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[OUT-OF-BAND DIRTY FOLIOS] An out-of-band folio means the folio is marked dirty but without notifying the filesystem. This can lead to various problems, not limited to: - No folio::private to track per block status - No proper space reserved for such a dirty folio [HISTORY IN BTRFS] This used to be a problem related to get_user_page(), but with the introduction of pin_user_pages*(), we should no longer hit such case anymore. In btrfs, we have a long history of catching such out-of-band dirty folios by: - Mark the folio ordered during delayed allocation - Check the folio ordered flag during writeback If the folio has no ordered flag, it means it doesn't go through delayed allocation, thus it's definitely an out-of-band one. If we got one, we go through COW fixup, which will re-dirty the folio with proper handling in another workqueue. [PROBLEMS OF COW-FIXUP] Such workaround is a blockage for us to migrate to iomap (it requires extra flags to trace if a folio is dirtied by the fs or not) and I'd argue it's not data checksum safe, since if a folio can be marked dirty without informing the fs, the content can also change at any time. But with the introduction of pin_user_pages*() during v5.8 merge window, such out-of-band dirty folio such be treated as a bug. Ext4 has treated such case by warning and erroring out even before pin_user_pages*(). Furthermore, there are already proofs that such folio ordered flag tracking can be screwed up by incorrect error handling, check the commit messages of the following commits: |
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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 reStructuredText 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.