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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
e621900ad2 fs: Convert __set_page_dirty_buffers to block_dirty_folio
Convert all callers; mostly this is just changing the aops to point
at it, but a few implementations need a little more work.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> # orangefs
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> # afs
2022-03-16 13:37:04 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
6f31a5a261 fs: Add aops->dirty_folio
This replaces ->set_page_dirty().  It returns a bool instead of an int
and takes the address_space as a parameter instead of expecting the
implementations to retrieve the address_space from the page.  This is
particularly important for filesystems which use FS_OPS for swap.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> # orangefs
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> # afs
2022-03-15 08:23:30 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
a229a4f00d mm/writeback: Improve __folio_mark_dirty() comment
Add some notes about how this function needs to be called.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
2022-01-02 20:28:57 -05:00
David Howells
452c472e26 folio: Add a function to get the host inode for a folio
Add a convenience function, folio_inode() that will get the host inode from
a folio's mapping.

Changes:
 ver #3:
  - Fix mistake in function description[2].
 ver #2:
  - Fix contradiction between doc and implementation by disallowing use
    with swap caches[1].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YST8OcVNy02Rivbm@casper.infradead.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YYKLkBwQdtn4ja+i@casper.infradead.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162880453171.3369675.3704943108660112470.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162981151155.1901565.7010079316994382707.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163005744370.2472992.18324470937328925723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163584184628.4023316.9386282630968981869.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163649325519.309189.15072332908703129455.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163657850401.834781.1031963517399283294.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
2021-11-10 21:16:52 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
512b7931ad Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
2021-11-06 14:08:17 -07:00
Mel Gorman
c3f4a9a2b0 mm/vmscan: centralise timeout values for reclaim_throttle
Neil Brown raised concerns about callers of reclaim_throttle specifying
a timeout value.  The original timeout values to congestion_wait() were
probably pulled out of thin air or copy&pasted from somewhere else.
This patch centralises the timeout values and selects a timeout based on
the reason for reclaim throttling.  These figures are also pulled out of
the same thin air but better values may be derived

Running a workload that is throttling for inappropriate periods and
tracing mm_vmscan_throttled can be used to pick a more appropriate
value.  Excessive throttling would pick a lower timeout where as
excessive CPU usage in reclaim context would select a larger timeout.
Ideally a large value would always be used and the wakeups would occur
before a timeout but that requires careful testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
Mel Gorman
8d58802fc9 mm/writeback: throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion
do_writepages throttles on congestion if the writepages() fails due to a
lack of memory but congestion_wait() is partially broken as the
congestion state is not updated for all BDIs.

This patch stalls waiting for a number of pages to complete writeback
that located on the local node.  The main weakness is that there is no
correlation between the location of the inode's pages and locality but
that is still better than congestion_wait.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
121703c1c8 mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one
Transform write_one_page() into folio_write_one() and add a compatibility
wrapper.  Also move the declaration to pagemap.h as this is page cache
functionality that doesn't need to be used by the rest of the kernel.

Saves 58 bytes of kernel text.  While folio_write_one() is 101 bytes
smaller than write_one_page(), the inlined call to page_folio() expands
each caller.  There are fewer than ten callers so it doesn't seem worth
putting a wrapper in the core.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2021-10-18 07:49:41 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
cd78ab11a8 mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()
Reimplement redirty_page_for_writepage() as a wrapper around
folio_redirty_for_writepage().  Account the number of pages in the
folio, add kernel-doc and move the prototype to writeback.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
25ff8b1553 mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()
Account the number of pages in the folio that we're redirtying.
Turn account_page_dirty() into a wrapper around it.  Also turn
the comment on folio_account_redirty() into kernel-doc and
edit it slightly so it makes sense to its potential callers.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
9350f20a07 mm/writeback: Add folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
Transform clear_page_dirty_for_io() into folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
and add a compatibility wrapper.  Also move the declaration to pagemap.h
as this is page cache functionality that doesn't need to be used by the
rest of the kernel.

Increases the size of the kernel by 79 bytes.  While we remove a few
calls to compound_head(), we add a call to folio_nr_pages() to get the
stats correct for the eventual support of multi-page folios.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
fdaf532a23 mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()
Turn __cancel_dirty_page() into __folio_cancel_dirty() and add wrappers.
Move the prototypes into pagemap.h since this is page cache functionality.
Saves 44 bytes of kernel text in total; 33 bytes from __folio_cancel_dirty
and 11 from two callers of cancel_dirty_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
fc9b6a538b mm/writeback: Add folio_account_cleaned()
Get the statistics right; compound pages were being accounted as a
single page.  This didn't matter before now as no filesystem which
supported compound pages did writeback.  Also move the declaration
to pagemap.h since this is part of the page cache.  Add a wrapper for
account_page_cleaned().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
85d4d2ebc8 mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()
Reimplement __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() as a wrapper around
filemap_dirty_folio().  Eventually folio_mark_dirty() will pass
the folio's mapping to the address space's ->dirty_folio()
operation, so add the parameter to filemap_dirty_folio() now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
b9b0ff61ee mm/writeback: Convert tracing writeback_page_template to folios
Rename writeback_dirty_page() to writeback_dirty_folio() and
wait_on_page_writeback() to folio_wait_writeback().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
203a315166 mm/writeback: Add __folio_mark_dirty()
Turn __set_page_dirty() into a wrapper around __folio_mark_dirty().
Convert account_page_dirtied() into folio_account_dirtied() and account
the number of pages in the folio to support multi-page folios.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
b5e84594ca mm/writeback: Add folio_mark_dirty()
Reimplement set_page_dirty() as a wrapper around folio_mark_dirty().
There is no change to filesystems as they were already being called
with the compound_head of the page being marked dirty.  We avoid
several calls to compound_head(), both statically (through
using folio_test_dirty() instead of PageDirty() and dynamically by
calling folio_mapping() instead of page_mapping().

Also return bool instead of int to show the range of values actually
returned, and add kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
f143f1ea5a mm/writeback: Add folio_start_writeback()
Rename set_page_writeback() to folio_start_writeback() to match
folio_end_writeback().  Do not bother with wrappers that return void;
callers are perfectly capable of ignoring return values.

Add wrappers for set_page_writeback(), set_page_writeback_keepwrite() and
test_set_page_writeback() for compatibililty with existing filesystems.
The main advantage of this patch is getting the statistics right,
although it does eliminate a couple of calls to compound_head().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
269ccca389 mm/writeback: Add __folio_end_writeback()
test_clear_page_writeback() is actually an mm-internal function, although
it's named as if it's a pagecache function.  Move it to mm/internal.h,
rename it to __folio_end_writeback() and change the return type to bool.

The conversion from page to folio is mostly about accounting the number
of pages being written back, although it does eliminate a couple of
calls to compound_head().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
cc24df4cd1 mm/writeback: Change __wb_writeout_inc() to __wb_writeout_add()
Allow for accounting N pages at once instead of one page at a time.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
be5f179752 flex_proportions: Allow N events instead of 1
When batching events (such as writing back N pages in a single I/O), it
is better to do one flex_proportion operation instead of N.  There is
only one caller of __fprop_inc_percpu_max(), and it's the one we're
going to change in the next patch, so rename it instead of adding a
compatibility wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-10-18 07:49:39 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
101c0bf67f mm/filemap: Add folio_wait_bit()
Rename wait_on_page_bit() to folio_wait_bit().  We must always wait on
the folio, otherwise we won't be woken up due to the tail page hashing
to a different bucket from the head page.

This commit shrinks the kernel by 770 bytes, mostly due to moving
the page waitqueue lookup into folio_wait_bit_common().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
2021-09-27 09:27:30 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
a49d0c5077 mm/writeback: Add folio_wait_stable()
Move wait_for_stable_page() into the folio compatibility file.
folio_wait_stable() avoids a call to compound_head() and is 14 bytes
smaller than wait_for_stable_page() was.  The net text size grows by 16
bytes as a result of this patch.  We can also remove thp_head() as this
was the last user.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 09:27:30 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
490e016f22 mm/writeback: Add folio_wait_writeback()
wait_on_page_writeback_killable() only has one caller, so convert it to
call folio_wait_writeback_killable().  For the wait_on_page_writeback()
callers, add a compatibility wrapper around folio_wait_writeback().

Turning PageWriteback() into folio_test_writeback() eliminates a call
to compound_head() which saves 8 bytes and 15 bytes in the two
functions.  Unfortunately, that is more than offset by adding the
wait_on_page_writeback compatibility wrapper for a net increase in text
of 7 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 09:27:30 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
14726903c8 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "173 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
  pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
  bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
  hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
  oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits)
  mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
  mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
  mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
  mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
  mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
  selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
  mm: KSM: fix data type
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
  selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
  selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
  selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
  mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
  mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
  mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
  memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
  mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
  mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
  mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  ...
2021-09-03 10:08:28 -07:00
Jan Kara
20792ebf3e writeback: use READ_ONCE for unlocked reads of writeback stats
We do some unlocked reads of writeback statistics like
avg_write_bandwidth, dirty_ratelimit, or bw_time_stamp.  Generally we are
fine with getting somewhat out-of-date values but actually getting
different values in various parts of the functions because the compiler
decided to reload value from original memory location could confuse
calculations.  Use READ_ONCE for these unlocked accesses and WRITE_ONCE
for the updates to be on the safe side.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-5-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:10 -07:00
Jan Kara
42dd235cb1 writeback: rename domain_update_bandwidth()
Rename domain_update_bandwidth() to domain_update_dirty_limit().  The
original name is a misnomer.  The function has nothing to do with a
bandwidth, it updates dirty limits.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:10 -07:00
Jan Kara
45a2966fd6 writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload
Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of
writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughput
is heavily underestimated and tends to steadily sink until it reaches
zero.  This has rather bad impact on writeback throttling (causing
stalls).  The problem is that writeback throughput estimate gets updated
at most once per 200 ms.  One update happens early after we submit pages
for writeback (at that point writeout of only small fraction of pages is
completed and thus observed throughput is tiny).  Next update happens only
during the next write spike (updates happen only from inode writeback and
dirty throttling code) and if that is more than 1s after previous spike,
we decide system was idle and just ignore whatever was written until this
moment.

Fix the problem by making sure writeback throughput estimate is also
updated shortly after writeback completes to get reasonable estimate of
throughput for spiky workloads.

[jack@suse.cz: avoid division by 0 in wb_update_dirty_ratelimit()]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617095309.3542373-1-stapelberg+linux@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Tested-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:10 -07:00
Jan Kara
fee468fdf4 writeback: reliably update bandwidth estimation
Currently we trigger writeback bandwidth estimation from
balance_dirty_pages() and from wb_writeback().  However neither of these
need to trigger when the system is relatively idle and writeback is
triggered e.g.  from fsync(2).  Make sure writeback estimates happen
reliably by triggering them from do_writepages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:10 -07:00
Jan Kara
633a2abb9e writeback: track number of inodes under writeback
Patch series "writeback: Fix bandwidth estimates", v4.

Fix estimate of writeback throughput when device is not fully busy doing
writeback.  Michael Stapelberg has reported that such workload (e.g.
generated by linking) tends to push estimated throughput down to 0 and as
a result writeback on the device is practically stalled.

The first three patches fix the reported issue, the remaining two patches
are unrelated cleanups of problems I've noticed when reading the code.

This patch (of 4):

Track number of inodes under writeback for each bdi_writeback structure.
We will use this to decide whether wb does any IO and so we can estimate
its writeback throughput.  In principle we could use number of pages under
writeback (WB_WRITEBACK counter) for this however normal percpu counter
reads are too inaccurate for our purposes and summing the counter is too
expensive.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104519.16394-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:10 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
5ed964f8e5 mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BDI API
Don't leak the detaіls of the timer into the block layer, instead
initialize the timer in bdi_alloc and delete it in bdi_unregister.
Note that this means the timer is initialized (but not armed) for
non-block queues as well now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809141744.1203023-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-09 11:52:28 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
df668a5fe4 for-5.14/block-2021-06-29
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Merge tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - disk events cleanup (Christoph)

 - gendisk and request queue allocation simplifications (Christoph)

 - bdev_disk_changed cleanups (Christoph)

 - IO priority improvements (Bart)

 - Chained bio completion trace fix (Edward)

 - blk-wbt fixes (Jan)

 - blk-wbt enable/disable fix (Zhang)

 - Scheduler dispatch improvements (Jan, Ming)

 - Shared tagset scheduler improvements (John)

 - BFQ updates (Paolo, Luca, Pietro)

 - BFQ lock inversion fix (Jan)

 - Documentation improvements (Kir)

 - CLONE_IO block cgroup fix (Tejun)

 - Remove of ancient and deprecated block dump feature (zhangyi)

 - Discard merge fix (Ming)

 - Misc fixes or followup fixes (Colin, Damien, Dan, Long, Max, Thomas,
   Yang)

* tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (129 commits)
  block: fix discard request merge
  block/mq-deadline: Remove a WARN_ON_ONCE() call
  blk-mq: update hctx->dispatch_busy in case of real scheduler
  blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lock
  bfq: Remove merged request already in bfq_requests_merged()
  block: pass a gendisk to bdev_disk_changed
  block: move bdev_disk_changed
  block: add the events* attributes to disk_attrs
  block: move the disk events code to a separate file
  block: fix trace completion for chained bio
  block/partitions/msdos: Fix typo inidicator -> indicator
  block, bfq: reset waker pointer with shared queues
  block, bfq: check waker only for queues with no in-flight I/O
  block, bfq: avoid delayed merge of async queues
  block, bfq: boost throughput by extending queue-merging times
  block, bfq: consider also creation time in delayed stable merge
  block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge check
  block, bfq: let also stably merged queues enjoy weight raising
  blk-wbt: make sure throttle is enabled properly
  blk-wbt: introduce a new disable state to prevent false positive by rwb_enabled()
  ...
2021-06-30 12:12:56 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
b82a96c925 fs: remove noop_set_page_dirty()
Use __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() instead.  This will set the dirty bit
on the page, which will be used to avoid calling set_page_dirty() in the
future.  It will have no effect on actually writing the page back, as the
pages are not on any LRU lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() to modules]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615162342.1669332-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:48 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2f18be363c mm/writeback: use __set_page_dirty in __set_page_dirty_nobuffers
This is fundamentally the same code, so just call it instead of
duplicating it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615162342.1669332-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:48 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
6e1cae881a mm/writeback: move __set_page_dirty() to core mm
Patch series "Further set_page_dirty cleanups".

Prompted by Christoph's recent patches, here are some more patches to
improve the state of set_page_dirty().  They're all from the folio tree,
so they've been tested to a certain extent.

This patch (of 6):

Nothing in __set_page_dirty() is specific to buffer_head, so move it to
mm/page-writeback.c.  That removes the only caller of
account_page_dirtied() outside of page-writeback.c, so make it static.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615162342.1669332-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615162342.1669332-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:48 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
0af573780b mm: require ->set_page_dirty to be explicitly wired up
Remove the CONFIG_BLOCK default to __set_page_dirty_buffers and just wire
that method up for the missing instances.

[hch@lst.de: ecryptfs: add a ->set_page_dirty cludge]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210624125250.536369-1-hch@lst.de

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614061512.3966143-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:48 -07:00
Chi Wu
87e3789749 mm/page-writeback: use __this_cpu_inc() in account_page_dirtied()
As account_page_dirtied() was always protected by xa_lock_irqsave(), so
using __this_cpu_inc() is better.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512144742.4764-1-wuchi.zero@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chi Wu <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Howard Cochran <hcochran@kernelspring.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:47 -07:00
Chi Wu
0323155437 mm/page-writeback: update the comment of Dirty position control
As the value of pos_ratio_polynom() clamp between 0 and 2LL <<
RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, the global control line should be consistent with
it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511103606.3732-1-wuchi.zero@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chi Wu <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Howard Cochran <hcochran@kernelspring.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:47 -07:00
Chi Wu
ab19939a6a mm/page-writeback: Fix performance when BDI's share of ratio is 0.
Fix performance when BDI's share of ratio is 0.

The issue is similar to commit 74d3694433 ("writeback: Fix
performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()").

Balance_dirty_pages and the writeback worker will also disagree on
whether writeback when a BDI uses BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT and BDI's share
of the thresh ratio is zero.

For example, A thread on cpu0 writes 32 pages and then
balance_dirty_pages, it will wake up background writeback and pauses
because wb_dirty > wb->wb_thresh = 0 (share of thresh ratio is zero).
A thread may runs on cpu0 again because scheduler prefers pre_cpu.
Then writeback worker may runs on other cpus(1,2..) which causes the
value of wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE) in wb_over_bg_thresh is 0 and does
not writeback and returns.

Thus, balance_dirty_pages keeps looping, sleeping and then waking up the
worker who will do nothing. It remains stuck in this state until the
writeback worker hit the right dirty cpu or the dirty pages expire.

The fix that we should get the wb_stat_sum radically when thresh is low.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210428225046.16301-1-wuchi.zero@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chi Wu <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:47 -07:00
Kefeng Wang
5defd497ed mm: page-writeback: kill get_writeback_state() comments
The get_writeback_state() has gone since 2006, kill related comments.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210508125026.56600-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:47 -07:00
zhangyi (F)
3af3d772f7 block_dump: remove block_dump feature
We have already delete block_dump feature in mark_inode_dirty() because
it can be replaced by tracepoints, now we also remove the part in
submit_bio() for the same reason. The part of block dump feature in
submit_bio() dump the write process, write region and sectors on the
target disk into kernel message. it can be replaced by
block_bio_queue tracepoint in submit_bio_checks(), so we do not need
block_dump anymore, remove the whole block_dump feature.

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-3-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-05-24 06:47:21 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
f0953a1bba mm: fix typos in comments
Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few
very obvious grammar mistakes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-07 00:26:35 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
1c824a680b mm: page-writeback: simplify memcg handling in test_clear_page_writeback()
Page writeback doesn't hold a page reference, which allows truncate to
free a page the second PageWriteback is cleared.  This used to require
special attention in test_clear_page_writeback(), where we had to be
careful not to rely on the unstable page->memcg binding and look up all
the necessary information before clearing the writeback flag.

Since commit 073861ed77 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and
BUG_ON(PageWriteback)") test_clear_page_writeback() is called with an
explicit reference on the page, and this dance is no longer needed.

Use unlock_page_memcg() and dec_lruvec_page_state() directly.

This removes the last user of the lock_page_memcg() return value, change
it to void.  Touch up the comments in there as well.  This also removes
the last extern user of __unlock_page_memcg(), make it static.  Further,
it removes the last user of dec_lruvec_state(), delete it, along with a
few other unused helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YCQbYAWg4nvBFL6h@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30 11:20:37 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
e5dbd33218 mm/writeback: Add wait_on_page_writeback_killable
This is the killable version of wait_on_page_writeback.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320054104.1300774-3-willy@infradead.org
2021-03-23 20:54:29 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
c2407cf7d2 mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks
Ever since commit 2a9127fcf2 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common()
logic") we've had some very occasional reports of BUG_ON(PageWriteback)
in write_cache_pages(), which we thought we already fixed in commit
073861ed77 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)").

But syzbot just reported another one, even with that commit in place.

And it turns out that there's a simpler way to trigger the BUG_ON() than
the one Hugh found with page re-use.  It all boils down to the fact that
the page writeback is ostensibly serialized by the page lock, but that
isn't actually really true.

Yes, the people _setting_ writeback all do so under the page lock, but
the actual clearing of the bit - and waking up any waiters - happens
without any page lock.

This gives us this fairly simple race condition:

  CPU1 = end previous writeback
  CPU2 = start new writeback under page lock
  CPU3 = write_cache_pages()

  CPU1          CPU2            CPU3
  ----          ----            ----

  end_page_writeback()
    test_clear_page_writeback(page)
    ... delayed...

                lock_page();
                set_page_writeback()
                unlock_page()

                                lock_page()
                                wait_on_page_writeback();

    wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
    .. wakes up CPU3 ..

                                BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));

where the BUG_ON() happens because we woke up the PG_writeback bit
becasue of the _previous_ writeback, but a new one had already been
started because the clearing of the bit wasn't actually atomic wrt the
actual wakeup or serialized by the page lock.

The reason this didn't use to happen was that the old logic in waiting
on a page bit would just loop if it ever saw the bit set again.

The nice proper fix would probably be to get rid of the whole "wait for
writeback to clear, and then set it" logic in the writeback path, and
replace it with an atomic "wait-to-set" (ie the same as we have for page
locking: we set the page lock bit with a single "lock_page()", not with
"wait for lock bit to clear and then set it").

However, out current model for writeback is that the waiting for the
writeback bit is done by the generic VFS code (ie write_cache_pages()),
but the actual setting of the writeback bit is done much later by the
filesystem ".writepages()" function.

IOW, to make the writeback bit have that same kind of "wait-to-set"
behavior as we have for page locking, we'd have to change our roughly
~50 different writeback functions.  Painful.

Instead, just make "wait_on_page_writeback()" loop on the very unlikely
situation that the PG_writeback bit is still set, basically re-instating
the old behavior.  This is very non-optimal in case of contention, but
since we only ever set the bit under the page lock, that situation is
controlled.

Reported-by: syzbot+2fc0712f8f8b8b8fa0ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2a9127fcf2 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-01-05 11:33:00 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
073861ed77 mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)
Twice now, when exercising ext4 looped on shmem huge pages, I have crashed
on the PF_ONLY_HEAD check inside PageWaiters(): ext4_finish_bio() calling
end_page_writeback() calling wake_up_page() on tail of a shmem huge page,
no longer an ext4 page at all.

The problem is that PageWriteback is not accompanied by a page reference
(as the NOTE at the end of test_clear_page_writeback() acknowledges): as
soon as TestClearPageWriteback has been done, that page could be removed
from page cache, freed, and reused for something else by the time that
wake_up_page() is reached.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200827122019.GC14765@casper.infradead.org/
Matthew Wilcox suggested avoiding or weakening the PageWaiters() tail
check; but I'm paranoid about even looking at an unreferenced struct page,
lest its memory might itself have already been reused or hotremoved (and
wake_up_page_bit() may modify that memory with its ClearPageWaiters()).

Then on crashing a second time, realized there's a stronger reason against
that approach.  If my testing just occasionally crashes on that check,
when the page is reused for part of a compound page, wouldn't it be much
more common for the page to get reused as an order-0 page before reaching
wake_up_page()?  And on rare occasions, might that reused page already be
marked PageWriteback by its new user, and already be waited upon?  What
would that look like?

It would look like BUG_ON(PageWriteback) after wait_on_page_writeback()
in write_cache_pages() (though I have never seen that crash myself).

Matthew Wilcox explaining this to himself:
 "page is allocated, added to page cache, dirtied, writeback starts,

  --- thread A ---
  filesystem calls end_page_writeback()
        test_clear_page_writeback()
  --- context switch to thread B ---
  truncate_inode_pages_range() finds the page, it doesn't have writeback set,
  we delete it from the page cache.  Page gets reallocated, dirtied, writeback
  starts again.  Then we call write_cache_pages(), see
  PageWriteback() set, call wait_on_page_writeback()
  --- context switch back to thread A ---
  wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
  ... thread B is woken, but because the wakeup was for the old use of
  the page, PageWriteback is still set.

  Devious"

And prior to 2a9127fcf2 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
this would have been much less likely: before that, wake_page_function()'s
non-exclusive case would stop walking and not wake if it found Writeback
already set again; whereas now the non-exclusive case proceeds to wake.

I have not thought of a fix that does not add a little overhead: the
simplest fix is for end_page_writeback() to get_page() before calling
test_clear_page_writeback(), then put_page() after wake_up_page().

Was there a chance of missed wakeups before, since a page freed before
reaching wake_up_page() would have PageWaiters cleared?  I think not,
because each waiter does hold a reference on the page.  This bug comes
when the old use of the page, the one we do TestClearPageWriteback on,
had *no* waiters, so no additional page reference beyond the page cache
(and whoever racily freed it).  The reuse of the page has a waiter
holding a reference, and its own PageWriteback set; but the belated
wake_up_page() has woken the reuse to hit that BUG_ON(PageWriteback).

Reported-by: syzbot+3622cea378100f45d59f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Fixes: 2a9127fcf2 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-11-24 15:23:19 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
8854a6a724 mm/page-writeback: support tail pages in wait_for_stable_page
page->mapping is undefined for tail pages, so operate exclusively on the
head page.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-16 11:11:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f56753ac2a bdi: replace BDI_CAP_NO_{WRITEBACK,ACCT_DIRTY} with a single flag
Replace the two negative flags that are always used together with a
single positive flag that indicates the writeback capability instead
of two related non-capabilities.  Also remove the pointless wrappers
to just check the flag.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-09-24 13:43:39 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
823423ef55 bdi: invert BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB
Replace BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB with a positive BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT to
make the checks more obvious.  Also remove the pointless
bdi_cap_account_writeback wrapper that just obsfucates the check.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-09-24 13:43:39 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
1cb039f3dc bdi: replace BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES with a queue and a sb flag
The BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES is one of the few bits of information in the
backing_dev_info shared between the block drivers and the writeback code.
To help untangling the dependency replace it with a queue flag and a
superblock flag derived from it.  This also helps with the case of e.g.
a file system requiring stable writes due to its own checksumming, but
not forcing it on other users of the block device like the swap code.

One downside is that we an't support the stable_pages_required bdi
attribute in sysfs anymore.  It is replaced with a queue attribute which
also is writable for easier testing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-09-24 13:43:39 -06:00