HomeFreeBSD

MFC r366121:

Description

MFC r366121:

fusefs: fix mmap'd writes in direct_io mode

If a FUSE server returns FOPEN_DIRECT_IO in response to FUSE_OPEN, that
instructs the kernel to bypass the page cache for that file. This feature
is also known by libfuse's name: "direct_io".

However, when accessing a file via mmap, there is no possible way to bypass
the cache completely. This change fixes a deadlock that would happen when
an mmap'd write tried to invalidate a portion of the cache, wrongly assuming
that a write couldn't possibly come from cache if direct_io were set.

Arguably, we could instead disable mmap for files with FOPEN_DIRECT_IO set.
But allowing it is less likely to cause user complaints, and is more in
keeping with the spirit of open(2), where O_DIRECT instructs the kernel to
"reduce", not "eliminate" cache effects.

PR: 247276
Reported by: trapexit@spawn.link
Reviewed by: cem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26485

Details

Provenance
asomersAuthored on
Reviewer
cem
Differential Revision
D26485: fusefs: fix mmap'd writes in direct_io mode
Parents
rS366189: Bjorn reported a problem where the Linux NFSv4.1 client is
Branches
Unknown
Tags
Unknown