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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001/*
Uwe Zeisbergerf30c2262006-10-03 23:01:26 +02002 * mm/page-writeback.c
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07005 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07006 *
7 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
8 * address_space level.
9 *
Francois Camie1f8e872008-10-15 22:01:59 -070010 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011 * Initial version
12 */
13
14#include <linux/kernel.h>
Paul Gortmakerb95f1b312011-10-16 02:01:52 -040015#include <linux/export.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070016#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>
Andrew Morton55e829a2006-12-10 02:19:27 -080025#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070026#include <linux/blkdev.h>
27#include <linux/mpage.h>
Peter Zijlstrad08b3852006-09-25 23:30:57 -070028#include <linux/rmap.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029#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>
Al Viroff01bb42011-09-16 02:31:11 -040035#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* __set_page_dirty_buffers */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +010036#include <linux/pagevec.h>
Lisa Du36abcfd2013-09-11 14:22:36 -070037#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
Dave Chinner028c2dd2010-07-07 13:24:07 +100038#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039
Lisa Du36abcfd2013-09-11 14:22:36 -070040#include "internal.h"
41
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042/*
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -060043 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
44 */
45#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
46
47/*
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -060048 * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages
49 * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it.
50 */
51#define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
52
53/*
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060054 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
55 */
56#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
57
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -060058#define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
59
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060060/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070061 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
62 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
63 */
64static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
65
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
67
68/*
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +020069 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070070 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080071int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070072
73/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080074 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
75 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
76 */
77unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
78
79/*
Bron Gondwana195cf452008-02-04 22:29:20 -080080 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
81 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
82 */
83int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
84
85/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
87 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080088int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070089
90/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080091 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
92 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
93 */
94unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
95
96/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -070097 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070098 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -070099unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100
Artem Bityutskiy91913a22012-03-21 22:33:00 -0400101EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dirty_writeback_interval);
102
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700103/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -0700104 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -0700106unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700107
108/*
109 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
110 */
111int block_dump;
112
113/*
Bart Samweled5b43f2006-03-24 03:15:49 -0800114 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
115 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700116 */
117int laptop_mode;
118
119EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
120
121/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
122
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600123unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700125/*
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700126 * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
127 *
128 * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
129 * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
130 * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
131 * share.
132 *
133 * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
134 * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
135 *
136 * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
137 * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
138 * measured in page writeback completions.
139 *
140 */
141static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
142
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700143/*
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800144 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
145 * thresholds.
146 *
147 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
148 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
149 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
150 * performing lots of scanning.
151 *
152 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
153 *
154 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
155 * excessive.
156 *
157 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
158 * clamping level.
159 */
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800160
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800161/*
162 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
163 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
164 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
165 * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without
166 * requiring writeback.
167 *
168 * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the
169 * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that
170 * are allowed to be actually dirtied. Per individual zone, or
171 * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones.
172 *
173 * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as
174 * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can
175 * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of
176 * global dirtyable memory first.
177 */
178
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800179static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
180{
181#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
182 int node;
183 unsigned long x = 0;
184
185 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
186 struct zone *z =
187 &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
188
189 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
Johannes Weinerab8fabd2012-01-10 15:07:42 -0800190 zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800191 }
192 /*
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800193 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
194 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
195 * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation
196 * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes
197 * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more
198 * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never
199 * underflows.
200 */
201 if ((long)x < 0)
202 x = 0;
203
204 /*
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800205 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
206 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
207 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
208 * that this does not occur.
209 */
210 return min(x, total);
211#else
212 return 0;
213#endif
214}
215
216/**
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800217 * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800218 *
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800219 * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
220 * page cache. This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800221 */
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800222unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800223{
224 unsigned long x;
225
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800226 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
227 x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve);
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800228
229 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
230 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
231
232 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
233}
234
235/*
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800236 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
237 *
238 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
239 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
240 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
241 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
242 * real-time tasks.
243 */
244void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
245{
246 unsigned long background;
247 unsigned long dirty;
248 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
249 struct task_struct *tsk;
250
251 if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
252 available_memory = global_dirtyable_memory();
253
254 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
255 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
256 else
257 dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
258
259 if (dirty_background_bytes)
260 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
261 else
262 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
263
264 if (background >= dirty)
265 background = dirty / 2;
266 tsk = current;
267 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
268 background += background / 4;
269 dirty += dirty / 4;
270 }
271 *pbackground = background;
272 *pdirty = dirty;
273 trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
274}
275
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800276/**
277 * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
278 * @zone: the zone
279 *
280 * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
281 * page cache. This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
282 */
283static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
284{
285 /*
286 * The effective global number of dirtyable pages may exclude
287 * highmem as a big-picture measure to keep the ratio between
288 * dirty memory and lowmem reasonable.
289 *
290 * But this function is purely about the individual zone and a
291 * highmem zone can hold its share of dirty pages, so we don't
292 * care about vm_highmem_is_dirtyable here.
293 */
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800294 unsigned long nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
295 zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
296
297 /* don't allow this to underflow */
298 nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve);
299 return nr_pages;
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800300}
301
302/**
303 * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
304 * @zone: the zone
305 *
306 * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
307 * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
308 */
309static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
310{
311 unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone);
312 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
313 unsigned long dirty;
314
315 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
316 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) *
317 zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
318 else
319 dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100;
320
321 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk))
322 dirty += dirty / 4;
323
324 return dirty;
325}
326
327/**
328 * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
329 * @zone: the zone to check
330 *
331 * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
332 * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
333 */
334bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone)
335{
336 unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone);
337
338 return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
339 zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
340 zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit;
341}
342
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800343/*
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700344 * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
345 *
346 * period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
347 */
348static int calc_period_shift(void)
349{
350 unsigned long dirty_total;
351
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800352 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
353 dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
354 else
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800355 dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * global_dirtyable_memory()) /
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800356 100;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700357 return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
358}
359
360/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800361 * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700362 */
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800363static void update_completion_period(void)
364{
365 int shift = calc_period_shift();
366 prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -0600367
368 writeback_set_ratelimit();
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800369}
370
371int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700372 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800373 loff_t *ppos)
374{
375 int ret;
376
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700377 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800378 if (ret == 0 && write)
379 dirty_background_bytes = 0;
380 return ret;
381}
382
383int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700384 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800385 loff_t *ppos)
386{
387 int ret;
388
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700389 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800390 if (ret == 0 && write)
391 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
392 return ret;
393}
394
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700395int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700396 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700397 loff_t *ppos)
398{
399 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800400 int ret;
401
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700402 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700403 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800404 update_completion_period();
405 vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
406 }
407 return ret;
408}
409
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800410int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700411 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800412 loff_t *ppos)
413{
Sven Wegenerfc3501d2009-02-11 13:04:23 -0800414 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800415 int ret;
416
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700417 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800418 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
419 update_completion_period();
420 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700421 }
422 return ret;
423}
424
425/*
426 * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
427 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
428 */
429static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
430{
Jan Karaf7d2b1e2010-12-08 22:44:24 -0600431 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700432 __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
433 bdi->max_prop_frac);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700434}
435
Miklos Szeredidd5656e2008-04-30 00:54:37 -0700436void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
437{
438 unsigned long flags;
439
440 local_irq_save(flags);
441 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
442 local_irq_restore(flags);
443}
444EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
445
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700446/*
447 * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
448 */
449static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
450 long *numerator, long *denominator)
451{
Wu Fengguang3efaf0f2010-12-16 22:22:00 -0600452 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700453 numerator, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700454}
455
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700456/*
Johannes Weinerd08c4292011-10-31 17:07:05 -0700457 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
458 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
459 * exceed 100%.
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700460 */
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700461static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
462
463int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
464{
465 int ret = 0;
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700466
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200467 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700468 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700469 ret = -EINVAL;
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700470 } else {
471 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
472 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
473 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
474 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
475 } else {
476 ret = -EINVAL;
477 }
478 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200479 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700480
481 return ret;
482}
483
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700484int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
485{
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700486 int ret = 0;
487
488 if (max_ratio > 100)
489 return -EINVAL;
490
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200491 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700492 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
493 ret = -EINVAL;
494 } else {
495 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
496 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
497 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200498 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700499
500 return ret;
501}
502EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
503
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600504static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
505 unsigned long bg_thresh)
506{
507 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
508}
509
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -0600510static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
511{
512 return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
513}
514
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600515/**
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700516 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600517 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
518 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700519 *
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600520 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
521 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
Wu Fengguangaed21ad2011-11-23 11:44:41 -0600522 *
523 * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
524 * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
525 * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
526 * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
527 * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
528 * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600529 *
530 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700531 * - starving fast devices
532 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
533 *
534 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
535 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
536 */
537unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700538{
539 u64 bdi_dirty;
540 long numerator, denominator;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700541
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700542 /*
543 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
544 */
545 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700546
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700547 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
548 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
549 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700550
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700551 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
552 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
553 bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
554
555 return bdi_dirty;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700556}
557
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600558/*
559 * Dirty position control.
560 *
561 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
562 *
563 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
564 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
565 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
566 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
567 *
568 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
569 *
570 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
571 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
572 *
573 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
574 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
575 *
576 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
577 *
578 * (o) global control line
579 *
580 * ^ pos_ratio
581 * |
582 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
583 * 2.0 .............*
584 * | .*
585 * | . *
586 * | . *
587 * | . *
588 * | . *
589 * | . *
590 * 1.0 ................................*
591 * | . . *
592 * | . . *
593 * | . . *
594 * | . . *
595 * | . . *
596 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
597 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
598 *
599 * (o) bdi control line
600 *
601 * ^ pos_ratio
602 * |
603 * | *
604 * | *
605 * | *
606 * | *
607 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
608 * 1.0 .......................*
609 * | . *
610 * | . *
611 * | . *
612 * | . *
613 * | . *
614 * | . *
615 * | . *
616 * | . *
617 * | . *
618 * | . *
619 * | . *
620 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
621 * | . .
622 * | . .
623 * | . .
624 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
625 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
626 *
627 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
628 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
629 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
630 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
631 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
632 */
633static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
634 unsigned long thresh,
635 unsigned long bg_thresh,
636 unsigned long dirty,
637 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
638 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
639{
640 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
641 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
642 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
643 unsigned long x_intercept;
644 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
645 unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
646 unsigned long span;
647 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
648 long x;
649
650 if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
651 return 0;
652
653 /*
654 * global setpoint
655 *
656 * setpoint - dirty 3
657 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
658 * limit - setpoint
659 *
660 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
661 *
662 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
663 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
664 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
665 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
666 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
667 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
668 */
669 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
670 x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
671 limit - setpoint + 1);
672 pos_ratio = x;
673 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
674 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
675 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
676
677 /*
678 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
679 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
680 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
681 */
682
683 /*
684 * bdi setpoint
685 *
686 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
687 *
688 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
689 * := --------------------------
690 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
691 *
692 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
693 *
694 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
695 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
696 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
697 *
698 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
699 * regularly within range
700 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
701 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
702 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
703 *
704 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
705 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
706 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
707 */
708 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
709 bdi_thresh = thresh;
Wu Fengguangaed21ad2011-11-23 11:44:41 -0600710 /*
711 * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
712 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
713 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
714 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
715 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
716 */
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600717 bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600718 /*
719 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
720 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
721 */
722 x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
723 bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
724 /*
725 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
726 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
727 *
728 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
729 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
730 * thresh thresh
731 */
732 span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
733 x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
734
735 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
Wu Fengguang50657fc2011-10-11 17:06:33 -0600736 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
737 x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600738 } else
739 pos_ratio /= 4;
740
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600741 /*
742 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
743 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
744 * than setpoint.
745 */
746 x_intercept = bdi_thresh / 2;
747 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept) {
Wu Fengguang50657fc2011-10-11 17:06:33 -0600748 if (bdi_dirty > x_intercept / 8)
749 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * x_intercept, bdi_dirty);
750 else
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600751 pos_ratio *= 8;
752 }
753
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600754 return pos_ratio;
755}
756
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600757static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
758 unsigned long elapsed,
759 unsigned long written)
760{
761 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
762 unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
763 unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
764 u64 bw;
765
766 /*
767 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
768 *
769 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
770 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
771 * period
772 */
773 bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
774 bw *= HZ;
775 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
776 do_div(bw, elapsed);
777 avg = bw;
778 goto out;
779 }
780 bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
781 bw >>= ilog2(period);
782
783 /*
784 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
785 */
786 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
787 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
788
789 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
790 avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
791
792out:
793 bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
794 bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
795}
796
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600797/*
798 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
799 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
800 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
801 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
802 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
803 * threshold.
804 */
805static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
806{
807 unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
808
809 /*
810 * Follow up in one step.
811 */
812 if (limit < thresh) {
813 limit = thresh;
814 goto update;
815 }
816
817 /*
818 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
819 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
820 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
821 */
822 thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
823 if (limit > thresh) {
824 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
825 goto update;
826 }
827 return;
828update:
829 global_dirty_limit = limit;
830}
831
832static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
833 unsigned long dirty,
834 unsigned long now)
835{
836 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
837 static unsigned long update_time;
838
839 /*
840 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
841 */
842 if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
843 return;
844
845 spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
846 if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
847 update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
848 update_time = now;
849 }
850 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
851}
852
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600853/*
854 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
855 *
856 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
857 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
858 */
859static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
860 unsigned long thresh,
861 unsigned long bg_thresh,
862 unsigned long dirty,
863 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
864 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
865 unsigned long dirtied,
866 unsigned long elapsed)
867{
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600868 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
869 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
870 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600871 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
872 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
873 unsigned long dirty_rate;
874 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
875 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
876 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600877 unsigned long step;
878 unsigned long x;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600879
880 /*
881 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
882 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
883 */
884 dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
885
886 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
887 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
888 /*
889 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
890 */
891 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
892 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
893 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
894
895 /*
896 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
897 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
898 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
899 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
900 *
901 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
902 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
903 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
904 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
905 *
906 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
907 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
908 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
909 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
910 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
911 * be throttled at
912 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
913 * yielding
914 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
915 * put (6) into (1) we get
916 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
917 *
918 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
919 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
920 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
921 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
922 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
923 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
924 */
925 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
926 dirty_rate | 1);
Wu Fengguangbdaac492011-08-03 14:30:36 -0600927 /*
928 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw
929 */
930 if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit > write_bw))
931 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = write_bw;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600932
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600933 /*
934 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
935 *
936 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
937 *
938 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
939 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
940 * limit the step size.
941 *
942 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
943 *
944 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
945 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
946 *
947 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
948 */
949
950 /*
951 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
952 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
953 * For example, when
954 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
955 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
956 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
957 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
958 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
959 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
960 *
961 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
962 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
963 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
964 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
965 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
966 */
967 step = 0;
968 if (dirty < setpoint) {
969 x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
970 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
971 if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
972 step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
973 } else {
974 x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
975 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
976 if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
977 step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
978 }
979
980 /*
981 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
982 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
983 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
984 */
985 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
986 /*
987 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
988 */
989 step = (step + 7) / 8;
990
991 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
992 dirty_ratelimit += step;
993 else
994 dirty_ratelimit -= step;
995
996 bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
997 bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguangb48c1042011-03-02 17:22:49 -0600998
999 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit);
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001000}
1001
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001002void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001003 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001004 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001005 unsigned long dirty,
1006 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
1007 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001008 unsigned long start_time)
1009{
1010 unsigned long now = jiffies;
1011 unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001012 unsigned long dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001013 unsigned long written;
1014
1015 /*
1016 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
1017 */
1018 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
1019 return;
1020
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001021 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001022 written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
1023
1024 /*
1025 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
1026 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
1027 */
1028 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
1029 goto snapshot;
1030
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001031 if (thresh) {
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001032 global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001033 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
1034 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1035 dirtied, elapsed);
1036 }
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001037 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
1038
1039snapshot:
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001040 bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001041 bdi->written_stamp = written;
1042 bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
1043}
1044
1045static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001046 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001047 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001048 unsigned long dirty,
1049 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
1050 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001051 unsigned long start_time)
1052{
1053 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
1054 return;
1055 spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001056 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
1057 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001058 spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
1059}
1060
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001061/*
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001062 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
1063 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
1064 *
1065 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
1066 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
1067 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
1068 */
1069static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
1070 unsigned long thresh)
1071{
1072 if (thresh > dirty)
1073 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
1074
1075 return 1;
1076}
1077
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001078static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
1079 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001080{
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001081 unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
1082 unsigned long t;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001083
1084 /*
1085 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
1086 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
1087 * idle.
1088 *
1089 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
1090 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001091 t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8));
1092 t++;
1093
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001094 return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001095}
1096
1097static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
1098 long max_pause,
1099 unsigned long task_ratelimit,
1100 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit,
1101 int *nr_dirtied_pause)
1102{
1103 long hi = ilog2(bdi->avg_write_bandwidth);
1104 long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
1105 long t; /* target pause */
1106 long pause; /* estimated next pause */
1107 int pages; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */
1108
1109 /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */
1110 t = max(1, HZ / 100);
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001111
1112 /*
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001113 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
1114 * overheads.
1115 *
1116 * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001117 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001118 if (hi > lo)
1119 t += (hi - lo) * (10 * HZ) / 1024;
1120
1121 /*
1122 * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause
1123 * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time
1124 * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may
1125 * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes
1126 * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next
1127 * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a
1128 * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could
1129 * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit.
1130 *
1131 * We apply two rules to fix it up:
1132 * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower
1133 * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens,
1134 * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit.
1135 * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal
1136 * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and
1137 * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit.
1138 */
1139 t = min(t, 1 + max_pause / 2);
1140 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1141
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -06001142 /*
1143 * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test
1144 * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}.
1145 * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty
1146 * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles
1147 * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible
1148 * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages.
1149 */
1150 if (pages < DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) {
1151 t = max_pause;
1152 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1153 if (pages > DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) {
1154 pages = DIRTY_POLL_THRESH;
1155 t = HZ * DIRTY_POLL_THRESH / dirty_ratelimit;
1156 }
1157 }
1158
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001159 pause = HZ * pages / (task_ratelimit + 1);
1160 if (pause > max_pause) {
1161 t = max_pause;
1162 pages = task_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1163 }
1164
1165 *nr_dirtied_pause = pages;
1166 /*
1167 * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time.
1168 */
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -06001169 return pages >= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH ? 1 + t / 2 : t;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001170}
1171
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001172/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001173 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
1174 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001175 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +02001176 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1177 * perform some writeout.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001178 */
Wu Fengguang3a2e9a52009-09-23 21:56:00 +08001179static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001180 unsigned long pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001181{
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001182 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1183 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001184 unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1185 unsigned long bdi_dirty;
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001186 unsigned long freerun;
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001187 unsigned long background_thresh;
1188 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1189 unsigned long bdi_thresh;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001190 long period;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001191 long pause;
1192 long max_pause;
1193 long min_pause;
1194 int nr_dirtied_pause;
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001195 bool dirty_exceeded = false;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001196 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001197 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001198 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001199 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001200 unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001201
1202 for (;;) {
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001203 unsigned long now = jiffies;
1204
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001205 /*
1206 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1207 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1208 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1209 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1210 */
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001211 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1212 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001213 nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001214
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001215 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1216
1217 /*
1218 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1219 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1220 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1221 */
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001222 freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1223 background_thresh);
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001224 if (nr_dirty <= freerun) {
1225 current->dirty_paused_when = now;
1226 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001227 current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1228 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001229 break;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001230 }
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001231
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001232 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1233 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1234
1235 /*
1236 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1237 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1238 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1239 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1240 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1241 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1242 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1243 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1244 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1245 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1246 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1247 */
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001248 bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001249
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001250 /*
1251 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1252 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1253 * the threshold is low.
1254 *
1255 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1256 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1257 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1258 * deltas.
1259 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001260 if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1261 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1262 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001263 bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001264 } else {
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001265 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1266 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001267 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001268 }
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001269
Wu Fengguang82791942011-12-03 21:26:01 -06001270 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) &&
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001271 (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001272 if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001273 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001274
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001275 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1276 nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1277 start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001278
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001279 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1280 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1281 background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1282 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
Wu Fengguang3a73dbb2011-11-07 19:19:28 +08001283 task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio) >>
1284 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001285 max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1286 min_pause = bdi_min_pause(bdi, max_pause,
1287 task_ratelimit, dirty_ratelimit,
1288 &nr_dirtied_pause);
1289
Wu Fengguang3a73dbb2011-11-07 19:19:28 +08001290 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) {
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001291 period = max_pause;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001292 pause = max_pause;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001293 goto pause;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001294 }
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001295 period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
1296 pause = period;
1297 if (current->dirty_paused_when)
1298 pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
1299 /*
1300 * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier
1301 * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs,
1302 * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in
1303 * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just
1304 * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier.
1305 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001306 if (pause < min_pause) {
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001307 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1308 dirty_thresh,
1309 background_thresh,
1310 nr_dirty,
1311 bdi_thresh,
1312 bdi_dirty,
1313 dirty_ratelimit,
1314 task_ratelimit,
1315 pages_dirtied,
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001316 period,
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001317 min(pause, 0L),
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001318 start_time);
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001319 if (pause < -HZ) {
1320 current->dirty_paused_when = now;
1321 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
1322 } else if (period) {
1323 current->dirty_paused_when += period;
1324 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001325 } else if (current->nr_dirtied_pause <= pages_dirtied)
1326 current->nr_dirtied_pause += pages_dirtied;
Wu Fengguang57fc9782011-06-11 19:32:32 -06001327 break;
1328 }
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001329 if (unlikely(pause > max_pause)) {
1330 /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */
1331 now += min(pause - max_pause, max_pause);
1332 pause = max_pause;
1333 }
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001334
1335pause:
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001336 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1337 dirty_thresh,
1338 background_thresh,
1339 nr_dirty,
1340 bdi_thresh,
1341 bdi_dirty,
1342 dirty_ratelimit,
1343 task_ratelimit,
1344 pages_dirtied,
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001345 period,
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001346 pause,
1347 start_time);
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001348 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
Wu Fengguangd25105e2009-10-09 12:40:42 +02001349 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
Jens Axboe87c6a9b2009-09-17 19:59:14 +02001350
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001351 current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause;
1352 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001353 current->nr_dirtied_pause = nr_dirtied_pause;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001354
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001355 /*
Wu Fengguang1df64712011-11-13 19:47:32 -06001356 * This is typically equal to (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh) and can
1357 * also keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control.
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001358 */
Wu Fengguang1df64712011-11-13 19:47:32 -06001359 if (task_ratelimit)
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001360 break;
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001361
Wu Fengguangc5c63432011-12-02 10:21:33 -06001362 /*
1363 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
1364 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
1365 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
1366 *
1367 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
1368 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
1369 * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors. So use
1370 * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
1371 */
1372 if (bdi_dirty <= bdi_stat_error(bdi))
1373 break;
1374
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001375 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1376 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377 }
1378
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001379 if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001380 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001381
1382 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +02001383 return;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001384
1385 /*
1386 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1387 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1388 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1389 *
1390 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1391 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1392 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001393 if (laptop_mode)
1394 return;
1395
1396 if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
Christoph Hellwigc5444192010-06-08 18:15:15 +02001397 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001398}
1399
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001400static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001401
Wu Fengguang54848d72011-04-05 13:21:19 -06001402/*
1403 * Normal tasks are throttled by
1404 * loop {
1405 * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages;
1406 * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages();
1407 * }
1408 * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied
1409 * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be
1410 * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet
1411 * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them
1412 * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case,
1413 * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty
1414 * count and eventually get throttled.
1415 */
1416DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0;
1417
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001418/**
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001419 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001420 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
Martin Waitza5802902006-04-02 13:59:55 +02001421 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001422 *
1423 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1424 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1425 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1426 *
1427 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1428 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1429 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1430 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1431 */
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001432void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1433 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001434{
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001435 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001436 int ratelimit;
1437 int *p;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001438
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001439 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1440 return;
1441
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001442 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1443 if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1444 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001445
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001446 preempt_disable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001447 /*
1448 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1449 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1450 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1451 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1452 */
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001453 p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001454 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001455 *p = 0;
Wu Fengguangd3bc1fe2011-04-14 07:52:37 -06001456 else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1457 *p = 0;
1458 ratelimit = 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001459 }
Wu Fengguang54848d72011-04-05 13:21:19 -06001460 /*
1461 * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of
1462 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping
1463 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers.
1464 */
1465 p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks);
1466 if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) {
1467 nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied);
1468 *p -= nr_pages_dirtied;
1469 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001470 }
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001471 preempt_enable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001472
1473 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1474 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001475}
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001476EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001477
Andrew Morton232ea4d2007-02-28 20:13:21 -08001478void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001479{
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001480 unsigned long background_thresh;
1481 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001482
1483 for ( ; ; ) {
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001484 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
Fengguang Wu47a13332012-03-21 16:34:09 -07001485 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001486
1487 /*
1488 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1489 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1490 */
1491 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
1492
Christoph Lameterc24f21b2006-06-30 01:55:42 -07001493 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1494 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1495 break;
Jens Axboe8aa7e842009-07-09 14:52:32 +02001496 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
Fengguang Wu369f2382007-10-16 23:30:45 -07001497
1498 /*
1499 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1500 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1501 * waiting for IO to complete.
1502 */
1503 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1504 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001505 }
1506}
1507
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001508/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001509 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1510 */
1511int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001512 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001513{
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001514 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
Jens Axboe64231042010-05-21 20:00:35 +02001515 bdi_arm_supers_timer();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001516 return 0;
1517}
1518
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001519#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001520void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001521{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001522 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1523 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1524 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001525
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001526 /*
1527 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1528 * threshold
1529 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001530 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
Curt Wohlgemuth0e175a12011-10-07 21:54:10 -06001531 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages,
1532 WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001533}
1534
1535/*
1536 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1537 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1538 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1539 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001540void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001541{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001542 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001543}
1544
1545/*
1546 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1547 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1548 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1549 */
1550void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1551{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001552 struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1553
1554 rcu_read_lock();
1555
1556 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1557 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1558
1559 rcu_read_unlock();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001560}
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001561#endif
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001562
1563/*
1564 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1565 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1566 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1567 * get_writeback_state too often.
1568 *
1569 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1570 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001571 * thresholds.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001572 */
1573
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001574void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001575{
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001576 unsigned long background_thresh;
1577 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1578 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1579 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001580 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1581 ratelimit_pages = 16;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582}
1583
Chandra Seetharaman26c21432006-06-27 02:54:10 -07001584static int __cpuinit
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001585ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1586{
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001587 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Paul E. McKenneyaa0f0302007-02-10 01:46:37 -08001588 return NOTIFY_DONE;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001589}
1590
Chandra Seetharaman74b85f32006-06-27 02:54:09 -07001591static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001592 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
1593 .next = NULL,
1594};
1595
1596/*
Linus Torvaldsdc6e29d2007-01-29 16:37:38 -08001597 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1598 *
1599 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1600 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1601 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1602 *
1603 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1604 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1605 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1606 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1607 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1608 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1609 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1610 *
1611 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1612 * much memory the box has..
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001613 */
1614void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1615{
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001616 int shift;
1617
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001618 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001619 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001620
1621 shift = calc_period_shift();
1622 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001623}
1624
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001625/**
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001626 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1627 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1628 * @start: starting page index
1629 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1630 *
1631 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1632 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1633 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1634 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1635 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1636 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1637 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1638 */
1639/*
1640 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1641 */
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001642void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1643 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1644{
Randy Dunlap3c111a02010-08-11 14:17:30 -07001645#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001646 unsigned long tagged;
1647
1648 do {
1649 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1650 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1651 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1652 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1653 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1654 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1655 cond_resched();
Jan Karad5ed3a42010-08-19 14:13:33 -07001656 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1657 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001658}
1659EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1660
1661/**
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001662 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001663 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1664 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001665 * @writepage: function called for each page
1666 * @data: data passed to writepage function
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001667 *
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001668 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001669 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1670 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1671 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1672 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1673 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1674 * existing IO to complete.
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001675 *
1676 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1677 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1678 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1679 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1680 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1681 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001682 */
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001683int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1684 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1685 void *data)
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001686{
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001687 int ret = 0;
1688 int done = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001689 struct pagevec pvec;
1690 int nr_pages;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001691 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001692 pgoff_t index;
1693 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001694 pgoff_t done_index;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001695 int cycled;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001696 int range_whole = 0;
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001697 int tag;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001698
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001699 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1700 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001701 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1702 index = writeback_index;
1703 if (index == 0)
1704 cycled = 1;
1705 else
1706 cycled = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001707 end = -1;
1708 } else {
1709 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1710 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1711 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1712 range_whole = 1;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001713 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001714 }
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001715 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001716 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1717 else
1718 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001719retry:
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001720 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001721 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001722 done_index = index;
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001723 while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1724 int i;
1725
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001726 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001727 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1728 if (nr_pages == 0)
1729 break;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001730
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001731 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1732 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1733
Nick Piggind5482cd2009-01-06 14:39:11 -08001734 /*
1735 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1736 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1737 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1738 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1739 * because we have a reference on the page.
1740 */
1741 if (page->index > end) {
1742 /*
1743 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1744 * end == -1 in that case.
1745 */
1746 done = 1;
1747 break;
1748 }
1749
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001750 done_index = page->index;
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001751
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001752 lock_page(page);
1753
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001754 /*
1755 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1756 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1757 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1758 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1759 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1760 * pagecache address.
1761 */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001762 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001763continue_unlock:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001764 unlock_page(page);
1765 continue;
1766 }
1767
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001768 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1769 /* someone wrote it for us */
1770 goto continue_unlock;
1771 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001772
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001773 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1774 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1775 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1776 else
1777 goto continue_unlock;
1778 }
1779
1780 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1781 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001782 goto continue_unlock;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001783
Dave Chinner9e094382010-07-07 13:24:08 +10001784 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001785 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001786 if (unlikely(ret)) {
1787 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1788 unlock_page(page);
1789 ret = 0;
1790 } else {
1791 /*
1792 * done_index is set past this page,
1793 * so media errors will not choke
1794 * background writeout for the entire
1795 * file. This has consequences for
1796 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1797 * not be suitable for data integrity
1798 * writeout).
1799 */
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001800 done_index = page->index + 1;
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001801 done = 1;
1802 break;
1803 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001804 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001805
Dave Chinner546a1922010-08-24 11:44:34 +10001806 /*
1807 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1808 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1809 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1810 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1811 */
1812 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1813 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1814 done = 1;
1815 break;
Nick Piggin05fe4782009-01-06 14:39:08 -08001816 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001817 }
1818 pagevec_release(&pvec);
1819 cond_resched();
1820 }
Nick Piggin3a4c6802009-02-12 04:34:23 +01001821 if (!cycled && !done) {
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001822 /*
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001823 * range_cyclic:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001824 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1825 * back to the start of the file
1826 */
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001827 cycled = 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001828 index = 0;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001829 end = writeback_index - 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001830 goto retry;
1831 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001832 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1833 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
Aneesh Kumar K.V06d6cf62008-07-11 19:27:31 -04001834
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001835 return ret;
1836}
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001837EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1838
1839/*
1840 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1841 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1842 */
1843static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1844 void *data)
1845{
1846 struct address_space *mapping = data;
1847 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1848 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1849 return ret;
1850}
1851
1852/**
1853 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1854 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1855 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1856 *
1857 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1858 * address_space_operation.
1859 */
1860int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1861 struct writeback_control *wbc)
1862{
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001863 struct blk_plug plug;
1864 int ret;
1865
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001866 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1867 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1868 return 0;
1869
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001870 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1871 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1872 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1873 return ret;
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001874}
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001875
1876EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1877
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001878int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1879{
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001880 int ret;
1881
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1883 return 0;
1884 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
Peter Zijlstrad08b3852006-09-25 23:30:57 -07001885 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001886 else
1887 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001888 return ret;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001889}
1890
1891/**
1892 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001893 * @page: the page to write
1894 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001895 *
1896 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1897 *
1898 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1899 */
1900int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1901{
1902 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1903 int ret = 0;
1904 struct writeback_control wbc = {
1905 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1906 .nr_to_write = 1,
1907 };
1908
1909 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1910
1911 if (wait)
1912 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1913
1914 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1915 page_cache_get(page);
1916 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1917 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1918 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1919 if (PageError(page))
1920 ret = -EIO;
1921 }
1922 page_cache_release(page);
1923 } else {
1924 unlock_page(page);
1925 }
1926 return ret;
1927}
1928EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1929
1930/*
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001931 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1932 */
1933int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1934{
1935 if (!PageDirty(page))
Bob Liuc3f0da62011-01-13 15:45:49 -08001936 return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001937 return 0;
1938}
1939
1940/*
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001941 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1942 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1943 */
1944void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1945{
1946 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1947 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Michael Rubinea941f02010-10-26 14:21:35 -07001948 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001949 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Wu Fengguangc8e28ce2011-01-23 10:07:47 -06001950 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001951 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
Wu Fengguangd3bc1fe2011-04-14 07:52:37 -06001952 current->nr_dirtied++;
1953 this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001954 }
1955}
Michael Rubin679ceac2010-08-20 02:31:26 -07001956EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001957
1958/*
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07001959 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1960 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1961 * wrt interrupts.
1962 */
1963void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1964{
1965 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1966}
1967EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1968
1969/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001970 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1971 * its radix tree.
1972 *
1973 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1974 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1975 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1976 *
Johannes Weiner15870702015-01-08 14:32:18 -08001977 * The caller must ensure this doesn't race with truncation. Most will simply
1978 * hold the page lock, but e.g. zap_pte_range() calls with the page mapped and
1979 * the pte lock held, which also locks out truncat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001980 */
1981int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1982{
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001983 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1984 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
KOSAKI Motohiro4d4bed82014-02-06 12:04:24 -08001985 unsigned long flags;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001986
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001987 if (!mapping)
1988 return 1;
1989
KOSAKI Motohiro4d4bed82014-02-06 12:04:24 -08001990 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Johannes Weiner15870702015-01-08 14:32:18 -08001991 BUG_ON(page_mapping(page) != mapping);
1992 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
1993 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
1994 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page),
1995 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
KOSAKI Motohiro4d4bed82014-02-06 12:04:24 -08001996 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001997 if (mapping->host) {
1998 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1999 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002000 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002001 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002002 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002003 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002004}
2005EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
2006
2007/*
Wu Fengguang2f800fb2011-08-08 15:22:00 -06002008 * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
2009 * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
2010 * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
2011 * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
2012 * control.
2013 */
2014void account_page_redirty(struct page *page)
2015{
2016 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
2017 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
2018 current->nr_dirtied--;
2019 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
2020 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
2021 }
2022}
2023EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty);
2024
2025/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002026 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
2027 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
2028 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
2029 */
2030int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
2031{
2032 wbc->pages_skipped++;
Wu Fengguang2f800fb2011-08-08 15:22:00 -06002033 account_page_redirty(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002034 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
2035}
2036EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
2037
2038/*
Wu Fengguang6746aff2009-09-16 11:50:14 +02002039 * Dirty a page.
2040 *
2041 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
2042 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
2043 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
2044 * but should be better not to.
2045 *
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002046 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
2047 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
2048 */
Nick Piggin1cf6e7d2009-02-18 14:48:18 -08002049int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002050{
2051 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2052
2053 if (likely(mapping)) {
2054 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
Minchan Kim278df9f2011-03-22 16:32:54 -07002055 /*
2056 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
2057 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
2058 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
2059 * reset. So no problem.
2060 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
2061 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
2062 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
2063 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
2064 */
2065 ClearPageReclaim(page);
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +02002066#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
2067 if (!spd)
2068 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
2069#endif
2070 return (*spd)(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002071 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002072 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
2073 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
2074 return 1;
2075 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002076 return 0;
2077}
2078EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
2079
2080/*
2081 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
2082 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
2083 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
2084 *
2085 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
2086 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
2087 *
2088 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
2089 */
2090int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
2091{
2092 int ret;
2093
Jens Axboe7eaceac2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01002094 lock_page(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002095 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
2096 unlock_page(page);
2097 return ret;
2098}
2099EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
2100
2101/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002102 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
2103 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
2104 *
2105 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
2106 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
2107 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
2108 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
2109 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
2110 * back into sync.
2111 *
2112 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
2113 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
2114 */
2115int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
2116{
2117 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2118
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07002119 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
2120
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002121 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
2122 /*
2123 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
2124 *
2125 * We use this sequence to make sure that
2126 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
2127 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
2128 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
2129 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
2130 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
2131 * cause the writeback.
2132 *
2133 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
2134 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
2135 * them concurrently from different threads.
2136 *
2137 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
2138 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
2139 * that will already usually be set. But we
2140 * need the side effects, and it can help us
2141 * avoid races.
2142 *
2143 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
2144 * as a serialization point for all the different
2145 * threads doing their things.
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002146 */
2147 if (page_mkclean(page))
2148 set_page_dirty(page);
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07002149 /*
2150 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
2151 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
Johannes Weiner15870702015-01-08 14:32:18 -08002152 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
2153 * page lock while dirtying the page, and pages are
2154 * always locked coming in here, so we get the desired
2155 * exclusion.
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07002156 */
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002157 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08002158 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Peter Zijlstrac9e51e42007-10-16 23:25:47 -07002159 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
2160 BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002161 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002162 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002163 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002164 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002165 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002166}
Hans Reiser58bb01a2005-11-18 01:10:53 -08002167EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002168
2169int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
2170{
2171 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2172 int ret;
2173
2174 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002175 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002176 unsigned long flags;
2177
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002178 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002179 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002180 if (ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002181 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2182 page_index(page),
2183 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07002184 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002185 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07002186 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
2187 }
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002188 }
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002189 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002190 } else {
2191 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
2192 }
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07002193 if (ret) {
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07002194 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07002195 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
2196 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002197 return ret;
2198}
2199
2200int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
2201{
2202 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2203 int ret;
2204
2205 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002206 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002207 unsigned long flags;
2208
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002209 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002210 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002211 if (!ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002212 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
2213 page_index(page),
2214 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07002215 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002216 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
2217 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002218 if (!PageDirty(page))
2219 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2220 page_index(page),
2221 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07002222 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2223 page_index(page),
2224 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002225 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002226 } else {
2227 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
2228 }
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07002229 if (!ret)
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07002230 account_page_writeback(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002231 return ret;
2232
2233}
2234EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
2235
2236/*
Nick Piggin00128182007-10-16 01:24:40 -07002237 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002238 * passed tag.
2239 */
2240int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
2241{
Konstantin Khlebnikov72c47832011-07-25 17:12:31 -07002242 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002243}
2244EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);