On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:31 PM Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.cz&gt; wrote: > On Wed 08-05-19 19:09:56, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:12 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Yes, I much prefer this solution myself and I will follow up with it, > > > but it would not be honest to suggest said solution as a stable fix > > > to the performance regression that was introduced in v5.1. > > > I think is it better if you choose between lesser evil: > > > v1 with ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY to fix build issue > > > v2 as subtle as it is > > > OR another obviously safe stable fix that you can think of > > > > > > The change of cleansing d_delete() from fsnotify_nameremove() > > > requires more research and is anyway not stable tree material - > > > if not for the level of complexity, then because all the users of > > > FS_DELETE from pseudo and clustered filesystems need more time > > > to find regressions (we do not have test coverage for those in LTP). > > > > > > > Something like this: > > https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fsnotify_nameremove > > > > Only partially tested. Obviously haven't tested all callers. > > Not quite. I'd add the fsnotify_nameremove() call also to simple_rmdir() > and simple_unlink(). That takes care of: > arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c, drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c, > fs/configfs/dir.c, fs/debugfs/inode.c, fs/tracefs/inode.c, > net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c > simple_unlink() is used as i_op->unlink() implementation of simple filesystems, such as: fs/pstore/inode.c fs/ramfs/inode.c fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c kernel/bpf/inode.c If we place fsnotify hook in the filesystem implementation and not in vfs_unlink(), what will cover normal fs? If we do place fsnotify hook in vfs_unlink(), then we have a double call to hook. The places we add explicit fsnofity hooks should only be call sites that do not originate from vfs_unlink/vfs_rmdir.

> So you're left only with: > drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c, fs/btrfs/ioctl.c, fs/devpts/inode.c, > fs/reiserfs/xattr.c > > Out of these drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c and fs/reiserfs/xattr.c > actually also don't want the notifications to be generated. They don't > generate events on file creation AFAICS and at least in case of reiserfs I > know that xattrs are handled in "hidden" system files so notification does > not make any sense. So we are left with exactly *two* places that need OK. good to know. > explicit fsnotify_nameremove() call. Since both these callers already take > care of calling fsnotify_create() I think that having explicit > fsnotify_nameremove() calls there is clearer than the current state. > I though so too, but then I did not feel comfortable with "regressing" delete notifications on many filesystems that did seem plausible for having notification users like configfs, even though they do not have create notification, so I decided to do the safer option of converting all plausible callers of d_delete() that abide to the parent/name stable constrains to use the d_delete_and_notify() wrapper.