- }
for (i = 0; i < DNAME_INLINE_LEN / sizeof(long); i++) {
swap(((long *) &dentry->d_iname)[i],
((long *) &target->d_iname)[i]);
@@ -2422,6 +2442,22 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct
dentry *target,
swap(dentry->d_name.hash_len, target->d_name.hash_len);
}
+static void copy_name(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
+{
+ struct ext_name *old_name = ext_name(dentry);
+ if (unlikely(dname_external(target))) {
+ atomic_inc(&ext_name(target)->count);
+ dentry->d_name = target->d_name;
+ } else {
+ memcpy(dentry->d_iname, target->d_name.name,
+ target->d_name.len + 1);
+ dentry->d_name.name = dentry->d_iname;
+ dentry->d_name.hash_len = target->d_name.hash_len;
+ }
+ if (unlikely(old_name) && likely(atomic_dec_and_test(&old_name->count)))
+ kfree_rcu(old_name, head);
+}
+
static void dentry_lock_for_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
{
/*
@@ -2518,7 +2554,10 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct
dentry *target,
}
/* Switch the names.. */
- switch_names(dentry, target, exchange);
+ if (exchange)
+ swap_names(dentry, target);
+ else
+ copy_name(dentry, target);
/* ... and switch them in the tree */
if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
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