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writeback: Remove outdated comment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()
Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker:
"Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
need it.
These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have
things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is
remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.
Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed."
Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups
(including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull).
* tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
The comment is hopelessly outdated and misplaced. We no longer have 'bdi'
part of writeback work, the comment about blockdev super is outdated,
comment about throttling as well. Information about list handling is in
more detail at queue_io(). So just move the bit about older_than_this to
close to move_expired_inodes() and remove the rest.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
inode_sync_wait() in write_inode_now() is just bogus. That function waits for
I_SYNC bit to be cleared but writeback_single_inode() clears the bit on return
so the wait is effectivelly a nop unless someone else submits the inode for
writeback again. All the waiting write_inode_now() needs is achieved by using
WB_SYNC_ALL writeback mode.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
typo fixes from Masanari.
There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
Doc: Update numastat.txt
qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
compiler.h: Fix typo
security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
...
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
bdi_prune_sb() resets sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info when the
tearing down the original bdi. Fix trace_writeback_single_inode to
use sb->s_bdi=default_backing_dev_info rather than bdi->dev=NULL for a
teared down bdi.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
...
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
Fix compile error
fs/fs-writeback.c:515:33: error: ‘PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.
Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* pm-sleep: (51 commits)
PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
PM / Sleep: Recommend [un]lock_system_sleep() over using pm_mutex directly
PM / Sleep: Replace mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) with [un]lock_system_sleep()
PM / Sleep: Make [un]lock_system_sleep() generic
PM / Sleep: Use the freezer_count() functions in [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs
PM / Freezer: Remove the "userspace only" constraint from freezer[_do_not]_count()
PM / Hibernate: Replace unintuitive 'if' condition in kernel/power/user.c with 'else'
Freezer / sunrpc / NFS: don't allow TASK_KILLABLE sleeps to block the freezer
PM / Sleep: Unify diagnostic messages from device suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Do not save/restore NVS on Asus K54C/K54HR
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation test modes
PM / Hibernate: Thaw processes in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl test path
...
Conflicts:
kernel/kmod.c
* master: (848 commits)
SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()
binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node
ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset
oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness
memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments()
nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl
cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask
evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
evm: key must be set once during initialization
mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter
Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default"
mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host
x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT
IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement
RDMA/cma: Verify private data length
cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"
...
Conflicts:
kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
Current livelock avoidance code makes background work to include only inodes
that were dirtied before background writeback has started. However background
writeback can be running for a long time and thus excluding newly dirtied
inodes can eventually exclude significant portion of dirty inodes making
background writeback inefficient. Since background writeback avoids livelocking
the flusher thread by yielding to any other work, there is no real reason why
background work should not include all dirty inodes so change the logic in
wb_writeback().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent
deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this
is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between
thaw_process() and kthread_stop().
This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters
refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if
kthread_stop() is invoked. Both thaw_process() users are converted to
use the new function.
Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable
kthreads. They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or
freezable workqueue.
Tested with synthetic test case.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
writeback activity. A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.
The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.
And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
why writeback is being started.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and
move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work
structure. There are other fields of a work item that are
useful in these routines and in tracepoints.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
One thing puzzled me is that in JBOD case, the per-disk writeout
performance is smaller than the corresponding single-disk case even
when they have comparable bdi_thresh. Tracing shows find that in single
disk case, bdi_writeback is always kept high while in JBOD case, it
could drop low from time to time and correspondingly bdi_reclaimable
could sometimes rush high.
The fix is to watch bdi_reclaimable and kick background writeback as
soon as it goes high. This resembles the global background threshold
but in per-bdi manner. The trick is, as long as bdi_reclaimable does
not go high, bdi_writeback naturally won't go low because
bdi_reclaimable+bdi_writeback ~= bdi_thresh.
With less fluctuated writeback pages, JBOD performance is observed to
increase noticeably in various cases.
vmstat:nr_written values before/after patch:
3.1.0-rc4-wo-underrun+ 3.1.0-rc4-bgthresh3+
------------------------ ------------------------
125596480 +25.9% 158179363 JBOD-10HDD-16G/ext4-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
61790815 +110.4% 130032231 JBOD-10HDD-16G/ext4-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
58853546 -0.1% 58823828 JBOD-10HDD-16G/ext4-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
110159811 +24.7% 137355377 JBOD-10HDD-16G/xfs-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
69544762 +10.8% 77080047 JBOD-10HDD-16G/xfs-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
50644862 +0.5% 50890006 JBOD-10HDD-16G/xfs-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-20:10-X
42677090 +28.0% 54643527 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
47491324 +13.3% 53785605 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
52548986 +0.9% 53001031 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
26783091 +36.8% 36650248 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/xfs-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
35526347 +14.0% 40492312 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/xfs-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
44670723 -1.1% 44177606 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=100M/xfs-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-100M:10-X
127996037 +22.4% 156719990 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/ext4-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
57518856 +3.8% 59677625 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/ext4-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
51919909 +12.2% 58269894 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/ext4-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
86410514 +79.0% 154660433 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/xfs-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
40132519 +38.6% 55617893 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/xfs-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
48423248 +7.5% 52042927 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=2G/xfs-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-2048M:10-X
206041046 +44.1% 296846536 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=4G/xfs-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-4096M:10-X
72312903 -19.4% 58272885 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=4G/xfs-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-4096M:10-X
50635672 -0.5% 50384787 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=4G/xfs-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-4096M:10-X
68308534 +115.7% 147324758 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/ext4-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
57882933 +14.5% 66269621 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/ext4-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
52183472 +12.8% 58855181 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/ext4-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
53788956 +94.2% 104460352 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/xfs-100dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
44493342 +35.5% 60298210 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/xfs-10dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
42641209 +18.9% 50681038 JBOD-10HDD-thresh=800M/xfs-1dd-1M-24p-16384M-800M:10-X
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
This fixes a soft lockup on conditions
a) the flusher is working on a work by __bdi_start_writeback(), while
b) someone else calls writeback_inodes_sb*() or sync_inodes_sb(), which
grab sb->s_umount and enqueue a new work for the flusher to execute
The s_umount grabbed by (b) will fail the grab_super_passive() in (a).
Then if the inode is requeued, wb_writeback() will busy retry on it.
As a result, wb_writeback() loops for ever without releasing
wb->list_lock, which further blocks other tasks.
Fix the busy loop by redirtying the inode. This may undesirably delay
the writeback of the inode, however most likely it will be picked up
soon by the queued work by writeback_inodes_sb*(), sync_inodes_sb() or
even writeback_inodes_wb().
bug url: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg47292.html
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Fix a system hang bug introduced by commit b7a2441f99 ("writeback:
remove writeback_control.more_io") and e8dfc3058 ("writeback: elevate
queue_io() into wb_writeback()") easily reproducible with high memory
pressure and lots of file creation/deletions, for example, a kernel
build in limited memory.
It hangs when some inode is in the I_NEW, I_FREEING or I_WILL_FREE
state, the flusher will get stuck busy retrying that inode, never
releasing wb->list_lock. The lock in turn blocks all kinds of other
tasks when they are trying to grab it.
As put by Jan, it's a safe change regarding data integrity. I_FREEING or
I_WILL_FREE inodes are written back by iput_final() and it is reclaim
code that is responsible for eventually removing them. So writeback code
can safely ignore them. I_NEW inodes should move out of this state when
they are fully set up and in the writeback round following that, we will
consider them for writeback. So the change makes sense.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
