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    mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock · 730633f0
    Jan Kara authored
    Currently, serializing operations such as page fault, read, or readahead
    against hole punching is rather difficult. The basic race scheme is
    like:
    
    fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)			read / fault / ..
      truncate_inode_pages_range()
    						  <create pages in page
    						   cache here>
      <update fs block mapping and free blocks>
    
    Now the problem is in this way read / page fault / readahead can
    instantiate pages in page cache with potentially stale data (if blocks
    get quickly reused). Avoiding this race is not simple - page locks do
    not work because we want to make sure there are *no* pages in given
    range. inode->i_rwsem does not work because page fault happens under
    mmap_sem which ranks below inode->i_rwsem. Also using it for reads makes
    the performance for mixed read-write workloads suffer.
    
    So create a new rw_semaphore in the address_space - invalidate_lock -
    that protects adding of pages to page cache for page faults / reads /
    readahead.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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