linux-toradex.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch v4.2.2

writeback: fix initial dirty limit

2015-08-07T01:39:42+00:00

The initial value of global_wb_domain.dirty_limit set by
writeback_set_ratelimit() is zeroed out by the memset in
wb_domain_init().

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-06-25T23:00:17+00:00

Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...

writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates

2015-06-02T14:40:20+00:00

The mechanism for detecting whether an inode should switch its wb
(bdi_writeback) association is now in place.  This patch build the
framework for the actual switching.

This patch adds a new inode flag I_WB_SWITCHING, which has two
functions.  First, the easy one, it ensures that there's only one
switching in progress for a give inode.  Second, it's used as a
mechanism to synchronize wb stat updates.

The two stats, WB_RECLAIMABLE and WB_WRITEBACK, aren't event counters
but track the current number of dirty pages and pages under writeback
respectively.  As such, when an inode is moved from one wb to another,
the inode's portion of those stats have to be transferred together;
unfortunately, this is a bit tricky as those stat updates are percpu
operations which are performed without holding any lock in some
places.

This patch solves the problem in a similar way as memcg.  Each such
lockless stat updates are wrapped in transaction surrounded by
unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin/end().  During normal operation, they map
to rcu_read_lock/unlock(); however, if I_WB_SWITCHING is asserted,
mapping->tree_lock is grabbed across the transaction.

In turn, the switching path sets I_WB_SWITCHING and waits for a RCU
grace period to pass before actually starting to switch, which
guarantees that all stat update paths are synchronizing against
mapping->tree_lock.

This patch still doesn't implement the actual switching.

v3: Updated on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() updates.
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin() now nests inside
    mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() to match the locking order.

v2: The i_wb access transaction will be used for !stat accesses too.
    Function names and comments updated accordingly.

    s/inode_wb_stat_unlocked_{begin|end}/unlocked_inode_to_wb_{begin|end}/
    s/switch_wb/switch_wbs/

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

While cgroup writeback support now connects memcg and blkcg so that
writeback IOs are properly attributed and controlled, the IO back
pressure propagation mechanism implemented in balance_dirty_pages()
and its subroutines wasn't aware of cgroup writeback.

Processes belonging to a memcg may have access to only subset of total
memory available in the system and not factoring this into dirty
throttling rendered it completely ineffective for processes under
memcg limits and memcg ended up building a separate ad-hoc degenerate
mechanism directly into vmscan code to limit page dirtying.

The previous patches updated balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines
so that they can deal with multiple wb_domain's (writeback domains)
and defined per-memcg wb_domain.  Processes belonging to a non-root
memcg are bound to two wb_domains, global wb_domain and memcg
wb_domain, and should be throttled according to IO pressures from both
domains.  This patch updates dirty throttling code so that it repeats
similar calculations for the two domains - the differences between the
two are few and minor - and applies the lower of the two sets of
resulting constraints.

wb_over_bg_thresh(), which controls when background writeback
terminates, is also updated to consider both global and memcg
wb_domains.  It returns true if dirty is over bg_thresh for either
domain.

This makes the dirty throttling mechanism operational for memcg
domains including writeback-bandwidth-proportional dirty page
distribution inside them but the ad-hoc memcg throttling mechanism in
vmscan is still in place.  The next patch will rip it out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: implement memcg wb_domain

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

Dirtyable memory is distributed to a wb (bdi_writeback) according to
the relative bandwidth the wb is writing out in the whole system.
This distribution is global - each wb is measured against all other
wb's and gets the proportinately sized portion of the memory in the
whole system.

For cgroup writeback, the amount of dirtyable memory is scoped by
memcg and thus each wb would need to be measured and controlled in its
memcg.  IOW, a wb will belong to two writeback domains - the global
and memcg domains.

The previous patches laid the groundwork to support the two wb_domains
and this patch implements memcg wb_domain.  memcg->cgwb_domain is
initialized on css online and destroyed on css release,
wb->memcg_completions is added, and __wb_writeout_inc() is updated to
increment completions against both global and memcg wb_domains.

The following patches will update balance_dirty_pages() and its
subroutines to actually consider memcg wb_domain for throttling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

wb_over_bg_thresh() currently uses global_dirty_limits() and
wb_dirty_limit() both of which are wrappers around operations which
take dirty_throttle_control.  For cgroup writeback support, the
function will be updated to also consider memcg wb_domains which
requires the context information carried in dirty_throttle_control.

This patch updates wb_over_bg_thresh() so that it uses the underlying
wb_domain aware operations directly and builds the global
dirty_throttle_control in the process.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: move over_bground_thresh() to mm/page-writeback.c

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

and rename it to wb_over_bg_thresh().  The function is closely tied to
the dirty throttling mechanism implemented in page-writeback.c.  This
relocation will allow future updates necessary for cgroup writeback
support.

While at it, add function comment.

This is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any behavioral
changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: separate out domain_dirty_limits()

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

global_dirty_limits() calculates thresh and bg_thresh (confusingly
called *pdirty and *pbackground in the function) assuming
global_wb_domain; however, cgroup writeback support requires
considering per-memcg wb_domain too.

This patch separates out domain_dirty_limits() which takes
dirty_throttle_control out of global_dirty_limits().  As thresh and
bg_thresh calculation needs the amount of dirtyable memory in the
domain, dirty_throttle_control->avail is added.  The new function
calculates the two thresholds and store them directly in the
dirty_throttle_control.

Also, as memcg domains can't follow vm_dirty_bytes and
dirty_background_bytes settings directly.  If those are set and
domain_dirty_limits() is invoked for a !global domain, the settings
are translated to ratios by scaling them against globally available
memory.  dirty_throttle_control->gdtc is added to enable this when
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK.

global_dirty_limits() is now a thin wrapper around
domain_dirty_limits() and balance_dirty_pages() is updated to use the
new function too.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: make __wb_writeout_inc() and hard_dirty_limit() take wb_domaas a parameter

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

Currently __wb_writeout_inc() and hard_dirty_limit() assume
global_wb_domain; however, cgroup writeback support requires
considering per-memcg wb_domain too.

This patch separates out domain-specific part of __wb_writeout_inc()
into wb_domain_writeout_inc() which takes wb_domain as a parameter and
adds the parameter to hard_dirty_limit().  This will allow these two
functions to handle per-memcg wb_domains.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: add dirty_throttle_control->dom

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

Currently all dirty throttle operations use global_wb_domain; however,
cgroup writeback support requires considering per-memcg wb_domain too.
This patch adds dirty_throttle_control->dom and updates functions
which are directly using globabl_wb_domain to use it instead.

As this makes global_update_bandwidth() a misnomer, the function is
renamed to domain_update_bandwidth().

This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe