linux/include/linux/iversion.h
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   1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
   2#ifndef _LINUX_IVERSION_H
   3#define _LINUX_IVERSION_H
   4
   5#include <linux/fs.h>
   6
   7/*
   8 * The inode->i_version field:
   9 * ---------------------------
  10 * The change attribute (i_version) is mandated by NFSv4 and is mostly for
  11 * knfsd, but is also used for other purposes (e.g. IMA). The i_version must
  12 * appear different to observers if there was a change to the inode's data or
  13 * metadata since it was last queried.
  14 *
  15 * Observers see the i_version as a 64-bit number that never decreases. If it
  16 * remains the same since it was last checked, then nothing has changed in the
  17 * inode. If it's different then something has changed. Observers cannot infer
  18 * anything about the nature or magnitude of the changes from the value, only
  19 * that the inode has changed in some fashion.
  20 *
  21 * Not all filesystems properly implement the i_version counter. Subsystems that
  22 * want to use i_version field on an inode should first check whether the
  23 * filesystem sets the SB_I_VERSION flag (usually via the IS_I_VERSION macro).
  24 *
  25 * Those that set SB_I_VERSION will automatically have their i_version counter
  26 * incremented on writes to normal files. If the SB_I_VERSION is not set, then
  27 * the VFS will not touch it on writes, and the filesystem can use it how it
  28 * wishes. Note that the filesystem is always responsible for updating the
  29 * i_version on namespace changes in directories (mkdir, rmdir, unlink, etc.).
  30 * We consider these sorts of filesystems to have a kernel-managed i_version.
  31 *
  32 * It may be impractical for filesystems to keep i_version updates atomic with
  33 * respect to the changes that cause them.  They should, however, guarantee
  34 * that i_version updates are never visible before the changes that caused
  35 * them.  Also, i_version updates should never be delayed longer than it takes
  36 * the original change to reach disk.
  37 *
  38 * This implementation uses the low bit in the i_version field as a flag to
  39 * track when the value has been queried. If it has not been queried since it
  40 * was last incremented, we can skip the increment in most cases.
  41 *
  42 * In the event that we're updating the ctime, we will usually go ahead and
  43 * bump the i_version anyway. Since that has to go to stable storage in some
  44 * fashion, we might as well increment it as well.
  45 *
  46 * With this implementation, the value should always appear to observers to
  47 * increase over time if the file has changed. It's recommended to use
  48 * inode_eq_iversion() helper to compare values.
  49 *
  50 * Note that some filesystems (e.g. NFS and AFS) just use the field to store
  51 * a server-provided value (for the most part). For that reason, those
  52 * filesystems do not set SB_I_VERSION. These filesystems are considered to
  53 * have a self-managed i_version.
  54 *
  55 * Persistently storing the i_version
  56 * ----------------------------------
  57 * Queries of the i_version field are not gated on them hitting the backing
  58 * store. It's always possible that the host could crash after allowing
  59 * a query of the value but before it has made it to disk.
  60 *
  61 * To mitigate this problem, filesystems should always use
  62 * inode_set_iversion_queried when loading an existing inode from disk. This
  63 * ensures that the next attempted inode increment will result in the value
  64 * changing.
  65 *
  66 * Storing the value to disk therefore does not count as a query, so those
  67 * filesystems should use inode_peek_iversion to grab the value to be stored.
  68 * There is no need to flag the value as having been queried in that case.
  69 */
  70
  71/*
  72 * We borrow the lowest bit in the i_version to use as a flag to tell whether
  73 * it has been queried since we last incremented it. If it has, then we must
  74 * increment it on the next change. After that, we can clear the flag and
  75 * avoid incrementing it again until it has again been queried.
  76 */
  77#define I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT (1)
  78#define I_VERSION_QUERIED       (1ULL << (I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT - 1))
  79#define I_VERSION_INCREMENT     (1ULL << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT)
  80
  81/**
  82 * inode_set_iversion_raw - set i_version to the specified raw value
  83 * @inode: inode to set
  84 * @val: new i_version value to set
  85 *
  86 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val. This function is for use by
  87 * filesystems that self-manage the i_version.
  88 *
  89 * For example, the NFS client stores its NFSv4 change attribute in this way,
  90 * and the AFS client stores the data_version from the server here.
  91 */
  92static inline void
  93inode_set_iversion_raw(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
  94{
  95        atomic64_set(&inode->i_version, val);
  96}
  97
  98/**
  99 * inode_peek_iversion_raw - grab a "raw" iversion value
 100 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 101 *
 102 * Grab a "raw" inode->i_version value and return it. The i_version is not
 103 * flagged or converted in any way. This is mostly used to access a self-managed
 104 * i_version.
 105 *
 106 * With those filesystems, we want to treat the i_version as an entirely
 107 * opaque value.
 108 */
 109static inline u64
 110inode_peek_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode)
 111{
 112        return atomic64_read(&inode->i_version);
 113}
 114
 115/**
 116 * inode_set_max_iversion_raw - update i_version new value is larger
 117 * @inode: inode to set
 118 * @val: new i_version to set
 119 *
 120 * Some self-managed filesystems (e.g Ceph) will only update the i_version
 121 * value if the new value is larger than the one we already have.
 122 */
 123static inline void
 124inode_set_max_iversion_raw(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
 125{
 126        u64 cur, old;
 127
 128        cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
 129        for (;;) {
 130                if (cur > val)
 131                        break;
 132                old = atomic64_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, cur, val);
 133                if (likely(old == cur))
 134                        break;
 135                cur = old;
 136        }
 137}
 138
 139/**
 140 * inode_set_iversion - set i_version to a particular value
 141 * @inode: inode to set
 142 * @val: new i_version value to set
 143 *
 144 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val. This function is for filesystems with
 145 * a kernel-managed i_version, for initializing a newly-created inode from
 146 * scratch.
 147 *
 148 * In this case, we do not set the QUERIED flag since we know that this value
 149 * has never been queried.
 150 */
 151static inline void
 152inode_set_iversion(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
 153{
 154        inode_set_iversion_raw(inode, val << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT);
 155}
 156
 157/**
 158 * inode_set_iversion_queried - set i_version to a particular value as quereied
 159 * @inode: inode to set
 160 * @val: new i_version value to set
 161 *
 162 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val, and flag it for increment on the next
 163 * change.
 164 *
 165 * Filesystems that persistently store the i_version on disk should use this
 166 * when loading an existing inode from disk.
 167 *
 168 * When loading in an i_version value from a backing store, we can't be certain
 169 * that it wasn't previously viewed before being stored. Thus, we must assume
 170 * that it was, to ensure that we don't end up handing out the same value for
 171 * different versions of the same inode.
 172 */
 173static inline void
 174inode_set_iversion_queried(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
 175{
 176        inode_set_iversion_raw(inode, (val << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT) |
 177                                I_VERSION_QUERIED);
 178}
 179
 180/**
 181 * inode_maybe_inc_iversion - increments i_version
 182 * @inode: inode with the i_version that should be updated
 183 * @force: increment the counter even if it's not necessary?
 184 *
 185 * Every time the inode is modified, the i_version field must be seen to have
 186 * changed by any observer.
 187 *
 188 * If "force" is set or the QUERIED flag is set, then ensure that we increment
 189 * the value, and clear the queried flag.
 190 *
 191 * In the common case where neither is set, then we can return "false" without
 192 * updating i_version.
 193 *
 194 * If this function returns false, and no other metadata has changed, then we
 195 * can avoid logging the metadata.
 196 */
 197static inline bool
 198inode_maybe_inc_iversion(struct inode *inode, bool force)
 199{
 200        u64 cur, old, new;
 201
 202        /*
 203         * The i_version field is not strictly ordered with any other inode
 204         * information, but the legacy inode_inc_iversion code used a spinlock
 205         * to serialize increments.
 206         *
 207         * Here, we add full memory barriers to ensure that any de-facto
 208         * ordering with other info is preserved.
 209         *
 210         * This barrier pairs with the barrier in inode_query_iversion()
 211         */
 212        smp_mb();
 213        cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
 214        for (;;) {
 215                /* If flag is clear then we needn't do anything */
 216                if (!force && !(cur & I_VERSION_QUERIED))
 217                        return false;
 218
 219                /* Since lowest bit is flag, add 2 to avoid it */
 220                new = (cur & ~I_VERSION_QUERIED) + I_VERSION_INCREMENT;
 221
 222                old = atomic64_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, cur, new);
 223                if (likely(old == cur))
 224                        break;
 225                cur = old;
 226        }
 227        return true;
 228}
 229
 230
 231/**
 232 * inode_inc_iversion - forcibly increment i_version
 233 * @inode: inode that needs to be updated
 234 *
 235 * Forcbily increment the i_version field. This always results in a change to
 236 * the observable value.
 237 */
 238static inline void
 239inode_inc_iversion(struct inode *inode)
 240{
 241        inode_maybe_inc_iversion(inode, true);
 242}
 243
 244/**
 245 * inode_iversion_need_inc - is the i_version in need of being incremented?
 246 * @inode: inode to check
 247 *
 248 * Returns whether the inode->i_version counter needs incrementing on the next
 249 * change. Just fetch the value and check the QUERIED flag.
 250 */
 251static inline bool
 252inode_iversion_need_inc(struct inode *inode)
 253{
 254        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) & I_VERSION_QUERIED;
 255}
 256
 257/**
 258 * inode_inc_iversion_raw - forcibly increment raw i_version
 259 * @inode: inode that needs to be updated
 260 *
 261 * Forcbily increment the raw i_version field. This always results in a change
 262 * to the raw value.
 263 *
 264 * NFS will use the i_version field to store the value from the server. It
 265 * mostly treats it as opaque, but in the case where it holds a write
 266 * delegation, it must increment the value itself. This function does that.
 267 */
 268static inline void
 269inode_inc_iversion_raw(struct inode *inode)
 270{
 271        atomic64_inc(&inode->i_version);
 272}
 273
 274/**
 275 * inode_peek_iversion - read i_version without flagging it to be incremented
 276 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 277 *
 278 * Read the inode i_version counter for an inode without registering it as a
 279 * query.
 280 *
 281 * This is typically used by local filesystems that need to store an i_version
 282 * on disk. In that situation, it's not necessary to flag it as having been
 283 * viewed, as the result won't be used to gauge changes from that point.
 284 */
 285static inline u64
 286inode_peek_iversion(const struct inode *inode)
 287{
 288        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
 289}
 290
 291/**
 292 * inode_query_iversion - read i_version for later use
 293 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 294 *
 295 * Read the inode i_version counter. This should be used by callers that wish
 296 * to store the returned i_version for later comparison. This will guarantee
 297 * that a later query of the i_version will result in a different value if
 298 * anything has changed.
 299 *
 300 * In this implementation, we fetch the current value, set the QUERIED flag and
 301 * then try to swap it into place with a cmpxchg, if it wasn't already set. If
 302 * that fails, we try again with the newly fetched value from the cmpxchg.
 303 */
 304static inline u64
 305inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
 306{
 307        u64 cur, old, new;
 308
 309        cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
 310        for (;;) {
 311                /* If flag is already set, then no need to swap */
 312                if (cur & I_VERSION_QUERIED) {
 313                        /*
 314                         * This barrier (and the implicit barrier in the
 315                         * cmpxchg below) pairs with the barrier in
 316                         * inode_maybe_inc_iversion().
 317                         */
 318                        smp_mb();
 319                        break;
 320                }
 321
 322                new = cur | I_VERSION_QUERIED;
 323                old = atomic64_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, cur, new);
 324                if (likely(old == cur))
 325                        break;
 326                cur = old;
 327        }
 328        return cur >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
 329}
 330
 331/*
 332 * For filesystems without any sort of change attribute, the best we can
 333 * do is fake one up from the ctime:
 334 */
 335static inline u64 time_to_chattr(struct timespec64 *t)
 336{
 337        u64 chattr = t->tv_sec;
 338
 339        chattr <<= 32;
 340        chattr += t->tv_nsec;
 341        return chattr;
 342}
 343
 344/**
 345 * inode_eq_iversion_raw - check whether the raw i_version counter has changed
 346 * @inode: inode to check
 347 * @old: old value to check against its i_version
 348 *
 349 * Compare the current raw i_version counter with a previous one. Returns true
 350 * if they are the same or false if they are different.
 351 */
 352static inline bool
 353inode_eq_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 354{
 355        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) == old;
 356}
 357
 358/**
 359 * inode_eq_iversion - check whether the i_version counter has changed
 360 * @inode: inode to check
 361 * @old: old value to check against its i_version
 362 *
 363 * Compare an i_version counter with a previous one. Returns true if they are
 364 * the same, and false if they are different.
 365 *
 366 * Note that we don't need to set the QUERIED flag in this case, as the value
 367 * in the inode is not being recorded for later use.
 368 */
 369static inline bool
 370inode_eq_iversion(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 371{
 372        return inode_peek_iversion(inode) == old;
 373}
 374#endif
 375