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Brian Foster f6f6fdcc31 vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list 
[ Upstream commit aabfe57eba ]

The nr_dentry_negative counter is intended to only account negative
dentries that are present on the superblock LRU. Therefore, the LRU
add, remove and isolate helpers modify the counter based on whether
the dentry is negative, but the shrinker list related helpers do not
modify the counter, and the paths that change a dentry between
positive and negative only do so if DCACHE_LRU_LIST is set.

The problem with this is that a dentry on a shrinker list still has
DCACHE_LRU_LIST set to indicate ->d_lru is in use. The additional
DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST flag denotes whether the dentry is on LRU or a
shrink related list. Therefore if a relevant operation (i.e. unlink)
occurs while a dentry is present on a shrinker list, and the
associated codepath only checks for DCACHE_LRU_LIST, then it is
technically possible to modify the negative dentry count for a
dentry that is off the LRU. Since the shrinker list related helpers
do not modify the negative dentry count (because non-LRU dentries
should not be included in the count) when the dentry is ultimately
removed from the shrinker list, this can cause the negative dentry
count to become permanently inaccurate.

This problem can be reproduced via a heavy file create/unlink vs.
drop_caches workload. On an 80xcpu system, I start 80 tasks each
running a 1k file create/delete loop, and one task spinning on
drop_caches. After 10 minutes or so of runtime, the idle/clean cache
negative dentry count increases from somewhere in the range of 5-10
entries to several hundred (and increasingly grows beyond
nr_dentry_unused).

Tweak the logic in the paths that turn a dentry negative or positive
to filter out the case where the dentry is present on a shrink
related list. This allows the above workload to maintain an accurate
negative dentry count.

Fixes: af0c9af1b3 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703121301.247680-1-bfoster@redhat.com
Acked-by: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-07-18 13:18:32 +02:00
arch arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix the DCDC_REG2 minimum voltage on Quartz64 Model B 2024-07-11 12:47:16 +02:00
block block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check 2024-06-27 13:46:15 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use 2024-07-11 12:47:05 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: i2c: atmel,at91sam: correct path to i2c-controller schema 2024-07-05 09:31:44 +02:00
drivers Revert "usb: xhci: prevent potential failure in handle_tx_event() for Transfer events without TRB" 2024-07-15 09:23:49 +02:00
fs vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list 2024-07-18 13:18:32 +02:00
include mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() 2024-07-18 13:18:31 +02:00
init smp: Provide 'setup_max_cpus' definition on UP too 2024-06-16 13:41:42 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak 2024-06-27 13:46:14 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel dma-mapping: benchmark: avoid needless copy_to_user if benchmark fails 2024-07-11 12:47:17 +02:00
lib kunit: Fix timeout message 2024-07-11 12:47:08 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again" 2024-07-11 12:47:14 +02:00
net inet_diag: Initialize pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2 2024-07-11 12:47:12 +02:00
rust rust: macros: fix soundness issue in module! macro 2024-05-17 11:56:17 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
scripts kbuild: fix short log for AS in link-vmlinux.sh 2024-07-11 12:47:18 +02:00
security ima: Avoid blocking in RCU read-side critical section 2024-07-11 12:47:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable headset mic of JP-IK LEAP W502 with ALC897 2024-07-11 12:47:17 +02:00
tools selftests: make order checking verbose in msg_zerocopy selftest 2024-07-11 12:47:12 +02:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:46:21 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
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.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add leah to 6.1 MAINTAINERS file 2024-05-17 11:56:16 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.99 2024-07-15 09:23:49 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.