[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 18/64] ext4: make dioread_nolock the default

Sasha Levin
2020-09-18T02:22:47Z

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

[ Upstream commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 ]

This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale
data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index aca086a25b2ef..5a623ea954882 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1251,6 +1251,7 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = {
{Opt_auto_da_alloc, "auto_da_alloc"},
{Opt_noauto_da_alloc, "noauto_da_alloc"},
{Opt_dioread_nolock, "dioread_nolock"},
+ {Opt_dioread_lock, "nodioread_nolock"},
{Opt_dioread_lock, "dioread_lock"},
{Opt_discard, "discard"},
{Opt_nodiscard, "nodiscard"},
@@ -3380,6 +3381,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
set_opt(sb, NO_UID32);
/* xattr user namespace & acls are now defaulted on */
set_opt(sb, XATTR_USER);
+ set_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK);
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
set_opt(sb, POSIX_ACL);
#endif
@@ -3448,9 +3450,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
goto failed_mount;

if (test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA) {
- printk_once(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting "
- "with data=journal disables delayed "
- "allocation and O_DIRECT support!\n");
+ printk_once(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, and O_DIRECT support!\n");
+ clear_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK);
if (test_opt2(sb, EXPLICIT_DELALLOC)) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't mount with "
"both data=journal and delalloc");
--
2.25.1