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* fs-verity: implement readahead of Merkle tree pagesEric Biggers2020-01-141-2/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When fs-verity verifies data pages, currently it reads each Merkle tree page synchronously using read_mapping_page(). Therefore, when the Merkle tree pages aren't already cached, fs-verity causes an extra 4 KiB I/O request for every 512 KiB of data (assuming that the Merkle tree uses SHA-256 and 4 KiB blocks). This results in more I/O requests and performance loss than is strictly necessary. Therefore, implement readahead of the Merkle tree pages. For simplicity, we take advantage of the fact that the kernel already does readahead of the file's *data*, just like it does for any other file. Due to this, we don't really need a separate readahead state (struct file_ra_state) just for the Merkle tree, but rather we just need to piggy-back on the existing data readahead requests. We also only really need to bother with the first level of the Merkle tree, since the usual fan-out factor is 128, so normally over 99% of Merkle tree I/O requests are for the first level. Therefore, make fsverity_verify_bio() enable readahead of the first Merkle tree level, for up to 1/4 the number of pages in the bio, when it sees that the REQ_RAHEAD flag is set on the bio. The readahead size is then passed down to ->read_merkle_tree_page() for the filesystem to (optionally) implement if it sees that the requested page is uncached. While we're at it, also make build_merkle_tree_level() set the Merkle tree readahead size, since it's easy to do there. However, for now don't set the readahead size in fsverity_verify_page(), since currently it's only used to verify holes on ext4 and f2fs, and it would need parameters added to know how much to read ahead. This patch significantly improves fs-verity sequential read performance. Some quick benchmarks with 'cat'-ing a 250MB file after dropping caches: On an ARM64 phone (using sha256-ce): Before: 217 MB/s After: 263 MB/s (compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 357 MB/s) In an x86_64 VM (using sha256-avx2): Before: 173 MB/s After: 215 MB/s (compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 223 MB/s) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106205533.137005-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
* f2fs: add fs-verity supportEric Biggers2019-08-121-0/+247
Add fs-verity support to f2fs. fs-verity is a filesystem feature that enables transparent integrity protection and authentication of read-only files. It uses a dm-verity like mechanism at the file level: a Merkle tree is used to verify any block in the file in log(filesize) time. It is implemented mainly by helper functions in fs/verity/. See Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full documentation. The f2fs support for fs-verity consists of: - Adding a filesystem feature flag and an inode flag for fs-verity. - Implementing the fsverity_operations to support enabling verity on an inode and reading/writing the verity metadata. - Updating ->readpages() to verify data as it's read from verity files and to support reading verity metadata pages. - Updating ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), and ->writepages() to support writing verity metadata pages. - Calling the fs-verity hooks for ->open(), ->setattr(), and ->ioctl(). Like ext4, f2fs stores the verity metadata (Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor) past the end of the file, starting at the first 64K boundary beyond i_size. This approach works because (a) verity files are readonly, and (b) pages fully beyond i_size aren't visible to userspace but can be read/written internally by f2fs with only some relatively small changes to f2fs. Extended attributes cannot be used because (a) f2fs limits the total size of an inode's xattr entries to 4096 bytes, which wouldn't be enough for even a single Merkle tree block, and (b) f2fs encryption doesn't encrypt xattrs, yet the verity metadata *must* be encrypted when the file is because it contains hashes of the plaintext data. Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>