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2013-09-13Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux Pull writeback fix from Wu Fengguang: "A trivial writeback fix" * tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Do not sort b_io list only because of block device inode
2013-09-11writeback: fix race that cause writeback hungJunxiao Bi
There is a race between mark inode dirty and writeback thread, see the following scenario. In this case, writeback thread will not run though there is dirty_io. __mark_inode_dirty() bdi_writeback_workfn() ... ... spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); ... if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) { <<< assume wb has dirty_io, so wakeup_bdi is false. <<< the following inode_dirty also have wakeup_bdi false. if (!wb_has_dirty_io(&bdi->wb)) wakeup_bdi = true; } spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); <<< assume last dirty_io is removed here. pages_written = wb_do_writeback(wb); ... <<< work_list empty and wb has no dirty_io, <<< delayed_work will not be queued. if (!list_empty(&bdi->work_list) || (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval)) queue_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10)); spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock); inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; <<< new dirty_io is added. list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &bdi->wb.b_dirty); spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock); <<< though there is dirty_io, but wakeup_bdi is false, <<< so writeback thread will not be waked up and <<< the new dirty_io will not be flushed. if (wakeup_bdi) bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed(bdi); Writeback will run until there is a new flush work queued. This may cause a lot of dirty pages stay in memory for a long time. Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11mm/writeback: make writeback_inodes_wb staticWanpeng Li
It's not used globally and could be static. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11writeback: fix occasional slow sync(1)Jan Kara
In case when system contains no dirty pages, wakeup_flusher_threads() will submit WB_SYNC_NONE writeback for 0 pages so wb_writeback() exits immediately without doing anything, even though there are dirty inodes in the system. Thus sync(1) will write all the dirty inodes from a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback pass which is slow. Fix the problem by using get_nr_dirty_pages() in wakeup_flusher_threads() instead of calculating number of dirty pages manually. That function also takes number of dirty inodes into account. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09mm/writeback: don't check force_wait to handle bdi->work_listWanpeng Li
After commit 839a8e8660b6 ("writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue"), bdi_writeback_workfn runs off bdi_writeback->dwork, on each execution, it processes bdi->work_list and reschedules if there are more things to do instead of flush any work that race with us existing. It is unecessary to check force_wait in wb_do_writeback since it is always 0 after the mentioned commit. This patch remove the force_wait in wb_do_writeback. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09fs/fs-writeback.c: : make wb_do_writeback() as staticHaicheng Li
It's not used globally and could be static. Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09writeback: Do not sort b_io list only because of block device inodeJan Kara
It is very likely that block device inode will be part of BDI dirty list as well. However it doesn't make sence to sort inodes on the b_io list just because of this inode (as it contains buffers all over the device anyway). So save some CPU cycles which is valuable since we hold relatively contented wb->list_lock. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2013-07-02sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IODave Chinner
When sync does it's WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, it issues data Io and then immediately waits for IO completion. This is done in the context of the flusher thread, and hence completely ties up the flusher thread for the backing device until all the dirty inodes have been synced. On filesystems that are dirtying inodes constantly and quickly, this means the flusher thread can be tied up for minutes per sync call and hence badly affect system level write IO performance as the page cache cannot be cleaned quickly. We already have a wait loop for IO completion for sync(2), so cut this out of the flusher thread and delegate it to wait_sb_inodes(). Hence we can do rapid IO submission, and then wait for it all to complete. Effect of sync on fsmark before the patch: FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead ..... 0 640000 4096 35154.6 1026984 0 720000 4096 36740.3 1023844 0 800000 4096 36184.6 916599 0 880000 4096 1282.7 1054367 0 960000 4096 3951.3 918773 0 1040000 4096 40646.2 996448 0 1120000 4096 43610.1 895647 0 1200000 4096 40333.1 921048 And a single sync pass took: real 0m52.407s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.090s After the patch, there is no impact on fsmark results, and each individual sync(2) operation run concurrently with the same fsmark workload takes roughly 7s: real 0m6.930s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.039s IOWs, sync is 7-8x faster on a busy filesystem and does not have an adverse impact on ongoing async data write operations. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-08Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe: - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs. - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue bypass operation. - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging discard bios. - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic workqueue mechanism. - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James' tree. - A few random fixes. * 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits) relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read() block: fix max discard sectors limit blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list aoe: Fix unitialized var usage bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec block: Add bio_alloc_pages() block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all() block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all() bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec raid1: use bio_copy_data() pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data() block: Add bio_copy_data() ...
2013-04-30writeback: set worker desc to identify writeback workers in task dumpsTejun Heo
Writeback has been recently converted to use workqueue instead of its private thread pool implementation. One negative side effect of this conversion is that there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, be it sysrq-t, BUG, WARN or whatever, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patch restores that information using the new worker description facility. bdi_writeback_workfn() calls set_work_desc() to identify which bdi it's working on. The description is printed out together with the worqueue name and worker function as in the following example dump. WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: Pid: 28, comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 empty empty/S3992 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 [<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200144>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0 [<ffffffff810b4c87>] process_one_work+0x1d7/0x660 [<ffffffff810b5c72>] worker_thread+0x122/0x380 [<ffffffff810bdfea>] kthread+0xea/0xf0 [<ffffffff81c6cedc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-01writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueueTejun Heo
Writeback implements its own worker pool - each bdi can be associated with a worker thread which is created and destroyed dynamically. The worker thread for the default bdi is always present and serves as the "forker" thread which forks off worker threads for other bdis. there's no reason for writeback to implement its own worker pool when using unbound workqueue instead is much simpler and more efficient. This patch replaces custom worker pool implementation in writeback with an unbound workqueue. The conversion isn't too complicated but the followings are worth mentioning. * bdi_writeback->last_active, task and wakeup_timer are removed. delayed_work ->dwork is added instead. Explicit timer handling is no longer necessary. Everything works by either queueing / modding / flushing / canceling the delayed_work item. * bdi_writeback_thread() becomes bdi_writeback_workfn() which runs off bdi_writeback->dwork. On each execution, it processes bdi->work_list and reschedules itself if there are more things to do. The function also handles low-mem condition, which used to be handled by the forker thread. If the function is running off a rescuer thread, it only writes out limited number of pages so that the rescuer can serve other bdis too. This preserves the flusher creation failure behavior of the forker thread. * INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->bdi_list) is used to tell bdi_writeback_workfn() about on-going bdi unregistration so that it always drains work_list even if it's running off the rescuer. Note that the original code was broken in this regard. Under memory pressure, a bdi could finish unregistration with non-empty work_list. * The default bdi is no longer special. It now is treated the same as any other bdi and bdi_cap_flush_forker() is removed. * BDI_pending is no longer used. Removed. * Some tracepoints become non-applicable. The following TPs are removed - writeback_nothread, writeback_wake_thread, writeback_wake_forker_thread, writeback_thread_start, writeback_thread_stop. Everything, including devices coming and going away and rescuer operation under simulated memory pressure, seems to work fine in my test setup. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
2013-02-28Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux Pull writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang: "Two writeback fixes - fix negative (setpoint - dirty) in 32bit archs - use down_read_trylock() in writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle()" * tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: Negative (setpoint-dirty) in bdi_position_ratio() vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them
2013-01-14writeback: add more tracepointsTejun Heo
Add tracepoints for page dirtying, writeback_single_inode start, inode dirtying and writeback. For the latter two inode events, a pair of events are defined to denote start and end of the operations (the starting one has _start suffix and the one w/o suffix happens after the operation is complete). These inode ops are FS specific and can be non-trivial and having enclosing tracepoints is useful for external tracers. This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland. v2: writeback_dirty_inode[_start] TPs may be called for files on pseudo FSes w/ unregistered bdi. Check whether bdi->dev is %NULL before dereferencing. v3: buffer dirtying moved to a block TP. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-12vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename themMiao Xie
writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() is re-implemented by replacing down_read() with down_read_trylock() because - If ->s_umount is write locked, then the sb is not idle. That is writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() needn't wait for the lock. - writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() grabs s_umount lock when it want to start writeback, it may bring us deadlock problem when doing umount. In order to fix the problem, ext4 and btrfs implemented their own writeback functions instead of writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle(), but it introduced the redundant code, it is better to implement a new writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle(). The name of these two functions is cumbersome, so rename them to try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(_nr). This idea came from Christoph Hellwig. Some code is from the patch of Kamal Mostafa. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-12-12writeback: fix a typo in commentYan Hong
Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-26writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completionJan Kara
Commit 169ebd90131b ("writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread") removed iget-iput pair from inode writeback. As a side effect, inodes that are dirty during iput_final() call won't be ever added to inode LRU (iput_final() doesn't add dirty inodes to LRU and later when the inode is cleaned there's noone to add the inode there). Thus inodes are effectively unreclaimable until someone looks them up again. The practical effect of this bug is limited by the fact that inodes are pinned by a dentry for long enough that the inode gets cleaned. But still the bug can have nasty consequences leading up to OOM conditions under certain circumstances. Following can easily reproduce the problem: for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do mkdir $i for (( j = 0; j < 1000; j++ )); do touch $i/$j echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches done done then one needs to run 'sync; ls -lR' to make inodes reclaimable again. We fix the issue by inserting unused clean inodes into the LRU after writeback finishes in inode_sync_complete(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-12Merge branch 'writeback-for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux Pull writeback fixes from Fengguang Wu: "Three trivial writeback fixes" * 'writeback-for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug writeback: correct comment for move_expired_inodes() backing-dev: use kstrto* in preference to simple_strtoul
2012-10-09fs/fs-writeback.c: remove unneccesary parameter of __writeback_single_inode()Yan Hong
The parameter 'wb' is never used in this function. Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-08Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online resizing has been improved in general. We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks, in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good work by Dmitry Monakhov. There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have submitted fixes for the first time." * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits) ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers ext4: completed_io locking cleanup ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name ext4: ext4_inode_info diet ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu() ext4: ext4_bread usage audit fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments() ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system ...
2012-10-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "Tiny usual fixes all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent() treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos ipr: fix small coding style issues doc: fix broken utf8 encoding nfs: comment fix platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter mfd: printk/comment fixes doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket() doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error mmc: fix comment typos dma: fix comments spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf tools/testing: fix comment / output typos ...
2012-09-21fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldocLiu Bo
Argument @only_this_sb has been removed. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liub.liubo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-09-19ext4: fix potential deadlock in ext4_nonda_switch()Theodore Ts'o
In ext4_nonda_switch(), if the file system is getting full we used to call writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(). The problem is that we can be holding i_mutex already, and this causes a potential deadlock when writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() when it tries to take s_umount. (See lockdep output below). As it turns out we don't need need to hold s_umount; the fact that we are in the middle of the write(2) system call will keep the superblock pinned. Unfortunately writeback_inodes_sb() checks to make sure s_umount is taken, and the VFS uses a different mechanism for making sure the file system doesn't get unmounted out from under us. The simplest way of dealing with this is to just simply grab s_umount using a trylock, and skip kicking the writeback flusher thread in the very unlikely case that we can't take a read lock on s_umount without blocking. Also, we now check the cirteria for kicking the writeback thread before we decide to whether to fall back to non-delayed writeback, so if there are any outstanding delayed allocation writes, we try to get them resolved as soon as possible. [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------- dd/8298 is trying to acquire lock: (&type->s_umount_key#18){++++..}, at: [<c02277d4>] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46 but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [<c01ddcce>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3 which lock already depends on the new lock. 2 locks held by dd/8298: #0: (sb_writers#2){.+.+.+}, at: [<c01ddcc5>] generic_file_aio_write+0x56/0xd3 #1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [<c01ddcce>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3 stack backtrace: Pid: 8298, comm: dd Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367 Call Trace: [<c015b79c>] ? console_unlock+0x345/0x372 [<c06d62a1>] print_circular_bug+0x190/0x19d [<c019906c>] __lock_acquire+0x86d/0xb6c [<c01999db>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5c/0x7b [<c0199724>] lock_acquire+0x66/0xb9 [<c02277d4>] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46 [<c06db935>] down_read+0x28/0x58 [<c02277d4>] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46 [<c02277d4>] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46 [<c026f3b2>] ext4_nonda_switch+0xe1/0xf4 [<c0271ece>] ext4_da_write_begin+0x27/0x193 [<c01dcdb0>] generic_file_buffered_write+0xc8/0x1bb [<c01ddc47>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x1dd/0x205 [<c01ddce7>] generic_file_aio_write+0x78/0xd3 [<c026d336>] ext4_file_write+0x480/0x4a6 [<c0198c1d>] ? __lock_acquire+0x41e/0xb6c [<c0180944>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11a/0x13e [<c01967e9>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [<c018099f>] ? local_clock+0x37/0x4e [<c0209f2c>] do_sync_write+0x67/0x9d [<c0209ec5>] ? wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb+0x44/0x44 [<c020a7b9>] vfs_write+0x7b/0xe6 [<c020a9a6>] sys_write+0x3b/0x64 [<c06dd4bd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-09-11writeback: correct comment for move_expired_inodes()Wang Sheng-Hui
The function scans @delaying_queue and stops at the first inode whose dirtied_when is after *work->older_than_this. So the expired ones being moved are those before *work->older_than_this. Correct the comment here. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
2012-07-31mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threadsWanpeng Li
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless. For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify the users that the interface is removed. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30Merge tag 'writeback-proportions' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux Pull writeback updates from Wu Fengguang: "Use time based periods to age the writeback proportions, which can adapt equally well to fast/slow devices." Fix up trivial conflict in comment in fs/sync.c * tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Fix some comment errors block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions lib: Fix possible deadlock in flexible proportion code lib: Proportions with flexible period
2012-07-22vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writebackJan Kara
In principle, a filesystem may want to have ->sync_fs() called during sync(1) although it does not have a bdi (i.e. s_bdi is set to noop_backing_dev_info). Only writeback code really needs bdi set to something reasonable. So move the checks where they are more logical. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-09writeback: Fix some comment errorsWanpeng Li
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-06-09writeback: Fix lock imbalance in writeback_sb_inodes()Jan Kara
Fix bug introduced by 169ebd90. We have to have wb_list_lock locked when restarting writeback loop after having waited for inode writeback. Bug description by Ted Tso: I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13): [ 45.153294] ===================================== [ 45.154784] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] [ 45.155591] 3.5.0-rc1-00002-gb22b1f1 #124 Not tainted [ 45.155591] ------------------------------------- [ 45.155591] flush-254:16/2499 is trying to release lock (&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock) at: [ 45.155591] [<c022c3da>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x160/0x327 [ 45.155591] but there are no more locks to release! Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Tested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher threadJan Kara
Doing iput() from flusher thread (writeback_sb_inodes()) can create problems because iput() can do a lot of work - for example truncate the inode if it's the last iput on unlinked file. Some filesystems depend on flusher thread progressing (e.g. because they need to flush delay allocated blocks to reduce allocation uncertainty) and so flusher thread doing truncate creates interesting dependencies and possibilities for deadlocks. We get rid of iput() in flusher thread by using the fact that I_SYNC inode flag effectively pins the inode in memory. So if we take care to either hold i_lock or have I_SYNC set, we can get away without taking inode reference in writeback_sb_inodes(). As a side effect of these changes, we also fix possible use-after-free in wb_writeback() because inode_wait_for_writeback() call could try to reacquire i_lock on the inode that was already free. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()Jan Kara
The code in writeback_single_inode() is relatively complex. The list requeing logic makes sense only for flusher thread but not really for sync_inode() or write_inode_now() callers. Also when we want to get rid of inode references held by flusher thread, we will need a special I_SYNC handling there. So separate part of writeback_single_inode() which does the real writeback work into __writeback_single_inode() and make writeback_single_inode() do only stuff necessary for callers writing only one inode, moving the special list handling into writeback_sb_inodes(). As a sideeffect this fixes a possible race where we could skip some inode during sync(2) because other writer refiled it from b_io to b_dirty list. Also I_SYNC handling is moved into the callers of __writeback_single_inode() to make locking easier. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()Jan Kara
writeback_single_inode() doesn't need wb->list_lock for anything on entry now. So remove the requirement. This makes locking of writeback_single_inode() temporarily awkward (entering with i_lock, returning with i_lock and wb->list_lock) but it will be sanitized in the next patch. Also inode_wait_for_writeback() doesn't need wb->list_lock for anything. It was just taking it to make usage convenient for callers but with writeback_single_inode() changing it's not very convenient anymore. So remove the lock from that function. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writebackJan Kara
Move inode requeueing after inode has been written out into a separate function. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handlingJan Kara
Instead of clearing I_DIRTY_PAGES and resetting it when we didn't succeed in writing them all, just clear the bit only when we succeeded writing all the pages. We also move the clearing of the bit close to other i_state handling to separate it from writeback list handling. This is desirable because list handling will differ for flusher thread and other writeback_single_inode() callers in future. No filesystem plays any tricks with I_DIRTY_PAGES (like checking it in ->writepages or ->write_inode implementation) so this movement is safe. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()Jan Kara
When writeback_single_inode() is called on inode which has I_SYNC already set while doing WB_SYNC_NONE, inode is moved to b_more_io list. However this makes sense only if the caller is flusher thread. For other callers of writeback_single_inode() it doesn't really make sense and may be even wrong - flusher thread may be doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback in parallel. So we move requeueing from writeback_single_inode() to writeback_sb_inodes(). Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()Jan Kara
Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete(). It is more logical to have clearing of I_SYNC bit and waking of waiters in one place. Also later we will have two places needing to clear I_SYNC and wake up waiters so this allows them to use the common helper. Moving of I_SYNC clearing to a later stage of writeback_single_inode() is safe since we hold i_lock all the time. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-03-28Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux Pull trivial writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang: "They've been tested in linux-next for 20 days actually." * tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Remove outdated comment fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()
2012-03-24Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker: "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really need it. These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir. Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed." Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups (including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull). * tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
2012-03-21writeback: Remove outdated commentJan Kara
The comment is hopelessly outdated and misplaced. We no longer have 'bdi' part of writeback work, the comment about blockdev super is outdated, comment about throttling as well. Information about list handling is in more detail at queue_io(). So just move the bit about older_than_this to close to move_expired_inodes() and remove the rest. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-03-21fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()Jan Kara
inode_sync_wait() in write_inode_now() is just bogus. That function waits for I_SYNC bit to be cleared but writeback_single_inode() clears the bit on return so the wait is effectivelly a nop unless someone else submits the inode for writeback again. All the waiting write_inode_now() needs is achieved by using WB_SYNC_ALL writeback mode. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-03-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
2012-03-07writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment headerFengguang Wu
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-28fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-01writeback: fix NULL bdi->dev in trace writeback_single_inodeWu Fengguang
bdi_prune_sb() resets sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info when the tearing down the original bdi. Fix trace_writeback_single_inode to use sb->s_bdi=default_backing_dev_info rather than bdi->dev=NULL for a teared down bdi. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-01-10Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback
2012-01-08Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits) PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable() PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request() PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412. PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled() ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor ... Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
2012-01-08writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.cWu Fengguang
Fix compile error fs/fs-writeback.c:515:33: error: ‘PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT’ undeclared (first use in this function) Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-01-03fs: move code out of buffer.cAl Viro
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce buffer_head.h requirement accordingly. Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-25Merge branch 'pm-sleep' into pm-for-linusRafael J. Wysocki
* pm-sleep: (51 commits) PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled() PM / Sleep: Recommend [un]lock_system_sleep() over using pm_mutex directly PM / Sleep: Replace mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) with [un]lock_system_sleep() PM / Sleep: Make [un]lock_system_sleep() generic PM / Sleep: Use the freezer_count() functions in [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs PM / Freezer: Remove the "userspace only" constraint from freezer[_do_not]_count() PM / Hibernate: Replace unintuitive 'if' condition in kernel/power/user.c with 'else' Freezer / sunrpc / NFS: don't allow TASK_KILLABLE sleeps to block the freezer PM / Sleep: Unify diagnostic messages from device suspend/resume ACPI / PM: Do not save/restore NVS on Asus K54C/K54HR PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation test modes PM / Hibernate: Thaw processes in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl test path ... Conflicts: kernel/kmod.c
2011-12-21Merge branch 'master' into pm-sleepRafael J. Wysocki
* master: (848 commits) SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert() binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments() nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation evm: key must be set once during initialization mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default" mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement RDMA/cma: Verify private data length cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel" ... Conflicts: kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
2011-12-18writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writebackJan Kara
Current livelock avoidance code makes background work to include only inodes that were dirtied before background writeback has started. However background writeback can be running for a long time and thus excluding newly dirtied inodes can eventually exclude significant portion of dirty inodes making background writeback inefficient. Since background writeback avoids livelocking the flusher thread by yielding to any other work, there is no real reason why background work should not include all dirty inodes so change the logic in wb_writeback(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>