On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:47:23 +0300
Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2011/3/25 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>:
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:56:07 +0300
> > Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> 2011/3/25 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>:
> >> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:39:47 +0300
> >> > Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Base of approach for splitting all calls that uses 
> >> >> cifs_invalidate_mapping
> >> >> (or cifs_revalidate_dentry, cifs_revalidate_file) into two groups:
> >> >> 1) aware about -EBUSY error code and report it back (cifs_d_revalidate,
> >> >> cifs_strict_fsync, cifs_file_strict_mmap);
> >> >> 2) don't do it (cifs_getattrs, cifs_lseek).
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]>
> >> >> ---
> >> >>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c |    8 +++++++-
> >> >>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.h |    2 +-
> >> >>  fs/cifs/file.c   |   18 ++++++++++++++----
> >> >>  fs/cifs/inode.c  |   30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
> >> >>  4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >> >>
> >> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> >> >> index de49fbb..b275d76 100644
> >> >> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> >> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> >> >> @@ -634,7 +634,13 @@ static loff_t cifs_llseek(struct file *file, 
> >> >> loff_t offset, int origin)
> >> >>               CIFS_I(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->time = 0;
> >> >>
> >> >>               retval = cifs_revalidate_file(file);
> >> >> -             if (retval < 0)
> >> >> +             /*
> >> >> +              * We only need to get right file length and don't need to
> >> >> +              * aware about busy pages (-EBUSY error code).
> >> >> +              */
> >> >> +             if (retval == -EBUSY)
> >> >> +                     retval = 0;
> >> >> +             else if (retval < 0)
> >> >>                       return (loff_t)retval;
> >> >>       }
> >> >>       return generic_file_llseek_unlocked(file, offset, origin);
> >> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
> >> >> index bb64313..f4391ff 100644
> >> >> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
> >> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
> >> >> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern int cifs_rename(struct inode *, struct dentry 
> >> >> *, struct inode *,
> >> >>                      struct dentry *);
> >> >>  extern int cifs_revalidate_file(struct file *filp);
> >> >>  extern int cifs_revalidate_dentry(struct dentry *);
> >> >> -extern void cifs_invalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode);
> >> >> +extern int cifs_invalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode);
> >> >>  extern int cifs_getattr(struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct 
> >> >> kstat *);
> >> >>  extern int cifs_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
> >> >>
> >> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
> >> >> index b9731c9..d99cf48 100644
> >> >> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> >> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
> >> >> @@ -1448,8 +1448,13 @@ int cifs_strict_fsync(struct file *file, int 
> >> >> datasync)
> >> >>       cFYI(1, "Sync file - name: %s datasync: 0x%x",
> >> >>               file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name, datasync);
> >> >>
> >> >> -     if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheRead)
> >> >> -             cifs_invalidate_mapping(inode);
> >> >> +     if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheRead) {
> >> >> +             rc = cifs_invalidate_mapping(inode);
> >> >> +             if (rc) {
> >> >> +                     FreeXid(xid);
> >> >> +                     return rc;
> >> >> +             }
> >> >> +     }
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Hmm...this put us in danger of reporting writeback errors twice? Note
> >> > that cifs_invalidate_mapping resets the error on the mapping if
> >> > writeback fails. So imagine:
> >> >
> >> > t1: do the regular filemap_write_and_wait in vfs_fsync
> >> > t2: another thread dirties pages on the inode
> >> > t1: call cifs_invalidate_mapping which does filemap_write_and_wait.
> >> >    That fails, so fsync returns an error.
> >> > t2: now it does an fsync and the error is reported again
> >>
> >> why does the last line report the error again? what does it prevent to
> >> return OK?
> >>
> >
> > cifs_invalidate_inode does this:
> >
> >                rc = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
> >                mapping_set_error(inode->i_mapping, rc);
> >               rc = invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping);
> >
> >
> > ...if there's an error on writeback, it'll reset that error on the
> > mapping to make sure we can report it later. However, I was
> > mistaken...this patch doesn't report any writeback errors here, just
> > ones on invalidation, so it may be ok.
> >
> > I wonder though...would it be less racy to set up a launder_page
> > function for CIFS and just call invalidate_inode_pages2 here without
> > the filemap_write_and_wait?
> >
> 
> It can make sense but I think that it should be a separate patch. If
> everything is ok excepts things you commented I can provide the next
> version of the patch.
> 

That's seems reasonable.
-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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