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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>
Dave Chinner028c2dd2010-07-07 13:24:07 +100037#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038
39/*
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -060040 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
41 */
42#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
43
44/*
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -060045 * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages
46 * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it.
47 */
48#define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
49
50/*
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060051 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
52 */
53#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
54
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -060055#define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
56
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -060057/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
59 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
60 */
61static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
62
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070063/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
64
65/*
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +020066 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070067 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080068int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070069
70/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080071 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
72 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
73 */
74unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
75
76/*
Bron Gondwana195cf452008-02-04 22:29:20 -080077 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
78 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
79 */
80int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
81
82/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070083 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
84 */
Wu Fengguang1b5e62b2009-03-23 08:57:38 +080085int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086
87/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -080088 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
89 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
90 */
91unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
92
93/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -070094 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070095 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -070096unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097
Artem Bityutskiy91913a22012-03-21 22:33:00 -040098EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dirty_writeback_interval);
99
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100/*
Alexey Dobriyan704503d2009-03-31 15:23:18 -0700101 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700102 */
Toshiyuki Okajima22ef37e2009-05-16 22:56:28 -0700103unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700104
105/*
106 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
107 */
108int block_dump;
109
110/*
Bart Samweled5b43f2006-03-24 03:15:49 -0800111 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
112 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700113 */
114int laptop_mode;
115
116EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
117
118/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
119
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600120unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700122/*
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700123 * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
124 *
125 * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
126 * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
127 * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
128 * share.
129 *
130 * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
131 * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
132 *
133 * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
134 * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
135 * measured in page writeback completions.
136 *
137 */
138static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
139
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700140/*
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800141 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
142 * thresholds.
143 *
144 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
145 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
146 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
147 * performing lots of scanning.
148 *
149 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
150 *
151 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
152 * excessive.
153 *
154 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
155 * clamping level.
156 */
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800157
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800158/*
159 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
160 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
161 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
162 * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without
163 * requiring writeback.
164 *
165 * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the
166 * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that
167 * are allowed to be actually dirtied. Per individual zone, or
168 * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones.
169 *
170 * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as
171 * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can
172 * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of
173 * global dirtyable memory first.
174 */
175
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800176static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
177{
178#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
179 int node;
180 unsigned long x = 0;
181
182 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
183 struct zone *z =
184 &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
185
186 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
Johannes Weinerab8fabd2012-01-10 15:07:42 -0800187 zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800188 }
189 /*
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800190 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
191 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
192 * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation
193 * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes
194 * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more
195 * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never
196 * underflows.
197 */
198 if ((long)x < 0)
199 x = 0;
200
201 /*
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800202 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
203 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
204 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
205 * that this does not occur.
206 */
207 return min(x, total);
208#else
209 return 0;
210#endif
211}
212
213/**
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800214 * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800215 *
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800216 * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
217 * page cache. This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800218 */
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800219unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800220{
221 unsigned long x;
222
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800223 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
224 x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve);
Johannes Weiner1edf2232012-01-10 15:06:57 -0800225
226 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
227 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
228
229 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
230}
231
232/*
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800233 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
234 *
235 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
236 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
237 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
238 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
239 * real-time tasks.
240 */
241void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
242{
243 unsigned long background;
244 unsigned long dirty;
245 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
246 struct task_struct *tsk;
247
248 if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
249 available_memory = global_dirtyable_memory();
250
251 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
252 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
253 else
254 dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
255
256 if (dirty_background_bytes)
257 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
258 else
259 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
260
261 if (background >= dirty)
262 background = dirty / 2;
263 tsk = current;
264 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
265 background += background / 4;
266 dirty += dirty / 4;
267 }
268 *pbackground = background;
269 *pdirty = dirty;
270 trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
271}
272
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800273/**
274 * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
275 * @zone: the zone
276 *
277 * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
278 * page cache. This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
279 */
280static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
281{
282 /*
283 * The effective global number of dirtyable pages may exclude
284 * highmem as a big-picture measure to keep the ratio between
285 * dirty memory and lowmem reasonable.
286 *
287 * But this function is purely about the individual zone and a
288 * highmem zone can hold its share of dirty pages, so we don't
289 * care about vm_highmem_is_dirtyable here.
290 */
Sonny Rao711cf002012-12-20 15:05:07 -0800291 unsigned long nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
292 zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
293
294 /* don't allow this to underflow */
295 nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve);
296 return nr_pages;
Johannes Weinera756cf52012-01-10 15:07:49 -0800297}
298
299/**
300 * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
301 * @zone: the zone
302 *
303 * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
304 * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
305 */
306static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
307{
308 unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone);
309 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
310 unsigned long dirty;
311
312 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
313 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) *
314 zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
315 else
316 dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100;
317
318 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk))
319 dirty += dirty / 4;
320
321 return dirty;
322}
323
324/**
325 * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
326 * @zone: the zone to check
327 *
328 * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
329 * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
330 */
331bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone)
332{
333 unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone);
334
335 return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
336 zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
337 zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit;
338}
339
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800340/*
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700341 * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
342 *
343 * period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
344 */
345static int calc_period_shift(void)
346{
347 unsigned long dirty_total;
348
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800349 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
350 dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
351 else
Johannes Weinerccafa282012-01-10 15:07:44 -0800352 dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * global_dirtyable_memory()) /
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800353 100;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700354 return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
355}
356
357/*
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800358 * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700359 */
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800360static void update_completion_period(void)
361{
362 int shift = calc_period_shift();
363 prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -0600364
365 writeback_set_ratelimit();
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800366}
367
368int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700369 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800370 loff_t *ppos)
371{
372 int ret;
373
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700374 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800375 if (ret == 0 && write)
376 dirty_background_bytes = 0;
377 return ret;
378}
379
380int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700381 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800382 loff_t *ppos)
383{
384 int ret;
385
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700386 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800387 if (ret == 0 && write)
388 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
389 return ret;
390}
391
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700392int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700393 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700394 loff_t *ppos)
395{
396 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800397 int ret;
398
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700399 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700400 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800401 update_completion_period();
402 vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
403 }
404 return ret;
405}
406
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800407int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700408 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800409 loff_t *ppos)
410{
Sven Wegenerfc3501d2009-02-11 13:04:23 -0800411 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800412 int ret;
413
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -0700414 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
David Rientjes2da02992009-01-06 14:39:31 -0800415 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
416 update_completion_period();
417 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700418 }
419 return ret;
420}
421
422/*
423 * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
424 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
425 */
426static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
427{
Jan Karaf7d2b1e2010-12-08 22:44:24 -0600428 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700429 __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
430 bdi->max_prop_frac);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700431}
432
Miklos Szeredidd5656e2008-04-30 00:54:37 -0700433void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
434{
435 unsigned long flags;
436
437 local_irq_save(flags);
438 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
439 local_irq_restore(flags);
440}
441EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
442
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700443/*
444 * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
445 */
446static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
447 long *numerator, long *denominator)
448{
Wu Fengguang3efaf0f2010-12-16 22:22:00 -0600449 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700450 numerator, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700451}
452
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700453/*
Johannes Weinerd08c4292011-10-31 17:07:05 -0700454 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
455 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
456 * exceed 100%.
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700457 */
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700458static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
459
460int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
461{
462 int ret = 0;
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700463
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200464 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700465 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700466 ret = -EINVAL;
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700467 } else {
468 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
469 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
470 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
471 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
472 } else {
473 ret = -EINVAL;
474 }
475 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200476 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstra189d3c42008-04-30 00:54:35 -0700477
478 return ret;
479}
480
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700481int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
482{
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700483 int ret = 0;
484
485 if (max_ratio > 100)
486 return -EINVAL;
487
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200488 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700489 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
490 ret = -EINVAL;
491 } else {
492 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
493 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
494 }
Jens Axboecfc4ba52009-09-14 13:12:40 +0200495 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
Peter Zijlstraa42dde02008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700496
497 return ret;
498}
499EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
500
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600501static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
502 unsigned long bg_thresh)
503{
504 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
505}
506
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -0600507static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
508{
509 return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
510}
511
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600512/**
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700513 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600514 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
515 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700516 *
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600517 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
518 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
Wu Fengguangaed21ad2011-11-23 11:44:41 -0600519 *
520 * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
521 * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
522 * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
523 * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
524 * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
525 * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
Wu Fengguang6f718652011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600526 *
527 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
Wu Fengguang1babe182010-08-11 14:17:40 -0700528 * - starving fast devices
529 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
530 *
531 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
532 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
533 */
534unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700535{
536 u64 bdi_dirty;
537 long numerator, denominator;
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700538
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700539 /*
540 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
541 */
542 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700543
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700544 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
545 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
546 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700547
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700548 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
549 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
550 bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
551
552 return bdi_dirty;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700553}
554
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600555/*
556 * Dirty position control.
557 *
558 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
559 *
560 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
561 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
562 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
563 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
564 *
565 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
566 *
567 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
568 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
569 *
570 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
571 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
572 *
573 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
574 *
575 * (o) global control line
576 *
577 * ^ pos_ratio
578 * |
579 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
580 * 2.0 .............*
581 * | .*
582 * | . *
583 * | . *
584 * | . *
585 * | . *
586 * | . *
587 * 1.0 ................................*
588 * | . . *
589 * | . . *
590 * | . . *
591 * | . . *
592 * | . . *
593 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
594 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
595 *
596 * (o) bdi control line
597 *
598 * ^ pos_ratio
599 * |
600 * | *
601 * | *
602 * | *
603 * | *
604 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
605 * 1.0 .......................*
606 * | . *
607 * | . *
608 * | . *
609 * | . *
610 * | . *
611 * | . *
612 * | . *
613 * | . *
614 * | . *
615 * | . *
616 * | . *
617 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
618 * | . .
619 * | . .
620 * | . .
621 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
622 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
623 *
624 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
625 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
626 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
627 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
628 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
629 */
630static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
631 unsigned long thresh,
632 unsigned long bg_thresh,
633 unsigned long dirty,
634 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
635 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
636{
637 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
638 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
639 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
640 unsigned long x_intercept;
641 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
642 unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
643 unsigned long span;
644 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
645 long x;
646
647 if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
648 return 0;
649
650 /*
651 * global setpoint
652 *
653 * setpoint - dirty 3
654 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
655 * limit - setpoint
656 *
657 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
658 *
659 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
660 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
661 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
662 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
663 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
664 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
665 */
666 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
667 x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
668 limit - setpoint + 1);
669 pos_ratio = x;
670 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
671 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
672 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
673
674 /*
675 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
676 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
677 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
678 */
679
680 /*
681 * bdi setpoint
682 *
683 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
684 *
685 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
686 * := --------------------------
687 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
688 *
689 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
690 *
691 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
692 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
693 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
694 *
695 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
696 * regularly within range
697 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
698 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
699 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
700 *
701 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
702 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
703 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
704 */
705 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
706 bdi_thresh = thresh;
Wu Fengguangaed21ad2011-11-23 11:44:41 -0600707 /*
708 * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
709 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
710 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
711 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
712 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
713 */
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600714 bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600715 /*
716 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
717 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
718 */
719 x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
720 bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
721 /*
722 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
723 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
724 *
725 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
726 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
727 * thresh thresh
728 */
729 span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
730 x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
731
732 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
Wu Fengguang50657fc2011-10-11 17:06:33 -0600733 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
734 x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600735 } else
736 pos_ratio /= 4;
737
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600738 /*
739 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
740 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
741 * than setpoint.
742 */
743 x_intercept = bdi_thresh / 2;
744 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept) {
Wu Fengguang50657fc2011-10-11 17:06:33 -0600745 if (bdi_dirty > x_intercept / 8)
746 pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * x_intercept, bdi_dirty);
747 else
Wu Fengguang8927f662011-08-04 22:16:46 -0600748 pos_ratio *= 8;
749 }
750
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -0600751 return pos_ratio;
752}
753
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600754static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
755 unsigned long elapsed,
756 unsigned long written)
757{
758 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
759 unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
760 unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
761 u64 bw;
762
763 /*
764 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
765 *
766 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
767 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
768 * period
769 */
770 bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
771 bw *= HZ;
772 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
773 do_div(bw, elapsed);
774 avg = bw;
775 goto out;
776 }
777 bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
778 bw >>= ilog2(period);
779
780 /*
781 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
782 */
783 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
784 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
785
786 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
787 avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
788
789out:
790 bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
791 bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
792}
793
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -0600794/*
795 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
796 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
797 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
798 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
799 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
800 * threshold.
801 */
802static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
803{
804 unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
805
806 /*
807 * Follow up in one step.
808 */
809 if (limit < thresh) {
810 limit = thresh;
811 goto update;
812 }
813
814 /*
815 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
816 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
817 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
818 */
819 thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
820 if (limit > thresh) {
821 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
822 goto update;
823 }
824 return;
825update:
826 global_dirty_limit = limit;
827}
828
829static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
830 unsigned long dirty,
831 unsigned long now)
832{
833 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
834 static unsigned long update_time;
835
836 /*
837 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
838 */
839 if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
840 return;
841
842 spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
843 if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
844 update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
845 update_time = now;
846 }
847 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
848}
849
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600850/*
851 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
852 *
853 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
854 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
855 */
856static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
857 unsigned long thresh,
858 unsigned long bg_thresh,
859 unsigned long dirty,
860 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
861 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
862 unsigned long dirtied,
863 unsigned long elapsed)
864{
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600865 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
866 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
867 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600868 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
869 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
870 unsigned long dirty_rate;
871 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
872 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
873 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600874 unsigned long step;
875 unsigned long x;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600876
877 /*
878 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
879 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
880 */
881 dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
882
883 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
884 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
885 /*
886 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
887 */
888 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
889 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
890 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
891
892 /*
893 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
894 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
895 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
896 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
897 *
898 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
899 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
900 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
901 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
902 *
903 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
904 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
905 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
906 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
907 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
908 * be throttled at
909 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
910 * yielding
911 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
912 * put (6) into (1) we get
913 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
914 *
915 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
916 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
917 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
918 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
919 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
920 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
921 */
922 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
923 dirty_rate | 1);
Wu Fengguangbdaac492011-08-03 14:30:36 -0600924 /*
925 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw
926 */
927 if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit > write_bw))
928 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = write_bw;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600929
Wu Fengguang73811312011-08-26 15:53:24 -0600930 /*
931 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
932 *
933 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
934 *
935 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
936 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
937 * limit the step size.
938 *
939 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
940 *
941 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
942 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
943 *
944 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
945 */
946
947 /*
948 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
949 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
950 * For example, when
951 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
952 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
953 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
954 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
955 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
956 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
957 *
958 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
959 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
960 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
961 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
962 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
963 */
964 step = 0;
965 if (dirty < setpoint) {
966 x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
967 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
968 if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
969 step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
970 } else {
971 x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
972 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
973 if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
974 step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
975 }
976
977 /*
978 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
979 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
980 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
981 */
982 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
983 /*
984 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
985 */
986 step = (step + 7) / 8;
987
988 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
989 dirty_ratelimit += step;
990 else
991 dirty_ratelimit -= step;
992
993 bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
994 bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguangb48c1042011-03-02 17:22:49 -0600995
996 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit);
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -0600997}
998
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -0600999void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001000 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001001 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001002 unsigned long dirty,
1003 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
1004 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001005 unsigned long start_time)
1006{
1007 unsigned long now = jiffies;
1008 unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001009 unsigned long dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001010 unsigned long written;
1011
1012 /*
1013 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
1014 */
1015 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
1016 return;
1017
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001018 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001019 written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
1020
1021 /*
1022 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
1023 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
1024 */
1025 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
1026 goto snapshot;
1027
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001028 if (thresh) {
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001029 global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001030 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
1031 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1032 dirtied, elapsed);
1033 }
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001034 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
1035
1036snapshot:
Wu Fengguangbe3ffa22011-06-12 10:51:31 -06001037 bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001038 bdi->written_stamp = written;
1039 bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
1040}
1041
1042static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001043 unsigned long thresh,
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001044 unsigned long bg_thresh,
Wu Fengguangc42843f2011-03-02 15:54:09 -06001045 unsigned long dirty,
1046 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
1047 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001048 unsigned long start_time)
1049{
1050 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
1051 return;
1052 spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001053 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
1054 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001055 spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
1056}
1057
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001058/*
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001059 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
1060 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
1061 *
1062 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
1063 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
1064 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
1065 */
1066static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
1067 unsigned long thresh)
1068{
1069 if (thresh > dirty)
1070 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
1071
1072 return 1;
1073}
1074
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001075static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
1076 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001077{
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001078 unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
1079 unsigned long t;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001080
1081 /*
1082 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
1083 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
1084 * idle.
1085 *
1086 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
1087 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001088 t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8));
1089 t++;
1090
Fengguang Wu60c6aa32013-10-16 13:47:03 -07001091 return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001092}
1093
1094static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
1095 long max_pause,
1096 unsigned long task_ratelimit,
1097 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit,
1098 int *nr_dirtied_pause)
1099{
1100 long hi = ilog2(bdi->avg_write_bandwidth);
1101 long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
1102 long t; /* target pause */
1103 long pause; /* estimated next pause */
1104 int pages; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */
1105
1106 /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */
1107 t = max(1, HZ / 100);
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001108
1109 /*
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001110 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
1111 * overheads.
1112 *
1113 * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001114 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001115 if (hi > lo)
1116 t += (hi - lo) * (10 * HZ) / 1024;
1117
1118 /*
1119 * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause
1120 * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time
1121 * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may
1122 * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes
1123 * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next
1124 * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a
1125 * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could
1126 * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit.
1127 *
1128 * We apply two rules to fix it up:
1129 * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower
1130 * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens,
1131 * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit.
1132 * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal
1133 * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and
1134 * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit.
1135 */
1136 t = min(t, 1 + max_pause / 2);
1137 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1138
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -06001139 /*
1140 * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test
1141 * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}.
1142 * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty
1143 * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles
1144 * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible
1145 * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages.
1146 */
1147 if (pages < DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) {
1148 t = max_pause;
1149 pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1150 if (pages > DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) {
1151 pages = DIRTY_POLL_THRESH;
1152 t = HZ * DIRTY_POLL_THRESH / dirty_ratelimit;
1153 }
1154 }
1155
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001156 pause = HZ * pages / (task_ratelimit + 1);
1157 if (pause > max_pause) {
1158 t = max_pause;
1159 pages = task_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ);
1160 }
1161
1162 *nr_dirtied_pause = pages;
1163 /*
1164 * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time.
1165 */
Wu Fengguang5b9b3572011-12-06 13:17:17 -06001166 return pages >= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH ? 1 + t / 2 : t;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001167}
1168
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001169/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001170 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
1171 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001172 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +02001173 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1174 * perform some writeout.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001175 */
Wu Fengguang3a2e9a52009-09-23 21:56:00 +08001176static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001177 unsigned long pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001178{
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001179 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1180 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001181 unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1182 unsigned long bdi_dirty;
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001183 unsigned long freerun;
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001184 unsigned long background_thresh;
1185 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1186 unsigned long bdi_thresh;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001187 long period;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001188 long pause;
1189 long max_pause;
1190 long min_pause;
1191 int nr_dirtied_pause;
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001192 bool dirty_exceeded = false;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001193 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001194 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001195 unsigned long pos_ratio;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001196 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001197 unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001198
1199 for (;;) {
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001200 unsigned long now = jiffies;
1201
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001202 /*
1203 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1204 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1205 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1206 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1207 */
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001208 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1209 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001210 nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001211
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001212 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1213
1214 /*
1215 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1216 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1217 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1218 */
Wu Fengguang6c14ae12011-03-02 16:04:18 -06001219 freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1220 background_thresh);
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001221 if (nr_dirty <= freerun) {
1222 current->dirty_paused_when = now;
1223 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001224 current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1225 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001226 break;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001227 }
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001228
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001229 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1230 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1231
1232 /*
1233 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1234 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1235 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1236 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1237 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1238 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1239 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1240 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1241 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1242 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1243 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1244 */
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001245 bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001246
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001247 /*
1248 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1249 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1250 * the threshold is low.
1251 *
1252 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1253 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1254 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1255 * deltas.
1256 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001257 if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1258 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1259 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001260 bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001261 } else {
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001262 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1263 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001264 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguange50e3722010-08-11 14:17:37 -07001265 }
Peter Zijlstra5fce25a2007-11-14 16:59:15 -08001266
Wu Fengguang82791942011-12-03 21:26:01 -06001267 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) &&
Wu Fengguang77627412010-09-12 13:34:05 -06001268 (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001269 if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001270 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001271
Wu Fengguangaf6a3112011-10-03 20:46:17 -06001272 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1273 nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1274 start_time);
Wu Fengguange98be2d2010-08-29 11:22:30 -06001275
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001276 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1277 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1278 background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1279 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
Wu Fengguang3a73dbb2011-11-07 19:19:28 +08001280 task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio) >>
1281 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001282 max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1283 min_pause = bdi_min_pause(bdi, max_pause,
1284 task_ratelimit, dirty_ratelimit,
1285 &nr_dirtied_pause);
1286
Wu Fengguang3a73dbb2011-11-07 19:19:28 +08001287 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) {
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001288 period = max_pause;
Wu Fengguangc8462cc2011-06-11 19:21:43 -06001289 pause = max_pause;
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001290 goto pause;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001291 }
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001292 period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
1293 pause = period;
1294 if (current->dirty_paused_when)
1295 pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
1296 /*
1297 * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier
1298 * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs,
1299 * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in
1300 * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just
1301 * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier.
1302 */
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001303 if (pause < min_pause) {
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001304 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1305 dirty_thresh,
1306 background_thresh,
1307 nr_dirty,
1308 bdi_thresh,
1309 bdi_dirty,
1310 dirty_ratelimit,
1311 task_ratelimit,
1312 pages_dirtied,
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001313 period,
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001314 min(pause, 0L),
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001315 start_time);
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001316 if (pause < -HZ) {
1317 current->dirty_paused_when = now;
1318 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
1319 } else if (period) {
1320 current->dirty_paused_when += period;
1321 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001322 } else if (current->nr_dirtied_pause <= pages_dirtied)
1323 current->nr_dirtied_pause += pages_dirtied;
Wu Fengguang57fc9782011-06-11 19:32:32 -06001324 break;
1325 }
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001326 if (unlikely(pause > max_pause)) {
1327 /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */
1328 now += min(pause - max_pause, max_pause);
1329 pause = max_pause;
1330 }
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001331
1332pause:
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001333 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1334 dirty_thresh,
1335 background_thresh,
1336 nr_dirty,
1337 bdi_thresh,
1338 bdi_dirty,
1339 dirty_ratelimit,
1340 task_ratelimit,
1341 pages_dirtied,
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001342 period,
Wu Fengguangece13ac2010-08-29 23:33:20 -06001343 pause,
1344 start_time);
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001345 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
Wu Fengguangd25105e2009-10-09 12:40:42 +02001346 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
Jens Axboe87c6a9b2009-09-17 19:59:14 +02001347
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001348 current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause;
1349 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
Wu Fengguang7ccb9ad2011-11-30 11:08:55 -06001350 current->nr_dirtied_pause = nr_dirtied_pause;
Wu Fengguang83712352011-06-11 19:25:42 -06001351
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001352 /*
Wu Fengguang1df64712011-11-13 19:47:32 -06001353 * This is typically equal to (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh) and can
1354 * also keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control.
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001355 */
Wu Fengguang1df64712011-11-13 19:47:32 -06001356 if (task_ratelimit)
Wu Fengguangffd1f602011-06-19 22:18:42 -06001357 break;
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001358
Wu Fengguangc5c63432011-12-02 10:21:33 -06001359 /*
1360 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
1361 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
1362 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
1363 *
1364 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
1365 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
1366 * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors. So use
1367 * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
1368 */
1369 if (bdi_dirty <= bdi_stat_error(bdi))
1370 break;
1371
Jan Kara499d05e2011-11-16 19:34:48 +08001372 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1373 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001374 }
1375
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001376 if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001377 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001378
1379 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
Jens Axboe5b0830c2009-09-23 19:37:09 +02001380 return;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001381
1382 /*
1383 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1384 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1385 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1386 *
1387 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1388 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1389 */
Wu Fengguang143dfe82010-08-27 18:45:12 -06001390 if (laptop_mode)
1391 return;
1392
1393 if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
Christoph Hellwigc5444192010-06-08 18:15:15 +02001394 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001395}
1396
Peter Zijlstraa200ee12007-10-08 18:54:37 +02001397void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
Peter Zijlstraedc79b22006-09-25 23:30:58 -07001398{
Peter Zijlstraa200ee12007-10-08 18:54:37 +02001399 if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
Peter Zijlstraedc79b22006-09-25 23:30:58 -07001400 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1401
1402 if (mapping)
1403 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
1404 }
1405}
1406
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001407static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001408
Wu Fengguang54848d72011-04-05 13:21:19 -06001409/*
1410 * Normal tasks are throttled by
1411 * loop {
1412 * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages;
1413 * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages();
1414 * }
1415 * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied
1416 * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be
1417 * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet
1418 * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them
1419 * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case,
1420 * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty
1421 * count and eventually get throttled.
1422 */
1423DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0;
1424
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001425/**
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001426 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001427 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
Martin Waitza5802902006-04-02 13:59:55 +02001428 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001429 *
1430 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1431 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1432 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1433 *
1434 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1435 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1436 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1437 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1438 */
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001439void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1440 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001441{
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001442 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001443 int ratelimit;
1444 int *p;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001445
Wu Fengguang36715ce2011-06-11 17:53:57 -06001446 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1447 return;
1448
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001449 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1450 if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1451 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001452
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001453 preempt_disable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001454 /*
1455 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1456 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1457 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1458 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1459 */
Tejun Heo245b2e72009-06-24 15:13:48 +09001460 p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001461 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001462 *p = 0;
Wu Fengguangd3bc1fe2011-04-14 07:52:37 -06001463 else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1464 *p = 0;
1465 ratelimit = 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001466 }
Wu Fengguang54848d72011-04-05 13:21:19 -06001467 /*
1468 * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of
1469 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping
1470 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers.
1471 */
1472 p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks);
1473 if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) {
1474 nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied);
1475 *p -= nr_pages_dirtied;
1476 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001477 }
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001478 preempt_enable();
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001479
1480 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1481 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001482}
Andrew Mortonfa5a7342006-03-24 03:18:10 -08001483EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001484
Andrew Morton232ea4d2007-02-28 20:13:21 -08001485void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001486{
David Rientjes364aeb22009-01-06 14:39:29 -08001487 unsigned long background_thresh;
1488 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001489
1490 for ( ; ; ) {
Wu Fengguang16c40422010-08-11 14:17:39 -07001491 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
Fengguang Wu47a13332012-03-21 16:34:09 -07001492 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001493
1494 /*
1495 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1496 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1497 */
1498 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
1499
Christoph Lameterc24f21b2006-06-30 01:55:42 -07001500 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1501 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1502 break;
Jens Axboe8aa7e842009-07-09 14:52:32 +02001503 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
Fengguang Wu369f2382007-10-16 23:30:45 -07001504
1505 /*
1506 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1507 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1508 * waiting for IO to complete.
1509 */
1510 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1511 break;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001512 }
1513}
1514
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001515/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001516 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1517 */
1518int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001519 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001520{
Alexey Dobriyan8d65af72009-09-23 15:57:19 -07001521 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
Jens Axboe64231042010-05-21 20:00:35 +02001522 bdi_arm_supers_timer();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001523 return 0;
1524}
1525
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001526#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001527void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001528{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001529 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1530 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1531 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001532
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001533 /*
1534 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1535 * threshold
1536 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001537 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
Curt Wohlgemuth0e175a12011-10-07 21:54:10 -06001538 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages,
1539 WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001540}
1541
1542/*
1543 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1544 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1545 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1546 */
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001547void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001548{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001549 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001550}
1551
1552/*
1553 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1554 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1555 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1556 */
1557void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1558{
Matthew Garrett31373d02010-04-06 14:25:14 +02001559 struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1560
1561 rcu_read_lock();
1562
1563 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1564 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1565
1566 rcu_read_unlock();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001567}
Jens Axboec2c49862010-05-20 09:18:47 +02001568#endif
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001569
1570/*
1571 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1572 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1573 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1574 * get_writeback_state too often.
1575 *
1576 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1577 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001578 * thresholds.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001579 */
1580
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001581void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582{
Wu Fengguang9d823e82011-06-11 18:10:12 -06001583 unsigned long background_thresh;
1584 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1585 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1586 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001587 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1588 ratelimit_pages = 16;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001589}
1590
Chandra Seetharaman26c21432006-06-27 02:54:10 -07001591static int __cpuinit
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001592ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1593{
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001594 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Paul E. McKenneyaa0f0302007-02-10 01:46:37 -08001595 return NOTIFY_DONE;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001596}
1597
Chandra Seetharaman74b85f32006-06-27 02:54:09 -07001598static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001599 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
1600 .next = NULL,
1601};
1602
1603/*
Linus Torvaldsdc6e29d2007-01-29 16:37:38 -08001604 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1605 *
1606 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1607 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1608 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1609 *
1610 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1611 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1612 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1613 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1614 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1615 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1616 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1617 *
1618 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1619 * much memory the box has..
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001620 */
1621void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1622{
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001623 int shift;
1624
Chandra Seetharaman2d1d43f2006-09-29 02:01:25 -07001625 writeback_set_ratelimit();
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001626 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07001627
1628 shift = calc_period_shift();
1629 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001630}
1631
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001632/**
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001633 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1634 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1635 * @start: starting page index
1636 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1637 *
1638 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1639 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1640 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1641 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1642 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1643 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1644 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1645 */
1646/*
1647 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1648 */
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001649void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1650 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1651{
Randy Dunlap3c111a02010-08-11 14:17:30 -07001652#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001653 unsigned long tagged;
1654
1655 do {
1656 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1657 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1658 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1659 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1660 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1661 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1662 cond_resched();
Jan Karad5ed3a42010-08-19 14:13:33 -07001663 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1664 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001665}
1666EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1667
1668/**
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001669 * 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 +01001670 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1671 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001672 * @writepage: function called for each page
1673 * @data: data passed to writepage function
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001674 *
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001675 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001676 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1677 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1678 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1679 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1680 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1681 * existing IO to complete.
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001682 *
1683 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1684 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1685 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1686 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1687 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1688 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001689 */
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001690int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1691 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1692 void *data)
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001693{
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001694 int ret = 0;
1695 int done = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001696 struct pagevec pvec;
1697 int nr_pages;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001698 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001699 pgoff_t index;
1700 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001701 pgoff_t done_index;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001702 int cycled;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001703 int range_whole = 0;
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001704 int tag;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001705
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001706 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1707 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001708 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1709 index = writeback_index;
1710 if (index == 0)
1711 cycled = 1;
1712 else
1713 cycled = 0;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001714 end = -1;
1715 } else {
1716 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1717 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1718 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1719 range_whole = 1;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001720 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001721 }
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001722 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001723 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1724 else
1725 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001726retry:
Wu Fengguang6e6938b2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06001727 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001728 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001729 done_index = index;
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001730 while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1731 int i;
1732
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07001733 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001734 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1735 if (nr_pages == 0)
1736 break;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001737
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001738 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1739 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1740
Nick Piggind5482cd2009-01-06 14:39:11 -08001741 /*
1742 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1743 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1744 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1745 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1746 * because we have a reference on the page.
1747 */
1748 if (page->index > end) {
1749 /*
1750 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1751 * end == -1 in that case.
1752 */
1753 done = 1;
1754 break;
1755 }
1756
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001757 done_index = page->index;
Nick Pigginbd19e012009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001758
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001759 lock_page(page);
1760
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001761 /*
1762 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1763 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1764 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1765 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1766 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1767 * pagecache address.
1768 */
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001769 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001770continue_unlock:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001771 unlock_page(page);
1772 continue;
1773 }
1774
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001775 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1776 /* someone wrote it for us */
1777 goto continue_unlock;
1778 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001779
Nick Piggin515f4a02009-01-06 14:39:10 -08001780 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1781 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1782 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1783 else
1784 goto continue_unlock;
1785 }
1786
1787 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1788 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
Nick Piggin5a3d5c92009-01-06 14:39:09 -08001789 goto continue_unlock;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001790
Dave Chinner9e094382010-07-07 13:24:08 +10001791 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001792 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001793 if (unlikely(ret)) {
1794 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1795 unlock_page(page);
1796 ret = 0;
1797 } else {
1798 /*
1799 * done_index is set past this page,
1800 * so media errors will not choke
1801 * background writeout for the entire
1802 * file. This has consequences for
1803 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1804 * not be suitable for data integrity
1805 * writeout).
1806 */
Jun'ichi Nomuracf15b072011-03-22 16:33:40 -07001807 done_index = page->index + 1;
Nick Piggin00266772009-01-06 14:39:06 -08001808 done = 1;
1809 break;
1810 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001811 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001812
Dave Chinner546a1922010-08-24 11:44:34 +10001813 /*
1814 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1815 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1816 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1817 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1818 */
1819 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1820 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1821 done = 1;
1822 break;
Nick Piggin05fe4782009-01-06 14:39:08 -08001823 }
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001824 }
1825 pagevec_release(&pvec);
1826 cond_resched();
1827 }
Nick Piggin3a4c6802009-02-12 04:34:23 +01001828 if (!cycled && !done) {
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001829 /*
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001830 * range_cyclic:
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001831 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1832 * back to the start of the file
1833 */
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001834 cycled = 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001835 index = 0;
Nick Piggin31a12662009-01-06 14:39:04 -08001836 end = writeback_index - 1;
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001837 goto retry;
1838 }
Dave Chinner0b564922010-06-09 10:37:18 +10001839 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1840 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
Aneesh Kumar K.V06d6cf62008-07-11 19:27:31 -04001841
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001842 return ret;
1843}
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001844EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1845
1846/*
1847 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1848 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1849 */
1850static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1851 void *data)
1852{
1853 struct address_space *mapping = data;
1854 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1855 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1856 return ret;
1857}
1858
1859/**
1860 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1861 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1862 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1863 *
1864 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1865 * address_space_operation.
1866 */
1867int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1868 struct writeback_control *wbc)
1869{
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001870 struct blk_plug plug;
1871 int ret;
1872
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001873 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1874 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1875 return 0;
1876
Shaohua Li9b6096a2011-03-17 10:47:06 +01001877 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1878 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1879 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1880 return ret;
Miklos Szeredi0ea97182007-05-10 22:22:51 -07001881}
David Howells811d7362006-08-29 19:06:09 +01001882
1883EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1884
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001885int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1886{
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001887 int ret;
1888
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001889 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1890 return 0;
1891 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
Peter Zijlstrad08b3852006-09-25 23:30:57 -07001892 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001893 else
1894 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
Andrew Morton22905f72005-11-16 15:07:01 -08001895 return ret;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001896}
1897
1898/**
1899 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
Martin Waitz67be2dd2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07001900 * @page: the page to write
1901 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001902 *
1903 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1904 *
1905 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1906 */
1907int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1908{
1909 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1910 int ret = 0;
1911 struct writeback_control wbc = {
1912 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1913 .nr_to_write = 1,
1914 };
1915
1916 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1917
1918 if (wait)
1919 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1920
1921 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1922 page_cache_get(page);
1923 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1924 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1925 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1926 if (PageError(page))
1927 ret = -EIO;
1928 }
1929 page_cache_release(page);
1930 } else {
1931 unlock_page(page);
1932 }
1933 return ret;
1934}
1935EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1936
1937/*
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001938 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1939 */
1940int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1941{
1942 if (!PageDirty(page))
Bob Liuc3f0da62011-01-13 15:45:49 -08001943 return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
Ken Chen76719322007-02-10 01:43:15 -08001944 return 0;
1945}
1946
1947/*
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001948 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1949 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1950 */
1951void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1952{
1953 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1954 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Michael Rubinea941f02010-10-26 14:21:35 -07001955 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001956 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Wu Fengguangc8e28ce2011-01-23 10:07:47 -06001957 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001958 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
Wu Fengguangd3bc1fe2011-04-14 07:52:37 -06001959 current->nr_dirtied++;
1960 this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001961 }
1962}
Michael Rubin679ceac2010-08-20 02:31:26 -07001963EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07001964
1965/*
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07001966 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1967 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1968 * wrt interrupts.
1969 */
1970void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1971{
1972 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1973}
1974EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1975
1976/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001977 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1978 * its radix tree.
1979 *
1980 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1981 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1982 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1983 *
1984 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1985 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1986 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1987 *
1988 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
Simon Arlott183ff222007-10-20 01:27:18 +02001989 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001990 */
1991int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1992{
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001993 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1994 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1995 struct address_space *mapping2;
1996
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08001997 if (!mapping)
1998 return 1;
1999
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002000 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08002001 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
2002 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
2003 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
Nick Piggin787d2212007-07-17 04:03:34 -07002004 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
Edward Shishkine3a7cca2009-03-31 15:19:39 -07002005 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08002006 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
2007 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
2008 }
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002009 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08002010 if (mapping->host) {
2011 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
2012 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002013 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002014 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002015 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002016 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002017}
2018EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
2019
2020/*
Wu Fengguang2f800fb2011-08-08 15:22:00 -06002021 * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
2022 * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
2023 * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
2024 * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
2025 * control.
2026 */
2027void account_page_redirty(struct page *page)
2028{
2029 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
2030 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
2031 current->nr_dirtied--;
2032 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
2033 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
2034 }
2035}
2036EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty);
2037
2038/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002039 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
2040 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
2041 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
2042 */
2043int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
2044{
2045 wbc->pages_skipped++;
Wu Fengguang2f800fb2011-08-08 15:22:00 -06002046 account_page_redirty(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002047 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
2048}
2049EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
2050
2051/*
Wu Fengguang6746aff2009-09-16 11:50:14 +02002052 * Dirty a page.
2053 *
2054 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
2055 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
2056 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
2057 * but should be better not to.
2058 *
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002059 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
2060 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
2061 */
Nick Piggin1cf6e7d2009-02-18 14:48:18 -08002062int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002063{
2064 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2065
2066 if (likely(mapping)) {
2067 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
Minchan Kim278df9f2011-03-22 16:32:54 -07002068 /*
2069 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
2070 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
2071 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
2072 * reset. So no problem.
2073 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
2074 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
2075 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
2076 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
2077 */
2078 ClearPageReclaim(page);
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +02002079#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
2080 if (!spd)
2081 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
2082#endif
2083 return (*spd)(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002084 }
Andrew Morton4741c9f2006-03-24 03:18:11 -08002085 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
2086 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
2087 return 1;
2088 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002089 return 0;
2090}
2091EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
2092
2093/*
2094 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
2095 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
2096 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
2097 *
2098 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
2099 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
2100 *
2101 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
2102 */
2103int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
2104{
2105 int ret;
2106
Jens Axboe7eaceac2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01002107 lock_page(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002108 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
2109 unlock_page(page);
2110 return ret;
2111}
2112EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
2113
2114/*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002115 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
2116 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
2117 *
2118 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
2119 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
2120 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
2121 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
2122 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
2123 * back into sync.
2124 *
2125 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
2126 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
2127 */
2128int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
2129{
2130 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2131
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07002132 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
2133
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002134 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
2135 /*
2136 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
2137 *
2138 * We use this sequence to make sure that
2139 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
2140 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
2141 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
2142 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
2143 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
2144 * cause the writeback.
2145 *
2146 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
2147 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
2148 * them concurrently from different threads.
2149 *
2150 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
2151 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
2152 * that will already usually be set. But we
2153 * need the side effects, and it can help us
2154 * avoid races.
2155 *
2156 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
2157 * as a serialization point for all the different
2158 * threads doing their things.
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002159 */
2160 if (page_mkclean(page))
2161 set_page_dirty(page);
Nick Piggin79352892007-07-19 01:47:22 -07002162 /*
2163 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
2164 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
2165 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
2166 * page lock at some point after installing their
2167 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
2168 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
2169 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
2170 * for more comments.
2171 */
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002172 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
Andrew Morton8c085402006-12-10 02:19:24 -08002173 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
Peter Zijlstrac9e51e42007-10-16 23:25:47 -07002174 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
2175 BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002176 return 1;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002177 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002178 return 0;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002179 }
Linus Torvalds7658cc22006-12-29 10:00:58 -08002180 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002181}
Hans Reiser58bb01a2005-11-18 01:10:53 -08002182EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002183
2184int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
2185{
2186 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2187 int ret;
2188
2189 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002190 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002191 unsigned long flags;
2192
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002193 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002194 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002195 if (ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002196 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2197 page_index(page),
2198 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07002199 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002200 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
Peter Zijlstra04fbfdc2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07002201 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
2202 }
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002203 }
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002204 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002205 } else {
2206 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
2207 }
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07002208 if (ret) {
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07002209 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
Wu Fengguang99b12e32011-07-25 17:12:37 -07002210 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
2211 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002212 return ret;
2213}
2214
2215int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
2216{
2217 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
2218 int ret;
2219
2220 if (mapping) {
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002221 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002222 unsigned long flags;
2223
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002224 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002225 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002226 if (!ret) {
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002227 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
2228 page_index(page),
2229 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
Miklos Szeredie4ad08f2008-04-30 00:54:37 -07002230 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
Peter Zijlstra69cb51d2007-10-16 23:25:48 -07002231 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
2232 }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002233 if (!PageDirty(page))
2234 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2235 page_index(page),
2236 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
Jan Karaf446daa2010-08-09 17:19:12 -07002237 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2238 page_index(page),
2239 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
Nick Piggin19fd6232008-07-25 19:45:32 -07002240 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002241 } else {
2242 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
2243 }
Andrew Mortond688abf2007-07-19 01:49:17 -07002244 if (!ret)
Michael Rubinf629d1c2010-10-26 14:21:33 -07002245 account_page_writeback(page);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002246 return ret;
2247
2248}
2249EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
2250
2251/*
Nick Piggin00128182007-10-16 01:24:40 -07002252 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002253 * passed tag.
2254 */
2255int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
2256{
Konstantin Khlebnikov72c47832011-07-25 17:12:31 -07002257 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002258}
2259EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);