#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
+#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
+
+/*
+ * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
+ */
+#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
+ */
+#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
/*
* After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
/*
* When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
* non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
- * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably
+ * It should be somewhat larger than dirtied pages to ensure that reasonably
* large amounts of I/O are submitted.
*/
-static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
+static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied)
{
- return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2;
+ if (dirtied < ratelimit_pages)
+ dirtied = ratelimit_pages;
+
+ return dirtied + dirtied / 2;
}
/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
/*
- * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage
+ * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
*/
int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
+unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
/*
* Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
*/
static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
+ __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
__prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
bdi->max_prop_frac);
}
static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
long *numerator, long *denominator)
{
- if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) {
- prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
+ prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
numerator, denominator);
- } else {
- *numerator = 0;
- *denominator = 1;
- }
-}
-
-/*
- * Clip the earned share of dirty pages to that which is actually available.
- * This avoids exceeding the total dirty_limit when the floating averages
- * fluctuate too quickly.
- */
-static void clip_bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
- unsigned long dirty, unsigned long *pbdi_dirty)
-{
- unsigned long avail_dirty;
-
- avail_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
- global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
- global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
- global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP);
-
- if (avail_dirty < dirty)
- avail_dirty = dirty - avail_dirty;
- else
- avail_dirty = 0;
-
- avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) +
- bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
-
- *pbdi_dirty = min(*pbdi_dirty, avail_dirty);
}
static inline void task_dirties_fraction(struct task_struct *tsk,
}
/*
- * scale the dirty limit
+ * task_dirty_limit - scale down dirty throttling threshold for one task
*
* task specific dirty limit:
*
* dirty -= (dirty/8) * p_{t}
+ *
+ * To protect light/slow dirtying tasks from heavier/fast ones, we start
+ * throttling individual tasks before reaching the bdi dirty limit.
+ * Relatively low thresholds will be allocated to heavy dirtiers. So when
+ * dirty pages grow large, heavy dirtiers will be throttled first, which will
+ * effectively curb the growth of dirty pages. Light dirtiers with high enough
+ * dirty threshold may never get throttled.
*/
-static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *pdirty)
+#define TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION 8
+static unsigned long task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty)
{
long numerator, denominator;
- unsigned long dirty = *pdirty;
- u64 inv = dirty >> 3;
+ unsigned long dirty = bdi_dirty;
+ u64 inv = dirty / TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION;
task_dirties_fraction(tsk, &numerator, &denominator);
inv *= numerator;
do_div(inv, denominator);
dirty -= inv;
- if (dirty < *pdirty/2)
- dirty = *pdirty/2;
- *pdirty = dirty;
+ return max(dirty, bdi_dirty/2);
+}
+
+/* Minimum limit for any task */
+static unsigned long task_min_dirty_limit(unsigned long bdi_dirty)
+{
+ return bdi_dirty - bdi_dirty / TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION;
}
/*
return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
}
-void
-get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
- unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
+{
+ return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
+}
+
+/*
+ * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
+ *
+ * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
+ * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
+ * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
+ * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
+ * real-time tasks.
+ */
+void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
{
unsigned long background;
unsigned long dirty;
- unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
+ unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
struct task_struct *tsk;
+ if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
+ available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
+
if (vm_dirty_bytes)
dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
- else {
- int dirty_ratio;
-
- dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
- if (dirty_ratio < 5)
- dirty_ratio = 5;
- dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
- }
+ else
+ dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
if (dirty_background_bytes)
background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
}
*pbackground = background;
*pdirty = dirty;
+ trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
+}
+
+/**
+ * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
+ * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
+ * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
+ *
+ * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
+ * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
+ * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
+ * balance_dirty_pages().
+ *
+ * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
+ * - starving fast devices
+ * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
+ *
+ * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
+ * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
+ */
+unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
+{
+ u64 bdi_dirty;
+ long numerator, denominator;
- if (bdi) {
- u64 bdi_dirty;
- long numerator, denominator;
+ /*
+ * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
+ */
+ bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
- /*
- * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
- */
- bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
-
- bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
- bdi_dirty *= numerator;
- do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
- bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
- if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
- bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
-
- *pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
- clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);
- task_dirty_limit(current, pbdi_dirty);
+ bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
+ bdi_dirty *= numerator;
+ do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
+
+ bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
+ if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
+ bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
+
+ return bdi_dirty;
+}
+
+static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long elapsed,
+ unsigned long written)
+{
+ const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
+ unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
+ u64 bw;
+
+ /*
+ * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
+ *
+ * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
+ * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
+ * period
+ */
+ bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
+ bw *= HZ;
+ if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
+ do_div(bw, elapsed);
+ avg = bw;
+ goto out;
}
+ bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
+ bw >>= ilog2(period);
+
+ /*
+ * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
+ */
+ if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
+ avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
+
+ if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
+ avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
+
+out:
+ bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
+ bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
+}
+
+/*
+ * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
+ * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
+ * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
+ * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
+ * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
+ * threshold.
+ */
+static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
+{
+ unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
+
+ /*
+ * Follow up in one step.
+ */
+ if (limit < thresh) {
+ limit = thresh;
+ goto update;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
+ * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
+ * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
+ */
+ thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
+ if (limit > thresh) {
+ limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
+ goto update;
+ }
+ return;
+update:
+ global_dirty_limit = limit;
+}
+
+static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
+ unsigned long dirty,
+ unsigned long now)
+{
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
+ static unsigned long update_time;
+
+ /*
+ * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
+ */
+ if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
+ return;
+
+ spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
+ if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
+ update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
+ update_time = now;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
+}
+
+void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long thresh,
+ unsigned long dirty,
+ unsigned long bdi_thresh,
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty,
+ unsigned long start_time)
+{
+ unsigned long now = jiffies;
+ unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
+ unsigned long written;
+
+ /*
+ * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
+ */
+ if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
+ return;
+
+ written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
+
+ /*
+ * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
+ * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
+ */
+ if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
+ goto snapshot;
+
+ if (thresh)
+ global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
+
+ bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
+
+snapshot:
+ bdi->written_stamp = written;
+ bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
+}
+
+static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long thresh,
+ unsigned long dirty,
+ unsigned long bdi_thresh,
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty,
+ unsigned long start_time)
+{
+ if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
+ return;
+ spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
+ __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
+ start_time);
+ spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
}
/*
* balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
* data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
* the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
- * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some
- * writeout.
+ * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
+ * perform some writeout.
*/
-static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
+static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
+ unsigned long write_chunk)
{
- long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
- long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback;
+ unsigned long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
+ unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long bdi_thresh;
+ unsigned long task_bdi_thresh;
+ unsigned long min_task_bdi_thresh;
unsigned long pages_written = 0;
- unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages();
unsigned long pause = 1;
-
+ bool dirty_exceeded = false;
+ bool clear_dirty_exceeded = true;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+ unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
for (;;) {
- struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .bdi = bdi,
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
- .older_than_this = NULL,
- .nr_to_write = write_chunk,
- .range_cyclic = 1,
- };
-
- get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
- &bdi_thresh, bdi);
-
nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
- nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
-
- bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+ nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
- if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
- break;
+ global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
/*
* Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
* catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
* when the bdi limits are ramping up.
*/
- if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <
- (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
+ if (nr_dirty <= (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
break;
- if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
- bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
-
- /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
- * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
- * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
- * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
- * been flushed to permanent storage.
- * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its
- * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch
- * up.
- */
- if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) {
- writeback_inodes_wbc(&wbc);
- pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
- get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
- &bdi_thresh, bdi);
- }
+ bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
+ min_task_bdi_thresh = task_min_dirty_limit(bdi_thresh);
+ task_bdi_thresh = task_dirty_limit(current, bdi_thresh);
/*
* In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
* actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
* deltas.
*/
- if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
+ if (task_bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
- } else if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) {
+ bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable +
+ bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+ } else {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+ bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable +
+ bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
}
- if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
+ /*
+ * The bdi thresh is somehow "soft" limit derived from the
+ * global "hard" limit. The former helps to prevent heavy IO
+ * bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is
+ * the last resort safeguard.
+ */
+ dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > task_bdi_thresh) ||
+ (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
+ clear_dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty <= min_task_bdi_thresh) &&
+ (nr_dirty <= dirty_thresh);
+
+ if (!dirty_exceeded)
break;
- if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
- break; /* We've done our duty */
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(pause);
+ if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
+ bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
+
+ bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, nr_dirty,
+ bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
+
+ /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
+ * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
+ * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
+ * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
+ * been flushed to permanent storage.
+ * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its
+ * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch
+ * up.
+ */
+ trace_balance_dirty_start(bdi);
+ if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > task_bdi_thresh) {
+ pages_written += writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb,
+ write_chunk);
+ trace_balance_dirty_written(bdi, pages_written);
+ if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
+ break; /* We've done our duty */
+ }
+ __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ io_schedule_timeout(pause);
+ trace_balance_dirty_wait(bdi);
+
+ dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
+ /*
+ * max-pause area. If dirty exceeded but still within this
+ * area, no need to sleep for more than 200ms: (a) 8 pages per
+ * 200ms is typically more than enough to curb heavy dirtiers;
+ * (b) the pause time limit makes the dirtiers more responsive.
+ */
+ if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh &&
+ bdi_dirty < (task_bdi_thresh + bdi_thresh) / 2 &&
+ time_after(jiffies, start_time + MAX_PAUSE))
+ break;
/*
* Increase the delay for each loop, up to our previous
pause = HZ / 10;
}
- if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback < bdi_thresh &&
- bdi->dirty_exceeded)
+ /* Clear dirty_exceeded flag only when no task can exceed the limit */
+ if (clear_dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
- return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */
+ return;
/*
* In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
* background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
*/
if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
- (!laptop_mode && ((nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY)
- + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS))
- > background_thresh)))
- bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_writeback);
+ (!laptop_mode && (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)))
+ bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
}
void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
unsigned long ratelimit;
unsigned long *p;
+ if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
+ return;
+
ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded)
ratelimit = 8;
p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
*p += nr_pages_dirtied;
if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
+ ratelimit = sync_writeback_pages(*p);
*p = 0;
preempt_enable();
- balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
+ balance_dirty_pages(mapping, ratelimit);
return;
}
preempt_enable();
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
for ( ; ; ) {
- get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
+ global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
/*
* Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
}
}
-static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
-
-static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
-
/*
* sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
*/
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+ bdi_arm_supers_timer();
return 0;
}
-static void do_laptop_sync(struct work_struct *work)
-{
- wakeup_flusher_threads(0);
- kfree(work);
-}
-
-static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
{
- struct work_struct *work;
+ struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
+ int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
- work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (work) {
- INIT_WORK(work, do_laptop_sync);
- schedule_work(work);
- }
+ /*
+ * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
+ * threshold
+ */
+ if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
+ bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages);
}
/*
* of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
* then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
*/
-void laptop_io_completion(void)
+void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
{
- mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
+ mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
}
/*
*/
void laptop_sync_completion(void)
{
- del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
+ del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
+#endif
/*
* If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
}
+/**
+ * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
+ * @mapping: address space structure to write
+ * @start: starting page index
+ * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
+ *
+ * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
+ * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
+ * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
+ * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
+ * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
+ * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
+ * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
+ */
+/*
+ * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
+ */
+void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
+ pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
+{
+#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
+ unsigned long tagged;
+
+ do {
+ spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
+ &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
+ PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
+ cond_resched();
+ /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
+ } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
+
/**
* write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
* @mapping: address space structure to write
* the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
* WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
* existing IO to complete.
+ *
+ * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
+ * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
+ * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
+ * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
+ * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
+ * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
*/
int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
void *data)
{
- struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
int ret = 0;
int done = 0;
struct pagevec pvec;
pgoff_t done_index;
int cycled;
int range_whole = 0;
- long nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;
-
- if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
- wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
- return 0;
- }
+ int tag;
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
range_whole = 1;
cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
}
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
+ tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
+ else
+ tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
retry:
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
+ tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
done_index = index;
while (!done && (index <= end)) {
int i;
- nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
- PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+ nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
if (nr_pages == 0)
break;
break;
}
- done_index = page->index + 1;
+ done_index = page->index;
lock_page(page);
if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
goto continue_unlock;
+ trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
if (unlikely(ret)) {
if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
* not be suitable for data integrity
* writeout).
*/
- done = 1;
- break;
- }
- }
-
- if (nr_to_write > 0) {
- nr_to_write--;
- if (nr_to_write == 0 &&
- wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
- /*
- * We stop writing back only if we are
- * not doing integrity sync. In case of
- * integrity sync we have to keep going
- * because someone may be concurrently
- * dirtying pages, and we might have
- * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty
- * pages, but have not synced all of the
- * old dirty pages.
- */
+ done_index = page->index + 1;
done = 1;
break;
}
}
- if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
- wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
+ /*
+ * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
+ * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
+ * keep going until we have written all the pages
+ * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
+ */
+ if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
+ wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
done = 1;
break;
}
end = writeback_index - 1;
goto retry;
}
- if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update) {
- if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0))
- mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
- wbc->nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
- }
+ if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
+ mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
return ret;
}
int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
+ struct blk_plug plug;
+ int ret;
+
/* deal with chardevs and other special file */
if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
return 0;
- return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
+ ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
{
if (!PageDirty(page))
- SetPageDirty(page);
+ return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
return 0;
}
{
if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
task_dirty_inc(current);
task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
}
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
+
+/*
+ * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
+ * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
+ * wrt interrupts.
+ */
+void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
+{
+ inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
/*
* For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
/*
+ * Dirty a page.
+ *
+ * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
+ * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
+ * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
+ * but should be better not to.
+ *
* If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
* just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
*/
if (likely(mapping)) {
int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
+ /*
+ * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
+ * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
+ * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
+ * reset. So no problem.
+ * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
+ * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
+ * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
+ * process. But it's a trivial problem.
+ */
+ ClearPageReclaim(page);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
if (!spd)
spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
{
int ret;
- lock_page_nosync(page);
+ lock_page(page);
ret = set_page_dirty(page);
unlock_page(page);
return ret;
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
- ClearPageReclaim(page);
if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
/*
* Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
} else {
ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
}
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
+ inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
+ }
return ret;
}
radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
page_index(page),
PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
+ radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
+ page_index(page),
+ PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
} else {
ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
}
if (!ret)
- inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
+ account_page_writeback(page);
return ret;
}
*/
int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
{
- int ret;
- rcu_read_lock();
- ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- return ret;
+ return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);