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2015-11-20mm/page-writeback.c: initialize m_dirty to avoid compile warningYang Shi
When building kernel with gcc 5.2, the below warning is raised: mm/page-writeback.c: In function 'balance_dirty_pages.isra.10': mm/page-writeback.c:1545:17: warning: 'm_dirty' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] unsigned long m_dirty, m_thresh, m_bg_thresh; The m_dirty{thresh, bg_thresh} are initialized in the block of "if (mdtc)", so if mdts is null, they won't be initialized before being used. Initialize m_dirty to zero, also initialize m_thresh and m_bg_thresh to keep consistency. They are used later by if condition: !mdtc || m_dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(m_thresh, m_bg_thresh) If mdtc is null, dirty_freerun_ceiling will not be called at all, so the initialization will not change any behavior other than just ceasing the compile warning. (akpm: the patch actually reduces .text size by ~20 bytes on gcc-4.x.y) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-12writeback: fix incorrect calculation of available memory for memcg domainsTejun Heo
For memcg domains, the amount of available memory was calculated as min(the amount currently in use + headroom according to memcg, total clean memory) This isn't quite correct as what should be capped by the amount of clean memory is the headroom, not the sum of memory in use and headroom. For example, if a memcg domain has a significant amount of dirty memory, the above can lead to a value which is lower than the current amount in use which doesn't make much sense. In most circumstances, the above leads to a number which is somewhat but not drastically lower. As the amount of memory which can be readily allocated to the memcg domain is capped by the amount of system-wide clean memory which is not already assigned to the memcg itself, the number we want is the amount currently in use + min(headroom according to memcg, clean memory elsewhere in the system) This patch updates mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to return the number of filepages and headroom instead of the calculated available pages. mdtc_cap_avail() is renamed to mdtc_calc_avail() and performs the above calculation from file, headroom, dirty and globally clean pages. v2: Dummy mem_cgroup_wb_stats() implementation wasn't updated leading to build failure when !CGROUP_WRITEBACK. Fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: c2aa723a6093 ("writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-12writeback: memcg dirty_throttle_control should be initialized with ↵Tejun Heo
wb->memcg_completions MDTC_INIT() is used to initialize dirty_throttle_control for memcg domains. It used DTC_INIT_COMMON() to initialized mdtc->wb and ->wb_completions which is incorrect as DTC_INIT_COMMON() sets the latter to wb->completions instead of wb->memcg_completions. This can lead to wildly incorrect results when calculating the proportion of dirty memory the memcg domain should get. Remove DTC_INIT_COMMON() and update MDTC_INIT() to initialize mdtc->wb_completions to wb->memcg_completions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: c2aa723a6093 ("writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-12writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying onesTejun Heo
bdi_for_each_wb() is used in several places to wake up or issue writeback work items to all wb's (bdi_writeback's) on a given bdi. The iteration is performed by walking bdi->cgwb_tree; however, the tree only indexes wb's which are currently active. For example, when a memcg gets associated with a different blkcg, the old wb is removed from the tree so that the new one can be indexed. The old wb starts dying from then on but will linger till all its inodes are drained. As these dying wb's may still host dirty inodes, writeback operations which affect all wb's must include them. bdi_for_each_wb() skipping dying wb's led to sync(2) missing and failing to sync the inodes belonging to those wb's. This patch adds a RCU protected @bdi->wb_list which lists all wb's beloinging to that bdi. wb's are added on creation and removed on release rather than on the start of destruction. bdi_for_each_wb() usages are replaced with list_for_each[_continue]_rcu() iterations over @bdi->wb_list and bdi_for_each_wb() and its helpers are removed. v2: Updated as per Jan. last_wb ref leak in bdi_split_work_to_wbs() fixed and unnecessary list head severing in cgwb_bdi_destroy() removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Fixes: ebe41ab0c79d ("writeback: implement bdi_for_each_wb()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443012552.19983.209.camel@gmail.com Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-12writeback: laptop_mode_timer_fn() needs rcu_read_lock() around bdi_writeback ↵Tejun Heo
iteration laptop_mode_timer_fn() was using bdi_for_each_wb() without the required RCU locking leading to the following warning. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at include/linux/backing-dev.h:415 laptop_mode_timer_fn+0x106/0x170() ... Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff81480cdc>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 [<ffffffff81051912>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0 [<ffffffff81051a0a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8115f0e6>] laptop_mode_timer_fn+0x106/0x170 [<ffffffff810ca8e3>] call_timer_fn+0xb3/0x2f0 [<ffffffff810cad25>] run_timer_softirq+0x205/0x370 [<ffffffff81056854>] __do_softirq+0xd4/0x460 [<ffffffff81056d69>] irq_exit+0x89/0xa0 [<ffffffff8185a892>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x50 [<ffffffff81858a44>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x84/0x90 ... Fix it by adding rcu_read_lock() around the iteration. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: a06fd6b10228 ("writeback: make laptop_mode_timer_fn() handle multiple bdi_writeback's") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-09-10Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe: "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a while. This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our buffered cgroup writeback. It was dependent on the other cgroup changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle. Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates: - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure. - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism. - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup. Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling: cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup. It didn't have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO. writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against. This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is tagged with. Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group, which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data. This makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution implemented by cfq. - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff. - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased. Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches: This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods and blk[c]g_policy_data handling. - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data. exit dropped. - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data. - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct allocation. - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or blkcg. And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats handling: blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess. This patchset tries to improve the situation a bit. - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and blkg creation. This is in itself is an improvement and helps colllecting common stats on bio issue. - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave the same way. The issue was spotted by Vivek. - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle implements custom per-cpu stats. This patchset make blkcg core support both by default. - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats multiple times. Unify them" * 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits) blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/ blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf() blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device() blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum() blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check() blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup() blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup() ...
2015-08-18writeback: update writeback tracepoints to report cgroupTejun Heo
The following tracepoints are updated to report the cgroup used during cgroup writeback. * writeback_write_inode[_start] * writeback_queue * writeback_exec * writeback_start * writeback_written * writeback_wait * writeback_nowork * writeback_wake_background * wbc_writepage * writeback_queue_io * bdi_dirty_ratelimit * balance_dirty_pages * writeback_sb_inodes_requeue * writeback_single_inode[_start] Note that writeback_bdi_register is separated out from writeback_class as reporting cgroup doesn't make sense to it. Tracepoints which take bdi are updated to take bdi_writeback instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-07writeback: fix initial dirty limitRabin Vincent
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 <rabin.vincent@axis.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-25Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2015-06-02writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat ↵Tejun Heo
updates 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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttlingTejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: implement memcg wb_domainTejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operationsTejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: move over_bground_thresh() to mm/page-writeback.cTejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: separate out domain_dirty_limits()Tejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make __wb_writeout_inc() and hard_dirty_limit() take wb_domaas a ↵Tejun Heo
parameter 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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: add dirty_throttle_control->domTejun Heo
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 <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: add dirty_throttle_control->wb_completionsTejun Heo
wb->completions measures the wb's proportional write bandwidth in global_wb_domain and thus naturally tied to the wb_domain. This patch adds dirty_throttle_control->wb_completions which is initialized to wb->completions by GDTC_INIT() and updates __wb_dirty_limits() to use it instead of dereferencing wb->completions directly. This will allow dirty_throttle_control to represent different wb_domains and the matching wb completions. This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: add dirty_throttle_control->pos_ratioTejun Heo
wb_position_ratio() is used to calculate pos_ratio, which is used for two purposes. wb_update_dirty_ratelimit() uses it to adjust wb->[balanced_]dirty_ratelimit gradually and balance_dirty_pages() to immediately adjust dirty_ratelimit right before applying it to determine pause duration. While wb_update_dirty_ratelimit() is separately rate limited from balance_dirty_pages(), on the run where the ratelimit is updated, we end up calculating pos_ratio twice with the same parameters. This patch adds dirty_throttle_control->pos_ratio. balance_dirty_pages() calculates it once per run and wb_update_dirty_ratelimit() uses the value stored in dirty_throttle_control. This removes the duplicate calculation and also will help implementing memcg wb_domain. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make __wb_calc_thresh() take dirty_throttle_controlTejun Heo
wb_calc_thresh() calculates wb_thresh by scaling thresh according to the wb's portion in the system-wide write bandwidth. cgroup writeback support would need to calculate wb_thresh against memcg domain too. This patch renames wb_calc_thresh() to __wb_calc_thresh() and makes it take dirty_throttle_control so that the function can later be updated to calculate against different domains according to dirty_throttle_control. wb_calc_thresh() is now a thin wrapper around __wb_calc_thresh(). v2: The original version was incorrectly scaling dtc->dirty instead of dtc->thresh. This was due to the extremely confusing function and variable names. Added a rename patch and fixed this one. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: add dirty_throttle_control->wb_bg_threshTejun Heo
wb_bg_thresh is currently treated as a second-class citizen. It's only used when BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT is set and balance_dirty_pages() doesn't calculate it unless the cap is set. When the cap is set, the calculated value is not passed around but instead recalculated whenever it's used. wb_position_ratio() calculates it by scaling wb_thresh proportional to bg_thresh / thresh. wb_update_dirty_ratelimit() uses wb_dirty_limit() on bg_thresh, which should generally lead to a similar result as the proportional scaling but can also be way off in the presence of max/min_ratio settings. Avoiding wb_bg_thresh calculation saves us one u64 multiplication and divsion when BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT is not set. Given that balance_dirty_pages() is already ratelimited, this doesn't justify the incurred extra complexity. This patch adds wb_bg_thresh to dirty_throttle_control and makes wb_dirty_limits() always calculate it and updates the users to use the pre-calculated value. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: consolidate dirty throttle parameters into dirty_throttle_controlTejun Heo
Dirty throttling implemented in balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines makes use of a number of parameters which are passed around individually. This renders these functions somewhat unwieldy and makes it difficult to add or change the involved parameters. Also some functions use different or conflicting naming schemes for the same parameters making the code confusing to follow. This patch consolidates the main parameters into struct dirty_throttle_control so that they can be passed around easily and adding new paramters isn't painful. This also unifies how a given parameter is named and accessed. The drawback of using this type of control structure rather than explicit paramters is that it isn't immediately obvious which function accesses and modifies what; however, it's fairly clear that the benefits outweigh in this case. GDTC_INIT() macro is provided to ease initializing dirty_throttle_control for the global_wb_domain and balance_dirty_pages() uses a separate pointer to point to its global dirty_throttle_control. This is to make it uniform with memcg domain handling which will be added later. This patch doesn't introduce any behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: move global_dirty_limit into wb_domainTejun Heo
This patch is a part of the series to define wb_domain which represents a domain that wb's (bdi_writeback's) belong to and are measured against each other in. This will enable IO backpressure propagation for cgroup writeback. global_dirty_limit exists to regulate the global dirty threshold which is a property of the wb_domain. This patch moves hard_dirty_limit, dirty_lock, and update_time into wb_domain. This is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: implement wb_domainTejun Heo
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. Currently, what constitutes the global writeback domain are scattered across a number of global states. This patch starts collecting them into struct wb_domain. * fprop_global which serves as the basis for proportional bandwidth measurement and its period timer are moved into struct wb_domain. * global_wb_domain hosts the states for the global domain. * While at it, flatten wb_writeout_fraction() into its callers. This thin wrapper doesn't provide any actual benefits while getting in the way. This is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: reorganize [__]wb_update_bandwidth()Tejun Heo
__wb_update_bandwidth() is called from two places - fs/fs-writeback.c::balance_dirty_pages() and mm/page-writeback.c::wb_writeback(). The latter updates only the write bandwidth while the former also deals with the dirty ratelimit. The two callsites are distinguished by whether @thresh parameter is zero or not, which is cryptic. In addition, the two files define their own different versions of wb_update_bandwidth() on top of __wb_update_bandwidth(), which is confusing to say the least. This patch cleans up [__]wb_update_bandwidth() in the following ways. * __wb_update_bandwidth() now takes explicit @update_ratelimit parameter to gate dirty ratelimit handling. * mm/page-writeback.c::wb_update_bandwidth() is flattened into its caller - balance_dirty_pages(). * fs/fs-writeback.c::wb_update_bandwidth() is moved to mm/page-writeback.c and __wb_update_bandwidth() is made static. * While at it, add a lockdep assertion to __wb_update_bandwidth(). Except for the lockdep addition, this is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: clean up wb_dirty_limit()Tejun Heo
The function name wb_dirty_limit(), its argument @dirty and the local variable @wb_dirty are mortally confusing given that the function calculates per-wb threshold value not dirty pages, especially given that @dirty and @wb_dirty are used elsewhere for dirty pages. Let's rename the function to wb_calc_thresh() and wb_dirty to wb_thresh. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make bdi_start_background_writeback() take bdi_writeback instead ↵Tejun Heo
of backing_dev_info bdi_start_background_writeback() currently takes @bdi and kicks the root wb (bdi_writeback). In preparation for cgroup writeback support, make it take wb instead. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make writeback_in_progress() take bdi_writeback instead of ↵Tejun Heo
backing_dev_info writeback_in_progress() currently takes @bdi and returns whether writeback is in progress on its root wb (bdi_writeback). In preparation for cgroup writeback support, make it take wb instead. While at it, make it an inline function. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make laptop_mode_timer_fn() handle multiple bdi_writeback'sTejun Heo
For cgroup writeback support, all bdi-wide operations should be distributed to all its wb's (bdi_writeback's). This patch updates laptop_mode_timer_fn() so that it invokes wb_start_writeback() on all wb's rather than just the root one. As the intent is writing out all dirty data, there's no reason to split the number of pages to write. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: remove bdi_start_writeback()Tejun Heo
bdi_start_writeback() is a thin wrapper on top of __wb_start_writeback() which is used only by laptop_mode_timer_fn(). This patches removes bdi_start_writeback(), renames __wb_start_writeback() to wb_start_writeback() and makes laptop_mode_timer_fn() use it instead. This doesn't cause any functional difference and will ease making laptop_mode_timer_fn() cgroup writeback aware. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make bdi->min/max_ratio handling cgroup writeback awareTejun Heo
bdi->min/max_ratio are user-configurable per-bdi knobs which regulate dirty limit of each bdi. For cgroup writeback, they need to be further distributed across wb's (bdi_writeback's) belonging to the configured bdi. This patch introduces wb_min_max_ratio() which distributes bdi->min/max_ratio according to a wb's proportion in the total active bandwidth of its bdi. v2: Update wb_min_max_ratio() to fix a bug where both min and max were assigned the min value and avoid calculations when possible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make bdi_has_dirty_io() take multiple bdi_writeback's into accountTejun Heo
bdi_has_dirty_io() used to only reflect whether the root wb (bdi_writeback) has dirty inodes. For cgroup writeback support, it needs to take all active wb's into account. If any wb on the bdi has dirty inodes, bdi_has_dirty_io() should return true. To achieve that, as inode_wb_list_{move|del}_locked() now keep track of the dirty state transition of each wb, the number of dirty wbs can be counted in the bdi; however, bdi is already aggregating wb->avg_write_bandwidth which can easily be guaranteed to be > 0 when there are any dirty inodes by ensuring wb->avg_write_bandwidth can't dip below 1. bdi_has_dirty_io() can simply test whether bdi->tot_write_bandwidth is zero or not. While this bumps the value of wb->avg_write_bandwidth to one when it used to be zero, this shouldn't cause any meaningful behavior difference. bdi_has_dirty_io() is made an inline function which tests whether ->tot_write_bandwidth is non-zero. Also, WARN_ON_ONCE()'s on its value are added to inode_wb_list_{move|del}_locked(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: implement backing_dev_info->tot_write_bandwidthTejun Heo
cgroup writeback support needs to keep track of the sum of avg_write_bandwidth of all wb's (bdi_writeback's) with dirty inodes to distribute write workload. This patch adds bdi->tot_write_bandwidth and updates inode_wb_list_move_locked(), inode_wb_list_del_locked() and wb_update_write_bandwidth() to adjust it as wb's gain and lose dirty inodes and its avg_write_bandwidth gets updated. As the update events are not synchronized with each other, bdi->tot_write_bandwidth is an atomic_long_t. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: let balance_dirty_pages() work on the matching cgroup bdi_writebackTejun Heo
Currently, balance_dirty_pages() always work on bdi->wb. This patch updates it to work on the wb (bdi_writeback) matching memcg and blkcg of the current task as that's what the inode is being dirtied against. balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() now pins the current wb and passes it to balance_dirty_pages(). As no filesystem has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK yet, this doesn't lead to visible behavior differences. v2: Updated for per-inode wb association. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: attribute stats to the matching per-cgroup bdi_writebackTejun Heo
Until now, all WB_* stats were accounted against the root wb (bdi_writeback), now that multiple wb (bdi_writeback) support is in place, let's attributes the stats to the respective per-cgroup wb's. As no filesystem has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK yet, this doesn't lead to visible behavior differences. v2: Updated for per-inode wb association. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacksTejun Heo
For the planned cgroup writeback support, on each bdi (backing_dev_info), each memcg will be served by a separate wb (bdi_writeback). This patch updates bdi so that a bdi can host multiple wbs (bdi_writebacks). On the default hierarchy, blkcg implicitly enables memcg. This allows using memcg's page ownership for attributing writeback IOs, and every memcg - blkcg combination can be served by its own wb by assigning a dedicated wb to each memcg. This means that there may be multiple wb's of a bdi mapped to the same blkcg. As congested state is per blkcg - bdi combination, those wb's should share the same congested state. This is achieved by tracking congested state via bdi_writeback_congested structs which are keyed by blkcg. bdi->wb remains unchanged and will keep serving the root cgroup. cgwb's (cgroup wb's) for non-root cgroups are created on-demand or looked up while dirtying an inode according to the memcg of the page being dirtied or current task. Each cgwb is indexed on bdi->cgwb_tree by its memcg id. Once an inode is associated with its wb, it can be retrieved using inode_to_wb(). Currently, none of the filesystems has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK and all pages will keep being associated with bdi->wb. v3: inode_attach_wb() in account_page_dirtied() moved inside mapping_cap_account_dirty() block where it's known to be !NULL. Also, an unnecessary NULL check before kfree() removed. Both detected by the kbuild bot. v2: Updated so that wb association is per inode and wb is per memcg rather than blkcg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: s/bdi/wb/ in mm/page-writeback.cTejun Heo
Writeback operations will now be per wb (bdi_writeback) instead of bdi. Replace the relevant bdi references in symbol names and comments with wb. This patch is purely cosmetic and doesn't make any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: move bandwidth related fields from backing_dev_info into ↵Tejun Heo
bdi_writeback Currently, a bdi (backing_dev_info) embeds single wb (bdi_writeback) and the role of the separation is unclear. For cgroup support for writeback IOs, a bdi will be updated to host multiple wb's where each wb serves writeback IOs of a different cgroup on the bdi. To achieve that, a wb should carry all states necessary for servicing writeback IOs for a cgroup independently. This patch moves bandwidth related fields from backing_dev_info into bdi_writeback. * The moved fields are: bw_time_stamp, dirtied_stamp, written_stamp, write_bandwidth, avg_write_bandwidth, dirty_ratelimit, balanced_dirty_ratelimit, completions and dirty_exceeded. * writeback_chunk_size() and over_bground_thresh() now take @wb instead of @bdi. * bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, ...) -> wb_writeout_fraction(wb, ...) bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, ...) -> wb_dirty_limit(wb, ...) bdi_position_ration(bdi, ...) -> wb_position_ratio(wb, ...) bdi_update_writebandwidth(bdi, ...) -> wb_update_write_bandwidth(wb, ...) [__]bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, ...) -> [__]wb_update_bandwidth(wb, ...) bdi_{max|min}_pause(bdi, ...) -> wb_{max|min}_pause(wb, ...) bdi_dirty_limits(bdi, ...) -> wb_dirty_limits(wb, ...) * Init/exits of the relocated fields are moved to bdi_wb_init/exit() respectively. Note that explicit zeroing is dropped in the process as wb's are cleared in entirety anyway. * As there's still only one bdi_writeback per backing_dev_info, all uses of bdi->stat[] are mechanically replaced with bdi->wb.stat[] introducing no behavior changes. v2: Typo in description fixed as suggested by Jan. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02writeback: move backing_dev_info->bdi_stat[] into bdi_writebackTejun Heo
Currently, a bdi (backing_dev_info) embeds single wb (bdi_writeback) and the role of the separation is unclear. For cgroup support for writeback IOs, a bdi will be updated to host multiple wb's where each wb serves writeback IOs of a different cgroup on the bdi. To achieve that, a wb should carry all states necessary for servicing writeback IOs for a cgroup independently. This patch moves bdi->bdi_stat[] into wb. * enum bdi_stat_item is renamed to wb_stat_item and the prefix of all enums is changed from BDI_ to WB_. * BDI_STAT_BATCH() -> WB_STAT_BATCH() * [__]{add|inc|dec|sum}_wb_stat(bdi, ...) -> [__]{add|inc}_wb_stat(wb, ...) * bdi_stat[_error]() -> wb_stat[_error]() * bdi_writeout_inc() -> wb_writeout_inc() * stat init is moved to bdi_wb_init() and bdi_wb_exit() is added and frees stat. * As there's still only one bdi_writeback per backing_dev_info, all uses of bdi->stat[] are mechanically replaced with bdi->wb.stat[] introducing no behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accountingGreg Thelen
When modifying PG_Dirty on cached file pages, update the new MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY counter. This is done in the same places where global NR_FILE_DIRTY is managed. The new memcg stat is visible in the per memcg memory.stat cgroupfs file. The most recent past attempt at this was http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8632 The new accounting supports future efforts to add per cgroup dirty page throttling and writeback. It also helps an administrator break down a container's memory usage and provides evidence to understand memcg oom kills (the new dirty count is included in memcg oom kill messages). The ability to move page accounting between memcg (memory.move_charge_at_immigrate) makes this accounting more complicated than the global counter. The existing mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat() lock is used to serialize move accounting with stat updates. Typical update operation: memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page) if (TestSetPageDirty()) { [...] mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(memcg) } mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg) Summary of mem_cgroup_end_page_stat() overhead: - Without CONFIG_MEMCG it's a no-op - With CONFIG_MEMCG and no inter memcg task movement, it's just rcu_read_lock() - With CONFIG_MEMCG and inter memcg task movement, it's rcu_read_lock() + spin_lock_irqsave() A memcg parameter is added to several routines because their callers now grab mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() which returns the memcg later needed by for mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(). Because mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() may disable interrupts, some adjustments are needed: - move __mark_inode_dirty() from __set_page_dirty() to its caller. __mark_inode_dirty() locking does not want interrupts disabled. - use spin_lock_irqsave(tree_lock) rather than spin_lock_irq() in __delete_from_page_cache(), replace_page_cache_page(), invalidate_complete_page2(), and __remove_mapping(). text data bss dec hex filename 8925147 1774832 1785856 12485835 be84cb vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-before 8925339 1774832 1785856 12486027 be858b vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-after +192 text bytes 8965977 1784992 1785856 12536825 bf4bf9 vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-before 8966750 1784992 1785856 12537598 bf4efe vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-after +773 text bytes Performance tests run on v4.0-rc1-36-g4f671fe2f952. Lower is better for all metrics, they're all wall clock or cycle counts. The read and write fault benchmarks just measure fault time, they do not include I/O time. * CONFIG_MEMCG not set: baseline patched kbuild 1m25.030000(+-0.088% 3 samples) 1m25.426667(+-0.120% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.859211561 +-15.10% 0.874162885 +-15.03% dd write 200 MiB 1.670653105 +-17.87% 1.669384764 +-11.99% dd write 1000 MiB 8.434691190 +-14.15% 8.474733215 +-14.77% read fault cycles 254.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) 253.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2021.2(+-3.070% 10 samples) 1984.5(+-1.036% 10 samples) * CONFIG_MEMCG=y root_memcg: baseline patched kbuild 1m25.716667(+-0.105% 3 samples) 1m25.686667(+-0.153% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.855650830 +-14.90% 0.887557919 +-14.90% dd write 200 MiB 1.688322953 +-12.72% 1.667682724 +-13.33% dd write 1000 MiB 8.418601605 +-14.30% 8.673532299 +-15.00% read fault cycles 266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) 266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2051.7(+-1.349% 10 samples) 2049.6(+-1.686% 10 samples) * CONFIG_MEMCG=y non-root_memcg: baseline patched kbuild 1m26.120000(+-0.273% 3 samples) 1m25.763333(+-0.127% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.861723964 +-15.25% 0.818129350 +-14.82% dd write 200 MiB 1.669887569 +-13.30% 1.698645885 +-13.27% dd write 1000 MiB 8.383191730 +-14.65% 8.351742280 +-14.52% read fault cycles 265.7(+-0.172% 10 samples) 267.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2070.6(+-1.512% 10 samples) 2084.4(+-2.148% 10 samples) As expected anon page faults are not affected by this patch. tj: Updated to apply on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() changes. Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02page_writeback: revive cancel_dirty_page() in a restricted formTejun Heo
cancel_dirty_page() had some issues and b9ea25152e56 ("page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page()") replaced it with account_page_cleaned() which makes the caller responsible for clearing the dirty bit; unfortunately, the planned changes for cgroup writeback support requires synchronization between dirty bit manipulation and stat updates. While we can open-code such synchronization in each account_page_cleaned() callsite, that's gonna be unnecessarily awkward and verbose. This patch revives cancel_dirty_page() but in a more restricted form. All it does is TestClearPageDirty() followed by account_page_cleaned() invocation if the page was dirty. This helper covers all account_page_cleaned() usages except for __delete_from_page_cache() which is a special case anyway and left alone. As this leaves no module user for account_page_cleaned(), EXPORT_SYMBOL() is dropped from it. This patch just revives cancel_dirty_page() as a trivial wrapper to replace equivalent usages and doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-04-23writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zeroTejun Heo
mm/page-writeback.c has several places where 1 is added to the divisor to prevent division by zero exceptions; however, if the original divisor is equivalent to -1, adding 1 leads to division by zero. There are three places where +1 is used for this purpose - one in pos_ratio_polynom() and two in bdi_position_ratio(). The second one in bdi_position_ratio() actually triggered div-by-zero oops on a machine running a 3.10 kernel. The divisor is x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1 == span + 1 span is confirmed to be (u32)-1. It isn't clear how it ended up that but it could be from write bandwidth calculation underflow fixed by c72efb658f7c ("writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation"). At any rate, +1 isn't a proper protection against div-by-zero. This patch converts all +1 protections to |1. Note that bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() was already using |1 before this patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-04-15mm/page-writeback: check-before-clear PageReclaimNaoya Horiguchi
With the page flag sanitization patchset, an invalid usage of ClearPageReclaim() is detected in set_page_dirty(). This can be called from __unmap_hugepage_range(), so let's check PageReclaim() before trying to clear it to avoid the misuse. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: 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>
2015-04-14page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page()Konstantin Khlebnikov
This patch replaces cancel_dirty_page() with a helper function account_page_cleaned() which only updates counters. It's called from truncate_complete_page() and from try_to_free_buffers() (hack for ext3). Page is locked in both cases, page-lock protects against concurrent dirtiers: see commit 2d6d7f982846 ("mm: protect set_page_dirty() from ongoing truncation"). Delete_from_page_cache() shouldn't be called for dirty pages, they must be handled by caller (either written or truncated). This patch treats final dirty accounting fixup at the end of __delete_from_page_cache() as a debug check and adds WARN_ON_ONCE() around it. If something removes dirty pages without proper handling that might be a bug and unwritten data might be lost. Hugetlbfs has no dirty pages accounting, ClearPageDirty() is enough here. cancel_dirty_page() in nfs_wb_page_cancel() is redundant. This is helper for nfs_invalidate_page() and it's called only in case complete invalidation. The mess was started in v2.6.20 after commits 46d2277c796f ("Clean up and make try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages") and 3e67c0987d75 ("truncate: clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()") first was reverted right in v2.6.20 in commit ecdfc9787fe5 ("Resurrect 'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackery"), second in v2.6.25 commit a2b345642f53 ("Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal"). Custom fixes were introduced between these points. NFS in v2.6.23, commit 1b3b4a1a2deb ("NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_page()"). Kludge in __delete_from_page_cache() in v2.6.24, commit 3a6927906f1b ("Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cache"). Since v2.6.25 all of them are redundant. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-03-23writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculationTejun Heo
From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty") introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing. bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the basis for bandwidth calculation. While unlikely, since the above patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and underflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result. Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating delta. AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported. The risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Fixes: 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-03-04writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()Tejun Heo
global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to INITIALIZE_JIFFIES. This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on 32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit. This isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines, especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role - protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior. Fix it. Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-12Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe: "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in preparation for a rework of the life time rules. In this part, the most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits. Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that have a swap backing. Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the lustre backing_dev_info from staging. Last patch was from Al, unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside" * 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: Make super_blocks and sb_lock static mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info fs: remove default_backing_dev_info fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info nfs: don't call bdi_unregister ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device block_dev: only write bdev inode on close fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info
2015-02-11page_writeback: put account_page_redirty() after set_page_dirty()Konstantin Khebnikov
Helper account_page_redirty() fixes dirty pages counter for redirtied pages. This patch puts it after dirtying and prevents temporary underflows of dirtied pages counters on zone/bdi and current->nr_dirtied. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11mm: memcontrol: track move_lock state internallyJohannes Weiner
The complexity of memcg page stat synchronization is currently leaking into the callsites, forcing them to keep track of the move_lock state and the IRQ flags. Simplify the API by tracking it in the memcg. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.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>
2015-01-20fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_infoChristoph Hellwig
Now that we got rid of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block device special case. Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of mapping->backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>