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2025-02-13netfs: Add retry stat countersDavid Howells
Add stat counters to count the number of request and subrequest retries and display them in /proc/fs/netfs/stats. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212222402.3618494-3-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work itemDavid Howells
Change the way netfslib collects read results to do all the collection for a particular read request using a single work item that walks along the subrequest queue as subrequests make progress or complete, unlocking folios progressively rather than doing the unlock in parallel as parallel requests come in. The code is remodelled to be more like the write-side code, though only using a single stream. This makes it more directly comparable and thus easier to duplicate fixes between the two sides. This has a number of advantages: (1) It's simpler. There doesn't need to be a complex donation mechanism to handle mismatches between the size and alignment of subrequests and folios. The collector unlocks folios as the subrequests covering each complete. (2) It should cause less scheduler overhead as there's a single work item in play unlocking pages in parallel when a read gets split up into a lot of subrequests instead of one per subrequest. Whilst the parallellism is nice in theory, in practice, the vast majority of loads are sequential reads of the whole file, so committing a bunch of threads to unlocking folios out of order doesn't help in those cases. (3) It should make it easier to implement content decryption. A folio cannot be decrypted until all the requests that contribute to it have completed - and, again, most loads are sequential and so, most of the time, we want to begin decryption sequentially (though it's great if the decryption can happen in parallel). There is a disadvantage in that we're losing the ability to decrypt and unlock things on an as-things-arrive basis which may affect some applications. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-28-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirsDavid Howells
Add support for caching the content of a file that contains a single monolithic object that must be read/written with a single I/O operation, such as an AFS directory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-20-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Don't use bh spinlockDavid Howells
All the accessing of the subrequest lists is now done in process context, possibly in a workqueue, but not now in a BH context, so we don't need the lock against BH interference when taking the netfs_io_request::lock spinlock. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-11-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Make netfs_advance_write() return size_tDavid Howells
netfs_advance_write() calculates the amount of data it's attaching to a stream with size_t, but then returns this as an int. Switch the return value to size_t for consistency. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-7-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Abstract out a rolling folio buffer implementationDavid Howells
A rolling buffer is a series of folios held in a list of folio_queues. New folios and folio_queue structs may be inserted at the head simultaneously with spent ones being removed from the tail without the need for locking. The rolling buffer includes an iov_iter and it has to be careful managing this as the list of folio_queues is extended such that an oops doesn't incurred because the iterator was pointing to the end of a folio_queue segment that got appended to and then removed. We need to use the mechanism twice, once for read and once for write, and, in future patches, we will use a second rolling buffer to handle bounce buffering for content encryption. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-6-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Add a tracepoint to log the lifespan of folio_queue structsDavid Howells
Add a tracepoint to log the lifespan of folio_queue structs. For tracing illustrative purposes, folio_queues are tagged with the debug ID of whatever they're related to (typically a netfs_io_request) and a debug ID of their own. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-5-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-20netfs: Work around recursion by abandoning retry if nothing readDavid Howells
syzkaller reported recursion with a loop of three calls (netfs_rreq_assess, netfs_retry_reads and netfs_rreq_terminated) hitting the limit of the stack during an unbuffered or direct I/O read. There are a number of issues: (1) There is no limit on the number of retries. (2) A subrequest is supposed to be abandoned if it does not transfer anything (NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS), but that isn't checked under all circumstances. (3) The actual root cause, which is this: if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rreq->nr_outstanding)) netfs_rreq_terminated(rreq, ...); When we do a retry, we bump the rreq->nr_outstanding counter to prevent the final cleanup phase running before we've finished dispatching the retries. The problem is if we hit 0, we have to do the cleanup phase - but we're in the cleanup phase and end up repeating the retry cycle, hence the recursion. Work around the problem by limiting the number of retries. This is based on Lizhi Xu's patch[1], and makes the following changes: (1) Replace NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS with NETFS_SREQ_MADE_PROGRESS and make the filesystem set it if it managed to read or write at least one byte of data. Clear this bit before issuing a subrequest. (2) Add a ->retry_count member to the subrequest and increment it any time we do a retry. (3) Remove the NETFS_SREQ_RETRYING flag as it is superfluous with ->retry_count. If the latter is non-zero, we're doing a retry. (4) Abandon a subrequest if retry_count is non-zero and we made no progress. (5) Use ->retry_count in both the write-side and the read-size. [?] Question: Should I set a hard limit on retry_count in both read and write? Say it hits 50, we always abandon it. The problem is that these changes only mitigate the issue. As long as it made at least one byte of progress, the recursion is still an issue. This patch mitigates the problem, but does not fix the underlying cause. I have patches that will do that, but it's an intrusive fix that's currently pending for the next merge window. The oops generated by KASAN looks something like: BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000482ff48 (stack is ffffc90004830000..ffffc90004838000) Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI ... RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0x25/0xc60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4686 ... mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4646 [inline] __lock_acquire+0x906/0x3ce0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5156 lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:29 [inline] ___slab_alloc+0x123/0x1880 mm/slub.c:3695 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x56/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3908 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3961 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4122 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a7/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:4141 radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0x1e8/0x350 lib/radix-tree.c:253 idr_get_free+0x528/0xa40 lib/radix-tree.c:1506 idr_alloc_u32+0x191/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:46 idr_alloc+0xc1/0x130 lib/idr.c:87 p9_tag_alloc+0x394/0x870 net/9p/client.c:321 p9_client_prepare_req+0x19f/0x4d0 net/9p/client.c:644 p9_client_zc_rpc.constprop.0+0x105/0x880 net/9p/client.c:793 p9_client_read_once+0x443/0x820 net/9p/client.c:1570 p9_client_read+0x13f/0x1b0 net/9p/client.c:1534 v9fs_issue_read+0x115/0x310 fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:74 netfs_retry_read_subrequests fs/netfs/read_retry.c:60 [inline] netfs_retry_reads+0x153a/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:232 netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371 netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407 netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235 netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371 netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407 netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235 netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371 ... netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407 netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235 netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371 netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407 netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235 netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371 netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407 netfs_dispatch_unbuffered_reads fs/netfs/direct_read.c:103 [inline] netfs_unbuffered_read fs/netfs/direct_read.c:127 [inline] netfs_unbuffered_read_iter_locked+0x12f6/0x19b0 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:221 netfs_unbuffered_read_iter+0xc5/0x100 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:256 v9fs_file_read_iter+0xbf/0x100 fs/9p/vfs_file.c:361 do_iter_readv_writev+0x614/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:832 vfs_readv+0x4cf/0x890 fs/read_write.c:1025 do_preadv fs/read_write.c:1142 [inline] __do_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1192 [inline] __se_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1187 [inline] __x64_sys_preadv+0x22d/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1187 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading") Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1fc6f64c40a9d143cfb6 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108034020.3695718-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-9-dhowells@redhat.com Tested-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@windriver.com> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-10-02netfs: Fix missing wakeup after issuing writesDavid Howells
After dividing up a proposed write into subrequests, netfslib sets NETFS_RREQ_ALL_QUEUED to indicate to the collector that it can move on to the final cleanup once it has emptied the subrequest queues. Now, whilst the collector will normally end up running at least once after this bit is set just because it takes a while to process all the write subrequests before the collector runs out of subrequests, there exists the possibility that the issuing thread will be forced to sleep and the collector thread will clean up all the subrequests before ALL_QUEUED gets set. In such a case, the collector thread will not get triggered again and will never clear NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS thus leaving a request uncompleted and causing a potential futute hang. Fix this by scheduling the write collector if all the subrequest queues are empty (and thus no writes pending issuance). Note that we'd do this ideally before queuing the subrequest, but in the case of buffered writeback, at least, we can't find out that we've run out of folios until after we've called writeback_iter() and it has returned NULL - at which point we might not actually have any subrequests still under construction. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3317784.1727880350@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-30Merge tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: "afs: - Fix setting of the server responding flag - Remove unused struct afs_address_list and afs_put_address_list() function - Fix infinite loop because of unresponsive servers - Ensure that afs_retry_request() function is correctly added to the afs_req_ops netfs operations table netfs: - Fix netfs_folio tracepoint handling to handle NULL mappings - Add a missing folio_queue API documentation - Ensure that netfs_write_folio() correctly advances the iterator via iov_iter_advance() - Fix a dentry leak during concurrent cull and cookie lookup operations in cachefiles pidfs: - Correctly handle accessing another task's pid namespace" * tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: netfs: Fix the netfs_folio tracepoint to handle NULL mapping netfs: Add folio_queue API documentation netfs: Advance iterator correctly rather than jumping it afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag afs: Remove unused struct and function prototype afs: Fix possible infinite loop with unresponsive servers pidfs: check for valid pid namespace afs: Fix missing wire-up of afs_retry_request() cachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file()
2024-09-27netfs: Advance iterator correctly rather than jumping itDavid Howells
In netfs_write_folio(), use iov_iter_advance() to advance the folio as we split bits of it off to subrequests rather than manually jumping the ->iov_offset value around. This becomes more problematic when we use a bounce buffer made out of single-page folios to cover a multipage pagecache folio. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2238548.1727424522@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-26netfs: Fix write oops in generic/346 (9p) and generic/074 (cifs)David Howells
In netfslib, a buffered writeback operation has a 'write queue' of folios that are being written, held in a linear sequence of folio_queue structs. The 'issuer' adds new folio_queues on the leading edge of the queue and populates each one progressively; the 'collector' pops them off the trailing edge and discards them and the folios they point to as they are consumed. The queue is required to always retain at least one folio_queue structure. This allows the queue to be accessed without locking and with just a bit of barriering. When a new subrequest is prepared, its ->io_iter iterator is pointed at the current end of the write queue and then the iterator is extended as more data is added to the queue until the subrequest is committed. Now, the problem is that the folio_queue at the leading edge of the write queue when a subrequest is prepared might have been entirely consumed - but not yet removed from the queue as it is the only remaining one and is preventing the queue from collapsing. So, what happens is that subreq->io_iter is pointed at the spent folio_queue, then a new folio_queue is added, and, at that point, the collector is at entirely at liberty to immediately delete the spent folio_queue. This leaves the subreq->io_iter pointing at a freed object. If the system is lucky, iterate_folioq() sees ->io_iter, sees the as-yet uncorrupted freed object and advances to the next folio_queue in the queue. In the case seen, however, the freed object gets recycled and put back onto the queue at the tail and filled to the end. This confuses iterate_folioq() and it tries to step ->next, which may be NULL - resulting in an oops. Fix this by the following means: (1) When preparing a write subrequest, make sure there's a folio_queue struct with space in it at the leading edge of the queue. A function to make space is split out of the function to append a folio so that it can be called for this purpose. (2) If the request struct iterator is pointing to a completely spent folio_queue when we make space, then advance the iterator to the newly allocated folio_queue. The subrequest's iterator will then be set from this. The oops could be triggered using the generic/346 xfstest with a filesystem on9P over TCP with cache=loose. The oops looked something like: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page ... RIP: 0010:_copy_from_iter+0x2db/0x530 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ... p9pdu_vwritef+0x3d8/0x5d0 p9_client_prepare_req+0xa8/0x140 p9_client_rpc+0x81/0x280 p9_client_write+0xcf/0x1c0 v9fs_issue_write+0x87/0xc0 netfs_advance_write+0xa0/0xb0 netfs_write_folio.isra.0+0x42d/0x500 netfs_writepages+0x15a/0x1f0 do_writepages+0xd1/0x220 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x5c/0x80 v9fs_mmap_vm_close+0x7d/0xb0 remove_vma+0x35/0x70 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x11a/0x170 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x17d/0x1c0 do_vmi_munmap+0x13e/0x150 __vm_munmap+0x92/0xd0 __x64_sys_munmap+0x17/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x80/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79 This also fixed a similar-looking issue with cifs and generic/074. Fixes: cd0277ed0c18 ("netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iter") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409180928.f20b5a08-oliver.sang@intel.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409131438.3f225fbf-oliver.sang@intel.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org> cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2024-09-12netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destinationDavid Howells
Kafs wants to be able to cache the contents of directories (and symlinks), but whilst these are downloaded from the server with the FS.FetchData RPC op and similar, the same as for regular files, they can't be updated by FS.StoreData, but rather have special operations (FS.MakeDir, etc.). Now, rather than redownloading a directory's content after each change made to that directory, kafs modifies the local blob. This blob can be saved out to the cache, and since it's using netfslib, kafs just marks the folios dirty and lets ->writepages() on the directory take care of it, as for an regular file. This is fine as long as there's a cache as although the upload stream is disabled, there's a cache stream to drive the procedure. But if the cache goes away in the meantime, suddenly there's no way do any writes and the code gets confused, complains "R=%x: No submit" to dmesg and leaves the dirty folio hanging. Fix this by just cancelling the store of the folio if neither stream is active. (If there's no cache at the time of dirtying, we should just not mark the folio dirty). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-23-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12cachefiles, netfs: Fix write to partial block at EOFDavid Howells
Because it uses DIO writes, cachefiles is unable to make a write to the backing file if that write is not aligned to and sized according to the backing file's DIO block alignment. This makes it tricky to handle a write to the cache where the EOF on the network file is not correctly aligned. To get around this, netfslib attempts to tell the driver it is calling how much more data there is available beyond the EOF that it can use to pad the write (netfslib preclears the part of the folio above the EOF). However, it tries to tell the cache what the maximum length is, but doesn't calculate this correctly; and, in any case, cachefiles actually ignores the value and just skips the block. Fix this by: (1) Change the value passed to indicate the amount of extra data that can be added to the operation (now ->submit_extendable_to). This is much simpler to calculate as it's just the end of the folio minus the top of the data within the folio - rather than having to account for data spread over multiple folios. (2) Make cachefiles add some of this data if the subrequest it is given ends at the network file's i_size if the extra data is sufficient to pad out to a whole block. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-22-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12netfs: Speed up buffered readingDavid Howells
Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways: (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered versions. The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified. (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being done in the I/O thread. Multiple subrequests can be processes simultaneously. (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the previous or the next subrequest in the sequence. Notes: (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front before RPC requests can be transmitted. (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE. (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own file and altered to use folio_queue. Note that the copy to the cache now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the folios to be copied into it. This allows it to use part of the writeback I/O code. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12netfs: Simplify the writeback codeDavid Howells
Use the new folio_queue structures to simplify the writeback code. The problem with referring to the i_pages xarray directly is that we may have gaps in the sequence of folios we're writing from that we need to skip when we're removing the writeback mark from the folios we're writing back from. At the moment the code tries to deal with this by carefully tracking the gaps in each writeback stream (eg. write to server and write to cache) and divining when there's a gap that spans folios (something that's not helped by folios not being a consistent size). Instead, the folio_queue buffer contains pointers only the folios we're dealing with, has them in ascending order and indicates a gap by placing non-consequitive folios next to each other. This makes it possible to track where we need to clean up to by just keeping track of where we've processed to on each stream and taking the minimum. Note that the I/O iterator is always rounded up to the end of the folio, even if that is beyond the EOF position, so that the cache can do DIO from the page. The excess space is cleared, though mmapped writes clobber it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-18-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12netfs: Provide an iterator-reset functionDavid Howells
Provide a function to reset the iterator on a subrequest. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-17-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iterDavid Howells
Make the netfs write-side routines use the new folio_queue struct to hold a rolling buffer of folios, with the issuer adding folios at the tail and the collector removing them from the head as they're processed instead of using an xarray. This will allow a subsequent patch to simplify the write collector. The primary mark (as tested by folioq_is_marked()) is used to note if the corresponding folio needs putting. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-05netfs: Use bh-disabling spinlocks for rreq->lockDavid Howells
Use bh-disabling spinlocks when accessing rreq->lock because, in the future, it may be twiddled from softirq context when cleanup is driven from cache backend DIO completion. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-05netfs: Set the request work function upon allocationDavid Howells
Set the work function in the netfs_io_request work_struct when we allocate the request rather than doing this later. This reduces the number of places we need to set it in future code. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-05netfs: Move max_len/max_nr_segs from netfs_io_subrequest to netfs_io_streamDavid Howells
Move max_len/max_nr_segs from struct netfs_io_subrequest to struct netfs_io_stream as we only issue one subreq at a time and then don't need these values again for that subreq unless and until we have to retry it - in which case we want to renegotiate them. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-05netfs: Record contention stats for writeback lockDavid Howells
Record statistics for contention upon the writeback serialisation lock that prevents racing writeback calls from causing each other to interleave their writebacks. These can be viewed in /proc/fs/netfs/stats on the WbLock line, with skip=N indicating the number of non-SYNC writebacks skipped and wait=N indicating the number of SYNC writebacks that waited. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-5-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-12netfs: Fix handling of USE_PGPRIV2 and WRITE_TO_CACHE flagsDavid Howells
The NETFS_RREQ_USE_PGPRIV2 and NETFS_RREQ_WRITE_TO_CACHE flags aren't used correctly. The problem is that we try to set them up in the request initialisation, but we the cache may be in the process of setting up still, and so the state may not be correct. Further, we secondarily sample the cache state and make contradictory decisions later. The issue arises because we set up the cache resources, which allows the cache's ->prepare_read() to switch on NETFS_SREQ_COPY_TO_CACHE - which triggers cache writing even if we didn't set the flags when allocating. Fix this in the following way: (1) Drop NETFS_ICTX_USE_PGPRIV2 and instead set NETFS_RREQ_USE_PGPRIV2 in ->init_request() rather than trying to juggle that in netfs_alloc_request(). (2) Repurpose NETFS_RREQ_USE_PGPRIV2 to merely indicate that if caching is to be done, then PG_private_2 is to be used rather than only setting it if we decide to cache and then having netfs_rreq_unlock_folios() set the non-PG_private_2 writeback-to-cache if it wasn't set. (3) Split netfs_rreq_unlock_folios() into two functions, one of which contains the deprecated code for using PG_private_2 to avoid accidentally doing the writeback path - and always use it if USE_PGPRIV2 is set. (4) As NETFS_ICTX_USE_PGPRIV2 is removed, make netfs_write_begin() always wait for PG_private_2. This function is deprecated and only used by ceph anyway, and so label it so. (5) Drop the NETFS_RREQ_WRITE_TO_CACHE flag and use fscache_operation_valid() on the cache_resources instead. This has the advantage of picking up the result of netfs_begin_cache_read() and fscache_begin_write_operation() - which are called after the object is initialised and will wait for the cache to come to a usable state. Just reverting ae678317b95e[1] isn't a sufficient fix, so this need to be applied on top of that. Without this as well, things like: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { and: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 3621 at fs/ceph/caps.c:3386 may happen, along with some UAFs due to PG_private_2 not getting used to wait on writeback completion. Fixes: 2ff1e97587f4 ("netfs: Replace PG_fscache by setting folio->private and marking dirty") Reported-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com> cc: Hristo Venev <hristo@venev.name> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3575457.1722355300@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1173209.1723152682@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-24netfs: Fix writeback that needs to go to both server and cacheDavid Howells
When netfslib is performing writeback (ie. ->writepages), it maintains two parallel streams of writes, one to the server and one to the cache, but it doesn't mark either stream of writes as active until it gets some data that needs to be written to that stream. This is done because some folios will only be written to the cache (e.g. copying to the cache on read is done by marking the folios and letting writeback do the actual work) and sometimes we'll only be writing to the server (e.g. if there's no cache). Now, since we don't actually dispatch uploads and cache writes in parallel, but rather flip between the streams, depending on which has the lowest so-far-issued offset, and don't wait for the subreqs to finish before flipping, we can end up in a situation where, say, we issue a write to the server and this completes before we start the write to the cache. But because we only activate a stream when we first add a subreq to it, the result collection code may run before we manage to activate the stream - resulting in the folio being cleaned and having the writeback-in-progress mark removed. At this point, the folio no longer belongs to us. This is only really a problem for folios that need to be written to both streams - and in that case, the upload to the server is started first, followed by the write to the cache - and the cache write may see a bad folio. Fix this by activating the cache stream up front if there's a cache available. If there's a cache, then all data is going to be written to it. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1599053.1721398818@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-24netfs: Revert "netfs: Switch debug logging to pr_debug()"David Howells
Revert commit 163eae0fb0d4c610c59a8de38040f8e12f89fd43 to get back the original operation of the debugging macros. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240608151352.22860-2-ukleinek@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1410685.1721333252@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org> cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-11Merge tag 'vfs-6.10-rc8.fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: "cachefiles: - Export an existing and add a new cachefile helper to be used in filesystems to fix reference count bugs - Use the newly added fscache_ty_get_volume() helper to get a reference count on an fscache_volume to handle volumes that are about to be removed cleanly - After withdrawing a fscache_cache via FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN wait for all ongoing cookie lookups to complete and for the object count to reach zero - Propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid an infinite loop in cachefiles_check_volume_xattr() because it keeps seeing ESTALE - Don't send new requests when an object is dropped by raising CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND_OJBSTATE_DROPPING - Cancel all requests for an object that is about to be dropped - Wait for the ondemand_boject_worker to finish before dropping a cachefiles object to prevent use-after-free - Use cyclic allocation for message ids to better handle id recycling - Add missing lock protection when iterating through the xarray when polling netfs: - Use standard logging helpers for debug logging VFS: - Fix potential use-after-free in file locks during trace_posix_lock_inode(). The tracepoint could fire while another task raced it and freed the lock that was requested to be traced - Only increment the nr_dentry_negative counter for dentries that are present on the superblock LRU. Currently, DCACHE_LRU_LIST list is used to detect this case. However, the flag is also raised in combination with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST to indicate that dentry->d_lru is used. So checking only DCACHE_LRU_LIST will lead to wrong nr_dentry_negative count. Fix the check to not count dentries that are on a shrink related list Misc: - hfsplus: fix an uninitialized value issue in copy_name - minix: fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM. It still uses kunmap() even though we switched it to kmap_local_page() a while ago" * tag 'vfs-6.10-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: minixfs: Fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie() cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume() netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add fscache_try_get_volume() netfs: Switch debug logging to pr_debug()
2024-07-05Merge patch series "cachefiles: random bugfixes"Christian Brauner
libaokun@huaweicloud.com <libaokun@huaweicloud.com> says: This is the third version of this patch series, in which another patch set is subsumed into this one to avoid confusing the two patch sets. (https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fsdevel/list/?series=854914) We've been testing ondemand mode for cachefiles since January, and we're almost done. We hit a lot of issues during the testing period, and this patch series fixes some of the issues. The patches have passed internal testing without regression. The following is a brief overview of the patches, see the patches for more details. Patch 1-2: Add fscache_try_get_volume() helper function to avoid fscache_volume use-after-free on cache withdrawal. Patch 3: Fix cachefiles_lookup_cookie() and cachefiles_withdraw_cache() concurrency causing cachefiles_volume use-after-free. Patch 4: Propagate error codes returned by vfs_getxattr() to avoid endless loops. Patch 5-7: A read request waiting for reopen could be closed maliciously before the reopen worker is executing or waiting to be scheduled. So ondemand_object_worker() may be called after the info and object and even the cache have been freed and trigger use-after-free. So use cancel_work_sync() in cachefiles_ondemand_clean_object() to cancel the reopen worker or wait for it to finish. Since it makes no sense to wait for the daemon to complete the reopen request, to avoid this pointless operation blocking cancel_work_sync(), Patch 1 avoids request generation by the DROPPING state when the request has not been sent, and Patch 2 flushes the requests of the current object before cancel_work_sync(). Patch 8: Cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid msg_id reuse misleading the daemon to cause hung. Patch 9: Hold xas_lock during polling to avoid dereferencing reqs causing use-after-free. This issue was triggered frequently in our tests, and we found that anolis 5.10 had fixed it. So to avoid failing the test, this patch is pushed upstream as well. Baokun Li (7): netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add fscache_try_get_volume() cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume() cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie() cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse Hou Tao (1): cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object Jingbo Xu (1): cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling fs/cachefiles/cache.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 4 +-- fs/cachefiles/internal.h | 3 ++ fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/cachefiles/volume.c | 1 - fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 5 +++- fs/netfs/fscache_volume.c | 14 +++++++++ fs/netfs/internal.h | 2 -- include/linux/fscache-cache.h | 6 ++++ include/trace/events/fscache.h | 4 +++ 10 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-06-26netfs: Fix early issue of write op on partial write to folio tailDavid Howells
During the writeback procedure, at the end of netfs_write_folio(), pending write operations are flushed if the amount of write-streaming data stored in a page is less than the size of the folio because if we haven't modified a folio to the end, it cannot be contiguous with the following folio... except if the dirty region of the folio is right at the end of the folio space. Fix the test to take the offset into the folio into account as well, such that if the dirty region runs right up to the end of the folio, we leave the flushing for later. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org> cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com> (DFS, global name space) cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620173137.610345-4-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-06-12netfs: Switch debug logging to pr_debug()Uwe Kleine-König
Instead of inventing a custom way to conditionally enable debugging, just make use of pr_debug(), which also has dynamic debugging facilities and is more likely known to someone who hunts a problem in the netfs code. Also drop the module parameter netfs_debug which didn't have any effect without further source changes. (The variable netfs_debug was only used in #ifdef blocks for cpp vars that don't exist; Note that CONFIG_NETFS_DEBUG isn't settable via kconfig, a variable with that name never existed in the mainline and is probably just taken over (and renamed) from similar custom debug logging implementations.) Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240608151352.22860-2-ukleinek@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-05-24netfs: Fix AIO error handling when doing write-throughDavid Howells
If an error occurs whilst we're doing an AIO write in write-through mode, we may end up calling ->ki_complete() *and* returning an error from ->write_iter(). This can result in either a UAF (the ->ki_complete() func pointer may get overwritten, for example) or a refcount underflow in io_submit() as ->ki_complete is called twice. Fix this by making netfs_end_writethrough() - and thus netfs_perform_write() - unconditionally return -EIOCBQUEUED if we're doing an AIO write and wait for completion if we're not. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/295052.1716298587@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-05-24netfs: Fix io_uring based write-throughDavid Howells
This can be triggered by mounting a cifs filesystem with a cache=strict mount option and then, using the fsx program from xfstests, doing: ltp/fsx -A -d -N 1000 -S 11463 -P /tmp /cifs-mount/foo \ --replay-ops=gen112-fsxops Where gen112-fsxops holds: fallocate 0x6be7 0x8fc5 0x377d3 copy_range 0x9c71 0x77e8 0x2edaf 0x377d3 write 0x2776d 0x8f65 0x377d3 The problem is that netfs_io_request::len is being used for two purposes and ends up getting set to the amount of data we transferred, not the amount of data the caller asked to be transferred (for various reasons, such as mmap'd writes, we might end up rounding out the data written to the server to include the entire folio at each end). Fix this by keeping the amount we were asked to write in ->len and using ->submitted to track what we issued ops for. Then, when we come to calling ->ki_complete(), ->len is the right size. This also required netfs_cleanup_dio_write() to change since we're no longer advancing wreq->len. Use wreq->transferred instead as we might have done a short read. With this, the generic/112 xfstest passes if cifs is forced to put all non-DIO opens into write-through mode. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/295086.1716298663@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-05-01netfs: Cut over to using new writeback codeDavid Howells
Cut over to using the new writeback code. The old code is #ifdef'd out or otherwise removed from compilation to avoid conflicts and will be removed in a future patch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org> cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2024-05-01netfs: Add some write-side stats and clean up some stat namesDavid Howells
Add some write-side stats to count buffered writes, buffered writethrough, and writepages calls. Whilst we're at it, clean up the naming on some of the existing stats counters and organise the output into two sets. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2024-05-01netfs: New writeback implementationDavid Howells
The current netfslib writeback implementation creates writeback requests of contiguous folio data and then separately tiles subrequests over the space twice, once for the server and once for the cache. This creates a few issues: (1) Every time there's a discontiguity or a change between writing to only one destination or writing to both, it must create a new request. This makes it harder to do vectored writes. (2) The folios don't have the writeback mark removed until the end of the request - and a request could be hundreds of megabytes. (3) In future, I want to support a larger cache granularity, which will require aggregation of some folios that contain unmodified data (which only need to go to the cache) and some which contain modifications (which need to be uploaded and stored to the cache) - but, currently, these are treated as discontiguous. There's also a move to get everyone to use writeback_iter() to extract writable folios from the pagecache. That said, currently writeback_iter() has some issues that make it less than ideal: (1) there's no way to cancel the iteration, even if you find a "temporary" error that means the current folio and all subsequent folios are going to fail; (2) there's no way to filter the folios being written back - something that will impact Ceph with it's ordered snap system; (3) and if you get a folio you can't immediately deal with (say you need to flush the preceding writes), you are left with a folio hanging in the locked state for the duration, when really we should unlock it and relock it later. In this new implementation, I use writeback_iter() to pump folios, progressively creating two parallel, but separate streams and cleaning up the finished folios as the subrequests complete. Either or both streams can contain gaps, and the subrequests in each stream can be of variable size, don't need to align with each other and don't need to align with the folios. Indeed, subrequests can cross folio boundaries, may cover several folios or a folio may be spanned by multiple folios, e.g.: +---+---+-----+-----+---+----------+ Folios: | | | | | | | +---+---+-----+-----+---+----------+ +------+------+ +----+----+ Upload: | | |.....| | | +------+------+ +----+----+ +------+------+------+------+------+ Cache: | | | | | | +------+------+------+------+------+ The progressive subrequest construction permits the algorithm to be preparing both the next upload to the server and the next write to the cache whilst the previous ones are already in progress. Throttling can be applied to control the rate of production of subrequests - and, in any case, we probably want to write them to the server in ascending order, particularly if the file will be extended. Content crypto can also be prepared at the same time as the subrequests and run asynchronously, with the prepped requests being stalled until the crypto catches up with them. This might also be useful for transport crypto, but that happens at a lower layer, so probably would be harder to pull off. The algorithm is split into three parts: (1) The issuer. This walks through the data, packaging it up, encrypting it and creating subrequests. The part of this that generates subrequests only deals with file positions and spans and so is usable for DIO/unbuffered writes as well as buffered writes. (2) The collector. This asynchronously collects completed subrequests, unlocks folios, frees crypto buffers and performs any retries. This runs in a work queue so that the issuer can return to the caller for writeback (so that the VM can have its kswapd thread back) or async writes. (3) The retryer. This pauses the issuer, waits for all outstanding subrequests to complete and then goes through the failed subrequests to reissue them. This may involve reprepping them (with cifs, the credits must be renegotiated, and a subrequest may need splitting), and doing RMW for content crypto if there's a conflicting change on the server. [!] Note that some of the functions are prefixed with "new_" to avoid clashes with existing functions. These will be renamed in a later patch that cuts over to the new algorithm. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org> cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org