[PATCH v5 1/8] statx: add direct I/O alignment information

Eric Biggers
2022-08-27T07:01:38Z

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Traditionally, the conditions for when DIO (direct I/O) is supported
were fairly simple. For both block devices and regular files, DIO had
to be aligned to the logical block size of the block device.

However, due to filesystem features that have been added over time (e.g.
multi-device support, data journalling, inline data, encryption, verity,
compression, checkpoint disabling, log-structured mode), the conditions
for when DIO is allowed on a regular file have gotten increasingly
complex. Whether a particular regular file supports DIO, and with what
alignment, can depend on various file attributes and filesystem mount
options, as well as which block device(s) the file's data is located on.

Moreover, the general rule of DIO needing to be aligned to the block
device's logical block size was recently relaxed to allow user buffers
(but not file offsets) aligned to the DMA alignment instead. See
commit bf8d08532bc1 ("iomap: add support for dma aligned direct-io").

XFS has an ioctl XFS_IOC_DIOINFO that exposes DIO alignment information.
Uplifting this to the VFS is one possibility. However, as discussed
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20220120071215.123274-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u),
this ioctl is rarely used and not known to be used outside of
XFS-specific code. It was also never intended to indicate when a file
doesn't support DIO at all, nor was it intended for block devices.

Therefore, let's expose this information via statx(). Add the
STATX_DIOALIGN flag and two new statx fields associated with it:

* stx_dio_mem_align: the alignment (in bytes) required for user memory
buffers for DIO, or 0 if DIO is not supported on the file.

* stx_dio_offset_align: the alignment (in bytes) required for file
offsets and I/O segment lengths for DIO, or 0 if DIO is not supported
on the file. This will only be nonzero if stx_dio_mem_align is
nonzero, and vice versa.

Note that as with other statx() extensions, if STATX_DIOALIGN isn't set
in the returned statx struct, then these new fields won't be filled in.
This will happen if the file is neither a regular file nor a block
device, or if the file is a regular file and the filesystem doesn't
support STATX_DIOALIGN. It might also happen if the caller didn't
include STATX_DIOALIGN in the request mask, since statx() isn't required
to return unrequested information.

This commit only adds the VFS-level plumbing for STATX_DIOALIGN. For
regular files, individual filesystems will still need to add code to
support it. For block devices, a separate commit will wire it up too.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
fs/stat.c | 2 ++
include/linux/stat.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index 9ced8860e0f35d..a7930d74448304 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -611,6 +611,8 @@ cp_statx(const struct kstat *stat, struct statx __user *buffer)
tmp.stx_dev_major = MAJOR(stat->dev);
tmp.stx_dev_minor = MINOR(stat->dev);
tmp.stx_mnt_id = stat->mnt_id;
+ tmp.stx_dio_mem_align = stat->dio_mem_align;
+ tmp.stx_dio_offset_align = stat->dio_offset_align;

return copy_to_user(buffer, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h
index 7df06931f25d85..ff277ced50e9fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/stat.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ struct kstat {
struct timespec64 btime; /* File creation time */
u64 blocks;
u64 mnt_id;
+ u32 dio_mem_align;
+ u32 dio_offset_align;
};

#endif
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
index 1500a0f58041ae..7cab2c65d3d7fc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ struct statx {
__u32 stx_dev_minor;
/* 0x90 */
__u64 stx_mnt_id;
- __u64 __spare2;
+ __u32 stx_dio_mem_align; /* Memory buffer alignment for direct I/O */
+ __u32 stx_dio_offset_align; /* File offset alignment for direct I/O */
/* 0xa0 */
__u64 __spare3[12]; /* Spare space for future expansion */
/* 0x100 */
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ struct statx {
#define STATX_BASIC_STATS 0x000007ffU /* The stuff in the normal stat struct */
#define STATX_BTIME 0x00000800U /* Want/got stx_btime */
#define STATX_MNT_ID 0x00001000U /* Got stx_mnt_id */
+#define STATX_DIOALIGN 0x00002000U /* Want/got direct I/O alignment info */

#define STATX__RESERVED 0x80000000U /* Reserved for future struct statx expansion */

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