Patch series "Improve visibility of writeback", v5.
This series tries to improve visilibity of writeback. Patch 1 make
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/stats show writeback info of whole bdi instead
of only writeback info in root cgroup. Patch 2 add a new debug file
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/wb_stats to show per wb writeback info. Patch 3
add wb_monitor.py to monitor basic writeback info of running system, more
info could be added on demand. Patch 4 is a random cleanup. More details
can be found in respective patches.
Following domain hierarchy is tested:
global domain (320G)
/ \
cgroup domain1(10G) cgroup domain2(10G)
| |
bdi wb1 wb2
/* all writeback info of bdi is successfully collected */
cat stats
BdiWriteback: 4704 kB
BdiReclaimable: 1294496 kB
BdiDirtyThresh: 204208088 kB
DirtyThresh: 195259944 kB
BackgroundThresh: 32503588 kB
BdiDirtied: 48519296 kB
BdiWritten: 47225696 kB
BdiWriteBandwidth: 1173892 kBps
b_dirty: 1
b_io: 0
b_more_io: 1
b_dirty_time: 0
bdi_list: 1
state: 1
/* per wb writeback info of bdi is collected */
cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/252:16/wb_stats
WbCgIno: 1
WbWriteback: 0 kB
WbReclaimable: 0 kB
WbDirtyThresh: 0 kB
WbDirtied: 0 kB
WbWritten: 0 kB
WbWriteBandwidth: 102400 kBps
b_dirty: 0
b_io: 0
b_more_io: 0
b_dirty_time: 0
state: 1
WbCgIno: 4208
WbWriteback: 59808 kB
WbReclaimable: 676480 kB
WbDirtyThresh: 6004624 kB
WbDirtied: 23348192 kB
WbWritten: 22614592 kB
WbWriteBandwidth: 593204 kBps
b_dirty: 1
b_io: 1
b_more_io: 0
b_dirty_time: 0
state: 7
WbCgIno: 4249
WbWriteback: 144256 kB
WbReclaimable: 432096 kB
WbDirtyThresh: 6004344 kB
WbDirtied: 25727744 kB
WbWritten: 25154752 kB
WbWriteBandwidth: 577904 kBps
b_dirty: 0
b_io: 1
b_more_io: 0
b_dirty_time: 0
state: 7
The wb_monitor.py script output is as following:
./wb_monitor.py 252:16 -c
writeback reclaimable dirtied written avg_bw
252:16_1 0 0 0 0 102400
252:16_4284 672 820064 9230368 8410304 685612
252:16_4325 896 819840 10491264 9671648 652348
252:16 1568 1639904 19721632 18081952 1440360
writeback reclaimable dirtied written avg_bw
252:16_1 0 0 0 0 102400
252:16_4284 672 820064 9230368 8410304 685612
252:16_4325 896 819840 10491264 9671648 652348
252:16 1568 1639904 19721632 18081952 1440360
...
This patch (of 5):
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/stats is supposed to show writeback information
of whole bdi, but only writeback information of bdi in root cgroup is
collected. So writeback information in non-root cgroup are missing now.
To be more specific, considering following case:
/* create writeback cgroup */
cd /sys/fs/cgroup
echo "+memory +io" > cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir group1
cd group1
echo $$ > cgroup.procs
/* do writeback in cgroup */
fio -name test -filename=/dev/vdb ...
/* get writeback info of bdi */
cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/stats
The cat result unexpectedly implies that there is no writeback on target
bdi.
Fix this by collecting stats of all wb in bdi instead of only wb in
root cgroup.
Following domain hierarchy is tested:
global domain (320G)
/ \
cgroup domain1(10G) cgroup domain2(10G)
| |
bdi wb1 wb2
/* all writeback info of bdi is successfully collected */
cat stats
BdiWriteback: 2912 kB
BdiReclaimable: 1598464 kB
BdiDirtyThresh: 167479028 kB
DirtyThresh: 195038532 kB
BackgroundThresh: 32466728 kB
BdiDirtied: 19141696 kB
BdiWritten: 17543456 kB
BdiWriteBandwidth: 1136172 kBps
b_dirty: 2
b_io: 0
b_more_io: 1
b_dirty_time: 0
bdi_list: 1
state: 1
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423034643.141219-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423034643.141219-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Misc features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual filesystems.
Features:
- Support idmapped mounts for hugetlbfs.
- Add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2(). This allows us to fix a bug
where the passed offset is ignored if the file is O_APPEND. The new
flag allows a caller to enforce that the offset is honored to
conform to posix even if the file was opened in append mode.
- Move i_mmap_rwsem in struct address_space to avoid false sharing
between i_mmap and i_mmap_rwsem.
- Convert efs, qnx4, and coda to use the new mount api.
- Add a generic is_dot_dotdot() helper that's used by various
filesystems and the VFS code instead of open-coding it multiple
times.
- Recently we've added stable offsets which allows stable ordering
when iterating directories exported through NFS on e.g., tmpfs
filesystems. Originally an xarray was used for the offset map but
that caused slab fragmentation issues over time. This switches the
offset map to the maple tree which has a dense mode that handles
this scenario a lot better. Includes tests.
- Finally merge the case-insensitive improvement series Gabriel has
been working on for a long time. This cleanly propagates case
insensitive operations through ->s_d_op which in turn allows us to
remove the quite ugly generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops() operations.
It also improves performance by trying a case-sensitive comparison
first and then fallback to case-insensitive lookup if that fails.
This also fixes a bug where overlayfs would be able to be mounted
over a case insensitive directory which would lead to all sort of
odd behaviors.
Cleanups:
- Make file_dentry() a simple accessor now that ->d_real() is
simplified because of the backing file work we did the last two
cycles.
- Use the dedicated file_mnt_idmap helper in ntfs3.
- Use smp_load_acquire/store_release() in the i_size_read/write
helpers and thus remove the hack to handle i_size reads in the
filemap code.
- The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD is a nop now. Remove it from various places in
fs/
- It's no longer necessary to perform a second built-in initramfs
unpack call because we retain the contents of the previous
extraction. Remove it.
- Now that we have removed various allocators kfree_rcu() always
works with kmem caches and kmalloc(). So simplify various places
that only use an rcu callback in order to handle the kmem cache
case.
- Convert the pipe code to use a lockdep comparison function instead
of open-coding the nesting making lockdep validation easier.
- Move code into fs-writeback.c that was located in a header but can
be made static as it's only used in that one file.
- Rewrite the alignment checking iterators for iovec and bvec to be
easier to read, and also significantly more compact in terms of
generated code. This saves 270 bytes of text on x86-64 (with
clang-18) and 224 bytes on arm64 (with gcc-13). In profiles it also
saves a bit of time for the same workload.
- Switch various places to use KMEM_CACHE instead of
kmem_cache_create().
- Use inode_set_ctime_to_ts() in inode_set_ctime_current()
- Use kzalloc() in name_to_handle_at() to avoid kernel infoleak.
- Various smaller cleanups for eventfds.
Fixes:
- Fix various comments and typos, and unneeded initializations.
- Fix stack allocation hack for clang in the select code.
- Improve dump_mapping() debug code on a best-effort basis.
- Fix build errors in various selftests.
- Avoid wrap-around instrumentation in various places.
- Don't allow user namespaces without an idmapping to be used for
idmapped mounts.
- Fix sysv sb_read() call.
- Fix fallback implementation of the get_name() export operation"
* tag 'vfs-6.9.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (70 commits)
hugetlbfs: support idmapped mounts
qnx4: convert qnx4 to use the new mount api
fs: use inode_set_ctime_to_ts to set inode ctime to current time
libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup
efs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
jfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
minix: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
openpromfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
proc: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
qnx6: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
...
The detection of dirty-throttled tasks in blk-wbt has been subtly broken
since its beginning in 2016. Namely if we are doing cgroup writeback and
the throttled task is not in the root cgroup, balance_dirty_pages() will
set dirty_sleep for the non-root bdi_writeback structure. However
blk-wbt checks dirty_sleep only in the root cgroup bdi_writeback
structure. Thus detection of recently throttled tasks is not working in
this case (we noticed this when we switched to cgroup v2 and suddently
writeback was slow).
Since blk-wbt has no easy way to get to proper bdi_writeback and
furthermore its intention has always been to work on the whole device
rather than on individual cgroups, just move the dirty_sleep timestamp
from bdi_writeback to backing_dev_info. That fixes the checking for
recently throttled task and saves memory for everybody as a bonus.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b57d74aff9 ("writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123175826.21452-1-jack@suse.cz
[axboe: fixup indentation errors]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.
- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.
- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.
- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
flushing.
- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.
- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.
- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.
- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
accounting.
- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.
- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.
- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
...
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.
Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening
in the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and
"struct class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these
changes.
This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
"provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules
for all busses and classes in the kernel.
The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most
of them actually did so.
Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
things:
- kobject logging improvements
- cacheinfo improvements and updates
- obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes
- documentation updates
- device property cleanups and const * changes
- firwmare loader dependency fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
* tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (120 commits)
device property: make device_property functions take const device *
driver core: update comments in device_rename()
driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing
firmware_loader: rework crypto dependencies
firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path
zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file
cacheinfo: Add use_arch[|_cache]_info field/function
arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
cacheinfo: Check cache properties are present in DT
cacheinfo: Check sib_leaf in cache_leaves_are_shared()
cacheinfo: Allow early level detection when DT/ACPI info is missing/broken
cacheinfo: Add arm64 early level initializer implementation
cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer
tty: make tty_class a static const structure
driver core: class: remove struct class_interface * from callbacks
driver core: class: mark the struct class in struct class_interface constant
driver core: class: make class_register() take a const *
driver core: class: mark class_release() as taking a const *
driver core: remove incorrect comment for device_create*
MIPS: vpe-cmp: remove module owner pointer from struct class usage.
...
smatch reports
mm/backing-dev.c:266:1: warning: symbol
'dev_attr_min_bytes' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/backing-dev.c:294:1: warning: symbol
'dev_attr_max_bytes' was not declared. Should it be static?
These variables are only used in one file so should be static.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230408141609.2703647-1-trix@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
KASAN report null-ptr-deref:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0
Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task sync/943
CPU: 5 PID: 943 Comm: sync Tainted: 6.3.0-rc5-next-20230406-dirty #461
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0xc0
print_report+0x2ba/0x340
kasan_report+0xc4/0x120
kasan_check_range+0x1b7/0x2e0
__kasan_check_write+0x24/0x40
bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0
sync_inodes_sb+0x195/0x630
sync_inodes_one_sb+0x3a/0x50
iterate_supers+0x106/0x1b0
ksys_sync+0x98/0x160
[...]
==================================================================
The race that causes the above issue is as follows:
cpu1 cpu2
-------------------------|-------------------------
inode_switch_wbs
INIT_WORK(&isw->work, inode_switch_wbs_work_fn)
queue_rcu_work(isw_wq, &isw->work)
// queue_work async
inode_switch_wbs_work_fn
wb_put_many(old_wb, nr_switched)
percpu_ref_put_many
ref->data->release(ref)
cgwb_release
queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work)
// queue_work async
&wb->release_work
cgwb_release_workfn
ksys_sync
iterate_supers
sync_inodes_one_sb
sync_inodes_sb
bdi_split_work_to_wbs
kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC)
// alloc memory failed
percpu_ref_exit
ref->data = NULL
kfree(data)
wb_get(wb)
percpu_ref_get(&wb->refcnt)
percpu_ref_get_many(ref, 1)
atomic_long_add(nr, &ref->data->count)
atomic64_add(i, v)
// trigger null-ptr-deref
bdi_split_work_to_wbs() traverses &bdi->wb_list to split work into all
wbs. If the allocation of new work fails, the on-stack fallback will be
used and the reference count of the current wb is increased afterwards.
If cgroup writeback membership switches occur before getting the reference
count and the current wb is released as old_wd, then calling wb_get() or
wb_put() will trigger the null pointer dereference above.
This issue was introduced in v4.3-rc7 (see fix tag1). Both
sync_inodes_sb() and __writeback_inodes_sb_nr() calls to
bdi_split_work_to_wbs() can trigger this issue. For scenarios called via
sync_inodes_sb(), originally commit 7fc5854f8c ("writeback: synchronize
sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches") reduced the
possibility of the issue by adding wb_switch_rwsem, but in v5.14-rc1 (see
fix tag2) removed the "inode_io_list_del_locked(inode, old_wb)" from
inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() so that wb->state contains WB_has_dirty_io,
thus old_wb is not skipped when traversing wbs in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(),
and the issue becomes easily reproducible again.
To solve this problem, percpu_ref_exit() is called under RCU protection to
avoid race between cgwb_release_workfn() and bdi_split_work_to_wbs().
Moreover, replace wb_get() with wb_tryget() in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(),
and skip the current wb if wb_tryget() fails because the wb has already
been shutdown.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230410130826.1492525-1-libaokun1@huawei.com
Fixes: b817525a4a ("writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying ones")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Cc: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
bdi has two existing knobs to limit the amount of dirty memory:
min_ratio and max_ratio. However the granularity of the knobs is limited
and often it is more convenient to specify limits in terms of bytes.
This change adds the min_bytes knob.
It does not store the min_bytes value, instead it converts the max_bytes
value to a ratio. The value is therefore more an approximation than an
absolute value.
It also maintains the sum over all the bdi min_ratio values stored in
the variable bdi_min_ratio.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221119005215.3052436-14-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To get finer granularity for ratio calculations use part per million
instead of percentiles. This is especially important if we want to
automatically convert byte values to ratios. Otherwise the values that
are actually used can be quite different. This is also important for
machines with more main memory (1% of 256GB is already 2.5GB).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221119005215.3052436-5-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister gets called to stop further
writeback and wait for associated delayed work to complete. However,
wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation dwork after
this has completed, which can result in the timer attempting to access the
just freed bdi_writeback.
Fix this by checking if the bdi_writeback is alive, similar to when
scheduling writeback work.
Since this requires wb->work_lock, and wb_inode_writeback_end() may get
called from interrupt, switch wb->work_lock to an irqsafe lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220801155034.3772543-1-khazhy@google.com
Fixes: 45a2966fd6 ("writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload")
Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
noop_backing_dev_info is used by superblocks of various
pseudofilesystems such as kdevtmpfs. After commit 10e1407310
("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock
error") this broke because __mark_inode_dirty() started to access more
fields from noop_backing_dev_info and this led to crashes inside
locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() called from __mark_inode_dirty().
Fix the problem by initializing noop_backing_dev_info before the
filesystems get mounted.
Fixes: 10e1407310 ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error")
Reported-and-tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
