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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 10:08:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 10:08:28 -0700
commit14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61 (patch)
tree5cdcf5d2f06ca14be76efd33a4de0e3b28a70de0 /mm/page-writeback.c
parenta9c9a6f741cdaa2fa9ba24a790db8d07295761e3 (diff)
parentd5fffc5aff269717a035baa087630adca612a6c4 (diff)
downloadlinux-14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "173 patches. Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap, bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock, oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits) mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated() selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test mm: KSM: fix data type selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test selftests: vm: add KSM merge test mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease mm: introduce process_mrelease system call memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node() mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c121
1 files changed, 83 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index c12f67cbfa19..4812a17b288c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static struct fprop_local_percpu *wb_memcg_completions(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
unsigned long *minp, unsigned long *maxp)
{
- unsigned long this_bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long this_bw = READ_ONCE(wb->avg_write_bandwidth);
unsigned long tot_bw = atomic_long_read(&wb->bdi->tot_write_bandwidth);
unsigned long long min = wb->bdi->min_ratio;
unsigned long long max = wb->bdi->max_ratio;
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint,
static void wb_position_ratio(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc)
{
struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb;
- unsigned long write_bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long write_bw = READ_ONCE(wb->avg_write_bandwidth);
unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dtc->thresh, dtc->bg_thresh);
unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(dtc_dom(dtc), dtc->thresh);
unsigned long wb_thresh = dtc->wb_thresh;
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ out:
&wb->bdi->tot_write_bandwidth) <= 0);
}
wb->write_bandwidth = bw;
- wb->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
+ WRITE_ONCE(wb->avg_write_bandwidth, avg);
}
static void update_dirty_limit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc)
@@ -1147,8 +1147,8 @@ update:
dom->dirty_limit = limit;
}
-static void domain_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
- unsigned long now)
+static void domain_update_dirty_limit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
+ unsigned long now)
{
struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc);
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ static void wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
else
dirty_ratelimit -= step;
- wb->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
+ WRITE_ONCE(wb->dirty_ratelimit, max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL));
wb->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(wb, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit);
@@ -1332,35 +1332,28 @@ static void wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
static void __wb_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc,
struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc,
- unsigned long start_time,
bool update_ratelimit)
{
struct bdi_writeback *wb = gdtc->wb;
unsigned long now = jiffies;
- unsigned long elapsed = now - wb->bw_time_stamp;
+ unsigned long elapsed;
unsigned long dirtied;
unsigned long written;
- lockdep_assert_held(&wb->list_lock);
+ spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
/*
- * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
+ * Lockless checks for elapsed time are racy and delayed update after
+ * IO completion doesn't do it at all (to make sure written pages are
+ * accounted reasonably quickly). Make sure elapsed >= 1 to avoid
+ * division errors.
*/
- if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
- return;
-
+ elapsed = max(now - wb->bw_time_stamp, 1UL);
dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&wb->stat[WB_DIRTIED]);
written = percpu_counter_read(&wb->stat[WB_WRITTEN]);
- /*
- * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
- * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
- */
- if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(wb->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
- goto snapshot;
-
if (update_ratelimit) {
- domain_update_bandwidth(gdtc, now);
+ domain_update_dirty_limit(gdtc, now);
wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(gdtc, dirtied, elapsed);
/*
@@ -1368,23 +1361,41 @@ static void __wb_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc,
* compiler has no way to figure that out. Help it.
*/
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK) && mdtc) {
- domain_update_bandwidth(mdtc, now);
+ domain_update_dirty_limit(mdtc, now);
wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(mdtc, dirtied, elapsed);
}
}
wb_update_write_bandwidth(wb, elapsed, written);
-snapshot:
wb->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
wb->written_stamp = written;
- wb->bw_time_stamp = now;
+ WRITE_ONCE(wb->bw_time_stamp, now);
+ spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
}
-void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long start_time)
+void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
{
struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc = { GDTC_INIT(wb) };
- __wb_update_bandwidth(&gdtc, NULL, start_time, false);
+ __wb_update_bandwidth(&gdtc, NULL, false);
+}
+
+/* Interval after which we consider wb idle and don't estimate bandwidth */
+#define WB_BANDWIDTH_IDLE_JIF (HZ)
+
+static void wb_bandwidth_estimate_start(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
+{
+ unsigned long now = jiffies;
+ unsigned long elapsed = now - READ_ONCE(wb->bw_time_stamp);
+
+ if (elapsed > WB_BANDWIDTH_IDLE_JIF &&
+ !atomic_read(&wb->writeback_inodes)) {
+ spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
+ wb->dirtied_stamp = wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED);
+ wb->written_stamp = wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITTEN);
+ WRITE_ONCE(wb->bw_time_stamp, now);
+ spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
+ }
}
/*
@@ -1407,7 +1418,7 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
static unsigned long wb_max_pause(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
unsigned long wb_dirty)
{
- unsigned long bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long bw = READ_ONCE(wb->avg_write_bandwidth);
unsigned long t;
/*
@@ -1429,8 +1440,8 @@ static long wb_min_pause(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
unsigned long dirty_ratelimit,
int *nr_dirtied_pause)
{
- long hi = ilog2(wb->avg_write_bandwidth);
- long lo = ilog2(wb->dirty_ratelimit);
+ long hi = ilog2(READ_ONCE(wb->avg_write_bandwidth));
+ long lo = ilog2(READ_ONCE(wb->dirty_ratelimit));
long t; /* target pause */
long pause; /* estimated next pause */
int pages; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */
@@ -1710,15 +1721,12 @@ free_running:
if (dirty_exceeded && !wb->dirty_exceeded)
wb->dirty_exceeded = 1;
- if (time_is_before_jiffies(wb->bw_time_stamp +
- BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
- spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
- __wb_update_bandwidth(gdtc, mdtc, start_time, true);
- spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
- }
+ if (time_is_before_jiffies(READ_ONCE(wb->bw_time_stamp) +
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
+ __wb_update_bandwidth(gdtc, mdtc, true);
/* throttle according to the chosen dtc */
- dirty_ratelimit = wb->dirty_ratelimit;
+ dirty_ratelimit = READ_ONCE(wb->dirty_ratelimit);
task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * sdtc->pos_ratio) >>
RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
max_pause = wb_max_pause(wb, sdtc->wb_dirty);
@@ -2345,9 +2353,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
int ret;
+ struct bdi_writeback *wb;
if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
return 0;
+ wb = inode_to_wb_wbc(mapping->host, wbc);
+ wb_bandwidth_estimate_start(wb);
while (1) {
if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
@@ -2358,6 +2369,14 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
cond_resched();
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
}
+ /*
+ * Usually few pages are written by now from those we've just submitted
+ * but if there's constant writeback being submitted, this makes sure
+ * writeback bandwidth is updated once in a while.
+ */
+ if (time_is_before_jiffies(READ_ONCE(wb->bw_time_stamp) +
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
+ wb_update_bandwidth(wb);
return ret;
}
@@ -2729,6 +2748,24 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
+static void wb_inode_writeback_start(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&wb->writeback_inodes);
+}
+
+static void wb_inode_writeback_end(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
+{
+ atomic_dec(&wb->writeback_inodes);
+ /*
+ * Make sure estimate of writeback throughput gets updated after
+ * writeback completed. We delay the update by BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
+ * (which is the interval other bandwidth updates use for batching) so
+ * that if multiple inodes end writeback at a similar time, they get
+ * batched into one bandwidth update.
+ */
+ queue_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->bw_dwork, BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL);
+}
+
int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
@@ -2750,6 +2787,9 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
__wb_writeout_inc(wb);
+ if (!mapping_tagged(mapping,
+ PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
+ wb_inode_writeback_end(wb);
}
}
@@ -2792,8 +2832,13 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
xas_set_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
- if (bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT)
- inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode), WB_WRITEBACK);
+ if (bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT) {
+ struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_to_wb(inode);
+
+ inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
+ if (!on_wblist)
+ wb_inode_writeback_start(wb);
+ }
/*
* We can come through here when swapping anonymous