From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: bernd@bsbernd.com, miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
neal@gompa.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, joannelkoong@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 10/19] fuse2fs: don't do file data block IO when iomap is enabled
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <177747214715.4107473.4460452026157984455.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <177747214459.4107473.9520724883867588970.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs>
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
When iomap is in use for the page cache, the kernel will take care of
all the file data block IO for us, including zeroing of punched ranges
and post-EOF bytes. fuse2fs only needs to do IO for inline data.
Therefore, set the NOBLOCKIO ext2_file flag so that libext2fs will not
do any regular file IO to or from disk blocks at all.
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
---
fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c | 11 +++++++-
misc/fuse2fs.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c b/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
index 40713b0d0d5e37..68f1f7c02df223 100644
--- a/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
+++ b/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
@@ -3933,9 +3933,14 @@ static int fuse4fs_truncate(struct fuse4fs *ff, ext2_ino_t ino, off_t new_size)
ext2_file_t file;
__u64 old_isize;
errcode_t err;
+ int flags = EXT2_FILE_WRITE;
int ret = 0;
- err = ext2fs_file_open(fs, ino, EXT2_FILE_WRITE, &file);
+ /* the kernel handles all eof zeroing for us in iomap mode */
+ if (fuse4fs_iomap_enabled(ff))
+ flags |= EXT2_FILE_NOBLOCKIO;
+
+ err = ext2fs_file_open(fs, ino, flags, &file);
if (err)
return translate_error(fs, ino, err);
@@ -4030,6 +4035,10 @@ static int fuse4fs_open_file(struct fuse4fs *ff, const struct fuse_ctx *ctxt,
if (linked)
check |= L_OK;
+ /* the kernel handles all block IO for us in iomap mode */
+ if (fuse4fs_iomap_enabled(ff))
+ file->open_flags |= EXT2_FILE_NOBLOCKIO;
+
/*
* If the caller wants to truncate the file, we need to ask for full
* write access even if the caller claims to be appending.
diff --git a/misc/fuse2fs.c b/misc/fuse2fs.c
index a37851cdf30785..f7653dc6c20c3f 100644
--- a/misc/fuse2fs.c
+++ b/misc/fuse2fs.c
@@ -3463,15 +3463,72 @@ static int fuse2fs_punch_posteof(struct fuse2fs *ff, ext2_ino_t ino,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Decide if file IO for this inode can use iomap.
+ *
+ * It turns out that libfuse creates internal node ids that have nothing to do
+ * with the ext2_ino_t that we give it. These internal node ids are what
+ * actually gets igetted in the kernel, which means that there can be multiple
+ * fuse_inode objects in the kernel for a single hardlinked ondisk ext2 inode.
+ *
+ * What this means, horrifyingly, is that on a fuse filesystem that supports
+ * hard links, the in-kernel i_rwsem does not protect against concurrent writes
+ * between files that point to the same inode. That in turn means that the
+ * file mode and size can get desynchronized between the multiple fuse_inode
+ * objects. This also means that we cannot cache iomaps in the kernel AT ALL
+ * because the caches will get out of sync, leading to WARN_ONs from the iomap
+ * zeroing code and probably data corruption after that.
+ *
+ * Therefore, libfuse won't let us create hardlinks of iomap files, and we must
+ * never turn on iomap for existing hardlinked files. Long term it means we
+ * have to find a way around this loss of functionality. fuse4fs gets around
+ * this by being a low level fuse driver and controlling the nodeids itself.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 for no, 1 for yes, or a negative errno.
+ */
+#ifdef HAVE_FUSE_IOMAP
+static int fuse2fs_file_uses_iomap(struct fuse2fs *ff, ext2_ino_t ino)
+{
+ struct stat statbuf;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!fuse2fs_iomap_enabled(ff))
+ return 0;
+
+ ret = stat_inode(ff->fs, ino, &statbuf);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* the kernel handles all block IO for us in iomap mode */
+ return fuse_fs_can_enable_iomap(&statbuf);
+}
+#else
+# define fuse2fs_file_uses_iomap(...) (0)
+#endif
+
static int fuse2fs_truncate(struct fuse2fs *ff, ext2_ino_t ino, off_t new_size)
{
ext2_filsys fs = ff->fs;
ext2_file_t file;
__u64 old_isize;
errcode_t err;
+ int flags = EXT2_FILE_WRITE;
int ret = 0;
- err = ext2fs_file_open(fs, ino, EXT2_FILE_WRITE, &file);
+ /* the kernel handles all eof zeroing for us in iomap mode */
+ ret = fuse2fs_file_uses_iomap(ff, ino);
+ switch (ret) {
+ case 0:
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ flags |= EXT2_FILE_NOBLOCKIO;
+ ret = 0;
+ break;
+ default:
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ err = ext2fs_file_open(fs, ino, flags, &file);
if (err)
return translate_error(fs, ino, err);
@@ -3626,6 +3683,19 @@ static int __op_open(struct fuse2fs *ff, const char *path,
goto out;
}
+ /* the kernel handles all block IO for us in iomap mode */
+ ret = fuse2fs_file_uses_iomap(ff, file->ino);
+ switch (ret) {
+ case 0:
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ file->open_flags |= EXT2_FILE_NOBLOCKIO;
+ ret = 0;
+ break;
+ default:
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (fp->flags & O_TRUNC) {
ret = fuse2fs_truncate(ff, file->ino, 0);
if (ret)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-29 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-29 14:12 [PATCHBLIZZARD v8] fuse/libfuse/e2fsprogs: faster file IO for containerized ext4 servers Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:20 ` [PATCHSET v8 1/6] libext2fs: refactoring for fuse2fs iomap support Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] libext2fs: invalidate cached blocks when freeing them Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/5] libext2fs: only flush affected blocks in unix_write_byte Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] libext2fs: allow unix_write_byte when the write would be aligned Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] libext2fs: allow clients to ask to write full superblocks Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] libext2fs: allow callers to disallow I/O to file data blocks Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:20 ` [PATCHSET v8 2/6] fuse2fs: use fuse iomap data paths for better file I/O performance Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:52 ` [PATCH 01/19] fuse2fs: implement bare minimum iomap for file mapping reporting Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:53 ` [PATCH 02/19] fuse2fs: add iomap= mount option Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:53 ` [PATCH 03/19] fuse2fs: implement iomap configuration Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:53 ` [PATCH 04/19] fuse2fs: register block devices for use with iomap Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:53 ` [PATCH 05/19] fuse2fs: implement directio file reads Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:54 ` [PATCH 06/19] fuse2fs: add extent dump function for debugging Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:54 ` [PATCH 07/19] fuse2fs: implement direct write support Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:54 ` [PATCH 08/19] fuse2fs: turn on iomap for pagecache IO Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:54 ` [PATCH 09/19] fuse2fs: don't zero bytes in punch hole Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:55 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2026-04-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 11/19] fuse2fs: try to create loop device when ext4 device is a regular file Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 12/19] fuse2fs: enable file IO to inline data files Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:56 ` [PATCH 13/19] fuse2fs: set iomap-related inode flags Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:56 ` [PATCH 14/19] fuse2fs: configure block device block size Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:56 ` [PATCH 15/19] fuse4fs: separate invalidation Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:56 ` [PATCH 16/19] fuse2fs: implement statx Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:57 ` [PATCH 17/19] fuse2fs: enable atomic writes Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:57 ` [PATCH 18/19] fuse4fs: disable fs reclaim and write throttling Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:57 ` [PATCH 19/19] fuse2fs: implement freeze and shutdown requests Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:20 ` [PATCHSET v8 3/6] fuse4fs: adapt iomap for fuse services Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] fuse4fs: configure iomap when running as a service Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] fuse4fs: set iomap backing device blocksize Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] fuse4fs: ask for loop devices when opening via fuservicemount Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:21 ` [PATCHSET v8 4/6] fuse4fs: specify the root node id Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] fuse4fs: don't use inode number translation when possible Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:21 ` [PATCHSET v8 5/6] fuse2fs: handle timestamps and ACLs correctly when iomap is enabled Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 01/10] fuse2fs: add strictatime/lazytime mount options Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:59 ` [PATCH 02/10] fuse2fs: skip permission checking on utimens when iomap is enabled Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:59 ` [PATCH 03/10] fuse2fs: let the kernel tell us about acl/mode updates Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:59 ` [PATCH 04/10] fuse2fs: better debugging for file mode updates Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:59 ` [PATCH 05/10] fuse2fs: debug timestamp updates Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] fuse2fs: use coarse timestamps for iomap mode Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] fuse2fs: add tracing for retrieving timestamps Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] fuse2fs: enable syncfs Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] fuse2fs: set sync, immutable, and append at file load time Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:01 ` [PATCH 10/10] fuse4fs: increase attribute timeout in iomap mode Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 14:21 ` [PATCHSET v8 6/6] fuse2fs: cache iomap mappings for even better file IO performance Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] fuse2fs: enable caching of iomaps Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] fuse2fs: constrain iomap mapping cache size Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] fuse4fs: upsert first file mapping to kernel on open Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-29 15:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] fuse2fs: enable iomap Darrick J. Wong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-02-23 23:04 [PATCHSET v7 1/8] fuse2fs: use fuse iomap data paths for better file I/O performance Darrick J. Wong
2026-02-23 23:38 ` [PATCH 10/19] fuse2fs: don't do file data block IO when iomap is enabled Darrick J. Wong
2025-08-21 0:49 [PATCHSET RFC v4 3/6] fuse2fs: use fuse iomap data paths for better file I/O performance Darrick J. Wong
2025-08-21 1:18 ` [PATCH 10/19] fuse2fs: don't do file data block IO when iomap is enabled Darrick J. Wong
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