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Commit d8f899d1 authored by Baokun Li's avatar Baokun Li Committed by Christian Brauner
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fs: make the i_size_read/write helpers be smp_load_acquire/store_release()



In [Link] Linus mentions that acquire/release makes it clear which
_particular_ memory accesses are the ordered ones, and it's unlikely
to make any performance difference, so it's much better to pair up
the release->acquire ordering than have a "wmb->rmb" ordering.

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 update pagecache
 folio_mark_uptodate(folio)
   smp_wmb()
   set_bit PG_uptodate

 === ↑↑↑ STLR ↑↑↑ === smp_store_release(&inode->i_size, i_size)

 folio_test_uptodate(folio)
   test_bit PG_uptodate
   smp_rmb()

 === ↓↓↓ LDAR ↓↓↓ === smp_load_acquire(&inode->i_size)

 copy_page_to_iter()
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Calling smp_store_release() in i_size_write() ensures that the data
in the page and the PG_uptodate bit are updated before the isize is
updated, and calling smp_load_acquire() in i_size_read ensures that
it will not read a newer isize than the data in the page. Therefore,
this avoids buffered read-write inconsistencies caused by Load-Load
reordering.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wifOnmeJq+sn+2s-P46zw0SFEbw9BSCGgp2c5fYPtRPGw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBaokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240124142857.4146716-2-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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