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1da177e4 1/*
f30c2269 2 * mm/page-writeback.c
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3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
04fbfdc1 5 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
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6 *
7 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
8 * address_space level.
9 *
e1f8e874 10 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton
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11 * Initial version
12 */
13
14#include <linux/kernel.h>
b95f1b31 15#include <linux/export.h>
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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>
55e829af 25#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
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26#include <linux/blkdev.h>
27#include <linux/mpage.h>
d08b3851 28#include <linux/rmap.h>
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29#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>
cf9a2ae8 35#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
811d736f 36#include <linux/pagevec.h>
028c2dd1 37#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
1da177e4 38
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39/*
40 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
41 */
42#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
43
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44/*
45 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
46 */
47#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
48
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49#define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
50
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51/*
52 * 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
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57/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
58
59/*
5b0830cb 60 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
1da177e4 61 */
1b5e62b4 62int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
1da177e4 63
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64/*
65 * 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
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70/*
71 * 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
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76/*
77 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
78 */
1b5e62b4 79int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
1da177e4 80
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81/*
82 * 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
1da177e4 87/*
704503d8 88 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
1da177e4 89 */
22ef37ee 90unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
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91
92/*
704503d8 93 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
1da177e4 94 */
22ef37ee 95unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
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96
97/*
98 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
99 */
100int block_dump;
101
102/*
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103 * 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.
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105 */
106int laptop_mode;
107
108EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
109
110/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
111
c42843f2 112unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
1da177e4 113
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114/*
115 * 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;
3e26c149 131static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
04fbfdc1 132
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133/*
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
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142 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;
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147 return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
148}
149
150/*
2da02997 151 * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
04fbfdc1 152 */
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153static 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);
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158
159 writeback_set_ratelimit();
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160}
161
162int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
8d65af78 163 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
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164 loff_t *ppos)
165{
166 int ret;
167
8d65af78 168 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
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169 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,
8d65af78 175 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
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176 loff_t *ppos)
177{
178 int ret;
179
8d65af78 180 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
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181 if (ret == 0 && write)
182 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
183 return ret;
184}
185
04fbfdc1 186int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
8d65af78 187 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
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188 loff_t *ppos)
189{
190 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
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191 int ret;
192
8d65af78 193 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
04fbfdc1 194 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
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195 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,
8d65af78 203 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
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204 loff_t *ppos)
205{
fc3501d4 206 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
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207 int ret;
208
8d65af78 209 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
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210 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
211 update_completion_period();
212 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
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213 }
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{
f7d2b1ec 223 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
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224 __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
225 bdi->max_prop_frac);
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226}
227
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228void 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
1cf6e7d8 238void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
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239{
240 prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
241}
242
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243/*
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{
3efaf0fa 249 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
04fbfdc1 250 numerator, denominator);
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251}
252
189d3c4a 253/*
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254 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
255 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
256 * exceed 100%.
189d3c4a 257 */
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258static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
259
260int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
261{
262 int ret = 0;
189d3c4a 263
cfc4ba53 264 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
a42dde04 265 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
189d3c4a 266 ret = -EINVAL;
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267 } else {
268 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
269 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
270 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
271 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
272 } else {
273 ret = -EINVAL;
274 }
275 }
cfc4ba53 276 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
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277
278 return ret;
279}
280
281int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
282{
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283 int ret = 0;
284
285 if (max_ratio > 100)
286 return -EINVAL;
287
cfc4ba53 288 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
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289 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
290 ret = -EINVAL;
291 } else {
292 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
293 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
294 }
cfc4ba53 295 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
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296
297 return ret;
298}
a42dde04 299EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
189d3c4a 300
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301/*
302 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
303 * thresholds.
304 *
305 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
306 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
307 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
308 * performing lots of scanning.
309 *
310 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
311 *
312 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
313 * excessive.
314 *
315 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
316 * clamping level.
317 */
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318
319static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
320{
321#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
322 int node;
323 unsigned long x = 0;
324
37b07e41 325 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
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326 struct zone *z =
327 &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
328
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329 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
330 zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
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331 }
332 /*
333 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
334 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
335 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
336 * that this does not occur.
337 */
338 return min(x, total);
339#else
340 return 0;
341#endif
342}
343
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344/**
345 * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
346 *
347 * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
348 * by the kernel for direct mappings.
349 */
350unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
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351{
352 unsigned long x;
353
adea02a1 354 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
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355
356 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
357 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
358
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359 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
360}
361
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362static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
363 unsigned long bg_thresh)
364{
365 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
366}
367
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368static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
369{
370 return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
371}
372
03ab450f 373/*
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374 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
375 *
376 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
377 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
378 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
379 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
ebd1373d 380 * real-time tasks.
1babe183 381 */
16c4042f 382void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
1da177e4 383{
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384 unsigned long background;
385 unsigned long dirty;
240c879f 386 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
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387 struct task_struct *tsk;
388
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389 if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
390 available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
391
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392 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
393 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
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394 else
395 dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
1da177e4 396
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397 if (dirty_background_bytes)
398 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
399 else
400 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
1da177e4 401
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402 if (background >= dirty)
403 background = dirty / 2;
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404 tsk = current;
405 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
406 background += background / 4;
407 dirty += dirty / 4;
408 }
409 *pbackground = background;
410 *pdirty = dirty;
e1cbe236 411 trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
16c4042f 412}
04fbfdc1 413
6f718656 414/**
1babe183 415 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
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416 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
417 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
1babe183 418 *
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419 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
420 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
421 * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
422 * balance_dirty_pages().
1babe183 423 *
6f718656 424 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
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425 * - starving fast devices
426 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
427 *
428 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
429 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
430 */
431unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
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432{
433 u64 bdi_dirty;
434 long numerator, denominator;
04fbfdc1 435
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436 /*
437 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
438 */
439 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
04fbfdc1 440
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441 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
442 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
443 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
04fbfdc1 444
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445 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
446 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
447 bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
448
449 return bdi_dirty;
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450}
451
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452/*
453 * Dirty position control.
454 *
455 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
456 *
457 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
458 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
459 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
460 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
461 *
462 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
463 *
464 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
465 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
466 *
467 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
468 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
469 *
470 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
471 *
472 * (o) global control line
473 *
474 * ^ pos_ratio
475 * |
476 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
477 * 2.0 .............*
478 * | .*
479 * | . *
480 * | . *
481 * | . *
482 * | . *
483 * | . *
484 * 1.0 ................................*
485 * | . . *
486 * | . . *
487 * | . . *
488 * | . . *
489 * | . . *
490 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
491 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
492 *
493 * (o) bdi control line
494 *
495 * ^ pos_ratio
496 * |
497 * | *
498 * | *
499 * | *
500 * | *
501 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
502 * 1.0 .......................*
503 * | . *
504 * | . *
505 * | . *
506 * | . *
507 * | . *
508 * | . *
509 * | . *
510 * | . *
511 * | . *
512 * | . *
513 * | . *
514 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
515 * | . .
516 * | . .
517 * | . .
518 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
519 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
520 *
521 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
522 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
523 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
524 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
525 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
526 */
527static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
528 unsigned long thresh,
529 unsigned long bg_thresh,
530 unsigned long dirty,
531 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
532 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
533{
534 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
535 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
536 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
537 unsigned long x_intercept;
538 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
539 unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
540 unsigned long span;
541 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
542 long x;
543
544 if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
545 return 0;
546
547 /*
548 * global setpoint
549 *
550 * setpoint - dirty 3
551 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
552 * limit - setpoint
553 *
554 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
555 *
556 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
557 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
558 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
559 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
560 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
561 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
562 */
563 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
564 x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
565 limit - setpoint + 1);
566 pos_ratio = x;
567 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
568 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
569 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
570
571 /*
572 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
573 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
574 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
575 */
576
577 /*
578 * bdi setpoint
579 *
580 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
581 *
582 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
583 * := --------------------------
584 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
585 *
586 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
587 *
588 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
589 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
590 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
591 *
592 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
593 * regularly within range
594 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
595 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
596 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
597 *
598 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
599 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
600 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
601 */
602 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
603 bdi_thresh = thresh;
8927f66c 604 bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
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605 /*
606 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
607 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
608 */
609 x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
610 bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
611 /*
612 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
613 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
614 *
615 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
616 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
617 * thresh thresh
618 */
619 span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
620 x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
621
622 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
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623 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
624 x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
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625 } else
626 pos_ratio /= 4;
627
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628 /*
629 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
630 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
631 * than setpoint.
632 */
633 x_intercept = bdi_thresh / 2;
634 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept) {
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635 if (bdi_dirty > x_intercept / 8)
636 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * x_intercept, bdi_dirty);
637 else
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638 pos_ratio *= 8;
639 }
640
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641 return pos_ratio;
642}
643
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644static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
645 unsigned long elapsed,
646 unsigned long written)
647{
648 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
649 unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
650 unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
651 u64 bw;
652
653 /*
654 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
655 *
656 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
657 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
658 * period
659 */
660 bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
661 bw *= HZ;
662 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
663 do_div(bw, elapsed);
664 avg = bw;
665 goto out;
666 }
667 bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
668 bw >>= ilog2(period);
669
670 /*
671 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
672 */
673 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
674 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
675
676 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
677 avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
678
679out:
680 bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
681 bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
682}
683
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684/*
685 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
686 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
687 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
688 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
689 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
690 * threshold.
691 */
692static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
693{
694 unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
695
696 /*
697 * Follow up in one step.
698 */
699 if (limit < thresh) {
700 limit = thresh;
701 goto update;
702 }
703
704 /*
705 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
706 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
707 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
708 */
709 thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
710 if (limit > thresh) {
711 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
712 goto update;
713 }
714 return;
715update:
716 global_dirty_limit = limit;
717}
718
719static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
720 unsigned long dirty,
721 unsigned long now)
722{
723 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
724 static unsigned long update_time;
725
726 /*
727 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
728 */
729 if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
730 return;
731
732 spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
733 if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
734 update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
735 update_time = now;
736 }
737 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
738}
739
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740/*
741 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
742 *
743 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
744 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
745 */
746static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
747 unsigned long thresh,
748 unsigned long bg_thresh,
749 unsigned long dirty,
750 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
751 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
752 unsigned long dirtied,
753 unsigned long elapsed)
754{
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755 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
756 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
757 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
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758 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
759 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
760 unsigned long dirty_rate;
761 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
762 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
763 unsigned long pos_ratio;
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764 unsigned long step;
765 unsigned long x;
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766
767 /*
768 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
769 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
770 */
771 dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
772
773 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
774 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
775 /*
776 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
777 */
778 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
779 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
780 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
781
782 /*
783 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
784 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
785 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
786 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
787 *
788 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
789 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
790 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
791 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
792 *
793 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
794 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
795 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
796 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
797 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
798 * be throttled at
799 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
800 * yielding
801 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
802 * put (6) into (1) we get
803 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
804 *
805 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
806 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
807 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
808 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
809 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
810 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
811 */
812 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
813 dirty_rate | 1);
814
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815 /*
816 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
817 *
818 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
819 *
820 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
821 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
822 * limit the step size.
823 *
824 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
825 *
826 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
827 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
828 *
829 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
830 */
831
832 /*
833 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
834 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
835 * For example, when
836 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
837 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
838 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
839 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
840 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
841 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
842 *
843 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
844 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
845 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
846 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
847 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
848 */
849 step = 0;
850 if (dirty < setpoint) {
851 x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
852 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
853 if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
854 step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
855 } else {
856 x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
857 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
858 if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
859 step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
860 }
861
862 /*
863 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
864 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
865 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
866 */
867 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
868 /*
869 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
870 */
871 step = (step + 7) / 8;
872
873 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
874 dirty_ratelimit += step;
875 else
876 dirty_ratelimit -= step;
877
878 bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
879 bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
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880
881 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit);
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882}
883
e98be2d5 884void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
c42843f2 885 unsigned long thresh,
af6a3113 886 unsigned long bg_thresh,
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887 unsigned long dirty,
888 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
889 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
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890 unsigned long start_time)
891{
892 unsigned long now = jiffies;
893 unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
be3ffa27 894 unsigned long dirtied;
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895 unsigned long written;
896
897 /*
898 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
899 */
900 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
901 return;
902
be3ffa27 903 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
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904 written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
905
906 /*
907 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
908 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
909 */
910 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
911 goto snapshot;
912
be3ffa27 913 if (thresh) {
c42843f2 914 global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
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915 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
916 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
917 dirtied, elapsed);
918 }
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919 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
920
921snapshot:
be3ffa27 922 bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
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923 bdi->written_stamp = written;
924 bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
925}
926
927static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
c42843f2 928 unsigned long thresh,
af6a3113 929 unsigned long bg_thresh,
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930 unsigned long dirty,
931 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
932 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
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933 unsigned long start_time)
934{
935 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
936 return;
937 spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
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938 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
939 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
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940 spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
941}
942
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943/*
944 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
945 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
946 *
947 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
948 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
949 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
950 */
951static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
952 unsigned long thresh)
953{
954 if (thresh > dirty)
955 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
956
957 return 1;
958}
959
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960static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
961 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
962{
963 unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
964 unsigned long hi = ilog2(bw);
965 unsigned long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
966 unsigned long t;
967
968 /* target for 20ms max pause on 1-dd case */
969 t = HZ / 50;
970
971 /*
972 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
973 * overheads.
974 *
975 * (N * 20ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
976 */
977 if (hi > lo)
978 t += (hi - lo) * (20 * HZ) / 1024;
979
980 /*
981 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
982 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
983 * idle.
984 *
985 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
986 */
987 if (bdi_dirty)
988 t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
989
990 /*
991 * The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
992 * Apply a minimal value of 4 to get a non-zero max_pause/4.
993 */
994 return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
995}
996
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997/*
998 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
999 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
143dfe86 1000 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
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1001 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1002 * perform some writeout.
1da177e4 1003 */
3a2e9a5a 1004static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
143dfe86 1005 unsigned long pages_dirtied)
1da177e4 1006{
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1007 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1008 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
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1009 unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1010 unsigned long bdi_dirty;
6c14ae1e 1011 unsigned long freerun;
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1012 unsigned long background_thresh;
1013 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1014 unsigned long bdi_thresh;
143dfe86 1015 long pause = 0;
50657fc4 1016 long uninitialized_var(max_pause);
e50e3720 1017 bool dirty_exceeded = false;
143dfe86 1018 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
50657fc4 1019 unsigned long uninitialized_var(dirty_ratelimit);
143dfe86 1020 unsigned long pos_ratio;
1da177e4 1021 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
e98be2d5 1022 unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
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1023
1024 for (;;) {
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1025 /*
1026 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1027 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1028 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1029 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1030 */
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1031 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1032 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
7762741e 1033 nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
5fce25a9 1034
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1035 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1036
1037 /*
1038 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1039 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1040 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1041 */
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1042 freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1043 background_thresh);
1044 if (nr_dirty <= freerun)
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1045 break;
1046
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1047 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1048 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1049
1050 /*
1051 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1052 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1053 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1054 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1055 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1056 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1057 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1058 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1059 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1060 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1061 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1062 */
16c4042f 1063 bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
16c4042f 1064
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1065 /*
1066 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1067 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1068 * the threshold is low.
1069 *
1070 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1071 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1072 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1073 * deltas.
1074 */
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1075 if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1076 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1077 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
7762741e 1078 bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
e50e3720 1079 } else {
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1080 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1081 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
7762741e 1082 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
e50e3720 1083 }
5fce25a9 1084
143dfe86 1085 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
7762741e 1086 (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
143dfe86 1087 if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
04fbfdc1 1088 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
1da177e4 1089
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1090 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1091 nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1092 start_time);
e98be2d5 1093
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1094 max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1095
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1096 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1097 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1098 background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1099 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
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1100 task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio) >>
1101 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
1102 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) {
c8462cc9 1103 pause = max_pause;
143dfe86 1104 goto pause;
04fbfdc1 1105 }
3a73dbbc 1106 pause = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
57fc978c 1107 if (unlikely(pause <= 0)) {
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1108 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1109 dirty_thresh,
1110 background_thresh,
1111 nr_dirty,
1112 bdi_thresh,
1113 bdi_dirty,
1114 dirty_ratelimit,
1115 task_ratelimit,
1116 pages_dirtied,
1117 pause,
1118 start_time);
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1119 pause = 1; /* avoid resetting nr_dirtied_pause below */
1120 break;
04fbfdc1 1121 }
c8462cc9 1122 pause = min(pause, max_pause);
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1123
1124pause:
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1125 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1126 dirty_thresh,
1127 background_thresh,
1128 nr_dirty,
1129 bdi_thresh,
1130 bdi_dirty,
1131 dirty_ratelimit,
1132 task_ratelimit,
1133 pages_dirtied,
1134 pause,
1135 start_time);
499d05ec 1136 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
d25105e8 1137 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
87c6a9b2 1138
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1139 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
1140 /*
1141 * max-pause area. If dirty exceeded but still within this
1142 * area, no need to sleep for more than 200ms: (a) 8 pages per
1143 * 200ms is typically more than enough to curb heavy dirtiers;
1144 * (b) the pause time limit makes the dirtiers more responsive.
1145 */
143dfe86 1146 if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh)
ffd1f609 1147 break;
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1148
1149 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1150 break;
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1151 }
1152
143dfe86 1153 if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
04fbfdc1 1154 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
1da177e4 1155
9d823e8f 1156 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
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1157 if (pause == 0) { /* in freerun area */
1158 current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1159 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
1160 } else if (pause <= max_pause / 4 &&
1161 pages_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause) {
1162 current->nr_dirtied_pause = clamp_val(
1163 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1164 pages_dirtied + pages_dirtied / 8,
1165 pages_dirtied * 4);
1166 } else if (pause >= max_pause) {
1167 current->nr_dirtied_pause = 1 | clamp_val(
1168 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1169 pages_dirtied / 4,
1170 pages_dirtied - pages_dirtied / 8);
1171 }
9d823e8f 1172
1da177e4 1173 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
5b0830cb 1174 return;
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1175
1176 /*
1177 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1178 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1179 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1180 *
1181 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1182 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1183 */
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1184 if (laptop_mode)
1185 return;
1186
1187 if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
c5444198 1188 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
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1189}
1190
a200ee18 1191void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
edc79b2a 1192{
a200ee18 1193 if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
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1194 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1195
1196 if (mapping)
1197 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
1198 }
1199}
1200
9d823e8f 1201static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
245b2e70 1202
1da177e4 1203/**
fa5a734e 1204 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
67be2dd1 1205 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
a580290c 1206 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
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1207 *
1208 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1209 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1210 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1211 *
1212 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1213 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1214 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1215 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1216 */
fa5a734e
AM
1217void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1218 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
1da177e4 1219{
36715cef 1220 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
9d823e8f
WF
1221 int ratelimit;
1222 int *p;
1da177e4 1223
36715cef
WF
1224 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1225 return;
1226
9d823e8f
WF
1227 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1228 if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1229 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
1230
1231 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
1da177e4 1232
9d823e8f 1233 preempt_disable();
1da177e4 1234 /*
9d823e8f
WF
1235 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1236 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1237 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1238 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1da177e4 1239 */
245b2e70 1240 p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
9d823e8f 1241 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
fa5a734e 1242 *p = 0;
9d823e8f
WF
1243 else {
1244 *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
1245 if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1246 *p = 0;
1247 ratelimit = 0;
1248 }
1da177e4 1249 }
fa5a734e 1250 preempt_enable();
9d823e8f
WF
1251
1252 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1253 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
1da177e4 1254}
fa5a734e 1255EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
1da177e4 1256
232ea4d6 1257void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
1da177e4 1258{
364aeb28
DR
1259 unsigned long background_thresh;
1260 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1da177e4
LT
1261
1262 for ( ; ; ) {
16c4042f 1263 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1da177e4
LT
1264
1265 /*
1266 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1267 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1268 */
1269 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
1270
c24f21bd
CL
1271 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1272 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1273 break;
8aa7e847 1274 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
369f2389
FW
1275
1276 /*
1277 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1278 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1279 * waiting for IO to complete.
1280 */
1281 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1282 break;
1da177e4
LT
1283 }
1284}
1285
1da177e4
LT
1286/*
1287 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1288 */
1289int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
8d65af78 1290 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
1da177e4 1291{
8d65af78 1292 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
6423104b 1293 bdi_arm_supers_timer();
1da177e4
LT
1294 return 0;
1295}
1296
c2c4986e 1297#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
31373d09 1298void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
1da177e4 1299{
31373d09
MG
1300 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1301 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1302 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
1da177e4 1303
31373d09
MG
1304 /*
1305 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1306 * threshold
1307 */
31373d09 1308 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
0e175a18
CW
1309 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages,
1310 WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
1da177e4
LT
1311}
1312
1313/*
1314 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1315 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1316 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1317 */
31373d09 1318void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
1da177e4 1319{
31373d09 1320 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
1da177e4
LT
1321}
1322
1323/*
1324 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1325 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1326 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1327 */
1328void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1329{
31373d09
MG
1330 struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1331
1332 rcu_read_lock();
1333
1334 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1335 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1336
1337 rcu_read_unlock();
1da177e4 1338}
c2c4986e 1339#endif
1da177e4
LT
1340
1341/*
1342 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1343 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1344 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1345 * get_writeback_state too often.
1346 *
1347 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1348 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
9d823e8f 1349 * thresholds.
1da177e4
LT
1350 */
1351
2d1d43f6 1352void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
1da177e4 1353{
9d823e8f
WF
1354 unsigned long background_thresh;
1355 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1356 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1357 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
1da177e4
LT
1358 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1359 ratelimit_pages = 16;
1da177e4
LT
1360}
1361
26c2143b 1362static int __cpuinit
1da177e4
LT
1363ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1364{
2d1d43f6 1365 writeback_set_ratelimit();
aa0f0303 1366 return NOTIFY_DONE;
1da177e4
LT
1367}
1368
74b85f37 1369static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
1da177e4
LT
1370 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
1371 .next = NULL,
1372};
1373
1374/*
dc6e29da
LT
1375 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1376 *
1377 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1378 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1379 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1380 *
1381 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1382 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1383 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1384 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1385 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1386 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1387 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1388 *
1389 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1390 * much memory the box has..
1da177e4
LT
1391 */
1392void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1393{
04fbfdc1
PZ
1394 int shift;
1395
2d1d43f6 1396 writeback_set_ratelimit();
1da177e4 1397 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
04fbfdc1
PZ
1398
1399 shift = calc_period_shift();
1400 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
3e26c149 1401 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
1da177e4
LT
1402}
1403
f446daae
JK
1404/**
1405 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1406 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1407 * @start: starting page index
1408 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1409 *
1410 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1411 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1412 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1413 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1414 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1415 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1416 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1417 */
1418/*
1419 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1420 */
f446daae
JK
1421void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1422 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1423{
3c111a07 1424#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
f446daae
JK
1425 unsigned long tagged;
1426
1427 do {
1428 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1429 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1430 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1431 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1432 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1433 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1434 cond_resched();
d5ed3a4a
JK
1435 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1436 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
f446daae
JK
1437}
1438EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1439
811d736f 1440/**
0ea97180 1441 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
811d736f
DH
1442 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1443 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
0ea97180
MS
1444 * @writepage: function called for each page
1445 * @data: data passed to writepage function
811d736f 1446 *
0ea97180 1447 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
811d736f
DH
1448 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1449 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1450 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1451 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1452 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1453 * existing IO to complete.
f446daae
JK
1454 *
1455 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1456 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1457 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1458 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1459 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1460 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
811d736f 1461 */
0ea97180
MS
1462int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1463 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1464 void *data)
811d736f 1465{
811d736f
DH
1466 int ret = 0;
1467 int done = 0;
811d736f
DH
1468 struct pagevec pvec;
1469 int nr_pages;
31a12666 1470 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
811d736f
DH
1471 pgoff_t index;
1472 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
bd19e012 1473 pgoff_t done_index;
31a12666 1474 int cycled;
811d736f 1475 int range_whole = 0;
f446daae 1476 int tag;
811d736f 1477
811d736f
DH
1478 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1479 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
31a12666
NP
1480 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1481 index = writeback_index;
1482 if (index == 0)
1483 cycled = 1;
1484 else
1485 cycled = 0;
811d736f
DH
1486 end = -1;
1487 } else {
1488 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1489 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1490 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1491 range_whole = 1;
31a12666 1492 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
811d736f 1493 }
6e6938b6 1494 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
f446daae
JK
1495 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1496 else
1497 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
811d736f 1498retry:
6e6938b6 1499 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
f446daae 1500 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
bd19e012 1501 done_index = index;
5a3d5c98
NP
1502 while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1503 int i;
1504
f446daae 1505 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
5a3d5c98
NP
1506 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1507 if (nr_pages == 0)
1508 break;
811d736f 1509
811d736f
DH
1510 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1511 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1512
1513 /*
d5482cdf
NP
1514 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1515 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1516 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1517 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1518 * because we have a reference on the page.
811d736f 1519 */
d5482cdf
NP
1520 if (page->index > end) {
1521 /*
1522 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1523 * end == -1 in that case.
1524 */
1525 done = 1;
1526 break;
1527 }
1528
cf15b07c 1529 done_index = page->index;
d5482cdf 1530
811d736f
DH
1531 lock_page(page);
1532
5a3d5c98
NP
1533 /*
1534 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1535 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1536 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1537 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1538 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1539 * pagecache address.
1540 */
811d736f 1541 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
5a3d5c98 1542continue_unlock:
811d736f
DH
1543 unlock_page(page);
1544 continue;
1545 }
1546
515f4a03
NP
1547 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1548 /* someone wrote it for us */
1549 goto continue_unlock;
1550 }
1551
1552 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1553 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1554 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1555 else
1556 goto continue_unlock;
1557 }
811d736f 1558
515f4a03
NP
1559 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1560 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
5a3d5c98 1561 goto continue_unlock;
811d736f 1562
9e094383 1563 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
0ea97180 1564 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
00266770
NP
1565 if (unlikely(ret)) {
1566 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1567 unlock_page(page);
1568 ret = 0;
1569 } else {
1570 /*
1571 * done_index is set past this page,
1572 * so media errors will not choke
1573 * background writeout for the entire
1574 * file. This has consequences for
1575 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1576 * not be suitable for data integrity
1577 * writeout).
1578 */
cf15b07c 1579 done_index = page->index + 1;
00266770
NP
1580 done = 1;
1581 break;
1582 }
0b564927 1583 }
00266770 1584
546a1924
DC
1585 /*
1586 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1587 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1588 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1589 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1590 */
1591 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1592 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1593 done = 1;
1594 break;
05fe478d 1595 }
811d736f
DH
1596 }
1597 pagevec_release(&pvec);
1598 cond_resched();
1599 }
3a4c6800 1600 if (!cycled && !done) {
811d736f 1601 /*
31a12666 1602 * range_cyclic:
811d736f
DH
1603 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1604 * back to the start of the file
1605 */
31a12666 1606 cycled = 1;
811d736f 1607 index = 0;
31a12666 1608 end = writeback_index - 1;
811d736f
DH
1609 goto retry;
1610 }
0b564927
DC
1611 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1612 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
06d6cf69 1613
811d736f
DH
1614 return ret;
1615}
0ea97180
MS
1616EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1617
1618/*
1619 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1620 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1621 */
1622static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1623 void *data)
1624{
1625 struct address_space *mapping = data;
1626 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1627 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1628 return ret;
1629}
1630
1631/**
1632 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1633 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1634 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1635 *
1636 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1637 * address_space_operation.
1638 */
1639int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1640 struct writeback_control *wbc)
1641{
9b6096a6
SL
1642 struct blk_plug plug;
1643 int ret;
1644
0ea97180
MS
1645 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1646 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1647 return 0;
1648
9b6096a6
SL
1649 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1650 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1651 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1652 return ret;
0ea97180 1653}
811d736f
DH
1654
1655EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1656
1da177e4
LT
1657int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1658{
22905f77
AM
1659 int ret;
1660
1da177e4
LT
1661 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1662 return 0;
1663 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
d08b3851 1664 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
22905f77
AM
1665 else
1666 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
22905f77 1667 return ret;
1da177e4
LT
1668}
1669
1670/**
1671 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
67be2dd1
MW
1672 * @page: the page to write
1673 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
1da177e4
LT
1674 *
1675 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1676 *
1677 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1678 */
1679int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1680{
1681 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1682 int ret = 0;
1683 struct writeback_control wbc = {
1684 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1685 .nr_to_write = 1,
1686 };
1687
1688 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1689
1690 if (wait)
1691 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1692
1693 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1694 page_cache_get(page);
1695 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1696 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1697 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1698 if (PageError(page))
1699 ret = -EIO;
1700 }
1701 page_cache_release(page);
1702 } else {
1703 unlock_page(page);
1704 }
1705 return ret;
1706}
1707EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1708
76719325
KC
1709/*
1710 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1711 */
1712int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1713{
1714 if (!PageDirty(page))
c3f0da63 1715 return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
76719325
KC
1716 return 0;
1717}
1718
e3a7cca1
ES
1719/*
1720 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1721 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1722 */
1723void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1724{
1725 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1726 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
ea941f0e 1727 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
e3a7cca1 1728 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
c8e28ce0 1729 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
e3a7cca1
ES
1730 task_dirty_inc(current);
1731 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
1732 }
1733}
679ceace 1734EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
e3a7cca1 1735
f629d1c9
MR
1736/*
1737 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1738 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1739 * wrt interrupts.
1740 */
1741void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1742{
1743 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1744}
1745EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1746
1da177e4
LT
1747/*
1748 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1749 * its radix tree.
1750 *
1751 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1752 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1753 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1754 *
1755 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1756 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1757 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1758 *
1759 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
183ff22b 1760 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
1da177e4
LT
1761 */
1762int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1763{
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1764 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1765 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1766 struct address_space *mapping2;
1767
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1768 if (!mapping)
1769 return 1;
1770
19fd6231 1771 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
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1772 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
1773 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
1774 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
787d2214 1775 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
e3a7cca1 1776 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
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1777 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1778 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1779 }
19fd6231 1780 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
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1781 if (mapping->host) {
1782 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1783 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
1da177e4 1784 }
4741c9fd 1785 return 1;
1da177e4 1786 }
4741c9fd 1787 return 0;
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1788}
1789EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
1790
1791/*
1792 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
1793 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
1794 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
1795 */
1796int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
1797{
1798 wbc->pages_skipped++;
1799 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
1800}
1801EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
1802
1803/*
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1804 * Dirty a page.
1805 *
1806 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
1807 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
1808 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
1809 * but should be better not to.
1810 *
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1811 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
1812 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
1813 */
1cf6e7d8 1814int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
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1815{
1816 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1817
1818 if (likely(mapping)) {
1819 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
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1820 /*
1821 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
1822 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
1823 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
1824 * reset. So no problem.
1825 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
1826 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
1827 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
1828 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
1829 */
1830 ClearPageReclaim(page);
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1831#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1832 if (!spd)
1833 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
1834#endif
1835 return (*spd)(page);
1da177e4 1836 }
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1837 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1838 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
1839 return 1;
1840 }
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1841 return 0;
1842}
1843EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
1844
1845/*
1846 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
1847 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
1848 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
1849 *
1850 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
1851 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
1852 *
1853 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
1854 */
1855int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
1856{
1857 int ret;
1858
7eaceacc 1859 lock_page(page);
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1860 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
1861 unlock_page(page);
1862 return ret;
1863}
1864EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
1865
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1866/*
1867 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
1868 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
1869 *
1870 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
1871 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
1872 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
1873 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
1874 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
1875 * back into sync.
1876 *
1877 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
1878 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
1879 */
1880int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
1881{
1882 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1883
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1884 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1885
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1886 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1887 /*
1888 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
1889 *
1890 * We use this sequence to make sure that
1891 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
1892 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
1893 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
1894 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
1895 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
1896 * cause the writeback.
1897 *
1898 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
1899 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
1900 * them concurrently from different threads.
1901 *
1902 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
1903 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
1904 * that will already usually be set. But we
1905 * need the side effects, and it can help us
1906 * avoid races.
1907 *
1908 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
1909 * as a serialization point for all the different
1910 * threads doing their things.
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1911 */
1912 if (page_mkclean(page))
1913 set_page_dirty(page);
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1914 /*
1915 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
1916 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
1917 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
1918 * page lock at some point after installing their
1919 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
1920 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
1921 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
1922 * for more comments.
1923 */
7658cc28 1924 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
8c08540f 1925 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
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1926 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
1927 BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
7658cc28 1928 return 1;
1da177e4 1929 }
7658cc28 1930 return 0;
1da177e4 1931 }
7658cc28 1932 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
1da177e4 1933}
58bb01a9 1934EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
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1935
1936int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1937{
1938 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1939 int ret;
1940
1941 if (mapping) {
69cb51d1 1942 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
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1943 unsigned long flags;
1944
19fd6231 1945 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1da177e4 1946 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
69cb51d1 1947 if (ret) {
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1948 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1949 page_index(page),
1950 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
e4ad08fe 1951 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
69cb51d1 1952 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
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1953 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
1954 }
69cb51d1 1955 }
19fd6231 1956 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
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1957 } else {
1958 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1959 }
99b12e3d 1960 if (ret) {
d688abf5 1961 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
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1962 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
1963 }
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1964 return ret;
1965}
1966
1967int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1968{
1969 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1970 int ret;
1971
1972 if (mapping) {
69cb51d1 1973 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
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1974 unsigned long flags;
1975
19fd6231 1976 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1da177e4 1977 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
69cb51d1 1978 if (!ret) {
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1979 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1980 page_index(page),
1981 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
e4ad08fe 1982 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
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1983 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1984 }
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1985 if (!PageDirty(page))
1986 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1987 page_index(page),
1988 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
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1989 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1990 page_index(page),
1991 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
19fd6231 1992 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
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1993 } else {
1994 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1995 }
d688abf5 1996 if (!ret)
f629d1c9 1997 account_page_writeback(page);
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1998 return ret;
1999
2000}
2001EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
2002
2003/*
00128188 2004 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
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2005 * passed tag.
2006 */
2007int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
2008{
72c47832 2009 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
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2010}
2011EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);