Pull writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang:
"Two writeback fixes
- fix negative (setpoint - dirty) in 32bit archs
- use down_read_trylock() in writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle()"
* tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
Negative (setpoint-dirty) in bdi_position_ratio()
vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them
Add tracepoints for page dirtying, writeback_single_inode start, inode
dirtying and writeback. For the latter two inode events, a pair of
events are defined to denote start and end of the operations (the
starting one has _start suffix and the one w/o suffix happens after
the operation is complete). These inode ops are FS specific and can
be non-trivial and having enclosing tracepoints is useful for external
tracers.
This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into
dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland.
v2: writeback_dirty_inode[_start] TPs may be called for files on
pseudo FSes w/ unregistered bdi. Check whether bdi->dev is %NULL
before dereferencing.
v3: buffer dirtying moved to a block TP.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() is re-implemented by replacing down_read()
with down_read_trylock() because
- If ->s_umount is write locked, then the sb is not idle. That is
writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() needn't wait for the lock.
- writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() grabs s_umount lock when it want to start
writeback, it may bring us deadlock problem when doing umount. In order to
fix the problem, ext4 and btrfs implemented their own writeback functions
instead of writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle(), but it introduced the redundant
code, it is better to implement a new writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle().
The name of these two functions is cumbersome, so rename them to
try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(_nr).
This idea came from Christoph Hellwig.
Some code is from the patch of Kamal Mostafa.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Commit 169ebd9013 ("writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread")
removed iget-iput pair from inode writeback. As a side effect, inodes
that are dirty during iput_final() call won't be ever added to inode LRU
(iput_final() doesn't add dirty inodes to LRU and later when the inode
is cleaned there's noone to add the inode there). Thus inodes are
effectively unreclaimable until someone looks them up again.
The practical effect of this bug is limited by the fact that inodes are
pinned by a dentry for long enough that the inode gets cleaned. But
still the bug can have nasty consequences leading up to OOM conditions
under certain circumstances. Following can easily reproduce the
problem:
for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do
mkdir $i
for (( j = 0; j < 1000; j++ )); do
touch $i/$j
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
done
done
then one needs to run 'sync; ls -lR' to make inodes reclaimable again.
We fix the issue by inserting unused clean inodes into the LRU after
writeback finishes in inode_sync_complete().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull writeback fixes from Fengguang Wu:
"Three trivial writeback fixes"
* 'writeback-for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug
writeback: correct comment for move_expired_inodes()
backing-dev: use kstrto* in preference to simple_strtoul
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.
We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.
There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
...
Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Tiny usual fixes all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
ipr: fix small coding style issues
doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
nfs: comment fix
platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
mfd: printk/comment fixes
doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
mmc: fix comment typos
dma: fix comments
spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
...
In ext4_nonda_switch(), if the file system is getting full we used to
call writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(). The problem is that we can be
holding i_mutex already, and this causes a potential deadlock when
writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() when it tries to take s_umount. (See
lockdep output below).
As it turns out we don't need need to hold s_umount; the fact that we
are in the middle of the write(2) system call will keep the superblock
pinned. Unfortunately writeback_inodes_sb() checks to make sure
s_umount is taken, and the VFS uses a different mechanism for making
sure the file system doesn't get unmounted out from under us. The
simplest way of dealing with this is to just simply grab s_umount
using a trylock, and skip kicking the writeback flusher thread in the
very unlikely case that we can't take a read lock on s_umount without
blocking.
Also, we now check the cirteria for kicking the writeback thread
before we decide to whether to fall back to non-delayed writeback, so
if there are any outstanding delayed allocation writes, we try to get
them resolved as soon as possible.
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367 Not tainted
-------------------------------------------------------
dd/8298 is trying to acquire lock:
(&type->s_umount_key#18){++++..}, at: [<c02277d4>] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
but task is already holding lock:
(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [<c01ddcce>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3
which lock already depends on the new lock.
2 locks held by dd/8298:
#0: (sb_writers#2){.+.+.+}, at: [<c01ddcc5>] generic_file_aio_write+0x56/0xd3
#1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [<c01ddcce>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3
stack backtrace:
Pid: 8298, comm: dd Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367
Call Trace:
[<c015b79c>] ? console_unlock+0x345/0x372
[<c06d62a1>] print_circular_bug+0x190/0x19d
[<c019906c>] __lock_acquire+0x86d/0xb6c
[<c01999db>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5c/0x7b
[<c0199724>] lock_acquire+0x66/0xb9
[<c02277d4>] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
[<c06db935>] down_read+0x28/0x58
[<c02277d4>] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
[<c02277d4>] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
[<c026f3b2>] ext4_nonda_switch+0xe1/0xf4
[<c0271ece>] ext4_da_write_begin+0x27/0x193
[<c01dcdb0>] generic_file_buffered_write+0xc8/0x1bb
[<c01ddc47>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x1dd/0x205
[<c01ddce7>] generic_file_aio_write+0x78/0xd3
[<c026d336>] ext4_file_write+0x480/0x4a6
[<c0198c1d>] ? __lock_acquire+0x41e/0xb6c
[<c0180944>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11a/0x13e
[<c01967e9>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
[<c018099f>] ? local_clock+0x37/0x4e
[<c0209f2c>] do_sync_write+0x67/0x9d
[<c0209ec5>] ? wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb+0x44/0x44
[<c020a7b9>] vfs_write+0x7b/0xe6
[<c020a9a6>] sys_write+0x3b/0x64
[<c06dd4bd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The function scans @delaying_queue and stops at the first inode
whose dirtied_when is after *work->older_than_this. So the expired
ones being moved are those before *work->older_than_this. Correct
the comment here.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.
For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull writeback updates from Wu Fengguang:
"Use time based periods to age the writeback proportions, which can
adapt equally well to fast/slow devices."
Fix up trivial conflict in comment in fs/sync.c
* tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Fix some comment errors
block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions
lib: Fix possible deadlock in flexible proportion code
lib: Proportions with flexible period
In principle, a filesystem may want to have ->sync_fs() called during sync(1)
although it does not have a bdi (i.e. s_bdi is set to noop_backing_dev_info).
Only writeback code really needs bdi set to something reasonable. So move the
checks where they are more logical.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fix bug introduced by 169ebd90. We have to have wb_list_lock locked when
restarting writeback loop after having waited for inode writeback.
Bug description by Ted Tso:
I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):
[ 45.153294] =====================================
[ 45.154784] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[ 45.155591] 3.5.0-rc1-00002-gb22b1f1 #124 Not tainted
[ 45.155591] -------------------------------------
[ 45.155591] flush-254:16/2499 is trying to release lock (&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock) at:
[ 45.155591] [<c022c3da>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x160/0x327
[ 45.155591] but there are no more locks to release!
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Doing iput() from flusher thread (writeback_sb_inodes()) can create problems
because iput() can do a lot of work - for example truncate the inode if it's
the last iput on unlinked file. Some filesystems depend on flusher thread
progressing (e.g. because they need to flush delay allocated blocks to reduce
allocation uncertainty) and so flusher thread doing truncate creates
interesting dependencies and possibilities for deadlocks.
We get rid of iput() in flusher thread by using the fact that I_SYNC inode
flag effectively pins the inode in memory. So if we take care to either hold
i_lock or have I_SYNC set, we can get away without taking inode reference
in writeback_sb_inodes().
As a side effect of these changes, we also fix possible use-after-free in
wb_writeback() because inode_wait_for_writeback() call could try to reacquire
i_lock on the inode that was already free.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
The code in writeback_single_inode() is relatively complex. The list requeing
logic makes sense only for flusher thread but not really for sync_inode() or
write_inode_now() callers. Also when we want to get rid of inode references
held by flusher thread, we will need a special I_SYNC handling there.
So separate part of writeback_single_inode() which does the real writeback work
into __writeback_single_inode() and make writeback_single_inode() do only stuff
necessary for callers writing only one inode, moving the special list handling
into writeback_sb_inodes(). As a sideeffect this fixes a possible race where we
could skip some inode during sync(2) because other writer refiled it from b_io
to b_dirty list. Also I_SYNC handling is moved into the callers of
__writeback_single_inode() to make locking easier.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
writeback_single_inode() doesn't need wb->list_lock for anything on entry now.
So remove the requirement. This makes locking of writeback_single_inode()
temporarily awkward (entering with i_lock, returning with i_lock and
wb->list_lock) but it will be sanitized in the next patch.
Also inode_wait_for_writeback() doesn't need wb->list_lock for anything. It was
just taking it to make usage convenient for callers but with
writeback_single_inode() changing it's not very convenient anymore. So remove
the lock from that function.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Move inode requeueing after inode has been written out into a separate
function.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Instead of clearing I_DIRTY_PAGES and resetting it when we didn't succeed in
writing them all, just clear the bit only when we succeeded writing all the
pages. We also move the clearing of the bit close to other i_state handling to
separate it from writeback list handling. This is desirable because list
handling will differ for flusher thread and other writeback_single_inode()
callers in future. No filesystem plays any tricks with I_DIRTY_PAGES (like
checking it in ->writepages or ->write_inode implementation) so this movement
is safe.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
When writeback_single_inode() is called on inode which has I_SYNC already
set while doing WB_SYNC_NONE, inode is moved to b_more_io list. However
this makes sense only if the caller is flusher thread. For other callers of
writeback_single_inode() it doesn't really make sense and may be even wrong
- flusher thread may be doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback in parallel.
So we move requeueing from writeback_single_inode() to writeback_sb_inodes().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete(). It is more logical to have
clearing of I_SYNC bit and waking of waiters in one place. Also later we will
have two places needing to clear I_SYNC and wake up waiters so this allows them
to use the common helper. Moving of I_SYNC clearing to a later stage of
writeback_single_inode() is safe since we hold i_lock all the time.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Pull trivial writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang:
"They've been tested in linux-next for 20 days actually."
* tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Remove outdated comment
fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()
Linus Torvalds
Tejun Heo
Miao Xie
Yan Hong
Jan Kara
Liu Bo
Theodore Ts'o
Wang Sheng-Hui
Wanpeng Li