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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 2/7] mm: take a folio off WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY only if it was counted there
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:45:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261023024548.71123-3-snitzer@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261023024548.71123-1-snitzer@kernel.org>

A cached lookup in __filemap_get_folio_mpol() that finds a folio marked
dropbehind clears the flag, and subtracts the folio from
WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY if PG_dirty is set.  But filemap_dirty_folio() sets
PG_dirty before folio_account_dirtied() counts the folio, under the
i_pages lock and without the folio lock.  A lookup between the two
subtracts a folio that was never added, and folio_account_dirtied(),
finding the flag clear, does not add it either, so the counter the
DONTCACHE writeback kick reads falls short and can go negative.  A
lookup without FGP_LOCK also races with the paths that uncount a dirty
folio, which hold the folio lock: folio_clear_dirty_for_io() clears
PG_dirty and then tests the flag, so a lookup between the two leaves
the folio counted with no one to uncount it.

Every path that uncounts a dirty folio holds the folio lock, and
folio_account_dirtied() sets the folio's dirty tag in the same i_pages
section that counts it.  So clear the flag with the folio locked,
taking the lock with a trylock for a lookup without FGP_LOCK, and test
the dirty tag rather than PG_dirty under the i_pages lock: the folio
is uncounted only if it was counted.  Under that lock the wb is
inode_to_wb(), as in folio_account_dirtied() and inode_do_switch_wbs(),
which moves the counter by the same tag.  A lookup that finds the
folio locked by another task leaves the flag set, as it would have
been without the lookup.

Fixes: 88d6f128d06d ("mm: track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 00fd89cf6f55..1cc28224d547 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1927,6 +1927,45 @@ void *filemap_get_entry(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index)
 	return folio;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Clear the uncached flag of a folio a cached lookup found, and take the
+ * folio off WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY if it is counted there.
+ *
+ * folio_account_dirtied() counts a dropbehind folio under the i_pages lock,
+ * in the section that sets its dirty tag, after PG_dirty has been set
+ * without the folio lock, and every path that uncounts a dirty folio holds
+ * the folio lock.  So with the folio locked and the i_pages lock held, the
+ * dirty tag, not PG_dirty, says whether the folio is counted: a dirtier past
+ * folio_test_set_dirty() but not yet counting finds the flag clear and does
+ * not count it.  A folio another task has locked keeps the flag, as it
+ * would have had this lookup not run.
+ */
+static void filemap_clear_dropbehind(struct address_space *mapping,
+				     struct folio *folio, bool locked)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (!locked) {
+		if (!folio_trylock(folio))
+			return;
+		if (unlikely(folio->mapping != mapping))
+			goto out;
+	}
+	if (!mapping_can_writeback(mapping)) {
+		folio_clear_dropbehind(folio);
+		goto out;
+	}
+	xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping->i_pages, flags);
+	if (folio_test_clear_dropbehind(folio) &&
+	    xa_get_mark(&mapping->i_pages, folio->index, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
+		wb_stat_mod(inode_to_wb(mapping->host), WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY,
+			    -folio_nr_pages(folio));
+	xa_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->i_pages, flags);
+out:
+	if (!locked)
+		folio_unlock(folio);
+}
+
 /**
  * __filemap_get_folio_mpol - Find and get a reference to a folio.
  * @mapping: The address_space to search.
@@ -2058,19 +2097,8 @@ struct folio *__filemap_get_folio_mpol(struct address_space *mapping,
 	if (!folio)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 	/* not an uncached lookup, clear uncached if set */
-	if (!(fgp_flags & FGP_DONTCACHE) && folio_test_clear_dropbehind(folio)) {
-		if (folio_test_dirty(folio) &&
-		    mapping_can_writeback(mapping)) {
-			struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-			struct bdi_writeback *wb;
-			struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {};
-			long nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
-
-			wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &cookie);
-			wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY, -nr);
-			unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, &cookie);
-		}
-	}
+	if (!(fgp_flags & FGP_DONTCACHE) && folio_test_dropbehind(folio))
+		filemap_clear_dropbehind(mapping, folio, fgp_flags & FGP_LOCK);
 	return folio;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio_mpol);
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-23  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-23  2:45 [PATCH v8 0/7] mm, iomap, NFSD: stop uncached writes reading back shared pages Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] NFSD: cut a misaligned direct-mode WRITE at the mapping's smallest folio Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23 17:45   ` Chuck Lever
2026-10-24  1:11     ` Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] mm: expose WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY in bdi debugfs stats Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] mm: add folio_mark_dropbehind() to mark a folio dropbehind and account it Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] mm, iomap: keep a partly covered page until an uncached write completes it Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] mm, iomap: let an uncached writer complete its shared pages itself Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23  2:45 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] NFSD: drop a shared boundary page only once both WRITEs have written it Mike Snitzer
2026-10-23 10:57 ` [PATCH v8 0/7] mm, iomap, NFSD: stop uncached writes reading back shared pages Jeff Layton
2026-10-23 14:12   ` Mike Snitzer

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