linux-toradex.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch v5.17-rc2

mm/writeback: Improve __folio_mark_dirty() comment

2022-01-03T01:28:57+00:00

Add some notes about how this function needs to be called.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski

folio: Add a function to get the host inode for a folio

2021-11-10T21:16:52+00:00

Add a convenience function, folio_inode() that will get the host inode from
a folio's mapping.

Changes:
 ver #3:
  - Fix mistake in function description[2].
 ver #2:
  - Fix contradiction between doc and implementation by disallowing use
    with swap caches[1].

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Tested-by: Jeff Layton 
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet 
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YST8OcVNy02Rivbm@casper.infradead.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YYKLkBwQdtn4ja+i@casper.infradead.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162880453171.3369675.3704943108660112470.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162981151155.1901565.7010079316994382707.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163005744370.2472992.18324470937328925723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163584184628.4023316.9386282630968981869.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163649325519.309189.15072332908703129455.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163657850401.834781.1031963517399283294.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...

mm/vmscan: centralise timeout values for reclaim_throttle

2021-11-06T20:30:40+00:00

Neil Brown raised concerns about callers of reclaim_throttle specifying
a timeout value.  The original timeout values to congestion_wait() were
probably pulled out of thin air or copy&pasted from somewhere else.
This patch centralises the timeout values and selects a timeout based on
the reason for reclaim throttling.  These figures are also pulled out of
the same thin air but better values may be derived

Running a workload that is throttling for inappropriate periods and
tracing mm_vmscan_throttled can be used to pick a more appropriate
value.  Excessive throttling would pick a lower timeout where as
excessive CPU usage in reclaim context would select a larger timeout.
Ideally a large value would always be used and the wakeups would occur
before a timeout but that requires careful testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/writeback: throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion

2021-11-06T20:30:40+00:00

do_writepages throttles on congestion if the writepages() fails due to a
lack of memory but congestion_wait() is partially broken as the
congestion state is not updated for all BDIs.

This patch stalls waiting for a number of pages to complete writeback
that located on the local node.  The main weakness is that there is no
correlation between the location of the inode's pages and locality but
that is still better than congestion_wait.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one

2021-10-18T11:49:41+00:00

Transform write_one_page() into folio_write_one() and add a compatibility
wrapper.  Also move the declaration to pagemap.h as this is page cache
functionality that doesn't need to be used by the rest of the kernel.

Saves 58 bytes of kernel text.  While folio_write_one() is 101 bytes
smaller than write_one_page(), the inlined call to page_folio() expands
each caller.  There are fewer than ten callers so it doesn't seem worth
putting a wrapper in the core.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: David Howells

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 folio_clear_dirty_for_io()

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

Transform clear_page_dirty_for_io() into folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
and add a compatibility wrapper.  Also move the declaration to pagemap.h
as this is page cache functionality that doesn't need to be used by the
rest of the kernel.

Increases the size of the kernel by 79 bytes.  While we remove a few
calls to compound_head(), we add a call to folio_nr_pages() to get the
stats correct for the eventual support of multi-page folios.

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

mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()

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

Turn __cancel_dirty_page() into __folio_cancel_dirty() and add wrappers.
Move the prototypes into pagemap.h since this is page cache functionality.
Saves 44 bytes of kernel text in total; 33 bytes from __folio_cancel_dirty
and 11 from two callers of cancel_dirty_page().

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