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Christoph Hellwig 83ba7b071f writeback: simplify the write back thread queue
First remove items from work_list as soon as we start working on them.  This
means we don't have to track any pending or visited state and can get
rid of all the RCU magic freeing the work items - we can simply free
them once the operation has finished.  Second use a real completion for
tracking synchronous requests - if the caller sets the completion pointer
we complete it, otherwise use it as a boolean indicator that we can free
the work item directly.  Third unify struct wb_writeback_args and struct
bdi_work into a single data structure, wb_writeback_work.  Previous we
set all parameters into a struct wb_writeback_args, copied it into
struct bdi_work, copied it again on the stack to use it there.  Instead
of just allocate one structure dynamically or on the stack and use it
all the way through the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-06 08:59:53 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig edadfb10ba writeback: split writeback_inodes_wb
The case where we have a superblock doesn't require a loop here as we scan
over all inodes in writeback_sb_inodes. Split it out into a separate helper
to make the code simpler.  This also allows to get rid of the sb member in
struct writeback_control, which was rather out of place there.

Also update the comments in writeback_sb_inodes that explain the handling
of inodes from wrong superblocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-06 08:54:08 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 9c3a8ee8a1 writeback: remove writeback_inodes_wbc
This was just an odd wrapper around writeback_inodes_wb.  Removing this
also allows to get rid of the bdi member of struct writeback_control
which was rather out of place there.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-06 08:54:03 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 06d738fa91 fs-writeback: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix kernel-doc to match the function's changed args.

Warning(fs/fs-writeback.c:190): No description found for parameter 'args'
Warning(fs/fs-writeback.c:190): Excess function parameter 'sb' description in 'bdi_queue_work_onstack'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-01 08:26:34 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 29cb48594b writeback: fix pin_sb_for_writeback
We need to check for s_instances to make sure we don't bother working
against a filesystem that is beeing unmounted, and we need to call
put_super to make sure a superblock is freed when we race against
umount.  Also no need to keep sb_lock after we got a reference on it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:08 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 334132ae92 writeback: add missing requeue_io in writeback_inodes_wb
In "writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb" I
accidentally removed the requeue_io if we need to skip a superblock
because we can't pin it.  Add it back, otherwise we're getting spurious
lockups after multiple xfstests runs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:08 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig c5444198ca writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback
bdi_start_writeback now never gets a superblock passed, so we can just remove
that case.  And to further untangle the code and flatten the call stack
split it into two trivial helpers for it's two callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:08 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig b8c2f3474f writeback: simplify wakeup_flusher_threads
bdi_writeback_all only has one caller, so fold it to simplify the code and
flatten the call stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig d19de7edf5 writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb
When we call writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb we always have
s_umount held, which currently makes the whole operation a no-op.

But if we are called to write out inodes for a specific superblock we always
have s_umount held, so replace the incorrect logic checking for WB_SYNC_ALL
which only worked by coincidence with the proper check for an explicit
superblock argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig cf37e97247 writeback: enforce s_umount locking in writeback_inodes_sb
Make sure that not only sync_filesystem but all callers of writeback_inodes_sb
have the superblock protected against remount.  As-is this disables all
functionality for these callers, but the next patch relies on this locking to
fix writeback_inodes_sb for sync_filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 3c4d716538 writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb
If we want to rely on s_umount in the caller we need to wait for completion
of the I/O submission before returning to the caller.  Refactor
bdi_sync_writeback into a bdi_queue_work_onstack helper and use it for this
case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 7f0e7bed93 writeback: fix writeback completion notifications
The code dealing with bdi_work->state and completion of a bdi_work is a
major mess currently.  This patch makes sure we directly use one set of
flags to deal with it, and use it consistently, which means:

 - always notify about completion from the rcu callback.  We only ever
   wait for it from on-stack callers, so this simplification does not
   even cause a theoretical slowdown currently.  It also makes sure we
   don't miss out on the notification if we ever add other callers to
   wait for it.
 - make earlier completion notification depending on the on-stack
   allocation, not the sync mode.  If we introduce new callers that
   want to do WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from on-stack callers this will
   be nessecary.

Also rename bdi_wait_on_work_clear to bdi_wait_on_work_done and inline
a few small functions into their only caller to make the code
understandable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-11 12:58:07 +02:00
Jens Axboe b4ca761577 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	fs/pipe.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-01 12:42:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0e3c9a2284 Revert "writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount"
This reverts commit e913fc825d.

We are investigating a hang associated with the WB_SYNC_NONE changes,
so revert them for now.

Conflicts:

	fs/fs-writeback.c
	mm/page-writeback.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-01 11:08:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe f17625b318 Revert "writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync"
This reverts commit 7c8a3554c6.

We are investigating a hang associated with the WB_SYNC_NONE changes,
so revert them for now.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-01 11:05:22 +02:00
Richard Kennedy 58a9d3d8db fs-writeback: check sync bit earlier in inode_wait_for_writeback
When wb_writeback() hasn't written anything it will re-acquire the inode
lock before calling inode_wait_for_writeback.

This change tests the sync bit first so that is doesn't need to drop &
re-acquire the lock if the inode became available while wb_writeback() was
waiting to get the lock.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.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>
2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e8bebe2f71 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
2010-05-21 19:37:45 -07:00
H Hartley Sweeten 52957fe1c7 fs-writeback.c: bitfields should be unsigned
This fixes sparse noise:
  error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:22 -04:00
Jens Axboe f9eadbbd42 writeback: bdi_writeback_task() must set task state before calling schedule()
Calling schedule without setting the task state to non-running will
return immediately, so ensure that we set it properly and check our
sleep conditions after doing so.

This is a fixup for commit 69b62d01.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 20:00:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 7c8a3554c6 writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync
Even if the writeout itself isn't a data integrity operation, we need
to ensure that the caller doesn't drop the sb umount sem before we
have actually done the writeback.

This is a fixup for commit e913fc82.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 20:00:25 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov 5547e8aac6 writeback: Update dirty flags in two steps
Filesystems with delalloc support may dirty inode during writepages.
As result inode will have dirty metadata flags even after write_inode.
In fact we have two dedicated functions for proper data and metadata
writeback. It is reasonable to separate flags updates in two stages.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15906

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-17 13:00:41 +02:00
Jens Axboe e913fc825d writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount
When umount calls sync_filesystem(), we first do a WB_SYNC_NONE
writeback to kick off writeback of pending dirty inodes, then follow
that up with a WB_SYNC_ALL to wait for it. Since umount already holds
the sb s_umount mutex, WB_SYNC_NONE ends up doing nothing and all
writeback happens as WB_SYNC_ALL. This can greatly slow down umount,
since WB_SYNC_ALL writeback is a data integrity operation and thus
a bigger hammer than simple WB_SYNC_NONE. For barrier aware file systems
it's a lot slower.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-17 12:55:07 +02:00
Jens Axboe 69b62d01ec writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback_centisecs
Prior to 2.6.32, setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs disabled
periodic dirty writeback from kupdate. This got broken and now causes
excessive sys CPU usage if set to zero, as we'll keep beating on
schedule().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-17 12:51:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 2f4084209a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...
2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00