13 Jan, 2021
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commit c2407cf7d22d0c0d94cf20342b3b8f06f1d904e7 upstream.
Ever since commit 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common()
logic") we've had some very occasional reports of BUG_ON(PageWriteback)
in write_cache_pages(), which we thought we already fixed in commit
073861ed77b6 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)").But syzbot just reported another one, even with that commit in place.
And it turns out that there's a simpler way to trigger the BUG_ON() than
the one Hugh found with page re-use. It all boils down to the fact that
the page writeback is ostensibly serialized by the page lock, but that
isn't actually really true.Yes, the people _setting_ writeback all do so under the page lock, but
the actual clearing of the bit - and waking up any waiters - happens
without any page lock.This gives us this fairly simple race condition:
CPU1 = end previous writeback
CPU2 = start new writeback under page lock
CPU3 = write_cache_pages()CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
---- ---- ----end_page_writeback()
test_clear_page_writeback(page)
... delayed...lock_page();
set_page_writeback()
unlock_page()lock_page()
wait_on_page_writeback();wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
.. wakes up CPU3 ..BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
where the BUG_ON() happens because we woke up the PG_writeback bit
becasue of the _previous_ writeback, but a new one had already been
started because the clearing of the bit wasn't actually atomic wrt the
actual wakeup or serialized by the page lock.The reason this didn't use to happen was that the old logic in waiting
on a page bit would just loop if it ever saw the bit set again.The nice proper fix would probably be to get rid of the whole "wait for
writeback to clear, and then set it" logic in the writeback path, and
replace it with an atomic "wait-to-set" (ie the same as we have for page
locking: we set the page lock bit with a single "lock_page()", not with
"wait for lock bit to clear and then set it").However, out current model for writeback is that the waiting for the
writeback bit is done by the generic VFS code (ie write_cache_pages()),
but the actual setting of the writeback bit is done much later by the
filesystem ".writepages()" function.IOW, to make the writeback bit have that same kind of "wait-to-set"
behavior as we have for page locking, we'd have to change our roughly
~50 different writeback functions. Painful.Instead, just make "wait_on_page_writeback()" loop on the very unlikely
situation that the PG_writeback bit is still set, basically re-instating
the old behavior. This is very non-optimal in case of contention, but
since we only ever set the bit under the page lock, that situation is
controlled.Reported-by: syzbot+2fc0712f8f8b8b8fa0ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
25 Nov, 2020
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Twice now, when exercising ext4 looped on shmem huge pages, I have crashed
on the PF_ONLY_HEAD check inside PageWaiters(): ext4_finish_bio() calling
end_page_writeback() calling wake_up_page() on tail of a shmem huge page,
no longer an ext4 page at all.The problem is that PageWriteback is not accompanied by a page reference
(as the NOTE at the end of test_clear_page_writeback() acknowledges): as
soon as TestClearPageWriteback has been done, that page could be removed
from page cache, freed, and reused for something else by the time that
wake_up_page() is reached.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200827122019.GC14765@casper.infradead.org/
Matthew Wilcox suggested avoiding or weakening the PageWaiters() tail
check; but I'm paranoid about even looking at an unreferenced struct page,
lest its memory might itself have already been reused or hotremoved (and
wake_up_page_bit() may modify that memory with its ClearPageWaiters()).Then on crashing a second time, realized there's a stronger reason against
that approach. If my testing just occasionally crashes on that check,
when the page is reused for part of a compound page, wouldn't it be much
more common for the page to get reused as an order-0 page before reaching
wake_up_page()? And on rare occasions, might that reused page already be
marked PageWriteback by its new user, and already be waited upon? What
would that look like?It would look like BUG_ON(PageWriteback) after wait_on_page_writeback()
in write_cache_pages() (though I have never seen that crash myself).Matthew Wilcox explaining this to himself:
"page is allocated, added to page cache, dirtied, writeback starts,--- thread A ---
filesystem calls end_page_writeback()
test_clear_page_writeback()
--- context switch to thread B ---
truncate_inode_pages_range() finds the page, it doesn't have writeback set,
we delete it from the page cache. Page gets reallocated, dirtied, writeback
starts again. Then we call write_cache_pages(), see
PageWriteback() set, call wait_on_page_writeback()
--- context switch back to thread A ---
wake_up_page(page, PG_writeback);
... thread B is woken, but because the wakeup was for the old use of
the page, PageWriteback is still set.Devious"
And prior to 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
this would have been much less likely: before that, wake_page_function()'s
non-exclusive case would stop walking and not wake if it found Writeback
already set again; whereas now the non-exclusive case proceeds to wake.I have not thought of a fix that does not add a little overhead: the
simplest fix is for end_page_writeback() to get_page() before calling
test_clear_page_writeback(), then put_page() after wake_up_page().Was there a chance of missed wakeups before, since a page freed before
reaching wake_up_page() would have PageWaiters cleared? I think not,
because each waiter does hold a reference on the page. This bug comes
when the old use of the page, the one we do TestClearPageWriteback on,
had *no* waiters, so no additional page reference beyond the page cache
(and whoever racily freed it). The reuse of the page has a waiter
holding a reference, and its own PageWriteback set; but the belated
wake_up_page() has woken the reuse to hit that BUG_ON(PageWriteback).Reported-by: syzbot+3622cea378100f45d59f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Qian Cai
Fixes: 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2020
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page->mapping is undefined for tail pages, so operate exclusively on the
head page.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Huang Ying
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Sep, 2020
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Replace the two negative flags that are always used together with a
single positive flag that indicates the writeback capability instead
of two related non-capabilities. Also remove the pointless wrappers
to just check the flag.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn
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Replace BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB with a positive BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT to
make the checks more obvious. Also remove the pointless
bdi_cap_account_writeback wrapper that just obsfucates the check.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn
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The BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES is one of the few bits of information in the
backing_dev_info shared between the block drivers and the writeback code.
To help untangling the dependency replace it with a queue flag and a
superblock flag derived from it. This also helps with the case of e.g.
a file system requiring stable writes due to its own checksumming, but
not forcing it on other users of the block device like the swap code.One downside is that we an't support the stable_pages_required bdi
attribute in sysfs anymore. It is replaced with a queue attribute which
also is writable for easier testing.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Aug, 2020
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The global variable "vm_total_pages" is a relic from older days. There is
only a single user that reads the variable - build_all_zonelists() - and
the first thing it does is update it.Use a local variable in build_all_zonelists() instead and remove the
global variable.Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Huang Ying
Cc: Minchan Kim
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619132410.23859-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jun, 2020
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There is a typo in comment, fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ethon Paul
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411003513.14613-1-ethp@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jun, 2020
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
Augusto von Dentz.2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.
3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.
4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.
7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.
9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
Horatiu Vultur.10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
Carvalho Chehab.13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
from Doug Berger.14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
Dmitry Yakunin.15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
userspace, from Johannes Berg.16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.
17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
Jesper Dangaard Brouer.18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.
19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
'int'. From Yunjian Wang.20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
Rempel.21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.
22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
facility.23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
Dangaard Brouer.25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.
26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.
27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.
29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.
30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
...
03 Jun, 2020
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After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count. This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g. releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT). However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput. With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero. static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
Acked-by: Michal Hocko [mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Chuck Lever
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the
loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a
daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up
writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi).The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty
pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been
throttled. The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when
the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed,
but it is being thottled and cannot write.This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally,
independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was.
Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with
different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial
heuristics. This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer
reliable.The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page
allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that
dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi
for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the
throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi.This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when
the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal
to) the free-run threshold for that bdi. This ensures it will always be
able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock.In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might
still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is
only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag.This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent
with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were
it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi.So this patch
- renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE,
- removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and
- If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the
global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded.Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as
PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads. This patch does *not* change the behvaiour
for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd
and loop tasks. I don't know what is wanted for realtime.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Chuck Lever [nfsd]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbf7gs3.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit 64081362e8ff ("mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback
vs writepages deadlock") left unused variable, remove it.Signed-off-by: Chao Yu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528033740.17269-1-yuchao0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2020
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Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
03 Apr, 2020
3 commits
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With the introduction of protected KVM guests on s390 there is now a
concept of inaccessible pages. These pages need to be made accessible
before the host can access them.While cpu accesses will trigger a fault that can be resolved, I/O accesses
will just fail. We need to add a callback into architecture code for
places that will do I/O, namely when writeback is started or when a page
reference is taken.This is not only to enable paging, file backing etc, it is also necessary
to protect the host against a malicious user space. For example a bad
QEMU could simply start direct I/O on such protected memory. We do not
want userspace to be able to trigger I/O errors and thus the logic is
"whenever somebody accesses that page (gup) or does I/O, make sure that
this page can be accessed". When the guest tries to access that page we
will wait in the page fault handler for writeback to have finished and for
the page_ref to be the expected value.On s390x the function is not supposed to fail, so it is ok to use a
WARN_ON on failure. If we ever need some more finegrained handling we can
tackle this when we know the details.Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard
Acked-by: Will Deacon
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Ira Weiny
Cc: Jérôme Glisse
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Shuah Khan
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306132537.783769-3-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Dumping the page information in this circumstance helps for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Cc: Pankaj Gupta
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There used to be a 'retry' label in between the two (identical) checks
when first introduced in commit f446daaea9d4 ("mm: implement writeback
livelock avoidance using page tagging"), and later modified/updated in
commit 6e6938b6d313 ("writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the
WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage").The label has been removed in commit 64081362e8ff ("mm/page-writeback.c:
fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock"), and the (identical)
checks are now present / performed immediately one after another.So, remove/deduplicate the latter check, moving tag_pages_for_writeback()
into the former check before the 'tag' variable assignment, so it's clear
that it's not used in this (similarly-named) function call but only later
in pagevec_lookup_range_tag().Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jan Kara
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218221716.1648-1-mfo@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Jan, 2020
3 commits
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Use div64_ul() instead of do_div() if the divisor is unsigned long, to
avoid truncation to 32-bit on 64-bit platforms.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102081442.8273-4-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The two variables 'numerator' and 'denominator', though they are
declared as long, they should actually be unsigned long (according to
the implementation of the fprop_fraction_percpu() function)And do_div() does a 64-by-32 division, while the divisor 'denominator'
is unsigned long, thus 64-bit on 64-bit platforms. Hence the proper
function to call is div64_ul().Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102081442.8273-3-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "use div64_ul() instead of div_u64() if the divisor is
unsigned long".We were first inspired by commit b0ab99e7736a ("sched: Fix possible divide
by zero in avg_atom () calculation"), then refer to the recently analyzed
mm code, we found this suspicious place.201 if (min) {
202 min *= this_bw;
203 do_div(min, tot_bw);
204 }And we also disassembled and confirmed it:
/usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 201
0xffffffff811c37da : xor %r10d,%r10d
0xffffffff811c37dd : test %rax,%rax
0xffffffff811c37e0 : je 0xffffffff811c3800
/usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 202
0xffffffff811c37e2 : imul %r8,%rax
/usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 203
0xffffffff811c37e6 : mov %r9d,%r10d ---> truncates it to 32 bits here
0xffffffff811c37e9 : xor %edx,%edx
0xffffffff811c37eb : div %r10
0xffffffff811c37ee : imul %rbx,%rax
0xffffffff811c37f2 : shr $0x2,%rax
0xffffffff811c37f6 : mul %rcx
0xffffffff811c37f9 : shr $0x2,%rdx
0xffffffff811c37fd : mov %rdx,%r10This series uses div64_ul() instead of div_u64() if the divisor is
unsigned long, to avoid truncation to 32-bit on 64-bit platforms.This patch (of 3):
The variables 'min' and 'max' are unsigned long and do_div truncates
them to 32 bits, which means it can test non-zero and be truncated to
zero for division. Fix this issue by using div64_ul() instead.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102081442.8273-2-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 693108a8a667 ("writeback: make bdi->min/max_ratio handling cgroup writeback aware")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Aug, 2019
1 commit
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There's an inherent mismatch between memcg and writeback. The former
trackes ownership per-page while the latter per-inode. This was a
deliberate design decision because honoring per-page ownership in the
writeback path is complicated, may lead to higher CPU and IO overheads
and deemed unnecessary given that write-sharing an inode across
different cgroups isn't a common use-case.Combined with inode majority-writer ownership switching, this works
well enough in most cases but there are some pathological cases. For
example, let's say there are two cgroups A and B which keep writing to
different but confined parts of the same inode. B owns the inode and
A's memory is limited far below B's. A's dirty ratio can rise enough
to trigger balance_dirty_pages() sleeps but B's can be low enough to
avoid triggering background writeback. A will be slowed down without
a way to make writeback of the dirty pages happen.This patch implements foreign dirty recording and foreign mechanism so
that when a memcg encounters a condition as above it can trigger
flushes on bdi_writebacks which can clean its pages. Please see the
comment on top of mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() for
details.A reproducer follows.
write-range.c::
#include
#include
#include
#include
#includestatic const char *usage = "write-range FILE START SIZE\n";
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
unsigned long start, size, end, pos;
char *endp;
char buf[4096];if (argc < 4) {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return 1;
}start = strtoul(argv[2], &endp, 0);
if (*endp != '\0') {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}size = strtoul(argv[3], &endp, 0);
if (*endp != '\0') {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}end = start + size;
while (1) {
for (pos = start; pos < end; ) {
long bread, bwritten = 0;if (lseek(fd, pos, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
perror("lseek");
return 1;
}bread = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf) < end - pos ?
sizeof(buf) : end - pos);
if (bread < 0) {
perror("read");
return 1;
}
if (bread == 0)
return 0;while (bwritten < bread) {
long this;this = write(fd, buf + bwritten,
bread - bwritten);
if (this < 0) {
perror("write");
return 1;
}bwritten += this;
pos += bwritten;
}
}
}
}repro.sh::
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -xsysctl -w vm.dirty_expire_centisecs=300000
sysctl -w vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs=300000
sysctl -w vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds=300000
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cachesTEST=/sys/fs/cgroup/test
A=$TEST/A
B=$TEST/Bmkdir -p $A $B
echo "+memory +io" > $TEST/cgroup.subtree_control
echo $((1< $A/memory.high
echo $((32< $B/memory.highrm -f testfile
touch testfile
fallocate -l 4G testfileecho "Starting B"
(echo $BASHPID > $B/cgroup.procs
pv -q --rate-limit 70M < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile $((2<< $A/cgroup.procs
pv < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile 0 $((2<
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
13 Jul, 2019
1 commit
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account_page_dirtied() is only used by our set_page_dirty() helpers and
should not be used anywhere else.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190605183702.30572-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the fileThese files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 May, 2019
1 commit
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Recently there have been some hung tasks on our server due to
wait_on_page_writeback(), and we want to know the details of this
PG_writeback, i.e. this page is writing back to which device. But it is
not so convenient to get the details.I think it would be better to introduce a tracepoint for diagnosing the
writeback details.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556274402-19018-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Mar, 2019
1 commit
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Many kernel-doc comments in mm/ have the return value descriptions
either misformatted or omitted at all which makes kernel-doc script
unhappy:$ make V=1 htmldocs
...
./mm/util.c:36: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup
./mm/util.c:41: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup'
./mm/util.c:57: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup_const
./mm/util.c:66: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup_const'
./mm/util.c:75: info: Scanning doc for kstrndup
./mm/util.c:83: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrndup'
...Fixing the formatting and adding the missing return value descriptions
eliminates ~100 such warnings.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549549644-4903-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Dec, 2018
1 commit
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write_cache_pages() is used in both background and integrity writeback
scenarios by various filesystems. Background writeback is mostly
concerned with cleaning a certain number of dirty pages based on various
mm heuristics. It may not write the full set of dirty pages or wait for
I/O to complete. Integrity writeback is responsible for persisting a set
of dirty pages before the writeback job completes. For example, an
fsync() call must perform integrity writeback to ensure data is on disk
before the call returns.write_cache_pages() unconditionally breaks out of its processing loop in
the event of a ->writepage() error. This is fine for background
writeback, which had no strict requirements and will eventually come
around again. This can cause problems for integrity writeback on
filesystems that might need to clean up state associated with failed page
writeouts. For example, XFS performs internal delayed allocation
accounting before returning a ->writepage() error, where applicable. If
the current writeback happens to be associated with an unmount and
write_cache_pages() completes the writeback prematurely due to error, the
filesystem is unmounted in an inconsistent state if dirty+delalloc pages
still exist.To handle this problem, update write_cache_pages() to always process the
full set of pages for integrity writeback regardless of ->writepage()
errors. Save the first encountered error and return it to the caller once
complete. This facilitates XFS (or any other fs that expects integrity
writeback to process the entire set of dirty pages) to clean up its
internal state completely in the event of persistent mapping errors.
Background writeback continues to exit on the first error encountered.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116134304.32440-1-bfoster@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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Pull XArray conversion from Matthew Wilcox:
"The XArray provides an improved interface to the radix tree data
structure, providing locking as part of the API, specifying GFP flags
at allocation time, eliminating preloading, less re-walking the tree,
more efficient iterations and not exposing RCU-protected pointers to
its users.This patch set
1. Introduces the XArray implementation
2. Converts the pagecache to use it
3. Converts memremap to use it
The page cache is the most complex and important user of the radix
tree, so converting it was most important. Converting the memremap
code removes the only other user of the multiorder code, which allows
us to remove the radix tree code that supported it.I have 40+ followup patches to convert many other users of the radix
tree over to the XArray, but I'd like to get this part in first. The
other conversions haven't been in linux-next and aren't suitable for
applying yet, but you can see them in the xarray-conv branch if you're
interested"* 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (90 commits)
radix tree: Remove multiorder support
radix tree test: Convert multiorder tests to XArray
radix tree tests: Convert item_delete_rcu to XArray
radix tree tests: Convert item_kill_tree to XArray
radix tree tests: Move item_insert_order
radix tree test suite: Remove multiorder benchmarking
radix tree test suite: Remove __item_insert
memremap: Convert to XArray
xarray: Add range store functionality
xarray: Move multiorder_check to in-kernel tests
xarray: Move multiorder_shrink to kernel tests
xarray: Move multiorder account test in-kernel
radix tree test suite: Convert iteration test to XArray
radix tree test suite: Convert tag_tagged_items to XArray
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_clear_tags
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_maybe_preload_order
radix tree: Remove split/join code
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_update_node_t
page cache: Finish XArray conversion
dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray
...
27 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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We've recently seen a workload on XFS filesystems with a repeatable
deadlock between background writeback and a multi-process application
doing concurrent writes and fsyncs to a small range of a file.range_cyclic
writeback Process 1 Process 2xfs_vm_writepages
write_cache_pages
writeback_index = 2
cycled = 0
....
find page 2 dirty
lock Page 2
->writepage
page 2 writeback
page 2 clean
page 2 added to bio
no more pages
write()
locks page 1
dirties page 1
locks page 2
dirties page 1
fsync()
....
xfs_vm_writepages
write_cache_pages
start index 0
find page 1 towrite
lock Page 1
->writepage
page 1 writeback
page 1 clean
page 1 added to bio
find page 2 towrite
lock Page 2
page 2 is writeback
write()
locks page 1
dirties page 1
fsync()
....
xfs_vm_writepages
write_cache_pages
start index 0!done && !cycled
sets index to 0, restarts lookup
find page 1 dirty
find page 1 towrite
lock Page 1
page 1 is writeback
lock Page 1
DEADLOCK because:
- process 1 needs page 2 writeback to complete to make
enough progress to issue IO pending for page 1
- writeback needs page 1 writeback to complete so process 2
can progress and unlock the page it is blocked on, then it
can issue the IO pending for page 2
- process 2 can't make progress until process 1 issues IO
for page 1The underlying cause of the problem here is that range_cyclic writeback is
processing pages in descending index order as we hold higher index pages
in a structure controlled from above write_cache_pages(). The
write_cache_pages() caller needs to be able to submit these pages for IO
before write_cache_pages restarts writeback at mapping index 0 to avoid
wcp inverting the page lock/writeback wait order.generic_writepages() is not susceptible to this bug as it has no private
context held across write_cache_pages() - filesystems using this
infrastructure always submit pages in ->writepage immediately and so there
is no problem with range_cyclic going back to mapping index 0.However:
mpage_writepages() has a private bio context,
exofs_writepages() has page_collect
fuse_writepages() has fuse_fill_wb_data
nfs_writepages() has nfs_pageio_descriptor
xfs_vm_writepages() has xfs_writepage_ctxAll of these ->writepages implementations can hold pages under writeback
in their private structures until write_cache_pages() returns, and hence
they are all susceptible to this deadlock.Also worth noting is that ext4 has it's own bastardised version of
write_cache_pages() and so it /may/ have an equivalent deadlock. I looked
at the code long enough to understand that it has a similar retry loop for
range_cyclic writeback reaching the end of the file and then promptly ran
away before my eyes bled too much. I'll leave it for the ext4 developers
to determine if their code is actually has this deadlock and how to fix it
if it has.There's a few ways I can see avoid this deadlock. There's probably more,
but these are the first I've though of:1. get rid of range_cyclic altogether
2. range_cyclic always stops at EOF, and we start again from
writeback index 0 on the next call into write_cache_pages()2a. wcp also returns EAGAIN to ->writepages implementations to
indicate range cyclic has hit EOF. writepages implementations can
then flush the current context and call wpc again to continue. i.e.
lift the retry into the ->writepages implementation3. range_cyclic uses trylock_page() rather than lock_page(), and it
skips pages it can't lock without blocking. It will already do this
for pages under writeback, so this seems like a no-brainer3a. all non-WB_SYNC_ALL writeback uses trylock_page() to avoid
blocking as per pages under writeback.I don't think #1 is an option - range_cyclic prevents frequently
dirtied lower file offset from starving background writeback of
rarely touched higher file offsets.#2 is simple, and I don't think it will have any impact on
performance as going back to the start of the file implies an
immediate seek. We'll have exactly the same number of seeks if we
switch writeback to another inode, and then come back to this one
later and restart from index 0.#2a is pretty much "status quo without the deadlock". Moving the
retry loop up into the wcp caller means we can issue IO on the
pending pages before calling wcp again, and so avoid locking or
waiting on pages in the wrong order. I'm not convinced we need to do
this given that we get the same thing from #2 on the next writeback
call from the writeback infrastructure.#3 is really just a band-aid - it doesn't fix the access/wait
inversion problem, just prevents it from becoming a deadlock
situation. I'd prefer we fix the inversion, not sweep it under the
carpet like this.#3a is really an optimisation that just so happens to include the
band-aid fix of #3.So it seems that the simplest way to fix this issue is to implement
solution #2Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005054526.21507-1-david@fromorbit.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Nicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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Includes moving mapping_tagged() to fs.h as a static inline, and
changing it to return bool.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
30 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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The conversion of the hotplug notifiers to a state machine left the
notifier.h includes around in some places. Remove them.Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535114033-4605-1-git-send-email-mojha@codeaurora.org
18 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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Commit 93f78d882865 ("writeback: move backing_dev_info->bdi_stat[] into
bdi_writeback") replaced BDI_DIRTIED with WB_DIRTIED in
account_page_redirty(). Update comment to track that change.BDI_DIRTIED => WB_DIRTIED
BDI_WRITTEN => WB_WRITTENLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180625171526.173483-1-gthelen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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lock_page_memcg()/unlock_page_memcg() use spin_lock_irqsave/restore() if
the page's memcg is undergoing move accounting, which occurs when a
process leaves its memcg for a new one that has
memory.move_charge_at_immigrate set.unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin,end() use spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq() if
the given inode is switching writeback domains. Switches occur when
enough writes are issued from a new domain.This existing pattern is thus suspicious:
lock_page_memcg(page);
unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked);
...
unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked);
unlock_page_memcg(page);If both inode switch and process memcg migration are both in-flight then
unlocked_inode_to_wb_end() will unconditionally enable interrupts while
still holding the lock_page_memcg() irq spinlock. This suggests the
possibility of deadlock if an interrupt occurs before unlock_page_memcg().truncate
__cancel_dirty_page
lock_page_memcg
unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin
unlocked_inode_to_wb_end
end_page_writeback
test_clear_page_writeback
lock_page_memcg
unlock_page_memcgDue to configuration limitations this deadlock is not currently possible
because we don't mix cgroup writeback (a cgroupv2 feature) and
memory.move_charge_at_immigrate (a cgroupv1 feature).If the kernel is hacked to always claim inode switching and memcg
moving_account, then this script triggers lockup in less than a minute:cd /mnt/cgroup/memory
mkdir a b
echo 1 > a/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
echo 1 > b/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
(
echo $BASHPID > a/cgroup.procs
while true; do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/big bs=1M count=256
done
) &
while true; do
sync
done &
sleep 1h &
SLEEP=$!
while true; do
echo $SLEEP > a/cgroup.procs
echo $SLEEP > b/cgroup.procs
doneThe deadlock does not seem possible, so it's debatable if there's any
reason to modify the kernel. I suggest we should to prevent future
surprises. And Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our
environment", so there's more reason to apply this, even to stable.
Stable 4.4 has minor conflicts applying this patch. For a clean 4.4 patch
see "[PATCH for-4.4] writeback: safer lock nesting"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/11/146Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our environment"
[gthelen@google.com: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411084653.254724-1-gthelen@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment tweaks, struct initialization simplification]
Change-Id: Ibb773e8045852978f6207074491d262f1b3fb613
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410005908.167976-1-gthelen@google.com
Fixes: 682aa8e1a6a1 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates")
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Reported-by: Wang Long
Acked-by: Wang Long
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Nicholas Piggin
Cc: [v4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to
the radix_tree_root. Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->i_pages,
since we don't really care that it's a tree.[willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
Cc: Darrick J. Wong
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi
Cc: Will Deacon
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Nov, 2017
1 commit
-
This reverts commit 0f6d24f87856 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning
if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical") because it causes false
positive warnings during OOM situations as noticed by Tetsuo Handa:Node 0 active_anon:3525940kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:216kB inactive_file:1872kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:2504kB dirty:52kB writeback:0kB shmem:8660kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 636928kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? yes
Node 0 DMA free:14848kB min:284kB low:352kB high:420kB active_anon:992kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15988kB managed:15904kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:24kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2687 3645 3645
Node 0 DMA32 free:53004kB min:49608kB low:62008kB high:74408kB active_anon:2712648kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:3129216kB managed:2773132kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:96kB pagetables:5096kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 958 958
Node 0 Normal free:17140kB min:17684kB low:22104kB high:26524kB active_anon:812300kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:1228kB inactive_file:1868kB unevictable:0kB writepending:52kB present:1048576kB managed:981224kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:3520kB pagetables:8552kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:120kB local_pcp:120kB free_cma:0kB
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
[...]
Out of memory: Kill process 8459 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
Killed process 8459 (a.out) total-vm:4180kB, anon-rss:88kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
oom_reaper: reaped process 8459 (a.out), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit.The problem is that both thresh and bg_thresh will be 0 if
available_memory is less than 4 pages when evaluating
global_dirtyable_memory.While this might be worked around the whole point of the warning is
dubious at best. We do rely on admins to do sensible things when
changing tunable knobs. Dirty memory writeback knobs are not any
special in that regards so revert the warning rather than adding more
hacks to work this around.Debugged by Yafang Shao.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127091939.tahb77nznytcxw55@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 0f6d24f87856 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa
Cc: Yafang Shao
Cc: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Nicholas Piggin
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Jeff Layton
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
16 Nov, 2017
6 commits
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The parameter `struct bdi_writeback *wb` is not been used in the
function body. Remove it.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509685485-15278-1-git-send-email-wanglong19@meituan.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Long
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Every pagevec_init user claims the pages being released are hot even in
cases where it is unlikely the pages are hot. As no one cares about the
hotness of pages being released to the allocator, just ditch the
parameter.No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal. The
parameter is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless
parameter copied everywhere.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "Speed up page cache truncation", v1.
When rebasing our enterprise distro to a newer kernel (from 4.4 to 4.12)
we have noticed a regression in bonnie++ benchmark when deleting files.
Eventually we have tracked this down to a fact that page cache
truncation got slower by about 10%. There were both gains and losses in
the above interval of kernels but we have been able to identify that
commit 83929372f629 ("filemap: prepare find and delete operations for
huge pages") caused about 10% regression on its own.After some investigation it didn't seem easily possible to fix the
regression while maintaining the THP in page cache functionality so
we've decided to optimize the page cache truncation path instead to make
up for the change. This series is a result of that effort.Patch 1 is an easy speedup of cancel_dirty_page(). Patches 2-6 refactor
page cache truncation code so that it is easier to batch radix tree
operations. Patch 7 implements batching of deletes from the radix tree
which more than makes up for the original regression.This patch (of 7):
cancel_dirty_page() does quite some work even for clean pages (fetching
of mapping, locking of memcg, atomic bit op on page flags) so it
accounts for ~2.5% of cost of truncation of a clean page. That is not
much but still dumb for something we don't need at all. Check whether a
page is actually dirty and avoid any work if not.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010151937.26984-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer
to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and
from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171016225913.GA99214@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
All users of pagevec_lookup() and pagevec_lookup_range() now pass
PAGEVEC_SIZE as a desired number of pages. Just drop the argument.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-15-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use pagevec_lookup_range_tag() in write_cache_pages() as it is
interested only in pages from given range. Remove unnecessary code
resulting from this.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-12-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
