mm: remove folio_account_redirty

Fold folio_account_redirty into folio_redirty_for_writepage now
that all other users except for the also unused account_page_redirty
wrapper are gone.

Reviewed-by:

mm: remove folio_account_redirty

Fold folio_account_redirty into folio_redirty_for_writepage now
that all other users except for the also unused account_page_redirty
wrapper are gone.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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btrfs, mm: remove the punt_to_cgroup field in struct writeback_control

punt_to_cgroup is only used by extent_write_locked_range, but that
function also directly controls the bio flags for the actual

btrfs, mm: remove the punt_to_cgroup field in struct writeback_control

punt_to_cgroup is only used by extent_write_locked_range, but that
function also directly controls the bio flags for the actual submission.
Remove th punt_to_cgroup field, and just set REQ_CGROUP_PUNT directly
in extent_write_locked_range.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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fs: convert writepage_t callback to pass a folio

Patch series "Convert writepage_t to use a folio".

More folioisation. I split out the mpage work from everything else
because it completely dominat

fs: convert writepage_t callback to pass a folio

Patch series "Convert writepage_t to use a folio".

More folioisation. I split out the mpage work from everything else
because it completely dominated the patch, but some implementations I just
converted outright.


This patch (of 2):

We always write back an entire folio, but that's currently passed as the
head page. Convert all filesystems that use write_cache_pages() to expect
a folio instead of a page.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126201255.1681189-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126201255.1681189-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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mm/fs: convert inode_attach_wb() to take a folio

Patch series "Writeback folio conversions".

Remove more calls to compound_head() by passing folios around instead of
pages.


This patch (of 2):

Th

mm/fs: convert inode_attach_wb() to take a folio

Patch series "Writeback folio conversions".

Remove more calls to compound_head() by passing folios around instead of
pages.


This patch (of 2):

The only caller of inode_attach_wb() which doesn't pass NULL already has a
folio, so convert the whole call-chain to take folios.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116192507.2146150-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116192507.2146150-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: remove generic_writepages

Now that all external callers are gone, just fold it into do_writepages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221229161031.391878-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph He

mm: remove generic_writepages

Now that all external callers are gone, just fold it into do_writepages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221229161031.391878-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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writeback: remove unused macro DIRTY_FULL_SCOPE

It's introduced but never used. Remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909025711.32012-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <lin

writeback: remove unused macro DIRTY_FULL_SCOPE

It's introduced but never used. Remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909025711.32012-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@uniontech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags() function

This adds the helper function balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags().
It adds the parameter flags to balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited().
The

mm: Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags() function

This adds the helper function balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags().
It adds the parameter flags to balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited().
The flags parameter is passed to balance_dirty_pages(). For async
buffered writes the flag value will be BDP_ASYNC.

If balance_dirty_pages() gets called for async buffered write, we don't
want to wait. Instead we need to indicate to the caller that throttling
is needed so that it can stop writing and offload the rest of the write
to a context that can block.

The new helper function is also used by balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623175157.1715274-4-shr@fb.com
[axboe: fix kerneltest bot 'ret' issue]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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mm: Use the new blk_opf_t type

Improve static type checking by using the new blk_opf_t type for block
layer request flags.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@l

mm: Use the new blk_opf_t type

Improve static type checking by using the new blk_opf_t type for block
layer request flags.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714180729.1065367-46-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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mm: submit multipage write for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space

swap_writepage() is given one page at a time, but may be called repeatedly
in succession.

For block-device swapspace, the blk_plug functionality

mm: submit multipage write for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space

swap_writepage() is given one page at a time, but may be called repeatedly
in succession.

For block-device swapspace, the blk_plug functionality allows the multiple
pages to be combined together at lower layers. That cannot be used for
SWP_FS_OPS as blk_plug may not exist - it is only active when
CONFIG_BLOCK=y. Consequently all swap reads over NFS are single page
reads.

With this patch we pass a pointer-to-pointer via the wbc. swap_writepage
can store state between calls - much like the pointer passed explicitly to
swap_readpage. After calling swap_writepage() some number of times, the
state will be passed to swap_write_unplug() which can submit the combined
request.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164859778128.29473.5191868522654408537.stgit@noble.brown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance

mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just
care about the core logic.

So move the page-writeback sysctls to its own file.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]

akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSCTL=n warnings]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220129012955.26594-1-zhanglianjie@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@uniontech.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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vfs, fscache: Implement pinning of cache usage for writeback

Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that ne

vfs, fscache: Implement pinning of cache usage for writeback

Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that need to be
written to it. However, we don't want to keep the file open indefinitely,
as that causes EMFILE/ENFILE/ENOMEM problems.

Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being done due
to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will oops if we try to
open a file in that context because they want to access current->fs or
other resources that have already been dismantled.

To get around this, I added the following:

(1) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network filesystem
inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the cookie caching
that inode.

(2) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that is set
when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty page from
i_pages - at which point it clears I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this
flag.

This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB can be
done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY that clears
I_DIRTY_PAGES.

(3) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set, sets
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to pin the cache
resources.

(4) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by ->write_inode()
to unuse the cookie.

(5) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when the
inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This cleans up any
lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.

The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the cache as
well as to the server.

For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that should
allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the dirty regions
separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and is also going to be
affected by folios, one way or another, since it deals with pages

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819615157.215744.17623791756928043114.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906917856.143852.8224898306177154573.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967124567.1823006.14188359004568060298.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021524705.640689.17824932021727663017.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4

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mm: don't include <linux/blk-cgroup.h> in <linux/writeback.h>

blk-cgroup.h pulls in blkdev.h and thus pretty much all the block
headers. Break this dependency chain by turning wbc_blkcg_css into a

mm: don't include <linux/blk-cgroup.h> in <linux/writeback.h>

blk-cgroup.h pulls in blkdev.h and thus pretty much all the block
headers. Break this dependency chain by turning wbc_blkcg_css into a
macro and dropping the blk-cgroup.h include.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920123328.1399408-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()

Reimplement redirty_page_for_writepage() as a wrapper around
folio_redirty_for_writepage(). Account the number of pages in the
folio, add kernel-doc

mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()

Reimplement redirty_page_for_writepage() as a wrapper around
folio_redirty_for_writepage(). Account the number of pages in the
folio, add kernel-doc and move the prototype to writeback.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()

Account the number of pages in the folio that we're redirtying.
Turn account_page_dirty() into a wrapper around it. Also turn
the comment on folio_account_

mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()

Account the number of pages in the folio that we're redirtying.
Turn account_page_dirty() into a wrapper around it. Also turn
the comment on folio_account_redirty() into kernel-doc and
edit it slightly so it makes sense to its potential callers.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()

Reimplement __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() as a wrapper around
filemap_dirty_folio(). Eventually folio_mark_dirty() will pass
the folio's mapping to the addres

mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()

Reimplement __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() as a wrapper around
filemap_dirty_folio(). Eventually folio_mark_dirty() will pass
the folio's mapping to the address space's ->dirty_folio()
operation, so add the parameter to filemap_dirty_folio() now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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writeback: memcg: simplify cgroup_writeback_by_id

Currently cgroup_writeback_by_id calls mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to get dirty
pages for a memcg. However mem_cgroup_wb_stats() does a lot more than
jus

writeback: memcg: simplify cgroup_writeback_by_id

Currently cgroup_writeback_by_id calls mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to get dirty
pages for a memcg. However mem_cgroup_wb_stats() does a lot more than
just get the number of dirty pages. Just directly get the number of dirty
pages instead of calling mem_cgroup_wb_stats(). Also
cgroup_writeback_by_id() is only called for best-effort dirty flushing, so
remove the unused 'nr' parameter and no need to explicitly flush memcg
stats.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210722182627.2267368-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload

Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of
writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughp

writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload

Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of
writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughput
is heavily underestimated and tends to steadily sink until it reaches
zero. This has rather bad impact on writeback throttling (causing
stalls). The problem is that writeback throughput estimate gets updated
at most once per 200 ms. One update happens early after we submit pages
for writeback (at that point writeout of only small fraction of pages is
completed and thus observed throughput is tiny). Next update happens only
during the next write spike (updates happen only from inode writeback and
dirty throttling code) and if that is more than 1s after previous spike,
we decide system was idle and just ignore whatever was written until this
moment.

Fix the problem by making sure writeback throughput estimate is also
updated shortly after writeback completes to get reasonable estimate of
throughput for spiky workloads.

[jack@suse.cz: avoid division by 0 in wb_update_dirty_ratelimit()]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617095309.3542373-1-stapelberg+linux@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Tested-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.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>

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writeback: reliably update bandwidth estimation

Currently we trigger writeback bandwidth estimation from
balance_dirty_pages() and from wb_writeback(). However neither of these
need to trigger when

writeback: reliably update bandwidth estimation

Currently we trigger writeback bandwidth estimation from
balance_dirty_pages() and from wb_writeback(). However neither of these
need to trigger when the system is relatively idle and writeback is
triggered e.g. from fsync(2). Make sure writeback estimates happen
reliably by triggering them from do_writepages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.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>

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writeback: make the laptop_mode prototypes available unconditionally

Fix the !CONFIG_BLOCK build after the recent cleanup.

Fixes: 5ed964f8e54e ("mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BD

writeback: make the laptop_mode prototypes available unconditionally

Fix the !CONFIG_BLOCK build after the recent cleanup.

Fixes: 5ed964f8e54e ("mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BDI API")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes

Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes to
the nearest living ancestor wb. It helps to get rid of

writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes

Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes to
the nearest living ancestor wb. It helps to get rid of per-cgroup
writeback structures themselves and of pinned memory and block cgroups,
which are significantly larger structures (mostly due to large per-cpu
statistics data). This prevents memory waste and helps to avoid different
scalability problems caused by large piles of dying cgroups.

Reuse the existing mechanism of inode switching used for foreign inode
detection. To speed things up batch up to 115 inode switching in a single
operation (the maximum number is selected so that the resulting struct
inode_switch_wbs_context can fit into 1024 bytes). Because every
switching consists of two steps divided by an RCU grace period, it would
be too slow without batching. Please note that the whole batch counts as
a single operation (when increasing/decreasing isw_nr_in_flight). This
allows to keep umounting working (flush the switching queue), however
prevents cleanups from consuming the whole switching quota and effectively
blocking the frn switching.

A cgwb cleanup operation can fail due to different reasons (e.g. not
enough memory, the cgwb has an in-flight/pending io, an attached inode in
a wrong state, etc). In this case the next scheduled cleanup will make a
new attempt. An attempt is made each time a new cgwb is offlined (in
other words a memcg and/or a blkcg is deleted by a user). In the future
an additional attempt scheduled by a timer can be implemented.

[guro@fb.com: replace open-coded "115" with arithmetic]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMEcSBcq/VXMiPPO@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com
[guro@fb.com: add smp_mb() to inode_prepare_wbs_switch()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMFa+guFw7OFjf3X@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com
[willy@infradead.org: fix documentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615200242.1716568-2-willy@infradead.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-9-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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block_dump: remove block_dump feature

We have already delete block_dump feature in mark_inode_dirty() because
it can be replaced by tracepoints, now we also remove the part in
submit_bio() for the s

block_dump: remove block_dump feature

We have already delete block_dump feature in mark_inode_dirty() because
it can be replaced by tracepoints, now we also remove the part in
submit_bio() for the same reason. The part of block dump feature in
submit_bio() dump the write process, write region and sectors on the
target disk into kernel message. it can be replaced by
block_bio_queue tracepoint in submit_bio_checks(), so we do not need
block_dump anymore, remove the whole block_dump feature.

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-3-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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writeback: Export inode_io_list_del()

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_li

writeback: Export inode_io_list_del()

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>

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sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from u

sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id()

Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id() which initiates cgroup writeback
from bdi and memcg IDs. This will be used by memcg foreign inode
flushing.

writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id()

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>

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blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT

When a shared kthread needs to issue a bio for a cgroup, doing so
synchronously can lead to priority inversions as the kthread can be
trapped waiting for that cgroup

blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT

When a shared kthread needs to issue a bio for a cgroup, doing so
synchronously can lead to priority inversions as the kthread can be
trapped waiting for that cgroup. This patch implements
REQ_CGROUP_PUNT flag which makes submit_bio() punt the actual issuing
to a dedicated per-blkcg work item to avoid such priority inversions.

This will be used to fix priority inversions in btrfs compression and
should be generally useful as we grow filesystem support for
comprehensive IO control.

Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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>

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