1 /* 2 * mm/page-writeback.c 3 * 4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds. 5 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com> 6 * 7 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the 8 * address_space level. 9 * 10 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton 11 * Initial version 12 */ 13 14 #include <linux/kernel.h> 15 #include <linux/export.h> 16 #include <linux/spinlock.h> 17 #include <linux/fs.h> 18 #include <linux/mm.h> 19 #include <linux/swap.h> 20 #include <linux/slab.h> 21 #include <linux/pagemap.h> 22 #include <linux/writeback.h> 23 #include <linux/init.h> 24 #include <linux/backing-dev.h> 25 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h> 26 #include <linux/blkdev.h> 27 #include <linux/mpage.h> 28 #include <linux/rmap.h> 29 #include <linux/percpu.h> 30 #include <linux/notifier.h> 31 #include <linux/smp.h> 32 #include <linux/sysctl.h> 33 #include <linux/cpu.h> 34 #include <linux/syscalls.h> 35 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* __set_page_dirty_buffers */ 36 #include <linux/pagevec.h> 37 #include <linux/timer.h> 38 #include <linux/sched/rt.h> 39 #include <linux/mm_inline.h> 40 #include <trace/events/writeback.h> 41 42 #include "internal.h" 43 44 /* 45 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages(). 46 */ 47 #define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1) 48 49 /* 50 * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages 51 * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it. 52 */ 53 #define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)) 54 55 /* 56 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals. 57 */ 58 #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1) 59 60 #define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10 61 62 /* 63 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited 64 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling. 65 */ 66 static long ratelimit_pages = 32; 67 68 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ 69 70 /* 71 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage 72 */ 73 int dirty_background_ratio = 10; 74 75 /* 76 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of 77 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory 78 */ 79 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes; 80 81 /* 82 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory 83 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true 84 */ 85 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable; 86 87 /* 88 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage 89 */ 90 int vm_dirty_ratio = 20; 91 92 /* 93 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of 94 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory 95 */ 96 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes; 97 98 /* 99 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks 100 */ 101 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */ 102 103 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dirty_writeback_interval); 104 105 /* 106 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty 107 */ 108 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */ 109 110 /* 111 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings. 112 */ 113 int block_dump; 114 115 /* 116 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies: 117 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity. 118 */ 119 int laptop_mode; 120 121 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode); 122 123 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */ 124 125 struct wb_domain global_wb_domain; 126 127 /* consolidated parameters for balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines */ 128 struct dirty_throttle_control { 129 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 130 struct wb_domain *dom; 131 struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc; /* only set in memcg dtc's */ 132 #endif 133 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 134 struct fprop_local_percpu *wb_completions; 135 136 unsigned long avail; /* dirtyable */ 137 unsigned long dirty; /* file_dirty + write + nfs */ 138 unsigned long thresh; /* dirty threshold */ 139 unsigned long bg_thresh; /* dirty background threshold */ 140 141 unsigned long wb_dirty; /* per-wb counterparts */ 142 unsigned long wb_thresh; 143 unsigned long wb_bg_thresh; 144 145 unsigned long pos_ratio; 146 }; 147 148 /* 149 * Length of period for aging writeout fractions of bdis. This is an 150 * arbitrarily chosen number. The longer the period, the slower fractions will 151 * reflect changes in current writeout rate. 152 */ 153 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ) 154 155 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 156 157 #define GDTC_INIT(__wb) .wb = (__wb), \ 158 .dom = &global_wb_domain, \ 159 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions 160 161 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB .dom = &global_wb_domain 162 163 #define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc) .wb = (__wb), \ 164 .dom = mem_cgroup_wb_domain(__wb), \ 165 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->memcg_completions, \ 166 .gdtc = __gdtc 167 168 static bool mdtc_valid(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 169 { 170 return dtc->dom; 171 } 172 173 static struct wb_domain *dtc_dom(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 174 { 175 return dtc->dom; 176 } 177 178 static struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc_gdtc(struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc) 179 { 180 return mdtc->gdtc; 181 } 182 183 static struct fprop_local_percpu *wb_memcg_completions(struct bdi_writeback *wb) 184 { 185 return &wb->memcg_completions; 186 } 187 188 static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 189 unsigned long *minp, unsigned long *maxp) 190 { 191 unsigned long this_bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 192 unsigned long tot_bw = atomic_long_read(&wb->bdi->tot_write_bandwidth); 193 unsigned long long min = wb->bdi->min_ratio; 194 unsigned long long max = wb->bdi->max_ratio; 195 196 /* 197 * @wb may already be clean by the time control reaches here and 198 * the total may not include its bw. 199 */ 200 if (this_bw < tot_bw) { 201 if (min) { 202 min *= this_bw; 203 do_div(min, tot_bw); 204 } 205 if (max < 100) { 206 max *= this_bw; 207 do_div(max, tot_bw); 208 } 209 } 210 211 *minp = min; 212 *maxp = max; 213 } 214 215 #else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */ 216 217 #define GDTC_INIT(__wb) .wb = (__wb), \ 218 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions 219 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB 220 #define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc) 221 222 static bool mdtc_valid(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 223 { 224 return false; 225 } 226 227 static struct wb_domain *dtc_dom(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 228 { 229 return &global_wb_domain; 230 } 231 232 static struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc_gdtc(struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc) 233 { 234 return NULL; 235 } 236 237 static struct fprop_local_percpu *wb_memcg_completions(struct bdi_writeback *wb) 238 { 239 return NULL; 240 } 241 242 static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 243 unsigned long *minp, unsigned long *maxp) 244 { 245 *minp = wb->bdi->min_ratio; 246 *maxp = wb->bdi->max_ratio; 247 } 248 249 #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */ 250 251 /* 252 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider 253 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of 254 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect 255 * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without 256 * requiring writeback. 257 * 258 * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the 259 * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that 260 * are allowed to be actually dirtied. Per individual zone, or 261 * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones. 262 * 263 * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as 264 * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can 265 * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of 266 * global dirtyable memory first. 267 */ 268 269 /** 270 * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone 271 * @zone: the zone 272 * 273 * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty 274 * page cache. This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits. 275 */ 276 static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone) 277 { 278 unsigned long nr_pages; 279 280 nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); 281 nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); 282 283 nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE); 284 nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); 285 286 return nr_pages; 287 } 288 289 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total) 290 { 291 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM 292 int node; 293 unsigned long x = 0; 294 295 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) { 296 struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM]; 297 298 x += zone_dirtyable_memory(z); 299 } 300 /* 301 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory 302 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below 303 * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation 304 * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes 305 * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more 306 * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never 307 * underflows. 308 */ 309 if ((long)x < 0) 310 x = 0; 311 312 /* 313 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger 314 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only 315 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure 316 * that this does not occur. 317 */ 318 return min(x, total); 319 #else 320 return 0; 321 #endif 322 } 323 324 /** 325 * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages 326 * 327 * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty 328 * page cache. This is the base value for the global dirty limits. 329 */ 330 static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) 331 { 332 unsigned long x; 333 334 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES); 335 x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); 336 337 x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE); 338 x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE); 339 340 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable) 341 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); 342 343 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */ 344 } 345 346 /** 347 * domain_dirty_limits - calculate thresh and bg_thresh for a wb_domain 348 * @dtc: dirty_throttle_control of interest 349 * 350 * Calculate @dtc->thresh and ->bg_thresh considering 351 * vm_dirty_{bytes|ratio} and dirty_background_{bytes|ratio}. The caller 352 * must ensure that @dtc->avail is set before calling this function. The 353 * dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and 354 * real-time tasks. 355 */ 356 static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 357 { 358 const unsigned long available_memory = dtc->avail; 359 struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc = mdtc_gdtc(dtc); 360 unsigned long bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; 361 unsigned long bg_bytes = dirty_background_bytes; 362 unsigned long ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; 363 unsigned long bg_ratio = dirty_background_ratio; 364 unsigned long thresh; 365 unsigned long bg_thresh; 366 struct task_struct *tsk; 367 368 /* gdtc is !NULL iff @dtc is for memcg domain */ 369 if (gdtc) { 370 unsigned long global_avail = gdtc->avail; 371 372 /* 373 * The byte settings can't be applied directly to memcg 374 * domains. Convert them to ratios by scaling against 375 * globally available memory. 376 */ 377 if (bytes) 378 ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 / 379 global_avail, 100UL); 380 if (bg_bytes) 381 bg_ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 / 382 global_avail, 100UL); 383 bytes = bg_bytes = 0; 384 } 385 386 if (bytes) 387 thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE); 388 else 389 thresh = (ratio * available_memory) / 100; 390 391 if (bg_bytes) 392 bg_thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE); 393 else 394 bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / 100; 395 396 if (bg_thresh >= thresh) 397 bg_thresh = thresh / 2; 398 tsk = current; 399 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) { 400 bg_thresh += bg_thresh / 4; 401 thresh += thresh / 4; 402 } 403 dtc->thresh = thresh; 404 dtc->bg_thresh = bg_thresh; 405 406 /* we should eventually report the domain in the TP */ 407 if (!gdtc) 408 trace_global_dirty_state(bg_thresh, thresh); 409 } 410 411 /** 412 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds 413 * @pbackground: out parameter for bg_thresh 414 * @pdirty: out parameter for thresh 415 * 416 * Calculate bg_thresh and thresh for global_wb_domain. See 417 * domain_dirty_limits() for details. 418 */ 419 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty) 420 { 421 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc = { GDTC_INIT_NO_WB }; 422 423 gdtc.avail = global_dirtyable_memory(); 424 domain_dirty_limits(&gdtc); 425 426 *pbackground = gdtc.bg_thresh; 427 *pdirty = gdtc.thresh; 428 } 429 430 /** 431 * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone 432 * @zone: the zone 433 * 434 * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based 435 * on the zone's dirtyable memory. 436 */ 437 static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone) 438 { 439 unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone); 440 struct task_struct *tsk = current; 441 unsigned long dirty; 442 443 if (vm_dirty_bytes) 444 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 445 zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory(); 446 else 447 dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100; 448 449 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) 450 dirty += dirty / 4; 451 452 return dirty; 453 } 454 455 /** 456 * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits 457 * @zone: the zone to check 458 * 459 * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's 460 * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded. 461 */ 462 bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone) 463 { 464 unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone); 465 466 return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) + 467 zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + 468 zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit; 469 } 470 471 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 472 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, 473 loff_t *ppos) 474 { 475 int ret; 476 477 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); 478 if (ret == 0 && write) 479 dirty_background_bytes = 0; 480 return ret; 481 } 482 483 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 484 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, 485 loff_t *ppos) 486 { 487 int ret; 488 489 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); 490 if (ret == 0 && write) 491 dirty_background_ratio = 0; 492 return ret; 493 } 494 495 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 496 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, 497 loff_t *ppos) 498 { 499 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; 500 int ret; 501 502 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); 503 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) { 504 writeback_set_ratelimit(); 505 vm_dirty_bytes = 0; 506 } 507 return ret; 508 } 509 510 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 511 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, 512 loff_t *ppos) 513 { 514 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; 515 int ret; 516 517 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); 518 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) { 519 writeback_set_ratelimit(); 520 vm_dirty_ratio = 0; 521 } 522 return ret; 523 } 524 525 static unsigned long wp_next_time(unsigned long cur_time) 526 { 527 cur_time += VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN; 528 /* 0 has a special meaning... */ 529 if (!cur_time) 530 return 1; 531 return cur_time; 532 } 533 534 static void wb_domain_writeout_inc(struct wb_domain *dom, 535 struct fprop_local_percpu *completions, 536 unsigned int max_prop_frac) 537 { 538 __fprop_inc_percpu_max(&dom->completions, completions, 539 max_prop_frac); 540 /* First event after period switching was turned off? */ 541 if (!unlikely(dom->period_time)) { 542 /* 543 * We can race with other __bdi_writeout_inc calls here but 544 * it does not cause any harm since the resulting time when 545 * timer will fire and what is in writeout_period_time will be 546 * roughly the same. 547 */ 548 dom->period_time = wp_next_time(jiffies); 549 mod_timer(&dom->period_timer, dom->period_time); 550 } 551 } 552 553 /* 554 * Increment @wb's writeout completion count and the global writeout 555 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback(). 556 */ 557 static inline void __wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb) 558 { 559 struct wb_domain *cgdom; 560 561 __inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITTEN); 562 wb_domain_writeout_inc(&global_wb_domain, &wb->completions, 563 wb->bdi->max_prop_frac); 564 565 cgdom = mem_cgroup_wb_domain(wb); 566 if (cgdom) 567 wb_domain_writeout_inc(cgdom, wb_memcg_completions(wb), 568 wb->bdi->max_prop_frac); 569 } 570 571 void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb) 572 { 573 unsigned long flags; 574 575 local_irq_save(flags); 576 __wb_writeout_inc(wb); 577 local_irq_restore(flags); 578 } 579 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wb_writeout_inc); 580 581 /* 582 * On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use 583 * deferred timers so count with missed periods. 584 */ 585 static void writeout_period(unsigned long t) 586 { 587 struct wb_domain *dom = (void *)t; 588 int miss_periods = (jiffies - dom->period_time) / 589 VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN; 590 591 if (fprop_new_period(&dom->completions, miss_periods + 1)) { 592 dom->period_time = wp_next_time(dom->period_time + 593 miss_periods * VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN); 594 mod_timer(&dom->period_timer, dom->period_time); 595 } else { 596 /* 597 * Aging has zeroed all fractions. Stop wasting CPU on period 598 * updates. 599 */ 600 dom->period_time = 0; 601 } 602 } 603 604 int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom, gfp_t gfp) 605 { 606 memset(dom, 0, sizeof(*dom)); 607 608 spin_lock_init(&dom->lock); 609 610 init_timer_deferrable(&dom->period_timer); 611 dom->period_timer.function = writeout_period; 612 dom->period_timer.data = (unsigned long)dom; 613 614 dom->dirty_limit_tstamp = jiffies; 615 616 return fprop_global_init(&dom->completions, gfp); 617 } 618 619 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 620 void wb_domain_exit(struct wb_domain *dom) 621 { 622 del_timer_sync(&dom->period_timer); 623 fprop_global_destroy(&dom->completions); 624 } 625 #endif 626 627 /* 628 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all 629 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not 630 * exceed 100%. 631 */ 632 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio; 633 634 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio) 635 { 636 int ret = 0; 637 638 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock); 639 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) { 640 ret = -EINVAL; 641 } else { 642 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio; 643 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) { 644 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio; 645 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio; 646 } else { 647 ret = -EINVAL; 648 } 649 } 650 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock); 651 652 return ret; 653 } 654 655 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio) 656 { 657 int ret = 0; 658 659 if (max_ratio > 100) 660 return -EINVAL; 661 662 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock); 663 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) { 664 ret = -EINVAL; 665 } else { 666 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio; 667 bdi->max_prop_frac = (FPROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100; 668 } 669 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock); 670 671 return ret; 672 } 673 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio); 674 675 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh, 676 unsigned long bg_thresh) 677 { 678 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2; 679 } 680 681 static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(struct wb_domain *dom, 682 unsigned long thresh) 683 { 684 return max(thresh, dom->dirty_limit); 685 } 686 687 /* 688 * Memory which can be further allocated to a memcg domain is capped by 689 * system-wide clean memory excluding the amount being used in the domain. 690 */ 691 static void mdtc_calc_avail(struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc, 692 unsigned long filepages, unsigned long headroom) 693 { 694 struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc = mdtc_gdtc(mdtc); 695 unsigned long clean = filepages - min(filepages, mdtc->dirty); 696 unsigned long global_clean = gdtc->avail - min(gdtc->avail, gdtc->dirty); 697 unsigned long other_clean = global_clean - min(global_clean, clean); 698 699 mdtc->avail = filepages + min(headroom, other_clean); 700 } 701 702 /** 703 * __wb_calc_thresh - @wb's share of dirty throttling threshold 704 * @dtc: dirty_throttle_context of interest 705 * 706 * Returns @wb's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of 707 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages. 708 * 709 * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit 710 * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under 711 * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error 712 * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key. 713 * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks 714 * more (rather than completely block them) when the wb dirty pages go high. 715 * 716 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent 717 * - starving fast devices 718 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices 719 * 720 * The wb's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and 721 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set. 722 */ 723 static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 724 { 725 struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc); 726 unsigned long thresh = dtc->thresh; 727 u64 wb_thresh; 728 long numerator, denominator; 729 unsigned long wb_min_ratio, wb_max_ratio; 730 731 /* 732 * Calculate this BDI's share of the thresh ratio. 733 */ 734 fprop_fraction_percpu(&dom->completions, dtc->wb_completions, 735 &numerator, &denominator); 736 737 wb_thresh = (thresh * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100; 738 wb_thresh *= numerator; 739 do_div(wb_thresh, denominator); 740 741 wb_min_max_ratio(dtc->wb, &wb_min_ratio, &wb_max_ratio); 742 743 wb_thresh += (thresh * wb_min_ratio) / 100; 744 if (wb_thresh > (thresh * wb_max_ratio) / 100) 745 wb_thresh = thresh * wb_max_ratio / 100; 746 747 return wb_thresh; 748 } 749 750 unsigned long wb_calc_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long thresh) 751 { 752 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc = { GDTC_INIT(wb), 753 .thresh = thresh }; 754 return __wb_calc_thresh(&gdtc); 755 } 756 757 /* 758 * setpoint - dirty 3 759 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------) 760 * limit - setpoint 761 * 762 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to 763 * 764 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast 765 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point 766 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit 767 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control 768 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse) 769 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint 770 */ 771 static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint, 772 unsigned long dirty, 773 unsigned long limit) 774 { 775 long long pos_ratio; 776 long x; 777 778 x = div64_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, 779 (limit - setpoint) | 1); 780 pos_ratio = x; 781 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; 782 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; 783 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; 784 785 return clamp(pos_ratio, 0LL, 2LL << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT); 786 } 787 788 /* 789 * Dirty position control. 790 * 791 * (o) global/bdi setpoints 792 * 793 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/wb setpoints. 794 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the 795 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be 796 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint. 797 * 798 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 799 * 800 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio 801 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio 802 * 803 * if (wb_dirty < wb_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio 804 * if (wb_dirty > wb_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio 805 * 806 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 807 * 808 * (o) global control line 809 * 810 * ^ pos_ratio 811 * | 812 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>| 813 * 2.0 .............* 814 * | .* 815 * | . * 816 * | . * 817 * | . * 818 * | . * 819 * | . * 820 * 1.0 ................................* 821 * | . . * 822 * | . . * 823 * | . . * 824 * | . . * 825 * | . . * 826 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*-------------> 827 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages 828 * 829 * (o) wb control line 830 * 831 * ^ pos_ratio 832 * | 833 * | * 834 * | * 835 * | * 836 * | * 837 * | * |<=========== span ============>| 838 * 1.0 .......................* 839 * | . * 840 * | . * 841 * | . * 842 * | . * 843 * | . * 844 * | . * 845 * | . * 846 * | . * 847 * | . * 848 * | . * 849 * | . * 850 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * * 851 * | . . 852 * | . . 853 * | . . 854 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.-------------> 855 * wb_setpoint^ x_intercept^ 856 * 857 * The wb control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that wb_dirty can 858 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like 859 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD 860 * card's wb_dirty may rush to many times higher than wb_setpoint. 861 * - the wb dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload 862 */ 863 static void wb_position_ratio(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 864 { 865 struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb; 866 unsigned long write_bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 867 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dtc->thresh, dtc->bg_thresh); 868 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(dtc_dom(dtc), dtc->thresh); 869 unsigned long wb_thresh = dtc->wb_thresh; 870 unsigned long x_intercept; 871 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */ 872 unsigned long wb_setpoint; 873 unsigned long span; 874 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */ 875 long x; 876 877 dtc->pos_ratio = 0; 878 879 if (unlikely(dtc->dirty >= limit)) 880 return; 881 882 /* 883 * global setpoint 884 * 885 * See comment for pos_ratio_polynom(). 886 */ 887 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2; 888 pos_ratio = pos_ratio_polynom(setpoint, dtc->dirty, limit); 889 890 /* 891 * The strictlimit feature is a tool preventing mistrusted filesystems 892 * from growing a large number of dirty pages before throttling. For 893 * such filesystems balance_dirty_pages always checks wb counters 894 * against wb limits. Even if global "nr_dirty" is under "freerun". 895 * This is especially important for fuse which sets bdi->max_ratio to 896 * 1% by default. Without strictlimit feature, fuse writeback may 897 * consume arbitrary amount of RAM because it is accounted in 898 * NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP which is not involved in calculating "nr_dirty". 899 * 900 * Here, in wb_position_ratio(), we calculate pos_ratio based on 901 * two values: wb_dirty and wb_thresh. Let's consider an example: 902 * total amount of RAM is 16GB, bdi->max_ratio is equal to 1%, global 903 * limits are set by default to 10% and 20% (background and throttle). 904 * Then wb_thresh is 1% of 20% of 16GB. This amounts to ~8K pages. 905 * wb_calc_thresh(wb, bg_thresh) is about ~4K pages. wb_setpoint is 906 * about ~6K pages (as the average of background and throttle wb 907 * limits). The 3rd order polynomial will provide positive feedback if 908 * wb_dirty is under wb_setpoint and vice versa. 909 * 910 * Note, that we cannot use global counters in these calculations 911 * because we want to throttle process writing to a strictlimit wb 912 * much earlier than global "freerun" is reached (~23MB vs. ~2.3GB 913 * in the example above). 914 */ 915 if (unlikely(wb->bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT)) { 916 long long wb_pos_ratio; 917 918 if (dtc->wb_dirty < 8) { 919 dtc->pos_ratio = min_t(long long, pos_ratio * 2, 920 2 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT); 921 return; 922 } 923 924 if (dtc->wb_dirty >= wb_thresh) 925 return; 926 927 wb_setpoint = dirty_freerun_ceiling(wb_thresh, 928 dtc->wb_bg_thresh); 929 930 if (wb_setpoint == 0 || wb_setpoint == wb_thresh) 931 return; 932 933 wb_pos_ratio = pos_ratio_polynom(wb_setpoint, dtc->wb_dirty, 934 wb_thresh); 935 936 /* 937 * Typically, for strictlimit case, wb_setpoint << setpoint 938 * and pos_ratio >> wb_pos_ratio. In the other words global 939 * state ("dirty") is not limiting factor and we have to 940 * make decision based on wb counters. But there is an 941 * important case when global pos_ratio should get precedence: 942 * global limits are exceeded (e.g. due to activities on other 943 * wb's) while given strictlimit wb is below limit. 944 * 945 * "pos_ratio * wb_pos_ratio" would work for the case above, 946 * but it would look too non-natural for the case of all 947 * activity in the system coming from a single strictlimit wb 948 * with bdi->max_ratio == 100%. 949 * 950 * Note that min() below somewhat changes the dynamics of the 951 * control system. Normally, pos_ratio value can be well over 3 952 * (when globally we are at freerun and wb is well below wb 953 * setpoint). Now the maximum pos_ratio in the same situation 954 * is 2. We might want to tweak this if we observe the control 955 * system is too slow to adapt. 956 */ 957 dtc->pos_ratio = min(pos_ratio, wb_pos_ratio); 958 return; 959 } 960 961 /* 962 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If 963 * the wb is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale 964 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism. 965 */ 966 967 /* 968 * wb setpoint 969 * 970 * f(wb_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (wb_dirty - wb_setpoint) 971 * 972 * x_intercept - wb_dirty 973 * := -------------------------- 974 * x_intercept - wb_setpoint 975 * 976 * The main wb control line is a linear function that subjects to 977 * 978 * (1) f(wb_setpoint) = 1.0 979 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single wb case) 980 * or equally: x_intercept = wb_setpoint + 8 * write_bw 981 * 982 * For single wb case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate 983 * regularly within range 984 * [wb_setpoint - write_bw/2, wb_setpoint + write_bw/2] 985 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5% 986 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio. 987 * 988 * For JBOD case, wb_thresh (not wb_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its 989 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that 990 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled wb_thresh. 991 */ 992 if (unlikely(wb_thresh > dtc->thresh)) 993 wb_thresh = dtc->thresh; 994 /* 995 * It's very possible that wb_thresh is close to 0 not because the 996 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time. 997 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient) 998 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active 999 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly. 1000 */ 1001 wb_thresh = max(wb_thresh, (limit - dtc->dirty) / 8); 1002 /* 1003 * scale global setpoint to wb's: 1004 * wb_setpoint = setpoint * wb_thresh / thresh 1005 */ 1006 x = div_u64((u64)wb_thresh << 16, dtc->thresh | 1); 1007 wb_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16; 1008 /* 1009 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single wb case as indicated by 1010 * (thresh - wb_thresh ~= 0) and transit to wb_thresh in JBOD case. 1011 * 1012 * wb_thresh thresh - wb_thresh 1013 * span = --------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------ * wb_thresh 1014 * thresh thresh 1015 */ 1016 span = (dtc->thresh - wb_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16; 1017 x_intercept = wb_setpoint + span; 1018 1019 if (dtc->wb_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) { 1020 pos_ratio = div64_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - dtc->wb_dirty), 1021 (x_intercept - wb_setpoint) | 1); 1022 } else 1023 pos_ratio /= 4; 1024 1025 /* 1026 * wb reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle 1027 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher 1028 * than setpoint. 1029 */ 1030 x_intercept = wb_thresh / 2; 1031 if (dtc->wb_dirty < x_intercept) { 1032 if (dtc->wb_dirty > x_intercept / 8) 1033 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * x_intercept, 1034 dtc->wb_dirty); 1035 else 1036 pos_ratio *= 8; 1037 } 1038 1039 dtc->pos_ratio = pos_ratio; 1040 } 1041 1042 static void wb_update_write_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 1043 unsigned long elapsed, 1044 unsigned long written) 1045 { 1046 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ); 1047 unsigned long avg = wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 1048 unsigned long old = wb->write_bandwidth; 1049 u64 bw; 1050 1051 /* 1052 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed 1053 * 1054 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed) 1055 * write_bandwidth = --------------------------------------------------- 1056 * period 1057 * 1058 * @written may have decreased due to account_page_redirty(). 1059 * Avoid underflowing @bw calculation. 1060 */ 1061 bw = written - min(written, wb->written_stamp); 1062 bw *= HZ; 1063 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) { 1064 do_div(bw, elapsed); 1065 avg = bw; 1066 goto out; 1067 } 1068 bw += (u64)wb->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed); 1069 bw >>= ilog2(period); 1070 1071 /* 1072 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes 1073 */ 1074 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw) 1075 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3; 1076 1077 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw) 1078 avg += (old - avg) >> 3; 1079 1080 out: 1081 /* keep avg > 0 to guarantee that tot > 0 if there are dirty wbs */ 1082 avg = max(avg, 1LU); 1083 if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb)) { 1084 long delta = avg - wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 1085 WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_long_add_return(delta, 1086 &wb->bdi->tot_write_bandwidth) <= 0); 1087 } 1088 wb->write_bandwidth = bw; 1089 wb->avg_write_bandwidth = avg; 1090 } 1091 1092 static void update_dirty_limit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 1093 { 1094 struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc); 1095 unsigned long thresh = dtc->thresh; 1096 unsigned long limit = dom->dirty_limit; 1097 1098 /* 1099 * Follow up in one step. 1100 */ 1101 if (limit < thresh) { 1102 limit = thresh; 1103 goto update; 1104 } 1105 1106 /* 1107 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh 1108 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce 1109 * dom->dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages. 1110 */ 1111 thresh = max(thresh, dtc->dirty); 1112 if (limit > thresh) { 1113 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5; 1114 goto update; 1115 } 1116 return; 1117 update: 1118 dom->dirty_limit = limit; 1119 } 1120 1121 static void domain_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc, 1122 unsigned long now) 1123 { 1124 struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc); 1125 1126 /* 1127 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time 1128 */ 1129 if (time_before(now, dom->dirty_limit_tstamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) 1130 return; 1131 1132 spin_lock(&dom->lock); 1133 if (time_after_eq(now, dom->dirty_limit_tstamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) { 1134 update_dirty_limit(dtc); 1135 dom->dirty_limit_tstamp = now; 1136 } 1137 spin_unlock(&dom->lock); 1138 } 1139 1140 /* 1141 * Maintain wb->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate. 1142 * 1143 * Normal wb tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term. 1144 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks. 1145 */ 1146 static void wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc, 1147 unsigned long dirtied, 1148 unsigned long elapsed) 1149 { 1150 struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb; 1151 unsigned long dirty = dtc->dirty; 1152 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dtc->thresh, dtc->bg_thresh); 1153 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(dtc_dom(dtc), dtc->thresh); 1154 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2; 1155 unsigned long write_bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 1156 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = wb->dirty_ratelimit; 1157 unsigned long dirty_rate; 1158 unsigned long task_ratelimit; 1159 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit; 1160 unsigned long step; 1161 unsigned long x; 1162 1163 /* 1164 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except 1165 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS. 1166 */ 1167 dirty_rate = (dirtied - wb->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed; 1168 1169 /* 1170 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms. 1171 */ 1172 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit * 1173 dtc->pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; 1174 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */ 1175 1176 /* 1177 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is, 1178 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the wb's 1179 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below 1180 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N). 1181 * 1182 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback: 1183 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1) 1184 * but also takes pos_ratio into account: 1185 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2) 1186 * 1187 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing 1188 * the dirty rate. Consider the state 1189 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3) 1190 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4) 1191 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will 1192 * be throttled at 1193 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5) 1194 * yielding 1195 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6) 1196 * put (6) into (1) we get 1197 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7) 1198 * 1199 * So we end up using (2) to always keep 1200 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8) 1201 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied, 1202 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where 1203 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of 1204 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated. 1205 */ 1206 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw, 1207 dirty_rate | 1); 1208 /* 1209 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw 1210 */ 1211 if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit > write_bw)) 1212 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = write_bw; 1213 1214 /* 1215 * We could safely do this and return immediately: 1216 * 1217 * wb->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit; 1218 * 1219 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated 1220 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out singular points and 1221 * limit the step size. 1222 * 1223 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of 1224 * 1225 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit 1226 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit 1227 * 1228 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error. 1229 */ 1230 1231 /* 1232 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff 1233 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too. 1234 * For example, when 1235 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit 1236 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint) 1237 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate 1238 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will 1239 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately 1240 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error. 1241 * 1242 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size 1243 * and filter out the singular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which 1244 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times 1245 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to 1246 * keep that period small to reduce time lags). 1247 */ 1248 step = 0; 1249 1250 /* 1251 * For strictlimit case, calculations above were based on wb counters 1252 * and limits (starting from pos_ratio = wb_position_ratio() and up to 1253 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit = task_ratelimit * write_bw / dirty_rate). 1254 * Hence, to calculate "step" properly, we have to use wb_dirty as 1255 * "dirty" and wb_setpoint as "setpoint". 1256 * 1257 * We rampup dirty_ratelimit forcibly if wb_dirty is low because 1258 * it's possible that wb_thresh is close to zero due to inactivity 1259 * of backing device. 1260 */ 1261 if (unlikely(wb->bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT)) { 1262 dirty = dtc->wb_dirty; 1263 if (dtc->wb_dirty < 8) 1264 setpoint = dtc->wb_dirty + 1; 1265 else 1266 setpoint = (dtc->wb_thresh + dtc->wb_bg_thresh) / 2; 1267 } 1268 1269 if (dirty < setpoint) { 1270 x = min3(wb->balanced_dirty_ratelimit, 1271 balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit); 1272 if (dirty_ratelimit < x) 1273 step = x - dirty_ratelimit; 1274 } else { 1275 x = max3(wb->balanced_dirty_ratelimit, 1276 balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit); 1277 if (dirty_ratelimit > x) 1278 step = dirty_ratelimit - x; 1279 } 1280 1281 /* 1282 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced 1283 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed 1284 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors. 1285 */ 1286 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1); 1287 /* 1288 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting. 1289 */ 1290 step = (step + 7) / 8; 1291 1292 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit) 1293 dirty_ratelimit += step; 1294 else 1295 dirty_ratelimit -= step; 1296 1297 wb->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL); 1298 wb->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit; 1299 1300 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(wb, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit); 1301 } 1302 1303 static void __wb_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc, 1304 struct dirty_throttle_control *mdtc, 1305 unsigned long start_time, 1306 bool update_ratelimit) 1307 { 1308 struct bdi_writeback *wb = gdtc->wb; 1309 unsigned long now = jiffies; 1310 unsigned long elapsed = now - wb->bw_time_stamp; 1311 unsigned long dirtied; 1312 unsigned long written; 1313 1314 lockdep_assert_held(&wb->list_lock); 1315 1316 /* 1317 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms. 1318 */ 1319 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL) 1320 return; 1321 1322 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&wb->stat[WB_DIRTIED]); 1323 written = percpu_counter_read(&wb->stat[WB_WRITTEN]); 1324 1325 /* 1326 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized. 1327 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs) 1328 */ 1329 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(wb->bw_time_stamp, start_time)) 1330 goto snapshot; 1331 1332 if (update_ratelimit) { 1333 domain_update_bandwidth(gdtc, now); 1334 wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(gdtc, dirtied, elapsed); 1335 1336 /* 1337 * @mdtc is always NULL if !CGROUP_WRITEBACK but the 1338 * compiler has no way to figure that out. Help it. 1339 */ 1340 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK) && mdtc) { 1341 domain_update_bandwidth(mdtc, now); 1342 wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(mdtc, dirtied, elapsed); 1343 } 1344 } 1345 wb_update_write_bandwidth(wb, elapsed, written); 1346 1347 snapshot: 1348 wb->dirtied_stamp = dirtied; 1349 wb->written_stamp = written; 1350 wb->bw_time_stamp = now; 1351 } 1352 1353 void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long start_time) 1354 { 1355 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc = { GDTC_INIT(wb) }; 1356 1357 __wb_update_bandwidth(&gdtc, NULL, start_time, false); 1358 } 1359 1360 /* 1361 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() 1362 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling. 1363 * 1364 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive 1365 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin 1366 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits). 1367 */ 1368 static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty, 1369 unsigned long thresh) 1370 { 1371 if (thresh > dirty) 1372 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1); 1373 1374 return 1; 1375 } 1376 1377 static unsigned long wb_max_pause(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 1378 unsigned long wb_dirty) 1379 { 1380 unsigned long bw = wb->avg_write_bandwidth; 1381 unsigned long t; 1382 1383 /* 1384 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long 1385 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go 1386 * idle. 1387 * 1388 * 8 serves as the safety ratio. 1389 */ 1390 t = wb_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8)); 1391 t++; 1392 1393 return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE); 1394 } 1395 1396 static long wb_min_pause(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 1397 long max_pause, 1398 unsigned long task_ratelimit, 1399 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit, 1400 int *nr_dirtied_pause) 1401 { 1402 long hi = ilog2(wb->avg_write_bandwidth); 1403 long lo = ilog2(wb->dirty_ratelimit); 1404 long t; /* target pause */ 1405 long pause; /* estimated next pause */ 1406 int pages; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */ 1407 1408 /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */ 1409 t = max(1, HZ / 100); 1410 1411 /* 1412 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU 1413 * overheads. 1414 * 1415 * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks. 1416 */ 1417 if (hi > lo) 1418 t += (hi - lo) * (10 * HZ) / 1024; 1419 1420 /* 1421 * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause 1422 * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time 1423 * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may 1424 * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes 1425 * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next 1426 * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a 1427 * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could 1428 * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit. 1429 * 1430 * We apply two rules to fix it up: 1431 * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower 1432 * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens, 1433 * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit. 1434 * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal 1435 * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and 1436 * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit. 1437 */ 1438 t = min(t, 1 + max_pause / 2); 1439 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); 1440 1441 /* 1442 * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test 1443 * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}. 1444 * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty 1445 * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles 1446 * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible 1447 * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages. 1448 */ 1449 if (pages < DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) { 1450 t = max_pause; 1451 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); 1452 if (pages > DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) { 1453 pages = DIRTY_POLL_THRESH; 1454 t = HZ * DIRTY_POLL_THRESH / dirty_ratelimit; 1455 } 1456 } 1457 1458 pause = HZ * pages / (task_ratelimit + 1); 1459 if (pause > max_pause) { 1460 t = max_pause; 1461 pages = task_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); 1462 } 1463 1464 *nr_dirtied_pause = pages; 1465 /* 1466 * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time. 1467 */ 1468 return pages >= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH ? 1 + t / 2 : t; 1469 } 1470 1471 static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) 1472 { 1473 struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb; 1474 unsigned long wb_reclaimable; 1475 1476 /* 1477 * wb_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as 1478 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons 1479 * - in JBOD setup, wb_thresh can fluctuate a lot 1480 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow 1481 * go into state (wb_dirty >> wb_thresh) either because 1482 * wb_dirty starts high, or because wb_thresh drops low. 1483 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key 1484 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until wb_dirty drops under 1485 * wb_thresh. Instead the auxiliary wb control line in 1486 * wb_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress 1487 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down wb_dirty. 1488 */ 1489 dtc->wb_thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(dtc); 1490 dtc->wb_bg_thresh = dtc->thresh ? 1491 div_u64((u64)dtc->wb_thresh * dtc->bg_thresh, dtc->thresh) : 0; 1492 1493 /* 1494 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need 1495 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when 1496 * the threshold is low. 1497 * 1498 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages 1499 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages 1500 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu 1501 * deltas. 1502 */ 1503 if (dtc->wb_thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error(wb)) { 1504 wb_reclaimable = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); 1505 dtc->wb_dirty = wb_reclaimable + wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_WRITEBACK); 1506 } else { 1507 wb_reclaimable = wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); 1508 dtc->wb_dirty = wb_reclaimable + wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK); 1509 } 1510 } 1511 1512 /* 1513 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty 1514 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force 1515 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2. 1516 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to 1517 * perform some writeout. 1518 */ 1519 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, 1520 struct bdi_writeback *wb, 1521 unsigned long pages_dirtied) 1522 { 1523 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor = { GDTC_INIT(wb) }; 1524 struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor = { MDTC_INIT(wb, &gdtc_stor) }; 1525 struct dirty_throttle_control * const gdtc = &gdtc_stor; 1526 struct dirty_throttle_control * const mdtc = mdtc_valid(&mdtc_stor) ? 1527 &mdtc_stor : NULL; 1528 struct dirty_throttle_control *sdtc; 1529 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */ 1530 long period; 1531 long pause; 1532 long max_pause; 1533 long min_pause; 1534 int nr_dirtied_pause; 1535 bool dirty_exceeded = false; 1536 unsigned long task_ratelimit; 1537 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit; 1538 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi; 1539 bool strictlimit = bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT; 1540 unsigned long start_time = jiffies; 1541 1542 for (;;) { 1543 unsigned long now = jiffies; 1544 unsigned long dirty, thresh, bg_thresh; 1545 unsigned long m_dirty, m_thresh, m_bg_thresh; 1546 1547 /* 1548 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked 1549 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been 1550 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet 1551 * been flushed to permanent storage. 1552 */ 1553 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + 1554 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); 1555 gdtc->avail = global_dirtyable_memory(); 1556 gdtc->dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); 1557 1558 domain_dirty_limits(gdtc); 1559 1560 if (unlikely(strictlimit)) { 1561 wb_dirty_limits(gdtc); 1562 1563 dirty = gdtc->wb_dirty; 1564 thresh = gdtc->wb_thresh; 1565 bg_thresh = gdtc->wb_bg_thresh; 1566 } else { 1567 dirty = gdtc->dirty; 1568 thresh = gdtc->thresh; 1569 bg_thresh = gdtc->bg_thresh; 1570 } 1571 1572 if (mdtc) { 1573 unsigned long filepages, headroom, writeback; 1574 1575 /* 1576 * If @wb belongs to !root memcg, repeat the same 1577 * basic calculations for the memcg domain. 1578 */ 1579 mem_cgroup_wb_stats(wb, &filepages, &headroom, 1580 &mdtc->dirty, &writeback); 1581 mdtc->dirty += writeback; 1582 mdtc_calc_avail(mdtc, filepages, headroom); 1583 1584 domain_dirty_limits(mdtc); 1585 1586 if (unlikely(strictlimit)) { 1587 wb_dirty_limits(mdtc); 1588 m_dirty = mdtc->wb_dirty; 1589 m_thresh = mdtc->wb_thresh; 1590 m_bg_thresh = mdtc->wb_bg_thresh; 1591 } else { 1592 m_dirty = mdtc->dirty; 1593 m_thresh = mdtc->thresh; 1594 m_bg_thresh = mdtc->bg_thresh; 1595 } 1596 } 1597 1598 /* 1599 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot 1600 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts 1601 * when the wb limits are ramping up in case of !strictlimit. 1602 * 1603 * In strictlimit case make decision based on the wb counters 1604 * and limits. Small writeouts when the wb limits are ramping 1605 * up are the price we consciously pay for strictlimit-ing. 1606 * 1607 * If memcg domain is in effect, @dirty should be under 1608 * both global and memcg freerun ceilings. 1609 */ 1610 if (dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh) && 1611 (!mdtc || 1612 m_dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(m_thresh, m_bg_thresh))) { 1613 unsigned long intv = dirty_poll_interval(dirty, thresh); 1614 unsigned long m_intv = ULONG_MAX; 1615 1616 current->dirty_paused_when = now; 1617 current->nr_dirtied = 0; 1618 if (mdtc) 1619 m_intv = dirty_poll_interval(m_dirty, m_thresh); 1620 current->nr_dirtied_pause = min(intv, m_intv); 1621 break; 1622 } 1623 1624 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb))) 1625 wb_start_background_writeback(wb); 1626 1627 /* 1628 * Calculate global domain's pos_ratio and select the 1629 * global dtc by default. 1630 */ 1631 if (!strictlimit) 1632 wb_dirty_limits(gdtc); 1633 1634 dirty_exceeded = (gdtc->wb_dirty > gdtc->wb_thresh) && 1635 ((gdtc->dirty > gdtc->thresh) || strictlimit); 1636 1637 wb_position_ratio(gdtc); 1638 sdtc = gdtc; 1639 1640 if (mdtc) { 1641 /* 1642 * If memcg domain is in effect, calculate its 1643 * pos_ratio. @wb should satisfy constraints from 1644 * both global and memcg domains. Choose the one 1645 * w/ lower pos_ratio. 1646 */ 1647 if (!strictlimit) 1648 wb_dirty_limits(mdtc); 1649 1650 dirty_exceeded |= (mdtc->wb_dirty > mdtc->wb_thresh) && 1651 ((mdtc->dirty > mdtc->thresh) || strictlimit); 1652 1653 wb_position_ratio(mdtc); 1654 if (mdtc->pos_ratio < gdtc->pos_ratio) 1655 sdtc = mdtc; 1656 } 1657 1658 if (dirty_exceeded && !wb->dirty_exceeded) 1659 wb->dirty_exceeded = 1; 1660 1661 if (time_is_before_jiffies(wb->bw_time_stamp + 1662 BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) { 1663 spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); 1664 __wb_update_bandwidth(gdtc, mdtc, start_time, true); 1665 spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); 1666 } 1667 1668 /* throttle according to the chosen dtc */ 1669 dirty_ratelimit = wb->dirty_ratelimit; 1670 task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * sdtc->pos_ratio) >> 1671 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; 1672 max_pause = wb_max_pause(wb, sdtc->wb_dirty); 1673 min_pause = wb_min_pause(wb, max_pause, 1674 task_ratelimit, dirty_ratelimit, 1675 &nr_dirtied_pause); 1676 1677 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) { 1678 period = max_pause; 1679 pause = max_pause; 1680 goto pause; 1681 } 1682 period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; 1683 pause = period; 1684 if (current->dirty_paused_when) 1685 pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when; 1686 /* 1687 * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier 1688 * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs, 1689 * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in 1690 * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just 1691 * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier. 1692 */ 1693 if (pause < min_pause) { 1694 trace_balance_dirty_pages(wb, 1695 sdtc->thresh, 1696 sdtc->bg_thresh, 1697 sdtc->dirty, 1698 sdtc->wb_thresh, 1699 sdtc->wb_dirty, 1700 dirty_ratelimit, 1701 task_ratelimit, 1702 pages_dirtied, 1703 period, 1704 min(pause, 0L), 1705 start_time); 1706 if (pause < -HZ) { 1707 current->dirty_paused_when = now; 1708 current->nr_dirtied = 0; 1709 } else if (period) { 1710 current->dirty_paused_when += period; 1711 current->nr_dirtied = 0; 1712 } else if (current->nr_dirtied_pause <= pages_dirtied) 1713 current->nr_dirtied_pause += pages_dirtied; 1714 break; 1715 } 1716 if (unlikely(pause > max_pause)) { 1717 /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */ 1718 now += min(pause - max_pause, max_pause); 1719 pause = max_pause; 1720 } 1721 1722 pause: 1723 trace_balance_dirty_pages(wb, 1724 sdtc->thresh, 1725 sdtc->bg_thresh, 1726 sdtc->dirty, 1727 sdtc->wb_thresh, 1728 sdtc->wb_dirty, 1729 dirty_ratelimit, 1730 task_ratelimit, 1731 pages_dirtied, 1732 period, 1733 pause, 1734 start_time); 1735 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); 1736 io_schedule_timeout(pause); 1737 1738 current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause; 1739 current->nr_dirtied = 0; 1740 current->nr_dirtied_pause = nr_dirtied_pause; 1741 1742 /* 1743 * This is typically equal to (dirty < thresh) and can also 1744 * keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control. 1745 */ 1746 if (task_ratelimit) 1747 break; 1748 1749 /* 1750 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty 1751 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good wb's a pipe 1752 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive. 1753 * 1754 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer 1755 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1 1756 * more page. However wb_dirty has accounting errors. So use 1757 * the larger and more IO friendly wb_stat_error. 1758 */ 1759 if (sdtc->wb_dirty <= wb_stat_error(wb)) 1760 break; 1761 1762 if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) 1763 break; 1764 } 1765 1766 if (!dirty_exceeded && wb->dirty_exceeded) 1767 wb->dirty_exceeded = 0; 1768 1769 if (writeback_in_progress(wb)) 1770 return; 1771 1772 /* 1773 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before 1774 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down 1775 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity. 1776 * 1777 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower 1778 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. 1779 */ 1780 if (laptop_mode) 1781 return; 1782 1783 if (nr_reclaimable > gdtc->bg_thresh) 1784 wb_start_background_writeback(wb); 1785 } 1786 1787 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); 1788 1789 /* 1790 * Normal tasks are throttled by 1791 * loop { 1792 * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages; 1793 * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages(); 1794 * } 1795 * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied 1796 * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be 1797 * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet 1798 * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them 1799 * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case, 1800 * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty 1801 * count and eventually get throttled. 1802 */ 1803 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; 1804 1805 /** 1806 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state 1807 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied 1808 * 1809 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page 1810 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's 1811 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. 1812 * 1813 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid 1814 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory 1815 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes 1816 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each. 1817 */ 1818 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) 1819 { 1820 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 1821 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); 1822 struct bdi_writeback *wb = NULL; 1823 int ratelimit; 1824 int *p; 1825 1826 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi)) 1827 return; 1828 1829 if (inode_cgwb_enabled(inode)) 1830 wb = wb_get_create_current(bdi, GFP_KERNEL); 1831 if (!wb) 1832 wb = &bdi->wb; 1833 1834 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause; 1835 if (wb->dirty_exceeded) 1836 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)); 1837 1838 preempt_disable(); 1839 /* 1840 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without 1841 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are 1842 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same 1843 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause. 1844 */ 1845 p = this_cpu_ptr(&bdp_ratelimits); 1846 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) 1847 *p = 0; 1848 else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) { 1849 *p = 0; 1850 ratelimit = 0; 1851 } 1852 /* 1853 * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of 1854 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping 1855 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers. 1856 */ 1857 p = this_cpu_ptr(&dirty_throttle_leaks); 1858 if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) { 1859 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied; 1860 nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied); 1861 *p -= nr_pages_dirtied; 1862 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied; 1863 } 1864 preempt_enable(); 1865 1866 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) 1867 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, wb, current->nr_dirtied); 1868 1869 wb_put(wb); 1870 } 1871 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); 1872 1873 /** 1874 * wb_over_bg_thresh - does @wb need to be written back? 1875 * @wb: bdi_writeback of interest 1876 * 1877 * Determines whether background writeback should keep writing @wb or it's 1878 * clean enough. Returns %true if writeback should continue. 1879 */ 1880 bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb) 1881 { 1882 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor = { GDTC_INIT(wb) }; 1883 struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor = { MDTC_INIT(wb, &gdtc_stor) }; 1884 struct dirty_throttle_control * const gdtc = &gdtc_stor; 1885 struct dirty_throttle_control * const mdtc = mdtc_valid(&mdtc_stor) ? 1886 &mdtc_stor : NULL; 1887 1888 /* 1889 * Similar to balance_dirty_pages() but ignores pages being written 1890 * as we're trying to decide whether to put more under writeback. 1891 */ 1892 gdtc->avail = global_dirtyable_memory(); 1893 gdtc->dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + 1894 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); 1895 domain_dirty_limits(gdtc); 1896 1897 if (gdtc->dirty > gdtc->bg_thresh) 1898 return true; 1899 1900 if (wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE) > __wb_calc_thresh(gdtc)) 1901 return true; 1902 1903 if (mdtc) { 1904 unsigned long filepages, headroom, writeback; 1905 1906 mem_cgroup_wb_stats(wb, &filepages, &headroom, &mdtc->dirty, 1907 &writeback); 1908 mdtc_calc_avail(mdtc, filepages, headroom); 1909 domain_dirty_limits(mdtc); /* ditto, ignore writeback */ 1910 1911 if (mdtc->dirty > mdtc->bg_thresh) 1912 return true; 1913 1914 if (wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE) > __wb_calc_thresh(mdtc)) 1915 return true; 1916 } 1917 1918 return false; 1919 } 1920 1921 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) 1922 { 1923 unsigned long background_thresh; 1924 unsigned long dirty_thresh; 1925 1926 for ( ; ; ) { 1927 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); 1928 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(&global_wb_domain, dirty_thresh); 1929 1930 /* 1931 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page 1932 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers 1933 */ 1934 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */ 1935 1936 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + 1937 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh) 1938 break; 1939 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); 1940 1941 /* 1942 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion 1943 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here 1944 * waiting for IO to complete. 1945 */ 1946 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) 1947 break; 1948 } 1949 } 1950 1951 /* 1952 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 1953 */ 1954 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 1955 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) 1956 { 1957 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); 1958 return 0; 1959 } 1960 1961 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK 1962 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data) 1963 { 1964 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data; 1965 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + 1966 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); 1967 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 1968 1969 /* 1970 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty 1971 * threshold 1972 */ 1973 if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info)) 1974 return; 1975 1976 rcu_read_lock(); 1977 list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info.wb_list, bdi_node) 1978 if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb)) 1979 wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true, 1980 WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER); 1981 rcu_read_unlock(); 1982 } 1983 1984 /* 1985 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback 1986 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled 1987 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk. 1988 */ 1989 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info) 1990 { 1991 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode); 1992 } 1993 1994 /* 1995 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have 1996 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion. 1997 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback. 1998 */ 1999 void laptop_sync_completion(void) 2000 { 2001 struct backing_dev_info *bdi; 2002 2003 rcu_read_lock(); 2004 2005 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) 2006 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer); 2007 2008 rcu_read_unlock(); 2009 } 2010 #endif 2011 2012 /* 2013 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload 2014 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time. 2015 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive) 2016 * get_writeback_state too often. 2017 * 2018 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are 2019 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory 2020 * thresholds. 2021 */ 2022 2023 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void) 2024 { 2025 struct wb_domain *dom = &global_wb_domain; 2026 unsigned long background_thresh; 2027 unsigned long dirty_thresh; 2028 2029 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); 2030 dom->dirty_limit = dirty_thresh; 2031 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32); 2032 if (ratelimit_pages < 16) 2033 ratelimit_pages = 16; 2034 } 2035 2036 static int 2037 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, 2038 void *hcpu) 2039 { 2040 2041 switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) { 2042 case CPU_ONLINE: 2043 case CPU_DEAD: 2044 writeback_set_ratelimit(); 2045 return NOTIFY_OK; 2046 default: 2047 return NOTIFY_DONE; 2048 } 2049 } 2050 2051 static struct notifier_block ratelimit_nb = { 2052 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler, 2053 .next = NULL, 2054 }; 2055 2056 /* 2057 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits. 2058 * 2059 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory 2060 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by 2061 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages. 2062 * 2063 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with 2064 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio" 2065 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting 2066 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't 2067 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had 2068 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of 2069 * non-HIGHMEM memory. 2070 * 2071 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how 2072 * much memory the box has.. 2073 */ 2074 void __init page_writeback_init(void) 2075 { 2076 BUG_ON(wb_domain_init(&global_wb_domain, GFP_KERNEL)); 2077 2078 writeback_set_ratelimit(); 2079 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); 2080 } 2081 2082 /** 2083 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages 2084 * @mapping: address space structure to write 2085 * @start: starting page index 2086 * @end: ending page index (inclusive) 2087 * 2088 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags 2089 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is 2090 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use 2091 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is 2092 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new 2093 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick 2094 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them). 2095 */ 2096 /* 2097 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency. 2098 */ 2099 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping, 2100 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end) 2101 { 2102 #define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096 2103 unsigned long tagged; 2104 2105 do { 2106 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); 2107 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, 2108 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH, 2109 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); 2110 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); 2111 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH); 2112 cond_resched(); 2113 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */ 2114 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start); 2115 } 2116 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback); 2117 2118 /** 2119 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them. 2120 * @mapping: address space structure to write 2121 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write 2122 * @writepage: function called for each page 2123 * @data: data passed to writepage function 2124 * 2125 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even 2126 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback, 2127 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync() 2128 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time 2129 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is 2130 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for 2131 * existing IO to complete. 2132 * 2133 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag 2134 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start 2135 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do 2136 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE 2137 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only 2138 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO). 2139 */ 2140 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, 2141 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage, 2142 void *data) 2143 { 2144 int ret = 0; 2145 int done = 0; 2146 struct pagevec pvec; 2147 int nr_pages; 2148 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index); 2149 pgoff_t index; 2150 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */ 2151 pgoff_t done_index; 2152 int cycled; 2153 int range_whole = 0; 2154 int tag; 2155 2156 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); 2157 if (wbc->range_cyclic) { 2158 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */ 2159 index = writeback_index; 2160 if (index == 0) 2161 cycled = 1; 2162 else 2163 cycled = 0; 2164 end = -1; 2165 } else { 2166 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; 2167 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; 2168 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) 2169 range_whole = 1; 2170 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ 2171 } 2172 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) 2173 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; 2174 else 2175 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; 2176 retry: 2177 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) 2178 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); 2179 done_index = index; 2180 while (!done && (index <= end)) { 2181 int i; 2182 2183 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag, 2184 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1); 2185 if (nr_pages == 0) 2186 break; 2187 2188 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { 2189 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; 2190 2191 /* 2192 * At this point, the page may be truncated or 2193 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or 2194 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file 2195 * mapping. However, page->index will not change 2196 * because we have a reference on the page. 2197 */ 2198 if (page->index > end) { 2199 /* 2200 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because 2201 * end == -1 in that case. 2202 */ 2203 done = 1; 2204 break; 2205 } 2206 2207 done_index = page->index; 2208 2209 lock_page(page); 2210 2211 /* 2212 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it 2213 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page 2214 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no 2215 * real expectation of this data interity operation 2216 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same 2217 * pagecache address. 2218 */ 2219 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) { 2220 continue_unlock: 2221 unlock_page(page); 2222 continue; 2223 } 2224 2225 if (!PageDirty(page)) { 2226 /* someone wrote it for us */ 2227 goto continue_unlock; 2228 } 2229 2230 if (PageWriteback(page)) { 2231 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE) 2232 wait_on_page_writeback(page); 2233 else 2234 goto continue_unlock; 2235 } 2236 2237 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page)); 2238 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) 2239 goto continue_unlock; 2240 2241 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host)); 2242 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data); 2243 if (unlikely(ret)) { 2244 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) { 2245 unlock_page(page); 2246 ret = 0; 2247 } else { 2248 /* 2249 * done_index is set past this page, 2250 * so media errors will not choke 2251 * background writeout for the entire 2252 * file. This has consequences for 2253 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may 2254 * not be suitable for data integrity 2255 * writeout). 2256 */ 2257 done_index = page->index + 1; 2258 done = 1; 2259 break; 2260 } 2261 } 2262 2263 /* 2264 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing 2265 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to 2266 * keep going until we have written all the pages 2267 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop. 2268 */ 2269 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 && 2270 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { 2271 done = 1; 2272 break; 2273 } 2274 } 2275 pagevec_release(&pvec); 2276 cond_resched(); 2277 } 2278 if (!cycled && !done) { 2279 /* 2280 * range_cyclic: 2281 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap 2282 * back to the start of the file 2283 */ 2284 cycled = 1; 2285 index = 0; 2286 end = writeback_index - 1; 2287 goto retry; 2288 } 2289 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0)) 2290 mapping->writeback_index = done_index; 2291 2292 return ret; 2293 } 2294 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages); 2295 2296 /* 2297 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage 2298 * function and set the mapping flags on error 2299 */ 2300 static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, 2301 void *data) 2302 { 2303 struct address_space *mapping = data; 2304 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc); 2305 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret); 2306 return ret; 2307 } 2308 2309 /** 2310 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them. 2311 * @mapping: address space structure to write 2312 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write 2313 * 2314 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages() 2315 * address_space_operation. 2316 */ 2317 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, 2318 struct writeback_control *wbc) 2319 { 2320 struct blk_plug plug; 2321 int ret; 2322 2323 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */ 2324 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage) 2325 return 0; 2326 2327 blk_start_plug(&plug); 2328 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping); 2329 blk_finish_plug(&plug); 2330 return ret; 2331 } 2332 2333 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages); 2334 2335 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) 2336 { 2337 int ret; 2338 2339 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) 2340 return 0; 2341 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages) 2342 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc); 2343 else 2344 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc); 2345 return ret; 2346 } 2347 2348 /** 2349 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O 2350 * @page: the page to write 2351 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout 2352 * 2353 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return. 2354 * 2355 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed. 2356 */ 2357 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait) 2358 { 2359 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; 2360 int ret = 0; 2361 struct writeback_control wbc = { 2362 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, 2363 .nr_to_write = 1, 2364 }; 2365 2366 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); 2367 2368 if (wait) 2369 wait_on_page_writeback(page); 2370 2371 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) { 2372 page_cache_get(page); 2373 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc); 2374 if (ret == 0 && wait) { 2375 wait_on_page_writeback(page); 2376 if (PageError(page)) 2377 ret = -EIO; 2378 } 2379 page_cache_release(page); 2380 } else { 2381 unlock_page(page); 2382 } 2383 return ret; 2384 } 2385 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page); 2386 2387 /* 2388 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back. 2389 */ 2390 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page) 2391 { 2392 if (!PageDirty(page)) 2393 return !TestSetPageDirty(page); 2394 return 0; 2395 } 2396 2397 /* 2398 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family. 2399 * 2400 * Caller must hold mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(). 2401 * 2402 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts. 2403 */ 2404 void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping, 2405 struct mem_cgroup *memcg) 2406 { 2407 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2408 2409 trace_writeback_dirty_page(page, mapping); 2410 2411 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { 2412 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 2413 2414 inode_attach_wb(inode, page); 2415 wb = inode_to_wb(inode); 2416 2417 mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY); 2418 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); 2419 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED); 2420 __inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); 2421 __inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED); 2422 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 2423 current->nr_dirtied++; 2424 this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits); 2425 } 2426 } 2427 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied); 2428 2429 /* 2430 * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback. 2431 * 2432 * Caller must hold mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(). 2433 */ 2434 void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping, 2435 struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct bdi_writeback *wb) 2436 { 2437 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { 2438 mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY); 2439 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); 2440 dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); 2441 task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 2442 } 2443 } 2444 2445 /* 2446 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in 2447 * its radix tree. 2448 * 2449 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the 2450 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up" 2451 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying. 2452 * 2453 * The caller must ensure this doesn't race with truncation. Most will simply 2454 * hold the page lock, but e.g. zap_pte_range() calls with the page mapped and 2455 * the pte lock held, which also locks out truncation. 2456 */ 2457 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page) 2458 { 2459 struct mem_cgroup *memcg; 2460 2461 memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page); 2462 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) { 2463 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2464 unsigned long flags; 2465 2466 if (!mapping) { 2467 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2468 return 1; 2469 } 2470 2471 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2472 BUG_ON(page_mapping(page) != mapping); 2473 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page)); 2474 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping, memcg); 2475 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page), 2476 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY); 2477 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2478 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2479 2480 if (mapping->host) { 2481 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */ 2482 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); 2483 } 2484 return 1; 2485 } 2486 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2487 return 0; 2488 } 2489 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers); 2490 2491 /* 2492 * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters 2493 * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written 2494 * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to 2495 * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position 2496 * control. 2497 */ 2498 void account_page_redirty(struct page *page) 2499 { 2500 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; 2501 2502 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { 2503 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2504 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 2505 bool locked; 2506 2507 wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked); 2508 current->nr_dirtied--; 2509 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED); 2510 dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED); 2511 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked); 2512 } 2513 } 2514 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty); 2515 2516 /* 2517 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this 2518 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via 2519 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0 2520 */ 2521 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page) 2522 { 2523 int ret; 2524 2525 wbc->pages_skipped++; 2526 ret = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page); 2527 account_page_redirty(page); 2528 return ret; 2529 } 2530 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage); 2531 2532 /* 2533 * Dirty a page. 2534 * 2535 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock 2536 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent 2537 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases, 2538 * but should be better not to. 2539 * 2540 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then 2541 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads. 2542 */ 2543 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page) 2544 { 2545 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2546 2547 if (likely(mapping)) { 2548 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty; 2549 /* 2550 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain 2551 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback 2552 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be 2553 * reset. So no problem. 2554 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag 2555 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead 2556 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup 2557 * process. But it's a trivial problem. 2558 */ 2559 if (PageReclaim(page)) 2560 ClearPageReclaim(page); 2561 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK 2562 if (!spd) 2563 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers; 2564 #endif 2565 return (*spd)(page); 2566 } 2567 if (!PageDirty(page)) { 2568 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) 2569 return 1; 2570 } 2571 return 0; 2572 } 2573 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty); 2574 2575 /* 2576 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against 2577 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another 2578 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping. 2579 * 2580 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which 2581 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file. 2582 * 2583 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty(). 2584 */ 2585 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page) 2586 { 2587 int ret; 2588 2589 lock_page(page); 2590 ret = set_page_dirty(page); 2591 unlock_page(page); 2592 return ret; 2593 } 2594 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock); 2595 2596 /* 2597 * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it does NOT 2598 * actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be around. It also 2599 * leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync activity will still find it on 2600 * the dirty lists, and in particular, clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still 2601 * look at the dirty bits in the VM. 2602 * 2603 * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page is truncated, 2604 * and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, fs/buffer.c does 2605 * this when it notices that somebody has cleaned out all the buffers on a 2606 * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is 2607 * horribly ugly"? Thought you could. 2608 */ 2609 void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page) 2610 { 2611 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2612 2613 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { 2614 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2615 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 2616 struct mem_cgroup *memcg; 2617 bool locked; 2618 2619 memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page); 2620 wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked); 2621 2622 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) 2623 account_page_cleaned(page, mapping, memcg, wb); 2624 2625 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked); 2626 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2627 } else { 2628 ClearPageDirty(page); 2629 } 2630 } 2631 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page); 2632 2633 /* 2634 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting. 2635 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty. 2636 * 2637 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page 2638 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync 2639 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage 2640 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(), 2641 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag 2642 * back into sync. 2643 * 2644 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is 2645 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked. 2646 */ 2647 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page) 2648 { 2649 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2650 int ret = 0; 2651 2652 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); 2653 2654 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { 2655 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2656 struct bdi_writeback *wb; 2657 struct mem_cgroup *memcg; 2658 bool locked; 2659 2660 /* 2661 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane. 2662 * 2663 * We use this sequence to make sure that 2664 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly 2665 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to 2666 * mark the whole page dirty if it was 2667 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then 2668 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to 2669 * cause the writeback. 2670 * 2671 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the 2672 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing 2673 * them concurrently from different threads. 2674 * 2675 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)" 2676 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since 2677 * that will already usually be set. But we 2678 * need the side effects, and it can help us 2679 * avoid races. 2680 * 2681 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit" 2682 * as a serialization point for all the different 2683 * threads doing their things. 2684 */ 2685 if (page_mkclean(page)) 2686 set_page_dirty(page); 2687 /* 2688 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against 2689 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty 2690 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the 2691 * page lock while dirtying the page, and pages are 2692 * always locked coming in here, so we get the desired 2693 * exclusion. 2694 */ 2695 memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page); 2696 wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked); 2697 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) { 2698 mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY); 2699 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); 2700 dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); 2701 ret = 1; 2702 } 2703 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked); 2704 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2705 return ret; 2706 } 2707 return TestClearPageDirty(page); 2708 } 2709 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io); 2710 2711 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page) 2712 { 2713 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2714 struct mem_cgroup *memcg; 2715 int ret; 2716 2717 memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page); 2718 if (mapping) { 2719 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2720 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); 2721 unsigned long flags; 2722 2723 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2724 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page); 2725 if (ret) { 2726 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree, 2727 page_index(page), 2728 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK); 2729 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) { 2730 struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_to_wb(inode); 2731 2732 __dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK); 2733 __wb_writeout_inc(wb); 2734 } 2735 } 2736 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2737 } else { 2738 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page); 2739 } 2740 if (ret) { 2741 mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_WRITEBACK); 2742 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK); 2743 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN); 2744 } 2745 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2746 return ret; 2747 } 2748 2749 int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write) 2750 { 2751 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); 2752 struct mem_cgroup *memcg; 2753 int ret; 2754 2755 memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page); 2756 if (mapping) { 2757 struct inode *inode = mapping->host; 2758 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); 2759 unsigned long flags; 2760 2761 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2762 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page); 2763 if (!ret) { 2764 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, 2765 page_index(page), 2766 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK); 2767 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) 2768 __inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode), WB_WRITEBACK); 2769 } 2770 if (!PageDirty(page)) 2771 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree, 2772 page_index(page), 2773 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY); 2774 if (!keep_write) 2775 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree, 2776 page_index(page), 2777 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); 2778 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); 2779 } else { 2780 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page); 2781 } 2782 if (!ret) { 2783 mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_WRITEBACK); 2784 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK); 2785 } 2786 mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg); 2787 return ret; 2788 2789 } 2790 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__test_set_page_writeback); 2791 2792 /* 2793 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the 2794 * passed tag. 2795 */ 2796 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag) 2797 { 2798 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag); 2799 } 2800 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged); 2801 2802 /** 2803 * wait_for_stable_page() - wait for writeback to finish, if necessary. 2804 * @page: The page to wait on. 2805 * 2806 * This function determines if the given page is related to a backing device 2807 * that requires page contents to be held stable during writeback. If so, then 2808 * it will wait for any pending writeback to complete. 2809 */ 2810 void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page) 2811 { 2812 if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(page->mapping->host))) 2813 wait_on_page_writeback(page); 2814 } 2815 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_stable_page); 2816