Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] ext4: Add statx support for atomic writes

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 12:20:51PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote:
> This patch adds base support for atomic writes via statx getattr.
> On bs < ps systems, we can create FS with say bs of 16k. That means
> both atomic write min and max unit can be set to 16k for supporting
> atomic writes.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>

Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> ---
>  fs/ext4/ext4.h  | 10 ++++++++++
>  fs/ext4/inode.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  fs/ext4/super.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index 44b0d418143c..494d443e9fc9 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -1729,6 +1729,10 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
>  	 */
>  	struct work_struct s_sb_upd_work;
>  
> +	/* Atomic write unit values in bytes */
> +	unsigned int s_awu_min;
> +	unsigned int s_awu_max;
> +
>  	/* Ext4 fast commit sub transaction ID */
>  	atomic_t s_fc_subtid;
>  
> @@ -3855,6 +3859,12 @@ static inline int ext4_buffer_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
>  	return buffer_uptodate(bh);
>  }
>  
> +static inline bool ext4_inode_can_atomic_write(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +
> +	return S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_awu_min > 0;
> +}
> +
>  extern int ext4_block_write_begin(handle_t *handle, struct folio *folio,
>  				  loff_t pos, unsigned len,
>  				  get_block_t *get_block);
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 54bdd4884fe6..3e827cfa762e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -5578,6 +5578,18 @@ int ext4_getattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, const struct path *path,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	if ((request_mask & STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
> +		struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
> +		unsigned int awu_min = 0, awu_max = 0;
> +
> +		if (ext4_inode_can_atomic_write(inode)) {
> +			awu_min = sbi->s_awu_min;
> +			awu_max = sbi->s_awu_max;
> +		}
> +
> +		generic_fill_statx_atomic_writes(stat, awu_min, awu_max);
> +	}
> +
>  	flags = ei->i_flags & EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE;
>  	if (flags & EXT4_APPEND_FL)
>  		stat->attributes |= STATX_ATTR_APPEND;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 16a4ce704460..ebe1660bd840 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -4425,6 +4425,36 @@ static int ext4_handle_clustersize(struct super_block *sb)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * ext4_atomic_write_init: Initializes filesystem min & max atomic write units.
> + * @sb: super block
> + * TODO: Later add support for bigalloc
> + */
> +static void ext4_atomic_write_init(struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
> +	struct block_device *bdev = sb->s_bdev;
> +
> +	if (!bdev_can_atomic_write(bdev))
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (!ext4_has_feature_extents(sb))
> +		return;
> +
> +	sbi->s_awu_min = max(sb->s_blocksize,
> +			      bdev_atomic_write_unit_min_bytes(bdev));
> +	sbi->s_awu_max = min(sb->s_blocksize,
> +			      bdev_atomic_write_unit_max_bytes(bdev));
> +	if (sbi->s_awu_min && sbi->s_awu_max &&
> +	    sbi->s_awu_min <= sbi->s_awu_max) {
> +		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "Supports (experimental) DIO atomic writes awu_min: %u, awu_max: %u",
> +			 sbi->s_awu_min, sbi->s_awu_max);
> +	} else {
> +		sbi->s_awu_min = 0;
> +		sbi->s_awu_max = 0;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void ext4_fast_commit_init(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
>  	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
> @@ -5336,6 +5366,7 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
>  
>  	spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock);
>  
> +	ext4_atomic_write_init(sb);
>  	ext4_fast_commit_init(sb);
>  
>  	sb->s_root = NULL;
> -- 
> 2.46.0
> 
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