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Brian Atkinson
b4e4cbeb20
Always validate checksums for Direct I/O reads
This fixes an oversight in the Direct I/O PR. There is nothing that
stops a process from manipulating the contents of a buffer for a
Direct I/O read while the I/O is in flight. This can lead checksum
verify failures. However, the disk contents are still correct, and this
would lead to false reporting of checksum validation failures.

To remedy this, all Direct I/O reads that have a checksum verification
failure are treated as suspicious. In the event a checksum validation
failure occurs for a Direct I/O read, then the I/O request will be
reissued though the ARC. This allows for actual validation to happen and
removes any possibility of the buffer being manipulated after the I/O
has been issued.

Just as with Direct I/O write checksum validation failures, Direct I/O
read checksum validation failures are reported though zpool status -d in
the DIO column. Also the zevent has been updated to have both:
1. dio_verify_wr -> Checksum verification failure for writes
2. dio_verify_rd -> Checksum verification failure for reads.
This allows for determining what I/O operation was the culprit for the
checksum verification failure. All DIO errors are reported only on the
top-level VDEV.

Even though FreeBSD can write protect pages (stable pages) it still has
the same issue as Linux with Direct I/O reads.

This commit updates the following:
1. Propogates checksum failures for reads all the way up to the
   top-level VDEV.
2. Reports errors through zpool status -d as DIO.
3. Has two zevents for checksum verify errors with Direct I/O. One for
   read and one for write.
4. Updates FreeBSD ABD code to also check for ABD_FLAG_FROM_PAGES and
   handle ABD buffer contents validation the same as Linux.
5. Updated manipulate_user_buffer.c to also manipulate a buffer while a
   Direct I/O read is taking place.
6. Adds a new ZTS test case dio_read_verify that stress tests the new
   code.
7. Updated man pages.
8. Added an IMPLY statement to zio_checksum_verify() to make sure that
   Direct I/O reads are not issued as speculative.
9. Removed self healing through mirror, raidz, and dRAID VDEVs for
   Direct I/O reads.

This issue was first observed when installing a Windows 11 VM on a ZFS
dataset with the dataset property direct set to always. The zpool
devices would report checksum failures, but running a subsequent zpool
scrub would not repair any data and report no errors.

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Closes #16598
2024-10-09 12:28:08 -07:00
Brian Atkinson
a10e552b99
Adding Direct IO Support
Adding O_DIRECT support to ZFS to bypass the ARC for writes/reads.

O_DIRECT support in ZFS will always ensure there is coherency between
buffered and O_DIRECT IO requests. This ensures that all IO requests,
whether buffered or direct, will see the same file contents at all
times. Just as in other FS's , O_DIRECT does not imply O_SYNC. While
data is written directly to VDEV disks, metadata will not be synced
until the associated  TXG is synced.
For both O_DIRECT read and write request the offset and request sizes,
at a minimum, must be PAGE_SIZE aligned. In the event they are not,
then EINVAL is returned unless the direct property is set to always (see
below).

For O_DIRECT writes:
The request also must be block aligned (recordsize) or the write
request will take the normal (buffered) write path. In the event that
request is block aligned and a cached copy of the buffer in the ARC,
then it will be discarded from the ARC forcing all further reads to
retrieve the data from disk.

For O_DIRECT reads:
The only alignment restrictions are PAGE_SIZE alignment. In the event
that the requested data is in buffered (in the ARC) it will just be
copied from the ARC into the user buffer.

For both O_DIRECT writes and reads the O_DIRECT flag will be ignored in
the event that file contents are mmap'ed. In this case, all requests
that are at least PAGE_SIZE aligned will just fall back to the buffered
paths. If the request however is not PAGE_SIZE aligned, EINVAL will
be returned as always regardless if the file's contents are mmap'ed.

Since O_DIRECT writes go through the normal ZIO pipeline, the
following operations are supported just as with normal buffered writes:
Checksum
Compression
Encryption
Erasure Coding
There is one caveat for the data integrity of O_DIRECT writes that is
distinct for each of the OS's supported by ZFS.
FreeBSD - FreeBSD is able to place user pages under write protection so
          any data in the user buffers and written directly down to the
	  VDEV disks is guaranteed to not change. There is no concern
	  with data integrity and O_DIRECT writes.
Linux - Linux is not able to place anonymous user pages under write
        protection. Because of this, if the user decides to manipulate
	the page contents while the write operation is occurring, data
	integrity can not be guaranteed. However, there is a module
	parameter `zfs_vdev_direct_write_verify` that controls the
	if a O_DIRECT writes that can occur to a top-level VDEV before
	a checksum verify is run before the contents of the I/O buffer
        are committed to disk. In the event of a checksum verification
	failure the write will return EIO. The number of O_DIRECT write
	checksum verification errors can be observed by doing
	`zpool status -d`, which will list all verification errors that
	have occurred on a top-level VDEV. Along with `zpool status`, a
	ZED event will be issues as `dio_verify` when a checksum
	verification error occurs.

ZVOLs and dedup is not currently supported with Direct I/O.

A new dataset property `direct` has been added with the following 3
allowable values:
disabled - Accepts O_DIRECT flag, but silently ignores it and treats
	   the request as a buffered IO request.
standard - Follows the alignment restrictions  outlined above for
	   write/read IO requests when the O_DIRECT flag is used.
always   - Treats every write/read IO request as though it passed
           O_DIRECT and will do O_DIRECT if the alignment restrictions
	   are met otherwise will redirect through the ARC. This
	   property will not allow a request to fail.

There is also a module parameter zfs_dio_enabled that can be used to
force all reads and writes through the ARC. By setting this module
parameter to 0, it mimics as if the  direct dataset property is set to
disabled.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Mark Maybee <mark.maybee@delphix.com>
Co-authored-by: Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Co-authored-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf@llnl.gov>
Closes #10018
2024-09-14 13:47:59 -07:00