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  /*
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   * mm/page-writeback.c
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   *
   * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
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   * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
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   *
   * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
   * address_space level.
   *
   * 10Apr2002	akpm@zip.com.au
   *		Initial version
   */
  
  #include <linux/kernel.h>
  #include <linux/module.h>
  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
  #include <linux/fs.h>
  #include <linux/mm.h>
  #include <linux/swap.h>
  #include <linux/slab.h>
  #include <linux/pagemap.h>
  #include <linux/writeback.h>
  #include <linux/init.h>
  #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
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  #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
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  #include <linux/blkdev.h>
  #include <linux/mpage.h>
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  #include <linux/rmap.h>
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  #include <linux/percpu.h>
  #include <linux/notifier.h>
  #include <linux/smp.h>
  #include <linux/sysctl.h>
  #include <linux/cpu.h>
  #include <linux/syscalls.h>
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  #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
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  #include <linux/pagevec.h>
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  /*
   * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
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   * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has
   * been forced to throttle against that inode.  Also, the code reevaluates
   * the dirty each time it has written this many pages.
   */
  #define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES	1024
  
  /*
   * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
   * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
   */
  static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
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  /*
   * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
   * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
   * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably
   * large amounts of I/O are submitted.
   */
  static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
  {
  	return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2;
  }
  
  /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
  
  /*
   * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage
   */
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  int dirty_background_ratio = 5;
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  /*
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   * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
   * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
   */
  int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
  
  /*
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   * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
   */
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  int vm_dirty_ratio = 10;
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  /*
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   * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies
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   */
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  int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ;
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  /*
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   * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty
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   */
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  int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ;
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  /*
   * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
   */
  int block_dump;
  
  /*
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   * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
   * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
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   */
  int laptop_mode;
  
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
  
  /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
  
  
  static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
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  /*
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   * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
   *
   * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
   * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
   * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
   * share.
   *
   * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
   * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
   *
   * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
   * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
   * measured in page writeback completions.
   *
   */
  static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
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  static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
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  static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void);
  
  /*
   * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
   *
   *   period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
   */
  static int calc_period_shift(void)
  {
  	unsigned long dirty_total;
  
  	dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) / 100;
  	return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
  }
  
  /*
   * update the period when the dirty ratio changes.
   */
  int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
  		struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
  		loff_t *ppos)
  {
  	int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
  	int ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
  	if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
  		int shift = calc_period_shift();
  		prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
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  		prop_change_shift(&vm_dirties, shift);
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  	}
  	return ret;
  }
  
  /*
   * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
   * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
   */
  static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
  {
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  	__prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
  			      bdi->max_prop_frac);
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  }
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  void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
  {
  	unsigned long flags;
  
  	local_irq_save(flags);
  	__bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
  	local_irq_restore(flags);
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
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  static inline void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
  {
  	prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
  }
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  /*
   * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
   */
  static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
  		long *numerator, long *denominator)
  {
  	if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) {
  		prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
  				numerator, denominator);
  	} else {
  		*numerator = 0;
  		*denominator = 1;
  	}
  }
  
  /*
   * 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, long dirty, long *pbdi_dirty)
  {
  	long avail_dirty;
  
  	avail_dirty = dirty -
  		(global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
  		 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
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  		 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
  		 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP));
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  	if (avail_dirty < 0)
  		avail_dirty = 0;
  
  	avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) +
  		bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
  
  	*pbdi_dirty = min(*pbdi_dirty, avail_dirty);
  }
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  static inline void task_dirties_fraction(struct task_struct *tsk,
  		long *numerator, long *denominator)
  {
  	prop_fraction_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties,
  				numerator, denominator);
  }
  
  /*
   * scale the dirty limit
   *
   * task specific dirty limit:
   *
   *   dirty -= (dirty/8) * p_{t}
   */
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  static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, long *pdirty)
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  {
  	long numerator, denominator;
  	long dirty = *pdirty;
  	u64 inv = dirty >> 3;
  
  	task_dirties_fraction(tsk, &numerator, &denominator);
  	inv *= numerator;
  	do_div(inv, denominator);
  
  	dirty -= inv;
  	if (dirty < *pdirty/2)
  		dirty = *pdirty/2;
  
  	*pdirty = dirty;
  }
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  /*
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   *
   */
  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
  static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
  
  int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
  {
  	int ret = 0;
  	unsigned long flags;
  
  	spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags);
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  	if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
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  		ret = -EINVAL;
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  	} else {
  		min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
  		if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
  			bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
  			bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
  		} else {
  			ret = -EINVAL;
  		}
  	}
  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags);
  
  	return ret;
  }
  
  int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
  {
  	unsigned long flags;
  	int ret = 0;
  
  	if (max_ratio > 100)
  		return -EINVAL;
  
  	spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags);
  	if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
  		ret = -EINVAL;
  	} else {
  		bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
  		bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
  	}
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  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags);
  
  	return ret;
  }
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
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  /*
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   * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
   * thresholds.
   *
   * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
   * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
   * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
   * performing lots of scanning.
   *
   * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
   *
   * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
   * excessive.
   *
   * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
   * clamping level.
   */
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  static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
  {
  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
  	int node;
  	unsigned long x = 0;
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  	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
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  		struct zone *z =
  			&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
  
  		x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES)
  			+ zone_page_state(z, NR_INACTIVE)
  			+ zone_page_state(z, NR_ACTIVE);
  	}
  	/*
  	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
  	 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
  	 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
  	 * that this does not occur.
  	 */
  	return min(x, total);
  #else
  	return 0;
  #endif
  }
  
  static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
  {
  	unsigned long x;
  
  	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES)
  		+ global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE)
  		+ global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE);
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  	if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
  		x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
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  	return x + 1;	/* Ensure that we never return 0 */
  }
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  void
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  get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
  		 struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
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  {
  	int background_ratio;		/* Percentages */
  	int dirty_ratio;
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  	long background;
  	long dirty;
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  	unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
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  	struct task_struct *tsk;
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  	dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
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  	if (dirty_ratio < 5)
  		dirty_ratio = 5;
  
  	background_ratio = dirty_background_ratio;
  	if (background_ratio >= dirty_ratio)
  		background_ratio = dirty_ratio / 2;
  
  	background = (background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
  	dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
  	tsk = current;
  	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
  		background += background / 4;
  		dirty += dirty / 4;
  	}
  	*pbackground = background;
  	*pdirty = dirty;
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  	if (bdi) {
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  		u64 bdi_dirty;
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  		long numerator, denominator;
  
  		/*
  		 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
  		 */
  		bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
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  		bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
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  		bdi_dirty *= numerator;
  		do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
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  		bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
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  		if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
  			bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
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  		*pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
  		clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);
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  		task_dirty_limit(current, pbdi_dirty);
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  	}
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  }
  
  /*
   * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
   * data.  It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
   * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
   * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some
   * writeout.
   */
  static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
  {
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  	long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
  	long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback;
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  	long background_thresh;
  	long dirty_thresh;
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  	long bdi_thresh;
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  	unsigned long pages_written = 0;
  	unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages();
  
  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
  
  	for (;;) {
  		struct writeback_control wbc = {
  			.bdi		= bdi,
  			.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
  			.older_than_this = NULL,
  			.nr_to_write	= write_chunk,
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  			.range_cyclic	= 1,
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  		};
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  		get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
  				&bdi_thresh, bdi);
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  		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
  					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
  		nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
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  		bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
  		bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
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  		if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
  			break;
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  		/*
  		 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
  		 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
  		 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
  		 */
  		if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <
  				(background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
  			break;
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  		if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
  			bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
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  		/* 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.
  		 */
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  			writeback_inodes(&wbc);
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  			get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
  				       &bdi_thresh, bdi);
  		}
  
  		/*
  		 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
  		 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
  		 * the threshold is low.
  		 *
  		 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
  		 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
  		 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
  		 * deltas.
  		 */
  		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) {
  			bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
  			bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
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  		if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
  			break;
  		if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
  			break;		/* We've done our duty */
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  		congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
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  	if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback < bdi_thresh &&
  			bdi->dirty_exceeded)
  		bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
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  	if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
  		return;		/* pdflush is already working this queue */
  
  	/*
  	 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
  	 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
  	 * to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
  	 *
  	 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
  	 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
  	 */
  	if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
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  					  + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)
  					  > background_thresh)))
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  		pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
  }
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  		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
  
  		if (mapping)
  			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
  	}
  }
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  /**
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   * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
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   * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
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   *
   * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
   * which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
   * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
   *
   * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
   * calling it too often (ratelimiting).  But once we're over the dirty memory
   * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
   * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
   */
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  void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
  					unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
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  	static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits) = 0;
  	unsigned long ratelimit;
  	unsigned long *p;
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  	ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
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  		ratelimit = 8;
  
  	/*
  	 * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
  	 * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
  	 */
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  	preempt_disable();
  	p =  &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
  	*p += nr_pages_dirtied;
  	if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
  		*p = 0;
  		preempt_enable();
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  		balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
  		return;
  	}
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  	long background_thresh;
  	long dirty_thresh;
  
          for ( ; ; ) {
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                  /*
                   * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
                   * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
                   */
                  dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10;      /* wheeee... */
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                  if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
  			global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
                          	break;
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  		/*
  		 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
  		 * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
  		 * waiting for IO to complete.
  		 */
  		if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
  			break;
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  }
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  /*
   * writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
   * memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.
   */
  static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages)
  {
  	long min_pages = _min_pages;
  	struct writeback_control wbc = {
  		.bdi		= NULL,
  		.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
  		.older_than_this = NULL,
  		.nr_to_write	= 0,
  		.nonblocking	= 1,
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  		long dirty_thresh;
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  		if (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
  			global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
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  			break;
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  		wbc.more_io = 0;
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  		wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
  		wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
  		wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
  		writeback_inodes(&wbc);
  		min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
  		if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
  			/* Wrote less than expected */
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  			if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io)
  				congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
  			else
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  		}
  	}
  }
  
  /*
   * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages.  If `nr_pages' is zero, write back
   * the whole world.  Returns 0 if a pdflush thread was dispatched.  Returns
   * -1 if all pdflush threads were busy.
   */
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  		nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
  				global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
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  }
  
  static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
  static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
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  static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
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  /*
   * Periodic writeback of "old" data.
   *
   * Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the
   * dirtying-time in the inode's address_space.  So this periodic writeback code
   * just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are
   * older than a specific point in time.
   *
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   * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_interval interval, then leave a
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   *
   * older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write.  So we'll only write back
   * all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings.
   */
  static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
  {
  	unsigned long oldest_jif;
  	unsigned long start_jif;
  	unsigned long next_jif;
  	long nr_to_write;
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  		.bdi		= NULL,
  		.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
  		.older_than_this = &oldest_jif,
  		.nr_to_write	= 0,
  		.nonblocking	= 1,
  		.for_kupdate	= 1,
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  	sync_supers();
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  			global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
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  			(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
  	while (nr_to_write > 0) {
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  		wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
  		writeback_inodes(&wbc);
  		if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) {
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  			else
  				break;	/* All the old data is written */
  		}
  		nr_to_write -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
  	}
  	if (time_before(next_jif, jiffies + HZ))
  		next_jif = jiffies + HZ;
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  		mod_timer(&wb_timer, next_jif);
  }
  
  /*
   * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
   */
  int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
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  	if (dirty_writeback_interval)
  		mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
  	else
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  }
  
  static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
  {
  	if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate, 0) < 0)
  		mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + HZ); /* delay 1 second */
  }
  
  static void laptop_flush(unsigned long unused)
  {
  	sys_sync();
  }
  
  static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
  {
  	pdflush_operation(laptop_flush, 0);
  }
  
  /*
   * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
   * of all dirty data a few seconds from now.  If the flush is already scheduled
   * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
   */
  void laptop_io_completion(void)
  {
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  /*
   * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
   * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
   * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
   */
  void laptop_sync_completion(void)
  {
  	del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
  }
  
  /*
   * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
   * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
   * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
   * get_writeback_state too often.
   *
   * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
   * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
   * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
   *
   * But the limit should not be set too high.  Because it also controls the
   * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
   * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
   * time.  So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
   * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
   */
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  		ratelimit_pages = 16;
  	if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
  		ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
  }
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  {
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  	return NOTIFY_DONE;
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  	.next		= NULL,
  };
  
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   * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
   *
   * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
   * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
   * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
   *
   * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
   * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
   * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
   * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
   * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
   * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
   * non-HIGHMEM memory.
   *
   * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
   * much memory the box has..
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  void __init page_writeback_init(void)
  {
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  	register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
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  	shift = calc_period_shift();
  	prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
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  /**
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   * @mapping: address space structure to write
   * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
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   * @writepage: function called for each page
   * @data: data passed to writepage function
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   * if it's dirty.  This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
   * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync().  fsync()
   * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
   * 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.
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  int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
  		      struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
  		      void *data)
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  {
  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
  	int ret = 0;
  	int done = 0;
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  	struct pagevec pvec;
  	int nr_pages;
  	pgoff_t index;
  	pgoff_t end;		/* Inclusive */
  	int scanned = 0;
  	int range_whole = 0;
  
  	if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
  		wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
  		return 0;
  	}
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  	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
  	if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
  		index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */
  		end = -1;
  	} else {
  		index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
  		end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
  		if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
  			range_whole = 1;
  		scanned = 1;
  	}
  retry:
  	while (!done && (index <= end) &&
  	       (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
  					      PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
  					      min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) {
  		unsigned i;
  
  		scanned = 1;
  		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
  			struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
  
  			/*
  			 * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
  			 * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
  			 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
  			 * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
  			 * mapping
  			 */
  			lock_page(page);
  
  			if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
  				unlock_page(page);
  				continue;
  			}
  
  			if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
  				done = 1;
  				unlock_page(page);
  				continue;
  			}
  
  			if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
  				wait_on_page_writeback(page);
  
  			if (PageWriteback(page) ||
  			    !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
  				unlock_page(page);
  				continue;
  			}
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  			ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
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  			if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) {
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  				unlock_page(page);
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  				ret = 0;
  			}
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  			if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0))
  				done = 1;
  			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
  				wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
  				done = 1;
  			}
  		}
  		pagevec_release(&pvec);
  		cond_resched();
  	}
  	if (!scanned && !done) {
  		/*
  		 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
  		 * back to the start of the file
  		 */
  		scanned = 1;
  		index = 0;
  		goto retry;
  	}
  	if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
  		mapping->writeback_index = index;
  	return ret;
  }
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
  
  /*
   * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
   * function and set the mapping flags on error
   */
  static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
  		       void *data)
  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = data;
  	int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
  	mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
  	return ret;
  }
  
  /**
   * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
   * @mapping: address space structure to write
   * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
   *
   * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
   * address_space_operation.
   */
  int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
  		       struct writeback_control *wbc)
  {
  	/* deal with chardevs and other special file */
  	if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
  		return 0;
  
  	return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
  }
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
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  int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
  {
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  	if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
  		return 0;
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  	wbc->for_writepages = 1;
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  	if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
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  		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
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  	else
  		ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
  	wbc->for_writepages = 0;
  	return ret;
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  /**
   * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
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   * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
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   * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
   *
   * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
   */
  int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
  	int ret = 0;
  	struct writeback_control wbc = {
  		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
  		.nr_to_write = 1,
  	};
  
  	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
  
  	if (wait)
  		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
  
  	if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
  		page_cache_get(page);
  		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
  		if (ret == 0 && wait) {
  			wait_on_page_writeback(page);
  			if (PageError(page))
  				ret = -EIO;
  		}
  		page_cache_release(page);
  	} else {
  		unlock_page(page);
  	}
  	return ret;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
  
  /*
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   */
  int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
  {
  	if (!PageDirty(page))
  		SetPageDirty(page);
  	return 0;
  }
  
  /*
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   * its radix tree.
   *
   * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
   * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers.  This is a "bottom-up"
   * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
   *
   * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
   * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
   * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
   *
   * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
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  int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
  {
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  	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
  		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
  		struct address_space *mapping2;
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  		if (!mapping)
  			return 1;
  
  		write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
  		mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
  		if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
  			BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
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  			WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
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  			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
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  				__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
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  				__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
  						BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
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  			}
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  			radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
  				page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
  		}
  		write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
  		if (mapping->host) {
  			/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
  			__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
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  		}
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  		return 1;
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  	}
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  	return 0;
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
  
  /*
   * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
   * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
   * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
   */
  int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
  {
  	wbc->pages_skipped++;
  	return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
  
  /*
   * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
   * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
   */
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  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
  
  	if (likely(mapping)) {
  		int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
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  		if (!spd)
  			spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
  #endif
  		return (*spd)(page);
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  	if (!PageDirty(page)) {
  		if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
  			return 1;
  	}
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  	return 0;
  }
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  int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
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  {
  	int ret = __set_page_dirty(page);
  	if (ret)
  		task_dirty_inc(current);
  	return ret;
  }
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
  
  /*
   * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
   * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked.  This is because another
   * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
   *
   * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
   * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
   *
   * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
   */
  int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
  {
  	int ret;
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  	ret = set_page_dirty(page);
  	unlock_page(page);
  	return ret;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
  
  /*
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   * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
   *
   * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout.  We leave the page
   * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
   * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.  The ->writepage
   * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
   * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
   * back into sync.
   *
   * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
   * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
   */
  int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
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  	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
  		/*
  		 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
  		 *
  		 * We use this sequence to make sure that
  		 *  (a) we account for dirty stats properly
  		 *  (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
  		 *      mark the whole page dirty if it was
  		 *      dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
  		 *  (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
  		 *      cause the writeback.
  		 *
  		 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
  		 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
  		 * them concurrently from different threads.
  		 *
  		 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
  		 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
  		 * that will already usually be set. But we
  		 * need the side effects, and it can help us
  		 * avoid races.
  		 *
  		 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
  		 * as a serialization point for all the different
  		 * threads doing their things.
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  		if (page_mkclean(page))
  			set_page_dirty(page);
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  		 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
  		 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
  		 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
  		 * page lock at some point after installing their
  		 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
  		 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
  		 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
  		 * for more comments.
  		 */
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  		if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
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  					BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
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  			return 1;
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  		}
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  		return 0;
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  	}
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  	return TestClearPageDirty(page);
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  }
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  EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
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  int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
  	int ret;
  
  	if (mapping) {
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  		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
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  		unsigned long flags;
  
  		write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
  		ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
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  		if (ret) {
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  			radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
  						page_index(page),
  						PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
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  			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
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  				__dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
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  				__bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
  			}
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  		}
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  		write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
  	} else {
  		ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
  	}
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  	if (ret)
  		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
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  	return ret;
  }
  
  int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
  {
  	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
  	int ret;
  
  	if (mapping) {
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  		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
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  		unsigned long flags;
  
  		write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
  		ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
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  		if (!ret) {
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  			radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
  						page_index(page),
  						PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
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  			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
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  				__inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
  		}
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  		if (!PageDirty(page))
  			radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
  						page_index(page),
  						PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
  		write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
  	} else {
  		ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
  	}
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  	if (!ret)
  		inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
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  	return ret;
  
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
  
  /*
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   * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
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   * passed tag.
   */
  int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
  {
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  	int ret;
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  	rcu_read_lock();
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  	ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
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  	rcu_read_unlock();
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  	return ret;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);