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2021-01-13fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode()Eric Biggers1-24/+33
Some comments for writeback_single_inode() and __writeback_single_inode() are outdated or not very helpful, especially with regards to writeback list handling. Update them. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-10-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-13fs: drop redundant check from __writeback_single_inode()Eric Biggers1-1/+1
wbc->for_sync implies wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL, so there's no need to check for both. Just check for WB_SYNC_ALL. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-9-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-13fs: clean up __mark_inode_dirty() a bitEric Biggers1-19/+30
Improve some comments, and don't bother checking for the I_DIRTY_TIME flag in the case where we just cleared it. Also, warn if I_DIRTY_TIME and I_DIRTY_PAGES are passed to __mark_inode_dirty() at the same time, as this case isn't handled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-8-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-13fs: pass only I_DIRTY_INODE flags to ->dirty_inodeEric Biggers1-1/+1
->dirty_inode is now only called when I_DIRTY_INODE (I_DIRTY_SYNC and/or I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) is set. However it may still be passed other dirty flags at the same time, provided that these other flags happened to be passed to __mark_inode_dirty() at the same time as I_DIRTY_INODE. This doesn't make sense because there is no reason for filesystems to care about these extra flags. Nor are filesystems notified about all updates to these other flags. Therefore, mask the flags before passing them to ->dirty_inode. Also properly document ->dirty_inode in vfs.rst. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-7-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-13fs: don't call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updatesEric Biggers1-3/+3
There is no need to call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates (i.e. for __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_TIME)), since by the definition of lazytime, filesystems must ignore these updates. Filesystems only need to care about the updated timestamps when they expire. Therefore, only call ->dirty_inode when I_DIRTY_INODE is set. Based on a patch from Christoph Hellwig: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325122825.1086872-4-hch@lst.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-6-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-13fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode()Eric Biggers1-11/+13
When lazytime is enabled and an inode is being written due to its in-memory updated timestamps having expired, either due to a sync() or syncfs() system call or due to dirtytime_expire_interval having elapsed, the VFS needs to inform the filesystem so that the filesystem can copy the inode's timestamps out to the on-disk data structures. This is done by __writeback_single_inode() calling mark_inode_dirty_sync(), which then calls ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC). However, this occurs after __writeback_single_inode() has already cleared the dirty flags from ->i_state. This causes two bugs: - mark_inode_dirty_sync() redirties the inode, causing it to remain dirty. This wastefully causes the inode to be written twice. But more importantly, it breaks cases where sync_filesystem() is expected to clean dirty inodes. This includes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl (as reported at https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@gmail.com), as well as possibly filesystem freezing (freeze_super()). - Since ->i_state doesn't contain I_DIRTY_TIME when ->dirty_inode() is called from __writeback_single_inode() for lazytime expiration, xfs_fs_dirty_inode() ignores the notification. (XFS only cares about lazytime expirations, and it assumes that i_state will contain I_DIRTY_TIME during those.) Therefore, lazy timestamps aren't persisted by sync(), syncfs(), or dirtytime_expire_interval on XFS. Fix this by moving the call to mark_inode_dirty_sync() to earlier in __writeback_single_inode(), before the dirty flags are cleared from i_state. This makes filesystems be properly notified of the timestamp expiration, and it avoids incorrectly redirtying the inode. This fixes xfstest generic/580 (which tests FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY) when run on ext4 or f2fs with lazytime enabled. It also fixes the new lazytime xfstest I've proposed, which reproduces the above-mentioned XFS bug (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005818.92978-1-ebiggers@kernel.org). Alternatively, we could call ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC) directly. But due to the introduction of I_SYNC_QUEUED, mark_inode_dirty_sync() is the right thing to do because mark_inode_dirty_sync() now knows not to move the inode to a writeback list if it is currently queued for sync. Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Depends-on: 5afced3bf281 ("writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-2-ebiggers@kernel.org Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-12-16writeback: don't warn on an unregistered BDI in __mark_inode_dirtyChristoph Hellwig1-4/+0
BDIs get unregistered during device removal, and this WARN can be trivially triggered by hot-removing a NVMe device while running fsx It is otherwise harmless as we still hold a BDI reference, and the writeback has been shut down already. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200928122613.434820-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-10-13Merge tag 'block-5.10-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+4
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - Series of merge handling cleanups (Baolin, Christoph) - Series of blk-throttle fixes and cleanups (Baolin) - Series cleaning up BDI, seperating the block device from the backing_dev_info (Christoph) - Removal of bdget() as a generic API (Christoph) - Removal of blkdev_get() as a generic API (Christoph) - Cleanup of is-partition checks (Christoph) - Series reworking disk revalidation (Christoph) - Series cleaning up bio flags (Christoph) - bio crypt fixes (Eric) - IO stats inflight tweak (Gabriel) - blk-mq tags fixes (Hannes) - Buffer invalidation fixes (Jan) - Allow soft limits for zone append (Johannes) - Shared tag set improvements (John, Kashyap) - Allow IOPRIO_CLASS_RT for CAP_SYS_NICE (Khazhismel) - DM no-wait support (Mike, Konstantin) - Request allocation improvements (Ming) - Allow md/dm/bcache to use IO stat helpers (Song) - Series improving blk-iocost (Tejun) - Various cleanups (Geert, Damien, Danny, Julia, Tetsuo, Tian, Wang, Xianting, Yang, Yufen, yangerkun) * tag 'block-5.10-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (191 commits) block: fix uapi blkzoned.h comments blk-mq: move cancel of hctx->run_work to the front of blk_exit_queue blk-mq: get rid of the dead flush handle code path block: get rid of unnecessary local variable block: fix comment and add lockdep assert blk-mq: use helper function to test hw stopped block: use helper function to test queue register block: remove redundant mq check block: invoke blk_mq_exit_sched no matter whether have .exit_sched percpu_ref: don't refer to ref->data if it isn't allocated block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message blk-throttle: Re-use the throtl_set_slice_end() blk-throttle: Open code __throtl_de/enqueue_tg() blk-throttle: Move service tree validation out of the throtl_rb_first() blk-throttle: Move the list operation after list validation blk-throttle: Fix IO hang for a corner case blk-throttle: Avoid tracking latency if low limit is invalid blk-throttle: Avoid getting the current time if tg->last_finish_time is 0 blk-throttle: Remove a meaningless parameter for throtl_downgrade_state() block: Remove redundant 'return' statement ...
2020-09-24bdi: replace BDI_CAP_NO_{WRITEBACK,ACCT_DIRTY} with a single flagChristoph Hellwig1-3/+4
Replace the two negative flags that are always used together with a single positive flag that indicates the writeback capability instead of two related non-capabilities. Also remove the pointless wrappers to just check the flag. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-09-19fs/fs-writeback.c: adjust dirtytime_interval_handler definition to match ↵Tobias Klauser1-1/+1
prototype Commit 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the definition of dirtytime_interval_handler to match its prototype in linux/writeback.h which fixes the following sparse error/warning: fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces) fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: expected void * fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: got void [noderef] __user *buffer fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: error: symbol 'dirtytime_interval_handler' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)): fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... ) fs/fs-writeback.c: note: in included file: ./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: note: previously declared as: ./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... ) Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907093140.13434-1-tklauser@distanz.ch Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-15writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIREJan Kara1-17/+11
The only use of I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE is to detect in __writeback_single_inode() that inode got there because flush worker decided it's time to writeback the dirty inode time stamps (either because we are syncing or because of age). However we can detect this directly in __writeback_single_inode() and there's no need for the strange propagation with I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE flag. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-06-15writeback: Fix sync livelock due to b_dirty_time processingJan Kara1-27/+17
When we are processing writeback for sync(2), move_expired_inodes() didn't set any inode expiry value (older_than_this). This can result in writeback never completing if there's steady stream of inodes added to b_dirty_time list as writeback rechecks dirty lists after each writeback round whether there's more work to be done. Fix the problem by using sync(2) start time is inode expiry value when processing b_dirty_time list similarly as for ordinarily dirtied inodes. This requires some refactoring of older_than_this handling which simplifies the code noticeably as a bonus. Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-06-15writeback: Avoid skipping inode writebackJan Kara1-5/+12
Inode's i_io_list list head is used to attach inode to several different lists - wb->{b_dirty, b_dirty_time, b_io, b_more_io}. When flush worker prepares a list of inodes to writeback e.g. for sync(2), it moves inodes to b_io list. Thus it is critical for sync(2) data integrity guarantees that inode is not requeued to any other writeback list when inode is queued for processing by flush worker. That's the reason why writeback_single_inode() does not touch i_io_list (unless the inode is completely clean) and why __mark_inode_dirty() does not touch i_io_list if I_SYNC flag is set. However there are two flaws in the current logic: 1) When inode has only I_DIRTY_TIME set but it is already queued in b_io list due to sync(2), concurrent __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC) can still move inode back to b_dirty list resulting in skipping writeback of inode time stamps during sync(2). 2) When inode is on b_dirty_time list and writeback_single_inode() races with __mark_inode_dirty() like: writeback_single_inode() __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_PAGES) inode->i_state |= I_SYNC __writeback_single_inode() inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES; if (inode->i_state & I_SYNC) bail if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)) - not true so nothing done We end up with I_DIRTY_PAGES inode on b_dirty_time list and thus standard background writeback will not writeback this inode leading to possible dirty throttling stalls etc. (thanks to Martijn Coenen for this analysis). Fix these problems by tracking whether inode is queued in b_io or b_more_io lists in a new I_SYNC_QUEUED flag. When this flag is set, we know flush worker has queued inode and we should not touch i_io_list. On the other hand we also know that once flush worker is done with the inode it will requeue the inode to appropriate dirty list. When I_SYNC_QUEUED is not set, __mark_inode_dirty() can (and must) move inode to appropriate dirty list. Reported-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Tested-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-06-15writeback: Protect inode->i_io_list with inode->i_lockJan Kara1-5/+17
Currently, operations on inode->i_io_list are protected by wb->list_lock. In the following patches we'll need to maintain consistency between inode->i_state and inode->i_io_list so change the code so that inode->i_lock protects also all inode's i_io_list handling. Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # Prerequisite for "writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback" Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-06-05Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "A lot of bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including: - Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the default, caused by transaction leaks. - Clean up fiemap handling in ext4 - Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code - Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been reserved by inode preallocation. - Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename() - Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code - Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to ext4_ext_dirty()'s and ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers. - Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set() - Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last in data=journal mode. - Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails - Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits) ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction starts during writeback ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set ext4: remove the access_ok() check in ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache fs: remove the access_ok() check in ioctl_fiemap fs: handle FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC in fiemap_prep fs: move fiemap range validation into the file systems instances iomap: fix the iomap_fiemap prototype fs: move the fiemap definitions out of fs.h fs: mark __generic_block_fiemap static ext4: remove the call to fiemap_check_flags in ext4_fiemap ext4: split _ext4_fiemap ext4: fix fiemap size checks for bitmap files ext4: fix EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK macro add comment for ext4_dir_entry_2 file_type member jbd2: avoid leaking transaction credits when unreserving handle ext4: drop ext4_journal_free_reserved() ext4: mballoc: use lock for checking free blocks while retrying ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_good_group() ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_discard_preallocations() ...
2020-06-03writeback: Export inode_io_list_del()Jan Kara1-0/+1
Ext4 needs to remove inode from writeback lists after it is out of visibility of its journalling machinery (which can still dirty the inode). Export inode_io_list_del() for it. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421085445.5731-3-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-06-02Merge tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: "Core block changes that have been queued up for this release: - Remove dead blk-throttle and blk-wbt code (Guoqing) - Include pid in blktrace note traces (Jan) - Don't spew I/O errors on wouldblock termination (me) - Zone append addition (Johannes, Keith, Damien) - IO accounting improvements (Konstantin, Christoph) - blk-mq hardware map update improvements (Ming) - Scheduler dispatch improvement (Salman) - Inline block encryption support (Satya) - Request map fixes and improvements (Weiping) - blk-iocost tweaks (Tejun) - Fix for timeout failing with error injection (Keith) - Queue re-run fixes (Douglas) - CPU hotplug improvements (Christoph) - Queue entry/exit improvements (Christoph) - Move DMA drain handling to the few drivers that use it (Christoph) - Partition handling cleanups (Christoph)" * tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (127 commits) block: mark bio_wouldblock_error() bio with BIO_QUIET blk-wbt: rename __wbt_update_limits to wbt_update_limits blk-wbt: remove wbt_update_limits blk-throttle: remove tg_drain_bios blk-throttle: remove blk_throtl_drain null_blk: force complete for timeout request blk-mq: drain I/O when all CPUs in a hctx are offline blk-mq: add blk_mq_all_tag_iter blk-mq: open code __blk_mq_alloc_request in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx blk-mq: use BLK_MQ_NO_TAG in more places blk-mq: rename BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL to BLK_MQ_NO_TAG blk-mq: move more request initialization to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init blk-mq: simplify the blk_mq_get_request calling convention blk-mq: remove the bio argument to ->prepare_request nvme: force complete cancelled requests blk-mq: blk-mq: provide forced completion method block: fix a warning when blkdev.h is included for !CONFIG_BLOCK builds block: blk-crypto-fallback: remove redundant initialization of variable err block: reduce part_stat_lock() scope block: use __this_cpu_add() instead of access by smp_processor_id() ...
2020-06-02mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK insteadNeilBrown1-1/+0
After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be re-written. These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a 'reclaimable' count. This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g. releasepage() used to send a COMMIT). However now that all writes generated by ->writepages() will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875 ("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more sense to treat them as writeback pages. So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK. A particular effect of this change is that when wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do about them anyway). Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput. With this patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average. Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as zero. static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this counter no longer report it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> [mm] Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-05-09bdi: remove the name field in struct backing_dev_infoChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
The name is only printed for a not registered bdi in writeback. Use the device name there as is more useful anyway for the unlike case that the warning triggers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-31memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappearsTheodore Ts'o1-1/+1
Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and bdi_writeback structures. In this world, things are fairly straightforward; the first thing bdi_unregister() does is to shutdown the bdi_writeback structure (or wb), and part of that writeback ensures that no other work queued against the wb, and that the wb is fully drained. With memcg, however, there is a one-to-many relationship between the bdi and bdi_writeback structures; that is, there are multiple wb objects which can all point to a single bdi. There is a refcount which prevents the bdi object from being released (and hence, unregistered). So in theory, the bdi_unregister() *should* only get called once its refcount goes to zero (bdi_put will drop the refcount, and when it is zero, release_bdi gets called, which calls bdi_unregister). Unfortunately, del_gendisk() in block/gen_hd.c never got the memo about the Brave New memcg World, and calls bdi_unregister directly. It does this without informing the file system, or the memcg code, or anything else. This causes the root wb associated with the bdi to be unregistered, but none of the memcg-specific wb's are shutdown. So when one of these wb's are woken up to do delayed work, they try to dereference their wb->bdi->dev to fetch the device name, but unfortunately bdi->dev is now NULL, thanks to the bdi_unregister() called by del_gendisk(). As a result, *boom*. Fortunately, it looks like the rest of the writeback path is perfectly happy with bdi->dev and bdi->owner being NULL, so the simplest fix is to create a bdi_dev_name() function which can handle bdi->dev being NULL. This also allows us to bulletproof the writeback tracepoints to prevent them from dereferencing a NULL pointer and crashing the kernel if one is tracing with memcg's enabled, and an iSCSI device dies or a USB storage stick is pulled. The most common way of triggering this will be hotremoval of a device while writeback with memcg enabled is going on. It was triggering several times a day in a heavily loaded production environment. Google Bug Id: 145475544 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227194829.150110-1-tytso@mit.edu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191228005211.163952-1-tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-08cgroup,writeback: don't switch wbs immediately on dead wbs if the memcg is deadTejun Heo1-3/+6
cgroup writeback tries to refresh the associated wb immediately if the current wb is dead. This is to avoid keeping issuing IOs on the stale wb after memcg - blkcg association has changed (ie. when blkcg got disabled / enabled higher up in the hierarchy). Unfortunately, the logic gets triggered spuriously on inodes which are associated with dead cgroups. When the logic is triggered on dead cgroups, the attempt fails only after doing quite a bit of work allocating and initializing a new wb. While c3aab9a0bd91 ("mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages") alleviated the issue significantly as it now only triggers when the inode has dirty pages. However, the condition can still be triggered before the inode is switched to a different cgroup and the logic simply doesn't make sense. Skip the immediate switching if the associated memcg is dying. This is a simplified version of the following two patches: * https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190513183053.GA73423@dennisz-mbp/ * http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156355839560.2063.5265687291430814589.stgit@buzz Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Fixes: e8a7abf5a5bd ("writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks") Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-10-14fs/fs-writeback.c: fix kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix kernel-doc warning in fs/fs-writeback.c: fs/fs-writeback.c:913: warning: Excess function parameter 'nr_pages' description in 'cgroup_writeback_by_id' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/756645ac-0ce8-d47e-d30a-04d9e4923a4f@infradead.org Fixes: d62241c7a406 ("writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id()") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-07writeback: fix use-after-free in finish_writeback_work()Tejun Heo1-2/+7
finish_writeback_work() reads @done->waitq after decrementing @done->cnt. However, once @done->cnt reaches zero, @done may be freed (from stack) at any moment and @done->waitq can contain something unrelated by the time finish_writeback_work() tries to read it. This led to the following crash. "BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002" #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CPU: 40 PID: 555153 Comm: kworker/u98:50 Kdump: loaded Not tainted ... Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-1) RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x30 Code: 48 89 d8 5b c3 e8 50 db 6b ff eb f4 0f 1f 40 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 9c 5b fa 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 75 05 48 89 d8 5b c3 89 c6 e8 fe ca 6b ff eb f2 66 90 RSP: 0018:ffffc90049b27d98 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffff889fff407600 R11: ffff88ba9395d740 R12: 000000000000e300 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bfdfa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 0000000002409005 CR4: 00000000001606e0 Call Trace: __wake_up_common_lock+0x63/0xc0 wb_workfn+0xd2/0x3e0 process_one_work+0x1f5/0x3f0 worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0 kthread+0x111/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Fix it by reading and caching @done->waitq before decrementing @done->cnt. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924010631.GH2233839@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com Fixes: 5b9cce4c7eb069 ("writeback: Generalize and expose wb_completion") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Debugged-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-08-30writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacksTejun Heo1-0/+5
cgroup foreign inode handling has quite a bit of heuristics and internal states which sometimes makes it difficult to understand what's going on. Add tracepoints to improve visibility. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-27writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id()Tejun Heo1-0/+83
Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id() which initiates cgroup writeback from bdi and memcg IDs. This will be used by memcg foreign inode flushing. v2: Use wb_get_lookup() instead of wb_get_create() to avoid creating spurious wbs. v3: Interpret 0 @nr as 1.25 * nr_dirty to implement best-effort flushing while avoding possible livelocks. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-27writeback: Generalize and expose wb_completionTejun Heo1-33/+14
wb_completion is used to track writeback completions. We want to use it from memcg side for foreign inode flushes. This patch updates it to remember the target waitq instead of assuming bdi->wb_waitq and expose it outside of fs-writeback.c. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-15writeback, cgroup: inode_switch_wbs() shouldn't give up on wb_switch_rwsem ↵Tejun Heo1-12/+5
trylock fail As inode wb switching may make sync(2) miss some inodes, they're synchronized using wb_switch_rwsem so that no wb switching happens while sync(2) is in progress. In addition to synchronizing the actual switching, the rwsem is also used to prevent queueing new switch attempts while sync(2) is in progress. This is to avoid queueing too many instances while the rwsem is held by sync(2). Unfortunately, this is too agressive and can block wb switching for a long time if sync(2) is frequent. The goal is avoiding expolding the number of scheduled switches, not avoiding scheduling anything. Let's use wb_switch_rwsem only for synchronizing the actual switching and sync(2) and use isw_nr_in_flight instead for limiting the maximum number of scheduled switches. The limit is set to 1024 which should be more than enough while still avoiding extreme situations. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-15writeback, cgroup: Adjust WB_FRN_TIME_CUT_DIV to accelerate foreign inode ↵Tejun Heo1-2/+20
switching WB_FRN_TIME_CUT_DIV is used to tell the foreign inode detection logic to ignore short writeback rounds to prevent getting confused by a burst of short writebacks. The parameter is currently 2 meaning that anything smaller than half of the running average writback duration will be ignored. This is unnecessarily aggressive. The detection logic uses 16 history slots and is already reasonably protected against some short bursts confusing it and the current parameter can lead to tens of seconds of missed detection depending on the writeback pattern. Let's change the parameter to 8, so that it only ignores writeback with are smaller than 12.5% of the current running average. v2: Add comment explaining what's going on with the foreign detection parameters. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-07-10blkcg, writeback: Add wbc->no_cgroup_ownerTejun Heo1-1/+1
When writeback IOs are bounced through async layers, the IOs should only be accounted against the wbc from the original bdi writeback to avoid confusing cgroup inode ownership arbitration. Add wbc->no_cgroup_owner to allow disabling wbc cgroup owner accounting. This will be used make btrfs compression work well with cgroup IO control. v2: Renamed from no_wbc_acct to no_cgroup_owner and added comment as per Jan. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-07-10blkcg, writeback: Rename wbc_account_io() to wbc_account_cgroup_owner()Tejun Heo1-4/+4
wbc_account_io() does a very specific job - try to see which cgroup is actually dirtying an inode and transfer its ownership to the majority dirtier if needed. The name is too generic and confusing. Let's rename it to something more specific. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-07-10cgroup, blkcg: Prepare some symbols for module and !CONFIG_CGROUP usagesTejun Heo1-0/+3
btrfs is going to use css_put() and wbc helpers to improve cgroup writeback support. Add dummy css_get() definition and export wbc helpers to prepare for module and !CONFIG_CGROUP builds. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-06-15blkcg, writeback: dead memcgs shouldn't contribute to writeback ownership ↵Tejun Heo1-1/+7
arbitration wbc_account_io() collects information on cgroup ownership of writeback pages to determine which cgroup should own the inode. Pages can stay associated with dead memcgs but we want to avoid attributing IOs to dead blkcgs as much as possible as the association is likely to be stale. However, currently, pages associated with dead memcgs contribute to the accounting delaying and/or confusing the arbitration. Fix it by ignoring pages associated with dead memcgs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-21treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed filesThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-18fs/writeback.c: use rcu_barrier() to wait for inflight wb switches going ↵Jiufei Xue1-3/+8
into workqueue when umount synchronize_rcu() didn't wait for call_rcu() callbacks, so inode wb switch may not go to the workqueue after synchronize_rcu(). Thus previous scheduled switches was not finished even flushing the workqueue, which will cause a NULL pointer dereferenced followed below. VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of vdd. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000278 evict+0xb3/0x180 iput+0x1b0/0x230 inode_switch_wbs_work_fn+0x3c0/0x6a0 worker_thread+0x4e/0x490 ? process_one_work+0x410/0x410 kthread+0xe6/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x39/0x50 Replace the synchronize_rcu() call with a rcu_barrier() to wait for all pending callbacks to finish. And inc isw_nr_in_flight after call_rcu() in inode_switch_wbs() to make more sense. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190429024108.54150-1-jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-22writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switchesTejun Heo1-2/+38
sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership switches and fail to writeback some inodes. For example, if an inode switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which already has. This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to escape syncing. v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init. Spotted by Jiufei. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <xuejiufei@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-21fs: Convert writeback to XArrayMatthew Wilcox1-16/+9
A couple of short loops. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-05-03bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn()Jan Kara1-1/+1
Syzbot has reported that it can hit a NULL pointer dereference in wb_workfn() due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. This indicates that wb_workfn() was called for an already unregistered bdi which should not happen as wb_shutdown() called from bdi_unregister() should make sure all pending writeback works are completed before bdi is unregistered. Except that wb_workfn() itself can requeue the work with: mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0); and if this happens while wb_shutdown() is waiting in: flush_delayed_work(&wb->dwork); the dwork can get executed after wb_shutdown() has finished and bdi_unregister() has cleared wb->bdi->dev. Make wb_workfn() use wakeup_wb() for requeueing the work which takes all the necessary precautions against racing with bdi unregistration. CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977 Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+9873874c735f2892e7e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-04-20writeback: safer lock nestingGreg Thelen1-3/+4
lock_page_memcg()/unlock_page_memcg() use spin_lock_irqsave/restore() if the page's memcg is undergoing move accounting, which occurs when a process leaves its memcg for a new one that has memory.move_charge_at_immigrate set. unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin,end() use spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq() if the given inode is switching writeback domains. Switches occur when enough writes are issued from a new domain. This existing pattern is thus suspicious: lock_page_memcg(page); unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked); ... unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked); unlock_page_memcg(page); If both inode switch and process memcg migration are both in-flight then unlocked_inode_to_wb_end() will unconditionally enable interrupts while still holding the lock_page_memcg() irq spinlock. This suggests the possibility of deadlock if an interrupt occurs before unlock_page_memcg(). truncate __cancel_dirty_page lock_page_memcg unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin unlocked_inode_to_wb_end <interrupts mistakenly enabled> <interrupt> end_page_writeback test_clear_page_writeback lock_page_memcg <deadlock> unlock_page_memcg Due to configuration limitations this deadlock is not currently possible because we don't mix cgroup writeback (a cgroupv2 feature) and memory.move_charge_at_immigrate (a cgroupv1 feature). If the kernel is hacked to always claim inode switching and memcg moving_account, then this script triggers lockup in less than a minute: cd /mnt/cgroup/memory mkdir a b echo 1 > a/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate echo 1 > b/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate ( echo $BASHPID > a/cgroup.procs while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/big bs=1M count=256 done ) & while true; do sync done & sleep 1h & SLEEP=$! while true; do echo $SLEEP > a/cgroup.procs echo $SLEEP > b/cgroup.procs done The deadlock does not seem possible, so it's debatable if there's any reason to modify the kernel. I suggest we should to prevent future surprises. And Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our environment", so there's more reason to apply this, even to stable. Stable 4.4 has minor conflicts applying this patch. For a clean 4.4 patch see "[PATCH for-4.4] writeback: safer lock nesting" https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/11/146 Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our environment" [gthelen@google.com: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411084653.254724-1-gthelen@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment tweaks, struct initialization simplification] Change-Id: Ibb773e8045852978f6207074491d262f1b3fb613 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410005908.167976-1-gthelen@google.com Fixes: 682aa8e1a6a1 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates") Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Reported-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Acked-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v4.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11page cache: use xa_lockMatthew Wilcox1-11/+11
Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to the radix_tree_root. Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->i_pages, since we don't really care that it's a tree. [willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-03-28fs: move I_DIRTY_INODE to fs.hChristoph Hellwig1-6/+3
And use it in a few more places rather than opencoding the values. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-06writeback: update comment in inode_io_list_move_lockedWang Long1-1/+1
The @head can be wb->b_dirty_time, so update the comment. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-27Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel superblock flags. The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to. Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call, while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb->s_flags. The script to do this was: # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags. FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \ include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \ security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h" # the list of MS_... constants SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \ DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \ POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \ I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \ ACTIVE NOUSER" SED_PROG= for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done # we want files that contain at least one of MS_..., # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded. L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c') for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-10writeback: merge try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr() into callerRakesh Pandit1-24/+6
Since commit 925a6efb8ff0c ("Btrfs: stop using try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr to flush delalloc") this function hasn't been used outside so stop exporting it. In addition we merge it into try_to_writeback_inodes_sb() which is the only caller. Also change return type of try_to_writeback_inodes_sb to void as the only user ext4 doesn't care. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-04writeback: eliminate work item allocation in bd_start_writeback()Jens Axboe1-37/+34
Handle start-all writeback like we do periodic or kupdate style writeback - by marking the bdi_writeback as needing a full flush, and simply waking the thread. This eliminates the need to allocate and queue a specific work item just for this purpose. After this change, we truly only ever have one of them running at any point in time. We mark the need to start all flushes, and the writeback thread will clear it once it has processed the request. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: only allow one inflight and pending full flushJens Axboe1-0/+25
When someone calls wakeup_flusher_threads() or wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(), they schedule writeback of all dirty pages in the system (or on that bdi). If we are tight on memory, we can get tons of these queued from kswapd/vmscan. This causes (at least) two problems: 1) We consume a ton of memory just allocating writeback work items. We've seen as much as 600 million of these writeback work items pending. That's a lot of memory to pointlessly hold hostage, while the box is under memory pressure. 2) We spend so much time processing these work items, that we introduce a softlockup in writeback processing. This is because each of the writeback work items don't end up doing any work (it's hard when you have millions of identical ones coming in to the flush machinery), so we just sit in a tight loop pulling work items and deleting/freeing them. Fix this by adding a 'start_all' bit to the writeback structure, and set that when someone attempts to flush all dirty pages. The bit is cleared when we start writeback on that work item. If the bit is already set when we attempt to queue !nr_pages writeback, then we simply ignore it. This provides us one full flush in flight, with one pending as well, and makes for more efficient handling of this type of writeback. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: move nr_pages == 0 logic to one locationJens Axboe1-24/+17
Now that we have no external callers of wb_start_writeback(), we can shuffle the passing in of 'nr_pages'. Everybody passes in 0 at this point, so just kill the argument and move the dirty count retrieval to that function. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: make wb_start_writeback() staticJens Axboe1-2/+2
We don't have any callers outside of fs-writeback.c anymore, make it private. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: provide a wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi()Jens Axboe1-10/+29
Similar to wakeup_flusher_threads(), except that we only wake up the flusher threads on the specified backing device. No functional changes in this patch. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: remove 'range_cyclic' argument for wb_start_writeback()Jens Axboe1-3/+3
All the callers pass in 'true' for range_cyclic, so kill the argument. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03writeback: switch wakeup_flusher_threads() to cyclic writebackJens Axboe1-1/+1
We're writing back the full range of dirty pages on the devices, there's no point in making this special and not do normal range cyclic writeback. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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