summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700
commit034dd340b08be1f2f0477ad16131d609f9dbd53c (patch)
tree2536f4b2d7893ccd916b5abdf3c454ad6edc03c2 /fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
downloadlinux-stable-034dd340b08be1f2f0477ad16131d609f9dbd53c.tar.gz
linux-stable-034dd340b08be1f2f0477ad16131d609f9dbd53c.zip
Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by strsep(). Print the saved name instead. While at it, print the error code of the failure. - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events. But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate histogram and crash the kernel. Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram data. - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error returned. - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring buffer sub-buffer size. - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false. Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized upon creation. - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed. - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state. It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still using it. In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will not free the parent's descriptor. - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed replacement leaves it at -1. But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it. - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING. * tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei() tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs/shrinker.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/shrinker.c319
1 files changed, 319 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d00a6f20a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
@@ -0,0 +1,319 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * This file is part of UBIFS.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation.
+ *
+ * Authors: Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
+ * Adrian Hunter
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file implements UBIFS shrinker which evicts clean znodes from the TNC
+ * tree when Linux VM needs more RAM.
+ *
+ * We do not implement any LRU lists to find oldest znodes to free because it
+ * would add additional overhead to the file system fast paths. So the shrinker
+ * just walks the TNC tree when searching for znodes to free.
+ *
+ * If the root of a TNC sub-tree is clean and old enough, then the children are
+ * also clean and old enough. So the shrinker walks the TNC in level order and
+ * dumps entire sub-trees.
+ *
+ * The age of znodes is just the time-stamp when they were last looked at.
+ * The current shrinker first tries to evict old znodes, then young ones.
+ *
+ * Since the shrinker is global, it has to protect against races with FS
+ * un-mounts, which is done by the 'ubifs_infos_lock' and 'c->umount_mutex'.
+ */
+
+#include "ubifs.h"
+
+/* List of all UBIFS file-system instances */
+LIST_HEAD(ubifs_infos);
+
+/*
+ * We number each shrinker run and record the number on the ubifs_info structure
+ * so that we can easily work out which ubifs_info structures have already been
+ * done by the current run.
+ */
+static unsigned int shrinker_run_no;
+
+/* Protects 'ubifs_infos' list */
+DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubifs_infos_lock);
+
+/* Global clean znode counter (for all mounted UBIFS instances) */
+atomic_long_t ubifs_clean_zn_cnt;
+
+/**
+ * shrink_tnc - shrink TNC tree.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @nr: number of znodes to free
+ * @age: the age of znodes to free
+ * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1
+ *
+ * This function traverses TNC tree and frees clean znodes. It does not free
+ * clean znodes which younger then @age. Returns number of freed znodes.
+ */
+static int shrink_tnc(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr, int age, int *contention)
+{
+ int total_freed = 0;
+ struct ubifs_znode *znode, *zprev;
+ time64_t time = ktime_get_seconds();
+
+ ubifs_assert(c, mutex_is_locked(&c->umount_mutex));
+ ubifs_assert(c, mutex_is_locked(&c->tnc_mutex));
+
+ if (!c->zroot.znode || atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Traverse the TNC tree in levelorder manner, so that it is possible
+ * to destroy large sub-trees. Indeed, if a znode is old, then all its
+ * children are older or of the same age.
+ *
+ * Note, we are holding 'c->tnc_mutex', so we do not have to lock the
+ * 'c->space_lock' when _reading_ 'c->clean_zn_cnt', because it is
+ * changed only when the 'c->tnc_mutex' is held.
+ */
+ zprev = NULL;
+ znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c, c->zroot.znode, NULL);
+ while (znode && total_freed < nr &&
+ atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) > 0) {
+ int freed;
+
+ /*
+ * If the znode is clean, but it is in the 'c->cnext' list, this
+ * means that this znode has just been written to flash as a
+ * part of commit and was marked clean. They will be removed
+ * from the list at end commit. We cannot change the list,
+ * because it is not protected by any mutex (design decision to
+ * make commit really independent and parallel to main I/O). So
+ * we just skip these znodes.
+ *
+ * Note, the 'clean_zn_cnt' counters are not updated until
+ * after the commit, so the UBIFS shrinker does not report
+ * the znodes which are in the 'c->cnext' list as freeable.
+ *
+ * Also note, if the root of a sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext',
+ * then the whole sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext' as well, so it
+ * is safe to dump whole sub-tree.
+ */
+
+ if (znode->cnext) {
+ /*
+ * Very soon these znodes will be removed from the list
+ * and become freeable.
+ */
+ *contention = 1;
+ } else if (!ubifs_zn_dirty(znode) &&
+ abs(time - znode->time) >= age) {
+ if (znode->parent)
+ znode->parent->zbranch[znode->iip].znode = NULL;
+ else
+ c->zroot.znode = NULL;
+
+ freed = ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree(c, znode);
+ atomic_long_sub(freed, &ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
+ atomic_long_sub(freed, &c->clean_zn_cnt);
+ total_freed += freed;
+ znode = zprev;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(!c->zroot.znode))
+ break;
+
+ zprev = znode;
+ znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c, c->zroot.znode, znode);
+ cond_resched();
+ }
+
+ return total_freed;
+}
+
+/**
+ * shrink_tnc_trees - shrink UBIFS TNC trees.
+ * @nr: number of znodes to free
+ * @age: the age of znodes to free
+ * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1
+ *
+ * This function walks the list of mounted UBIFS file-systems and frees clean
+ * znodes which are older than @age, until at least @nr znodes are freed.
+ * Returns the number of freed znodes.
+ */
+static int shrink_tnc_trees(int nr, int age, int *contention)
+{
+ struct ubifs_info *c;
+ struct list_head *p;
+ unsigned int run_no;
+ int freed = 0;
+
+ spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ do {
+ run_no = ++shrinker_run_no;
+ } while (run_no == 0);
+ /* Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and try to shrink them */
+ p = ubifs_infos.next;
+ while (p != &ubifs_infos) {
+ c = list_entry(p, struct ubifs_info, infos_list);
+ /*
+ * We move the ones we do to the end of the list, so we stop
+ * when we see one we have already done.
+ */
+ if (c->shrinker_run_no == run_no)
+ break;
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) {
+ /* Some un-mount is in progress, try next FS */
+ *contention = 1;
+ p = p->next;
+ continue;
+ }
+ /*
+ * We're holding 'c->umount_mutex', so the file-system won't go
+ * away.
+ */
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&c->tnc_mutex)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ *contention = 1;
+ p = p->next;
+ continue;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ /*
+ * OK, now we have TNC locked, the file-system cannot go away -
+ * it is safe to reap the cache.
+ */
+ c->shrinker_run_no = run_no;
+ freed += shrink_tnc(c, nr, age, contention);
+ mutex_unlock(&c->tnc_mutex);
+ spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ /* Get the next list element before we move this one */
+ p = p->next;
+ /*
+ * Move this one to the end of the list to provide some
+ * fairness.
+ */
+ list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos);
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ if (freed >= nr)
+ break;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ return freed;
+}
+
+/**
+ * kick_a_thread - kick a background thread to start commit.
+ *
+ * This function kicks a background thread to start background commit. Returns
+ * %-1 if a thread was kicked or there is another reason to assume the memory
+ * will soon be freed or become freeable. If there are no dirty znodes, returns
+ * %0.
+ */
+static int kick_a_thread(void)
+{
+ int i;
+ struct ubifs_info *c;
+
+ /*
+ * Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and find out if there is
+ * already an ongoing commit operation there. If no, then iterate for
+ * the second time and initiate background commit.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+ list_for_each_entry(c, &ubifs_infos, infos_list) {
+ long dirty_zn_cnt;
+
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) {
+ /*
+ * Some un-mount is in progress, it will
+ * certainly free memory, so just return.
+ */
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ dirty_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&c->dirty_zn_cnt);
+
+ if (!dirty_zn_cnt || c->cmt_state == COMMIT_BROKEN ||
+ c->ro_mount || c->ro_error) {
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (c->cmt_state != COMMIT_RESTING) {
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (i == 1) {
+ list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos);
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+
+ ubifs_request_bg_commit(c);
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+unsigned long ubifs_shrink_count(struct shrinker *shrink,
+ struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+ long clean_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
+
+ /*
+ * Due to the way UBIFS updates the clean znode counter it may
+ * temporarily be negative.
+ */
+ return clean_zn_cnt >= 0 ? clean_zn_cnt : 1;
+}
+
+unsigned long ubifs_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
+ struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+ unsigned long nr = sc->nr_to_scan;
+ int contention = 0;
+ unsigned long freed;
+ long clean_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
+
+ if (!clean_zn_cnt) {
+ /*
+ * No clean znodes, nothing to reap. All we can do in this case
+ * is to kick background threads to start commit, which will
+ * probably make clean znodes which, in turn, will be freeable.
+ * And we return -1 which means will make VM call us again
+ * later.
+ */
+ dbg_tnc("no clean znodes, kick a thread");
+ return kick_a_thread();
+ }
+
+ freed = shrink_tnc_trees(nr, OLD_ZNODE_AGE, &contention);
+ if (freed >= nr)
+ goto out;
+
+ dbg_tnc("not enough old znodes, try to free young ones");
+ freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, YOUNG_ZNODE_AGE, &contention);
+ if (freed >= nr)
+ goto out;
+
+ dbg_tnc("not enough young znodes, free all");
+ freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, 0, &contention);
+
+ if (!freed && contention) {
+ dbg_tnc("freed nothing, but contention");
+ return SHRINK_STOP;
+ }
+
+out:
+ dbg_tnc("%lu znodes were freed, requested %lu", freed, nr);
+ return freed;
+}