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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 281 |
1 files changed, 157 insertions, 124 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 849d0ccbe91..e3bccac1f02 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> #include <linux/pagevec.h> +#include <trace/events/writeback.h> /* * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited @@ -252,32 +253,6 @@ static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, } } -/* - * Clip the earned share of dirty pages to that which is actually available. - * This avoids exceeding the total dirty_limit when the floating averages - * fluctuate too quickly. - */ -static void clip_bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, - unsigned long dirty, unsigned long *pbdi_dirty) -{ - unsigned long avail_dirty; - - avail_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + - global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) + - global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + - global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP); - - if (avail_dirty < dirty) - avail_dirty = dirty - avail_dirty; - else - avail_dirty = 0; - - avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) + - bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); - - *pbdi_dirty = min(*pbdi_dirty, avail_dirty); -} - static inline void task_dirties_fraction(struct task_struct *tsk, long *numerator, long *denominator) { @@ -286,16 +261,24 @@ static inline void task_dirties_fraction(struct task_struct *tsk, } /* - * scale the dirty limit + * task_dirty_limit - scale down dirty throttling threshold for one task * * task specific dirty limit: * * dirty -= (dirty/8) * p_{t} + * + * To protect light/slow dirtying tasks from heavier/fast ones, we start + * throttling individual tasks before reaching the bdi dirty limit. + * Relatively low thresholds will be allocated to heavy dirtiers. So when + * dirty pages grow large, heavy dirtiers will be throttled first, which will + * effectively curb the growth of dirty pages. Light dirtiers with high enough + * dirty threshold may never get throttled. */ -static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *pdirty) +static unsigned long task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, + unsigned long bdi_dirty) { long numerator, denominator; - unsigned long dirty = *pdirty; + unsigned long dirty = bdi_dirty; u64 inv = dirty >> 3; task_dirties_fraction(tsk, &numerator, &denominator); @@ -303,10 +286,8 @@ static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *pdirty) do_div(inv, denominator); dirty -= inv; - if (dirty < *pdirty/2) - dirty = *pdirty/2; - *pdirty = dirty; + return max(dirty, bdi_dirty/2); } /* @@ -416,9 +397,16 @@ unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */ } -void -get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, - unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi) +/* + * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds + * + * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters + * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes + * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes + * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and + * runtime tasks. + */ +void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty) { unsigned long background; unsigned long dirty; @@ -450,27 +438,37 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, } *pbackground = background; *pdirty = dirty; +} - if (bdi) { - u64 bdi_dirty; - long numerator, denominator; +/* + * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold + * + * Allocate high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent + * - starving fast devices + * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices + * + * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and + * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set. + */ +unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty) +{ + u64 bdi_dirty; + long numerator, denominator; - /* - * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio. - */ - bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator); - - bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100; - bdi_dirty *= numerator; - do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator); - bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100; - if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100) - bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100; - - *pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty; - clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty); - task_dirty_limit(current, pbdi_dirty); - } + /* + * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio. + */ + bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator); + + bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100; + bdi_dirty *= numerator; + do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator); + + bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100; + if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100) + bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100; + + return bdi_dirty; } /* @@ -490,7 +488,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long bdi_thresh; unsigned long pages_written = 0; unsigned long pause = 1; - + bool dirty_exceeded = false; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; for (;;) { @@ -501,18 +499,11 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, .range_cyclic = 1, }; - get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, - &bdi_thresh, bdi); - nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); - bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); - bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); - - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh) - break; + global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); /* * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot @@ -523,24 +514,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2) break; - if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded) - bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1; - - /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable. - * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked - * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been - * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet - * been flushed to permanent storage. - * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its - * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch - * up. - */ - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { - writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc); - pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; - get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, - &bdi_thresh, bdi); - } + bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh); + bdi_thresh = task_dirty_limit(current, bdi_thresh); /* * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need @@ -555,16 +530,45 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) { bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); - } else if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) { + } else { bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh) + /* + * The bdi thresh is somehow "soft" limit derived from the + * global "hard" limit. The former helps to prevent heavy IO + * bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is + * the last resort safeguard. + */ + dirty_exceeded = + (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback >= bdi_thresh) + || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback >= dirty_thresh); + + if (!dirty_exceeded) break; - if (pages_written >= write_chunk) - break; /* We've done our duty */ + if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded) + bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1; + + /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable. + * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked + * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been + * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet + * been flushed to permanent storage. + * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its + * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch + * up. + */ + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_start(&wbc, bdi); + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { + writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc); + pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_written(&wbc, bdi); + if (pages_written >= write_chunk) + break; /* We've done our duty */ + } + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi); __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); io_schedule_timeout(pause); @@ -577,8 +581,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pause = HZ / 10; } - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback < bdi_thresh && - bdi->dirty_exceeded) + if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded) bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) @@ -593,9 +596,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. */ if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) || - (!laptop_mode && ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) - + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)) - > background_thresh))) + (!laptop_mode && (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh))) bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi); } @@ -659,7 +660,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) unsigned long dirty_thresh; for ( ; ; ) { - get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL); + global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); /* * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page @@ -805,6 +806,42 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) } /** + * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages + * @mapping: address space structure to write + * @start: starting page index + * @end: ending page index (inclusive) + * + * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags + * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is + * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use + * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is + * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new + * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick + * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them). + */ +/* + * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency. + */ +void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end) +{ +#define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096 + unsigned long tagged; + + do { + spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); + tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, + &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH, + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); + spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); + WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH); + cond_resched(); + /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */ + } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback); + +/** * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them. * @mapping: address space structure to write * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write @@ -818,6 +855,13 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for * existing IO to complete. + * + * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag + * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start + * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do + * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE + * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only + * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO). */ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage, @@ -833,6 +877,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t done_index; int cycled; int range_whole = 0; + int tag; pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); if (wbc->range_cyclic) { @@ -849,29 +894,19 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) range_whole = 1; cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ - - /* - * If this is a data integrity sync, cap the writeback to the - * current end of file. Any extension to the file that occurs - * after this is a new write and we don't need to write those - * pages out to fulfil our data integrity requirements. If we - * try to write them out, we can get stuck in this scan until - * the concurrent writer stops adding dirty pages and extending - * EOF. - */ - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL && - wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) { - end = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; - } } - + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; + else + tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; retry: + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); done_index = index; while (!done && (index <= end)) { int i; - nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, - PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, + nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag, min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1); if (nr_pages == 0) break; @@ -929,6 +964,7 @@ continue_unlock: if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) goto continue_unlock; + trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info); ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data); if (unlikely(ret)) { if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) { @@ -949,22 +985,16 @@ continue_unlock: } } - if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) { - if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 && - wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { - /* - * We stop writing back only if we are - * not doing integrity sync. In case of - * integrity sync we have to keep going - * because someone may be concurrently - * dirtying pages, and we might have - * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty - * pages, but have not synced all of the - * old dirty pages. - */ - done = 1; - break; - } + /* + * We stop writing back only if we are not doing + * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to + * keep going until we have written all the pages + * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop. + */ + if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 && + wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { + done = 1; + break; } } pagevec_release(&pvec); @@ -1328,6 +1358,9 @@ int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page) radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY); + radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree, + page_index(page), + PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); } else { ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page); |