linux-toradex.git/include/linux/writeback.h, branch v5.19-rc8

Merge tag 'sysctl-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2022-05-26T23:57:20+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "For two kernel releases now kernel/sysctl.c has been being cleaned up
  slowly, since the tables were grossly long, sprinkled with tons of
  #ifdefs and all this caused merge conflicts with one susbystem or
  another.

  This tree was put together to help try to avoid conflicts with these
  cleanups going on different trees at time. So nothing exciting on this
  pull request, just cleanups.

  Thanks a lot to the Uniontech and Huawei folks for doing some of this
  nasty work"

* tag 'sysctl-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (28 commits)
  sched: Fix build warning without CONFIG_SYSCTL
  reboot: Fix build warning without CONFIG_SYSCTL
  kernel/kexec_core: move kexec_core sysctls into its own file
  sysctl: minor cleanup in new_dir()
  ftrace: fix building with SYSCTL=y but DYNAMIC_FTRACE=n
  fs/proc: Introduce list_for_each_table_entry for proc sysctl
  mm: fix unused variable kernel warning when SYSCTL=n
  latencytop: move sysctl to its own file
  ftrace: fix building with SYSCTL=n but DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
  ftrace: Fix build warning
  ftrace: move sysctl_ftrace_enabled to ftrace.c
  kernel/do_mount_initrd: move real_root_dev sysctls to its own file
  kernel/delayacct: move delayacct sysctls to its own file
  kernel/acct: move acct sysctls to its own file
  kernel/panic: move panic sysctls to its own file
  kernel/lockdep: move lockdep sysctls to its own file
  mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file
  mm: move oom_kill sysctls to their own file
  kernel/reboot: move reboot sysctls to its own file
  sched: Move energy_aware sysctls to topology.c
  ...

mm: submit multipage write for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space

2022-05-10T01:20:49+00:00

swap_writepage() is given one page at a time, but may be called repeatedly
in succession.

For block-device swapspace, the blk_plug functionality allows the multiple
pages to be combined together at lower layers.  That cannot be used for
SWP_FS_OPS as blk_plug may not exist - it is only active when
CONFIG_BLOCK=y.  Consequently all swap reads over NFS are single page
reads.

With this patch we pass a pointer-to-pointer via the wbc.  swap_writepage
can store state between calls - much like the pointer passed explicitly to
swap_readpage.  After calling swap_writepage() some number of times, the
state will be passed to swap_write_unplug() which can submit the combined
request.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164859778128.29473.5191868522654408537.stgit@noble.brown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Miaohe Lin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file

2022-04-06T20:43:44+00:00

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong.  The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just
care about the core logic.

So move the page-writeback sysctls to its own file.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]

akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSCTL=n warnings]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220129012955.26594-1-zhanglianjie@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: zhanglianjie 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Iurii Zaikin 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

vfs, fscache: Implement pinning of cache usage for writeback

2022-01-07T09:22:19+00:00

Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that need to be
written to it.  However, we don't want to keep the file open indefinitely,
as that causes EMFILE/ENFILE/ENOMEM problems.

Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being done due
to writeback triggered by exit().  Some filesystems will oops if we try to
open a file in that context because they want to access current->fs or
other resources that have already been dismantled.

To get around this, I added the following:

 (1) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network filesystem
     inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the cookie caching
     that inode.

 (2) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that is set
     when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty page from
     i_pages - at which point it clears I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this
     flag.

     This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB can be
     done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY that clears
     I_DIRTY_PAGES.

 (3) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set, sets
     I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to pin the cache
     resources.

 (4) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by ->write_inode()
     to unuse the cookie.

 (5) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when the
     inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called.  This cleans up any
     lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.

The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the cache as
well as to the server.

For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that should
allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the dirty regions
separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and is also going to be
affected by folios, one way or another, since it deals with pages

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton 
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819615157.215744.17623791756928043114.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906917856.143852.8224898306177154573.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967124567.1823006.14188359004568060298.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021524705.640689.17824932021727663017.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4

Merge tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-11-01T16:19:50+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - mq-deadline accounting improvements (Bart)

 - blk-wbt timer fix (Andrea)

 - Untangle the block layer includes (Christoph)

 - Rework the poll support to be bio based, which will enable adding
   support for polling for bio based drivers (Christoph)

 - Block layer core support for multi-actuator drives (Damien)

 - blk-crypto improvements (Eric)

 - Batched tag allocation support (me)

 - Request completion batching support (me)

 - Plugging improvements (me)

 - Shared tag set improvements (John)

 - Concurrent queue quiesce support (Ming)

 - Cache bdev in ->private_data for block devices (Pavel)

 - bdev dio improvements (Pavel)

 - Block device invalidation and block size improvements (Xie)

 - Various cleanups, fixes, and improvements (Christoph, Jackie,
   Masahira, Tejun, Yu, Pavel, Zheng, me)

* tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (174 commits)
  blk-mq-debugfs: Show active requests per queue for shared tags
  block: improve readability of blk_mq_end_request_batch()
  virtio-blk: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  nbd: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  block: Add a helper to validate the block size
  block: re-flow blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: prefetch request to be initialized
  block: pass in blk_mq_tags to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: add rq_flags to struct blk_mq_alloc_data
  block: add async version of bio_set_polled
  block: kill DIO_MULTI_BIO
  block: kill unused polling bits in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  block: avoid extra iter advance with async iocb
  block: Add independent access ranges support
  blk-mq: don't issue request directly in case that current is to be blocked
  sbitmap: silence data race warning
  blk-cgroup: synchronize blkg creation against policy deactivation
  block: refactor bio_iov_bvec_set()
  block: add single bio async direct IO helper
  ...

mm: don't include in

2021-10-18T12:17:01+00:00

blk-cgroup.h pulls in blkdev.h and thus pretty much all the block
headers.  Break this dependency chain by turning wbc_blkcg_css into a
macro and dropping the blk-cgroup.h include.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920123328.1399408-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()

2021-10-18T11:49:40+00:00

Reimplement redirty_page_for_writepage() as a wrapper around
folio_redirty_for_writepage().  Account the number of pages in the
folio, add kernel-doc and move the prototype to writeback.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()

2021-10-18T11:49:40+00:00

Account the number of pages in the folio that we're redirtying.
Turn account_page_dirty() into a wrapper around it.  Also turn
the comment on folio_account_redirty() into kernel-doc and
edit it slightly so it makes sense to its potential callers.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()

2021-10-18T11:49:39+00:00

Reimplement __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() as a wrapper around
filemap_dirty_folio().  Eventually folio_mark_dirty() will pass
the folio's mapping to the address space's ->dirty_folio()
operation, so add the parameter to filemap_dirty_folio() now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-03T17:08:28+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "173 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
  pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
  bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
  hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
  oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (173 commits)
  mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
  mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
  mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
  mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
  mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
  selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
  mm: KSM: fix data type
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
  selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
  selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
  selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
  mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
  mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
  mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
  memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
  mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
  mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
  mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  ...