fs/iomap.c: get/put the page in iomap_page_create/release()
authorPiotr Jaroszynski <pjaroszynski@nvidia.com>
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:17:14 +0000 (14:17 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:05:45 +0000 (15:05 -0800)
commit61c6de667263184125d5ca75e894fcad632b0dd3
tree1c08aa3d7f220acd52321afdb507ea932b168cf1
parent8ace22bce84014957da37e6b8baa49ee81c03366
fs/iomap.c: get/put the page in iomap_page_create/release()

migrate_page_move_mapping() expects pages with private data set to have
a page_count elevated by 1.  This is what used to happen for xfs through
the buffer_heads code before the switch to iomap in commit 82cb14175e7d
("xfs: add support for sub-pagesize writeback without buffer_heads").
Not having the count elevated causes move_pages() to fail on memory
mapped files coming from xfs.

Make iomap compatible with the migrate_page_move_mapping() assumption by
elevating the page count as part of iomap_page_create() and lowering it
in iomap_page_release().

It causes the move_pages() syscall to misbehave on memory mapped files
from xfs.  It does not not move any pages, which I suppose is "just" a
perf issue, but it also ends up returning a positive number which is out
of spec for the syscall.  Talking to Michal Hocko, it sounds like
returning positive numbers might be a necessary update to move_pages()
anyway though
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116114955.GJ14706@dhcp22.suse.cz).

I only hit this in tests that verify that move_pages() actually moved
the pages.  The test also got confused by the positive return from
move_pages() (it got treated as a success as positive numbers were not
expected and not handled) making it a bit harder to track down what's
going on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181115184140.1388751-1-pjaroszynski@nvidia.com
Fixes: 82cb14175e7d ("xfs: add support for sub-pagesize writeback without buffer_heads")
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszynski <pjaroszynski@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/iomap.c