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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001/*
Uwe Zeisbergerf30c2262006-10-03 23:01:26 +02002 * mm/page-writeback.c
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07005 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07006 *
7 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
8 * address_space level.
9 *
Francois Camie1f8e872008-10-15 22:01:59 -070010 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011 * Initial version
12 */
13
14#include <linux/kernel.h>
15#include <linux/module.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>
Andrew Morton55e829a2006-12-10 02:19:27 -080025#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070026#include <linux/blkdev.h>
27#include <linux/mpage.h>
Peter Zijlstrad08b3852006-09-25 23:30:57 -070028#include <linux/rmap.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029#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>
David Howellscf9a2ae2006-08-29 19:05:54 +010035#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +010036#include <linux/pagevec.h>
Dave Chinner028c2dd2010-07-07 13:24:07 +100037#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038
39/*
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -060040 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
41 */
42#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
43
44/*
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060045 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
46 */
47#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
48
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -060049#define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
50
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060051/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
53 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
54 */
55static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
56
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070057/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
58
59/*
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +020060 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070061 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080062int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070063
64/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080065 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
66 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
67 */
68unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
69
70/*
Bron Gondwana195cf4532008-02-04 22:29:20 -080071 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
72 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
73 */
74int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
75
76/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070077 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
78 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080079int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080
81/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080082 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
83 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
84 */
85unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
86
87/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -070088 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070089 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -070090unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070091
92/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -070093 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070094 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -070095unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096
97/*
98 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
99 */
100int block_dump;
101
102/*
Bart Samweled5b43f2006-03-24 03:15:49 -0800103 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
104 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 */
106int laptop_mode;
107
108EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
109
110/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
111
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600112unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700113
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114/*
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700115 * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
116 *
117 * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
118 * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
119 * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
120 * share.
121 *
122 * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
123 * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
124 *
125 * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
126 * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
127 * measured in page writeback completions.
128 *
129 */
130static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
Peter Zijlstra3e26c142007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700131static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700132
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700133/*
134 * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
135 *
136 * period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
137 */
138static int calc_period_shift(void)
139{
140 unsigned long dirty_total;
141
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800142 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
143 dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
144 else
145 dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) /
146 100;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700147 return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
148}
149
150/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800151 * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700152 */
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800153static void update_completion_period(void)
154{
155 int shift = calc_period_shift();
156 prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
157 prop_change_shift(&vm_dirties, shift);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -0600158
159 writeback_set_ratelimit();
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800160}
161
162int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700163 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800164 loff_t *ppos)
165{
166 int ret;
167
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700168 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800169 if (ret == 0 && write)
170 dirty_background_bytes = 0;
171 return ret;
172}
173
174int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700175 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800176 loff_t *ppos)
177{
178 int ret;
179
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700180 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800181 if (ret == 0 && write)
182 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
183 return ret;
184}
185
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700186int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700187 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700188 loff_t *ppos)
189{
190 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800191 int ret;
192
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700193 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700194 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800195 update_completion_period();
196 vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
197 }
198 return ret;
199}
200
201
202int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700203 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800204 loff_t *ppos)
205{
Sven Wegenerfc3501d2009-02-11 13:04:23 -0800206 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800207 int ret;
208
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700209 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800210 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
211 update_completion_period();
212 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700213 }
214 return ret;
215}
216
217/*
218 * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
219 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
220 */
221static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
222{
Jan Karaf7d2b1e2010-12-08 22:44:24 -0600223 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700224 __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
225 bdi->max_prop_frac);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700226}
227
Miklos Szeredidd5656e2008-04-30 00:54:37 -0700228void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
229{
230 unsigned long flags;
231
232 local_irq_save(flags);
233 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
234 local_irq_restore(flags);
235}
236EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
237
Nick Piggin1cf6e7d2009-02-18 14:48:18 -0800238void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
Peter Zijlstra3e26c142007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700239{
240 prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
241}
242
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700243/*
244 * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
245 */
246static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
247 long *numerator, long *denominator)
248{
Wu Fengguang3efaf0f2010-12-16 22:22:00 -0600249 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700250 numerator, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700251}
252
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700253/*
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700254 *
255 */
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700256static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
257
258int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
259{
260 int ret = 0;
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700261
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200262 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700263 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700264 ret = -EINVAL;
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700265 } else {
266 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
267 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
268 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
269 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
270 } else {
271 ret = -EINVAL;
272 }
273 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200274 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700275
276 return ret;
277}
278
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700279int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
280{
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700281 int ret = 0;
282
283 if (max_ratio > 100)
284 return -EINVAL;
285
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200286 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700287 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
288 ret = -EINVAL;
289 } else {
290 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
291 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
292 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200293 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700294
295 return ret;
296}
297EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
298
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700299/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700300 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
301 * thresholds.
302 *
303 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
304 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
305 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
306 * performing lots of scanning.
307 *
308 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
309 *
310 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
311 * excessive.
312 *
313 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
314 * clamping level.
315 */
Christoph Lameter1b424462007-05-06 14:48:59 -0700316
317static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
318{
319#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
320 int node;
321 unsigned long x = 0;
322
Lee Schermerhorn37b07e42007-10-16 01:25:39 -0700323 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
Christoph Lameter1b424462007-05-06 14:48:59 -0700324 struct zone *z =
325 &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
326
Wu Fengguangadea02a2009-09-21 17:01:42 -0700327 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
328 zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
Christoph Lameter1b424462007-05-06 14:48:59 -0700329 }
330 /*
331 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
332 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
333 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
334 * that this does not occur.
335 */
336 return min(x, total);
337#else
338 return 0;
339#endif
340}
341
Steven Rostedt3eefae92008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200342/**
343 * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
344 *
345 * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
346 * by the kernel for direct mappings.
347 */
348unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
Christoph Lameter1b424462007-05-06 14:48:59 -0700349{
350 unsigned long x;
351
Wu Fengguangadea02a2009-09-21 17:01:42 -0700352 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
Bron Gondwana195cf4532008-02-04 22:29:20 -0800353
354 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
355 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
356
Christoph Lameter1b424462007-05-06 14:48:59 -0700357 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
358}
359
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600360static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
361 unsigned long bg_thresh)
362{
363 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
364}
365
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -0600366static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
367{
368 return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
369}
370
Randy Dunlap03ab4502010-08-14 13:05:17 -0700371/*
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700372 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
373 *
374 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
375 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
376 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
377 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
Minchan Kimebd13732011-01-04 01:36:48 +0900378 * real-time tasks.
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700379 */
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700380void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700381{
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -0800382 unsigned long background;
383 unsigned long dirty;
Minchan Kim240c8792011-01-13 15:46:27 -0800384 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700385 struct task_struct *tsk;
386
Minchan Kim240c8792011-01-13 15:46:27 -0800387 if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
388 available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
389
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800390 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
391 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
Wu Fengguang4cbec4c2010-10-26 14:21:45 -0700392 else
393 dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800395 if (dirty_background_bytes)
396 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
397 else
398 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
399
400 if (background >= dirty)
401 background = dirty / 2;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700402 tsk = current;
403 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
404 background += background / 4;
405 dirty += dirty / 4;
406 }
407 *pbackground = background;
408 *pdirty = dirty;
Wu Fengguange1cbe232010-12-06 22:34:29 -0600409 trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700410}
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700411
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600412/**
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700413 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600414 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
415 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700416 *
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600417 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
418 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
419 * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
420 * balance_dirty_pages().
421 *
422 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700423 * - starving fast devices
424 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
425 *
426 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
427 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
428 */
429unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700430{
431 u64 bdi_dirty;
432 long numerator, denominator;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700433
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700434 /*
435 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
436 */
437 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700438
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700439 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
440 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
441 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700442
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700443 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
444 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
445 bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
446
447 return bdi_dirty;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700448}
449
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600450/*
451 * Dirty position control.
452 *
453 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
454 *
455 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
456 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
457 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
458 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
459 *
460 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
461 *
462 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
463 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
464 *
465 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
466 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
467 *
468 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
469 *
470 * (o) global control line
471 *
472 * ^ pos_ratio
473 * |
474 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
475 * 2.0 .............*
476 * | .*
477 * | . *
478 * | . *
479 * | . *
480 * | . *
481 * | . *
482 * 1.0 ................................*
483 * | . . *
484 * | . . *
485 * | . . *
486 * | . . *
487 * | . . *
488 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
489 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
490 *
491 * (o) bdi control line
492 *
493 * ^ pos_ratio
494 * |
495 * | *
496 * | *
497 * | *
498 * | *
499 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
500 * 1.0 .......................*
501 * | . *
502 * | . *
503 * | . *
504 * | . *
505 * | . *
506 * | . *
507 * | . *
508 * | . *
509 * | . *
510 * | . *
511 * | . *
512 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
513 * | . .
514 * | . .
515 * | . .
516 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
517 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
518 *
519 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
520 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
521 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
522 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
523 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
524 */
525static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
526 unsigned long thresh,
527 unsigned long bg_thresh,
528 unsigned long dirty,
529 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
530 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
531{
532 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
533 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
534 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
535 unsigned long x_intercept;
536 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
537 unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
538 unsigned long span;
539 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
540 long x;
541
542 if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
543 return 0;
544
545 /*
546 * global setpoint
547 *
548 * setpoint - dirty 3
549 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
550 * limit - setpoint
551 *
552 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
553 *
554 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
555 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
556 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
557 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
558 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
559 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
560 */
561 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
562 x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
563 limit - setpoint + 1);
564 pos_ratio = x;
565 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
566 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
567 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
568
569 /*
570 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
571 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
572 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
573 */
574
575 /*
576 * bdi setpoint
577 *
578 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
579 *
580 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
581 * := --------------------------
582 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
583 *
584 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
585 *
586 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
587 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
588 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
589 *
590 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
591 * regularly within range
592 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
593 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
594 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
595 *
596 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
597 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
598 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
599 */
600 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
601 bdi_thresh = thresh;
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600602 bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600603 /*
604 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
605 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
606 */
607 x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
608 bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
609 /*
610 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
611 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
612 *
613 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
614 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
615 * thresh thresh
616 */
617 span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
618 x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
619
620 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
621 pos_ratio *= x_intercept - bdi_dirty;
622 do_div(pos_ratio, x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
623 } else
624 pos_ratio /= 4;
625
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600626 /*
627 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
628 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
629 * than setpoint.
630 */
631 x_intercept = bdi_thresh / 2;
632 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept) {
633 if (bdi_dirty > x_intercept / 8) {
634 pos_ratio *= x_intercept;
635 do_div(pos_ratio, bdi_dirty);
636 } else
637 pos_ratio *= 8;
638 }
639
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600640 return pos_ratio;
641}
642
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600643static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
644 unsigned long elapsed,
645 unsigned long written)
646{
647 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
648 unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
649 unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
650 u64 bw;
651
652 /*
653 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
654 *
655 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
656 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
657 * period
658 */
659 bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
660 bw *= HZ;
661 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
662 do_div(bw, elapsed);
663 avg = bw;
664 goto out;
665 }
666 bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
667 bw >>= ilog2(period);
668
669 /*
670 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
671 */
672 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
673 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
674
675 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
676 avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
677
678out:
679 bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
680 bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
681}
682
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600683/*
684 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
685 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
686 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
687 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
688 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
689 * threshold.
690 */
691static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
692{
693 unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
694
695 /*
696 * Follow up in one step.
697 */
698 if (limit < thresh) {
699 limit = thresh;
700 goto update;
701 }
702
703 /*
704 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
705 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
706 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
707 */
708 thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
709 if (limit > thresh) {
710 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
711 goto update;
712 }
713 return;
714update:
715 global_dirty_limit = limit;
716}
717
718static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
719 unsigned long dirty,
720 unsigned long now)
721{
722 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
723 static unsigned long update_time;
724
725 /*
726 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
727 */
728 if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
729 return;
730
731 spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
732 if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
733 update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
734 update_time = now;
735 }
736 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
737}
738
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600739/*
740 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
741 *
742 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
743 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
744 */
745static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
746 unsigned long thresh,
747 unsigned long bg_thresh,
748 unsigned long dirty,
749 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
750 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
751 unsigned long dirtied,
752 unsigned long elapsed)
753{
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600754 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
755 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
756 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600757 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
758 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
759 unsigned long dirty_rate;
760 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
761 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
762 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600763 unsigned long step;
764 unsigned long x;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600765
766 /*
767 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
768 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
769 */
770 dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
771
772 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
773 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
774 /*
775 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
776 */
777 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
778 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
779 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
780
781 /*
782 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
783 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
784 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
785 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
786 *
787 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
788 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
789 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
790 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
791 *
792 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
793 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
794 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
795 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
796 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
797 * be throttled at
798 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
799 * yielding
800 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
801 * put (6) into (1) we get
802 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
803 *
804 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
805 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
806 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
807 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
808 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
809 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
810 */
811 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
812 dirty_rate | 1);
813
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600814 /*
815 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
816 *
817 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
818 *
819 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
820 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
821 * limit the step size.
822 *
823 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
824 *
825 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
826 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
827 *
828 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
829 */
830
831 /*
832 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
833 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
834 * For example, when
835 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
836 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
837 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
838 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
839 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
840 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
841 *
842 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
843 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
844 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
845 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
846 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
847 */
848 step = 0;
849 if (dirty < setpoint) {
850 x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
851 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
852 if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
853 step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
854 } else {
855 x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
856 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
857 if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
858 step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
859 }
860
861 /*
862 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
863 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
864 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
865 */
866 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
867 /*
868 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
869 */
870 step = (step + 7) / 8;
871
872 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
873 dirty_ratelimit += step;
874 else
875 dirty_ratelimit -= step;
876
877 bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
878 bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600879}
880
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600881void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600882 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -0600883 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600884 unsigned long dirty,
885 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
886 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600887 unsigned long start_time)
888{
889 unsigned long now = jiffies;
890 unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600891 unsigned long dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600892 unsigned long written;
893
894 /*
895 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
896 */
897 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
898 return;
899
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600900 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600901 written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
902
903 /*
904 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
905 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
906 */
907 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
908 goto snapshot;
909
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600910 if (thresh) {
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600911 global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600912 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
913 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
914 dirtied, elapsed);
915 }
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600916 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
917
918snapshot:
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600919 bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600920 bdi->written_stamp = written;
921 bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
922}
923
924static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600925 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -0600926 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600927 unsigned long dirty,
928 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
929 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600930 unsigned long start_time)
931{
932 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
933 return;
934 spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -0600935 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
936 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600937 spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
938}
939
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700940/*
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -0600941 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
942 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
943 *
944 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
945 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
946 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
947 */
948static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
949 unsigned long thresh)
950{
951 if (thresh > dirty)
952 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
953
954 return 1;
955}
956
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -0600957static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
958 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
959{
960 unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
961 unsigned long hi = ilog2(bw);
962 unsigned long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
963 unsigned long t;
964
965 /* target for 20ms max pause on 1-dd case */
966 t = HZ / 50;
967
968 /*
969 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
970 * overheads.
971 *
972 * (N * 20ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
973 */
974 if (hi > lo)
975 t += (hi - lo) * (20 * HZ) / 1024;
976
977 /*
978 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
979 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
980 * idle.
981 *
982 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
983 */
984 if (bdi_dirty)
985 t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
986
987 /*
988 * The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
989 * Apply a minimal value of 4 to get a non-zero max_pause/4.
990 */
991 return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
992}
993
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -0600994/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700995 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
996 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -0600997 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +0200998 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
999 * perform some writeout.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001000 */
Wu Fengguang3a2e9a52009-09-23 21:56:00 +08001001static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001002 unsigned long pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001003{
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001004 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1005 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001006 unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1007 unsigned long bdi_dirty;
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001008 unsigned long freerun;
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001009 unsigned long background_thresh;
1010 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1011 unsigned long bdi_thresh;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001012 long pause = 0;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001013 long max_pause;
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001014 bool dirty_exceeded = false;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001015 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
1016 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit;
1017 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001018 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001019 unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001020
1021 for (;;) {
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001022 /*
1023 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1024 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1025 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1026 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1027 */
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001028 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1029 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001030 nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001031
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001032 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1033
1034 /*
1035 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1036 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1037 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1038 */
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001039 freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1040 background_thresh);
1041 if (nr_dirty <= freerun)
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001042 break;
1043
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001044 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1045 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1046
1047 /*
1048 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1049 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1050 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1051 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1052 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1053 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1054 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1055 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1056 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1057 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1058 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1059 */
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001060 bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001061
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001062 /*
1063 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1064 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1065 * the threshold is low.
1066 *
1067 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1068 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1069 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1070 * deltas.
1071 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001072 if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1073 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1074 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001075 bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001076 } else {
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001077 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1078 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001079 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001080 }
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001081
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001082 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001083 (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001084 if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001085 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001086
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001087 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1088 nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1089 start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001090
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001091 max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1092
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001093 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1094 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1095 background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1096 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
1097 if (unlikely(pos_ratio == 0)) {
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001098 pause = max_pause;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001099 goto pause;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001100 }
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001101 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
1102 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
1103 pause = (HZ * pages_dirtied) / (task_ratelimit | 1);
Wu Fengguang57fc9782011-06-11 19:32:32 -06001104 if (unlikely(pause <= 0)) {
1105 pause = 1; /* avoid resetting nr_dirtied_pause below */
1106 break;
1107 }
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001108 pause = min(pause, max_pause);
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001109
1110pause:
Wu Fengguangd153ba62010-12-21 17:24:21 -08001111 __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
Wu Fengguangd25105e2009-10-09 12:40:42 +02001112 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
Jens Axboe87c6a9b2009-09-17 19:59:14 +02001113
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001114 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
1115 /*
1116 * max-pause area. If dirty exceeded but still within this
1117 * area, no need to sleep for more than 200ms: (a) 8 pages per
1118 * 200ms is typically more than enough to curb heavy dirtiers;
1119 * (b) the pause time limit makes the dirtiers more responsive.
1120 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001121 if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh)
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001122 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001123 }
1124
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001125 if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001126 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001127
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001128 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang57fc9782011-06-11 19:32:32 -06001129 if (pause == 0) { /* in freerun area */
1130 current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1131 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
1132 } else if (pause <= max_pause / 4 &&
1133 pages_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause) {
1134 current->nr_dirtied_pause = clamp_val(
1135 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1136 pages_dirtied + pages_dirtied / 8,
1137 pages_dirtied * 4);
1138 } else if (pause >= max_pause) {
1139 current->nr_dirtied_pause = 1 | clamp_val(
1140 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1141 pages_dirtied / 4,
1142 pages_dirtied - pages_dirtied / 8);
1143 }
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001144
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001145 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +02001146 return;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001147
1148 /*
1149 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1150 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1151 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1152 *
1153 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1154 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1155 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001156 if (laptop_mode)
1157 return;
1158
1159 if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
Christoph Hellwigc5444192010-06-08 18:15:15 +02001160 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001161}
1162
Peter Zijlstraa200ee12007-10-08 18:54:37 +02001163void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
Peter Zijlstraedc79b22006-09-25 23:30:58 -07001164{
Peter Zijlstraa200ee12007-10-08 18:54:37 +02001165 if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
Peter Zijlstraedc79b22006-09-25 23:30:58 -07001166 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1167
1168 if (mapping)
1169 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
1170 }
1171}
1172
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001173static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001174
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001175/**
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001176 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001177 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
Martin Waitza5802902006-04-02 13:59:55 +02001178 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001179 *
1180 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1181 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1182 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1183 *
1184 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1185 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1186 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1187 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1188 */
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001189void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1190 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001191{
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001192 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001193 int ratelimit;
1194 int *p;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001195
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001196 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1197 return;
1198
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001199 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1200 if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1201 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001202
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001203 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
1204
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001205 preempt_disable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001206 /*
1207 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1208 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1209 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1210 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1211 */
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001212 p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001213 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001214 *p = 0;
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001215 else {
1216 *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
1217 if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1218 *p = 0;
1219 ratelimit = 0;
1220 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001221 }
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001222 preempt_enable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001223
1224 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1225 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226}
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001227EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001228
Andrew Morton232ea4d2007-02-28 20:13:21 -08001229void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001230{
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001231 unsigned long background_thresh;
1232 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001233
1234 for ( ; ; ) {
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001235 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001236
1237 /*
1238 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1239 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1240 */
1241 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
1242
Christoph Lameterc24f21b2006-06-30 01:55:42 -07001243 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1244 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1245 break;
Jens Axboe8aa7e842009-07-09 14:52:32 +02001246 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
Fengguang Wu369f2382007-10-16 23:30:45 -07001247
1248 /*
1249 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1250 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1251 * waiting for IO to complete.
1252 */
1253 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1254 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001255 }
1256}
1257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001259 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1260 */
1261int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001262 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001263{
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001264 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
Jens Axboe64231042010-05-21 20:00:35 +02001265 bdi_arm_supers_timer();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001266 return 0;
1267}
1268
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001269#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001270void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001271{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001272 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1273 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1274 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001275
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001276 /*
1277 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1278 * threshold
1279 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001280 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
Christoph Hellwigc5444192010-06-08 18:15:15 +02001281 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001282}
1283
1284/*
1285 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1286 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1287 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1288 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001289void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001290{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001291 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001292}
1293
1294/*
1295 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1296 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1297 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1298 */
1299void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1300{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001301 struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1302
1303 rcu_read_lock();
1304
1305 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1306 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1307
1308 rcu_read_unlock();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001309}
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001310#endif
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001311
1312/*
1313 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1314 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1315 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1316 * get_writeback_state too often.
1317 *
1318 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1319 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001320 * thresholds.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001321 */
1322
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001323void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001324{
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001325 unsigned long background_thresh;
1326 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1327 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1328 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001329 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1330 ratelimit_pages = 16;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001331}
1332
Chandra Seetharaman26c21432006-06-27 02:54:10 -07001333static int __cpuinit
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001334ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1335{
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001336 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Paul E. McKenneyaa0f0302007-02-10 01:46:37 -08001337 return NOTIFY_DONE;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001338}
1339
Chandra Seetharaman74b85f32006-06-27 02:54:09 -07001340static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001341 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
1342 .next = NULL,
1343};
1344
1345/*
Linus Torvaldsdc6e29d2007-01-29 16:37:38 -08001346 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1347 *
1348 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1349 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1350 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1351 *
1352 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1353 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1354 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1355 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1356 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1357 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1358 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1359 *
1360 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1361 * much memory the box has..
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001362 */
1363void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1364{
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001365 int shift;
1366
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001367 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001368 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001369
1370 shift = calc_period_shift();
1371 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
Peter Zijlstra3e26c142007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001372 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001373}
1374
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001375/**
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001376 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1377 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1378 * @start: starting page index
1379 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1380 *
1381 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1382 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1383 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1384 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1385 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1386 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1387 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1388 */
1389/*
1390 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1391 */
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001392void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1393 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1394{
Randy Dunlap3c111a02010-08-11 14:17:30 -07001395#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001396 unsigned long tagged;
1397
1398 do {
1399 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1400 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1401 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1402 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1403 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1404 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1405 cond_resched();
Jan Karad5ed3a42010-08-19 14:13:33 -07001406 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1407 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001408}
1409EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1410
1411/**
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001412 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001413 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1414 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001415 * @writepage: function called for each page
1416 * @data: data passed to writepage function
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001417 *
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001418 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001419 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1420 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1421 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1422 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1423 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1424 * existing IO to complete.
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001425 *
1426 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1427 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1428 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1429 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1430 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1431 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001432 */
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001433int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1434 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1435 void *data)
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001436{
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001437 int ret = 0;
1438 int done = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001439 struct pagevec pvec;
1440 int nr_pages;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001441 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001442 pgoff_t index;
1443 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001444 pgoff_t done_index;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001445 int cycled;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001446 int range_whole = 0;
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001447 int tag;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001448
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001449 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1450 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001451 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1452 index = writeback_index;
1453 if (index == 0)
1454 cycled = 1;
1455 else
1456 cycled = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001457 end = -1;
1458 } else {
1459 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1460 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1461 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1462 range_whole = 1;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001463 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001464 }
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001465 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001466 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1467 else
1468 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001469retry:
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001470 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001471 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001472 done_index = index;
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001473 while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1474 int i;
1475
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001476 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001477 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1478 if (nr_pages == 0)
1479 break;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001480
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001481 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1482 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1483
Nick Piggind5482cd2009-01-06 14:39:11 -08001484 /*
1485 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1486 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1487 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1488 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1489 * because we have a reference on the page.
1490 */
1491 if (page->index > end) {
1492 /*
1493 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1494 * end == -1 in that case.
1495 */
1496 done = 1;
1497 break;
1498 }
1499
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001500 done_index = page->index;
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001501
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001502 lock_page(page);
1503
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001504 /*
1505 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1506 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1507 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1508 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1509 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1510 * pagecache address.
1511 */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001512 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001513continue_unlock:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001514 unlock_page(page);
1515 continue;
1516 }
1517
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001518 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1519 /* someone wrote it for us */
1520 goto continue_unlock;
1521 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001522
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001523 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1524 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1525 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1526 else
1527 goto continue_unlock;
1528 }
1529
1530 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1531 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001532 goto continue_unlock;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001533
Dave Chinner9e094382010-07-07 13:24:08 +10001534 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001535 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001536 if (unlikely(ret)) {
1537 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1538 unlock_page(page);
1539 ret = 0;
1540 } else {
1541 /*
1542 * done_index is set past this page,
1543 * so media errors will not choke
1544 * background writeout for the entire
1545 * file. This has consequences for
1546 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1547 * not be suitable for data integrity
1548 * writeout).
1549 */
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001550 done_index = page->index + 1;
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001551 done = 1;
1552 break;
1553 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001554 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001555
Dave Chinner546a1922010-08-24 11:44:34 +10001556 /*
1557 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1558 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1559 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1560 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1561 */
1562 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1563 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1564 done = 1;
1565 break;
Nick Piggin05fe4782009-01-06 14:39:08 -08001566 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001567 }
1568 pagevec_release(&pvec);
1569 cond_resched();
1570 }
Nick Piggin3a4c6802009-02-12 04:34:23 +01001571 if (!cycled && !done) {
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001572 /*
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001573 * range_cyclic:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001574 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1575 * back to the start of the file
1576 */
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001577 cycled = 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001578 index = 0;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001579 end = writeback_index - 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001580 goto retry;
1581 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001582 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1583 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
Aneesh Kumar K.V06d6cf62008-07-11 19:27:31 -04001584
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001585 return ret;
1586}
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001587EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1588
1589/*
1590 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1591 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1592 */
1593static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1594 void *data)
1595{
1596 struct address_space *mapping = data;
1597 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1598 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1599 return ret;
1600}
1601
1602/**
1603 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1604 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1605 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1606 *
1607 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1608 * address_space_operation.
1609 */
1610int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1611 struct writeback_control *wbc)
1612{
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001613 struct blk_plug plug;
1614 int ret;
1615
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001616 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1617 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1618 return 0;
1619
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001620 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1621 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1622 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1623 return ret;
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001624}
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001625
1626EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1627
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001628int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1629{
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001630 int ret;
1631
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001632 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1633 return 0;
1634 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
Peter Zijlstrad08b3852006-09-25 23:30:57 -07001635 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001636 else
1637 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001638 return ret;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001639}
1640
1641/**
1642 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001643 * @page: the page to write
1644 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001645 *
1646 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1647 *
1648 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1649 */
1650int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1651{
1652 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1653 int ret = 0;
1654 struct writeback_control wbc = {
1655 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1656 .nr_to_write = 1,
1657 };
1658
1659 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1660
1661 if (wait)
1662 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1663
1664 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1665 page_cache_get(page);
1666 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1667 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1668 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1669 if (PageError(page))
1670 ret = -EIO;
1671 }
1672 page_cache_release(page);
1673 } else {
1674 unlock_page(page);
1675 }
1676 return ret;
1677}
1678EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1679
1680/*
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001681 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1682 */
1683int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1684{
1685 if (!PageDirty(page))
Bob Liuc3f0da62011-01-13 15:45:49 -08001686 return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001687 return 0;
1688}
1689
1690/*
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001691 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1692 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1693 */
1694void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1695{
1696 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1697 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Michael Rubinea941f02010-10-26 14:21:35 -07001698 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001699 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Wu Fengguangc8e28ce2011-01-23 10:07:47 -06001700 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001701 task_dirty_inc(current);
1702 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
1703 }
1704}
Michael Rubin679ceac2010-08-20 02:31:26 -07001705EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001706
1707/*
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07001708 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1709 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1710 * wrt interrupts.
1711 */
1712void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1713{
1714 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1715}
1716EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1717
1718/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001719 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1720 * its radix tree.
1721 *
1722 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1723 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1724 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1725 *
1726 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1727 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1728 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1729 *
1730 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
Simon Arlott183ff222007-10-20 01:27:18 +02001731 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001732 */
1733int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1734{
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001735 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1736 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1737 struct address_space *mapping2;
1738
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001739 if (!mapping)
1740 return 1;
1741
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001742 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001743 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
1744 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
1745 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
Nick Piggin787d2212007-07-17 04:03:34 -07001746 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001747 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001748 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1749 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1750 }
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001751 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001752 if (mapping->host) {
1753 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1754 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001755 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08001756 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001757 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08001758 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001759}
1760EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
1761
1762/*
1763 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
1764 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
1765 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
1766 */
1767int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
1768{
1769 wbc->pages_skipped++;
1770 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
1771}
1772EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
1773
1774/*
Wu Fengguang6746aff2009-09-16 11:50:14 +02001775 * Dirty a page.
1776 *
1777 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
1778 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
1779 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
1780 * but should be better not to.
1781 *
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001782 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
1783 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
1784 */
Nick Piggin1cf6e7d2009-02-18 14:48:18 -08001785int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001786{
1787 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1788
1789 if (likely(mapping)) {
1790 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
Minchan Kim278df9f2011-03-22 16:32:54 -07001791 /*
1792 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
1793 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
1794 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
1795 * reset. So no problem.
1796 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
1797 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
1798 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
1799 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
1800 */
1801 ClearPageReclaim(page);
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +02001802#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1803 if (!spd)
1804 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
1805#endif
1806 return (*spd)(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001807 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08001808 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1809 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
1810 return 1;
1811 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001812 return 0;
1813}
1814EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
1815
1816/*
1817 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
1818 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
1819 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
1820 *
1821 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
1822 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
1823 *
1824 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
1825 */
1826int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
1827{
1828 int ret;
1829
Jens Axboe7eaceac2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01001830 lock_page(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001831 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
1832 unlock_page(page);
1833 return ret;
1834}
1835EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
1836
1837/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001838 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
1839 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
1840 *
1841 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
1842 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
1843 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
1844 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
1845 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
1846 * back into sync.
1847 *
1848 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
1849 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
1850 */
1851int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
1852{
1853 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1854
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07001855 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1856
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001857 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1858 /*
1859 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
1860 *
1861 * We use this sequence to make sure that
1862 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
1863 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
1864 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
1865 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
1866 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
1867 * cause the writeback.
1868 *
1869 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
1870 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
1871 * them concurrently from different threads.
1872 *
1873 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
1874 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
1875 * that will already usually be set. But we
1876 * need the side effects, and it can help us
1877 * avoid races.
1878 *
1879 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
1880 * as a serialization point for all the different
1881 * threads doing their things.
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001882 */
1883 if (page_mkclean(page))
1884 set_page_dirty(page);
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07001885 /*
1886 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
1887 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
1888 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
1889 * page lock at some point after installing their
1890 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
1891 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
1892 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
1893 * for more comments.
1894 */
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001895 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001896 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Peter Zijlstrac9e51e42007-10-16 23:25:47 -07001897 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
1898 BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001899 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001900 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001901 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001902 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08001903 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001904}
Hans Reiser58bb01a2005-11-18 01:10:53 -08001905EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001906
1907int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1908{
1909 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1910 int ret;
1911
1912 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001913 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001914 unsigned long flags;
1915
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001916 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001917 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001918 if (ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001919 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1920 page_index(page),
1921 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07001922 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001923 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001924 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
1925 }
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001926 }
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001927 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001928 } else {
1929 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1930 }
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07001931 if (ret) {
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07001932 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07001933 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
1934 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001935 return ret;
1936}
1937
1938int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1939{
1940 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1941 int ret;
1942
1943 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001944 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001945 unsigned long flags;
1946
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001947 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001948 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001949 if (!ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001950 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1951 page_index(page),
1952 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07001953 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07001954 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1955 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001956 if (!PageDirty(page))
1957 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1958 page_index(page),
1959 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
Jan Karaf446daae2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001960 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1961 page_index(page),
1962 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07001963 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001964 } else {
1965 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1966 }
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07001967 if (!ret)
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07001968 account_page_writeback(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001969 return ret;
1970
1971}
1972EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
1973
1974/*
Nick Piggin00128182007-10-16 01:24:40 -07001975 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001976 * passed tag.
1977 */
1978int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
1979{
Konstantin Khlebnikov72c47832011-07-25 17:12:31 -07001980 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001981}
1982EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);