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* mm/page-writeback.c: improve arithmetic divisionsWen Yang2020-01-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: use div64_ul() for u64-by-unsigned-long divideWen Yang2020-01-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: avoid potential division by zero in wb_min_max_ratio()Wen Yang2020-01-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <__wb_calc_thresh+234>: xor %r10d,%r10d 0xffffffff811c37dd <__wb_calc_thresh+237>: test %rax,%rax 0xffffffff811c37e0 <__wb_calc_thresh+240>: je 0xffffffff811c3800 <__wb_calc_thresh+272> /usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 202 0xffffffff811c37e2 <__wb_calc_thresh+242>: 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 <__wb_calc_thresh+246>: mov %r9d,%r10d ---> truncates it to 32 bits here 0xffffffff811c37e9 <__wb_calc_thresh+249>: xor %edx,%edx 0xffffffff811c37eb <__wb_calc_thresh+251>: div %r10 0xffffffff811c37ee <__wb_calc_thresh+254>: imul %rbx,%rax 0xffffffff811c37f2 <__wb_calc_thresh+258>: shr $0x2,%rax 0xffffffff811c37f6 <__wb_calc_thresh+262>: mul %rcx 0xffffffff811c37f9 <__wb_calc_thresh+265>: shr $0x2,%rdx 0xffffffff811c37fd <__wb_calc_thresh+269>: mov %rdx,%r10 This 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 <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushingTejun Heo2019-08-271-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/types.h> static 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 -x sysctl -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_caches TEST=/sys/fs/cgroup/test A=$TEST/A B=$TEST/B mkdir -p $A $B echo "+memory +io" > $TEST/cgroup.subtree_control echo $((1<<30)) > $A/memory.high echo $((32<<30)) > $B/memory.high rm -f testfile touch testfile fallocate -l 4G testfile echo "Starting B" (echo $BASHPID > $B/cgroup.procs pv -q --rate-limit 70M < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile $((2<<30)) $((2<<30))) & echo "Waiting 10s to ensure B claims the testfile inode" sleep 5 sync sleep 5 sync echo "Starting A" (echo $BASHPID > $A/cgroup.procs pv < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile 0 $((2<<30))) v2: Added comments explaining why the specific intervals are being used. v3: Use 0 @nr when calling cgroup_writeback_by_id() to use best-effort flushing while avoding possible livelocks. v4: Use get_jiffies_64() and time_before/after64() instead of raw jiffies_64 and arthimetic comparisons as suggested by Jan. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* mm: remove the account_page_dirtied exportChristoph Hellwig2019-07-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed filesThomas Gleixner2019-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()Yafang Shao2019-05-141-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/Mike Rapoport2019-03-051-8/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() errorBrian Foster2018-12-281-14/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-daxLinus Torvalds2018-10-281-46/+26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * mm: Convert page-writeback to XArrayMatthew Wilcox2018-10-211-46/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Includes moving mapping_tagged() to fs.h as a static inline, and changing it to return bool. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
* | mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlockDave Chinner2018-10-261-18/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 2 xfs_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 <blocks> 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 <blocks> lock Page 1 <blocks> 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 1 The 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_ctx All 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 implementation 3. 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-brainer 3a. 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 #2 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005054526.21507-1-david@fromorbit.com Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* notifier: Remove notifier header file wherever not usedMukesh Ojha2018-08-301-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | 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 <mojha@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535114033-4605-1-git-send-email-mojha@codeaurora.org
* mm/page-writeback.c: update stale account_page_redirty() commentGreg Thelen2018-08-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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_WRITTEN Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180625171526.173483-1-gthelen@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* writeback: safer lock nestingGreg Thelen2018-04-201-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <interrupts mistakenly enabled> <interrupt> end_page_writeback test_clear_page_writeback lock_page_memcg <deadlock> unlock_page_memcg Due 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 done The 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/2018/4/11/146 Wang 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 <gthelen@google.com> Reported-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Acked-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v4.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* page cache: use xa_lockMatthew Wilcox2018-04-111-23/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings ↵Michal Hocko2017-11-291-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | are illogical" 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 <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block/laptop_mode: Convert timers to use timer_setup()Kees Cook2017-11-211-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
* writeback: remove unused function parameterWang Long2017-11-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <wanglong19@meituan.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm, pagevec: remove cold parameter for pagevecsMel Gorman2017-11-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: speed up cancel_dirty_page() for clean pagesJan Kara2017-11-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: convert timers to use timer_setup()Kees Cook2017-11-151-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup_{,range}_tag()Jan Kara2017-11-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: use pagevec_lookup_range_tag() in write_cache_pages()Jan Kara2017-11-151-18/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogicalYafang Shao2017-11-151-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The vm direct limit setting must be set greater than vm background limit setting. Otherwise print a warning to help the operator to figure out that the vm dirtiness settings is in illogical state. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1506592464-30962-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: remove unused parameter from balance_dirty_pages()Tahsin Erdogan2017-11-151-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | "mapping" parameter to balance_dirty_pages() is not used anymore. Fixes: dfb8ae567835 ("writeback: let balance_dirty_pages() work on the matching cgroup bdi_writeback") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170927221311.23263-1-tahsin@google.com Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: make changes of dirty_writeback_centisecs take effect ↵Yafang Shao2017-10-141-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | immediately This patch is the followup of the prvious patch: [writeback: schedule periodic writeback with sysctl]. There's another issue to fix. For example, - When the tunable was set to one hour and is reset to one second, the new setting will not take effect for up to one hour. Kicking the flusher threads immediately fixes it. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* writeback: schedule periodic writeback with sysctlYafang Shao2017-10-091-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After disable periodic writeback by writing 0 to dirty_writeback_centisecs, the handler wb_workfn() will not be entered again until the dirty background limit reaches or sync syscall is executed or no enough free memory available or vmscan is triggered. So the periodic writeback can't be enabled by writing a non-zero value to dirty_writeback_centisecs. As it can be disabled by sysctl, it should be able to enable by sysctl as well. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* writeback: pass in '0' for nr_pages writeback in laptop modeJens Axboe2017-10-031-16/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Laptop mode really wants to writeback the number of dirty pages and inodes. Instead of calculating this in the caller, just pass in 0 and let wakeup_flusher_threads() handle it. Use the new wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi() instead of rolling our own. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* writeback: remove 'range_cyclic' argument for wb_start_writeback()Jens Axboe2017-10-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | All the callers pass in 'true' for range_cyclic, so kill the argument. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_stateMichal Hocko2017-09-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1]. It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it gets suggests. We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here. All existing users seems to be correct: $ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c 2 NR_BOUNCE 2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES 11 NR_FREE_PAGES 1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB 1 NR_MLOCK 2 NR_PAGETABLE This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback()Johannes Weiner2017-08-181-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jaegeuk and Brad report a NULL pointer crash when writeback ending tries to update the memcg stats: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000003b0 IP: test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e/0x2c0 [...] RIP: 0010:test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e/0x2c0 Call Trace: <IRQ> end_page_writeback+0x47/0x70 f2fs_write_end_io+0x76/0x180 [f2fs] bio_endio+0x9f/0x120 blk_update_request+0xa8/0x2f0 scsi_end_request+0x39/0x1d0 scsi_io_completion+0x211/0x690 scsi_finish_command+0xd9/0x120 scsi_softirq_done+0x127/0x150 __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0x13/0x20 flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x56/0x110 generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30 smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x27/0x40 call_function_single_interrupt+0x89/0x90 RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10 (gdb) l *(test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e) 0xffffffff811bae3e is in test_clear_page_writeback (./include/linux/memcontrol.h:619). 614 mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), idx, val); 615 if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !page->mem_cgroup) 616 return; 617 mod_memcg_state(page->mem_cgroup, idx, val); 618 pn = page->mem_cgroup->nodeinfo[page_to_nid(page)]; 619 this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stat->count[idx], val); 620 } 621 622 unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, 623 gfp_t gfp_mask, The issue is that writeback doesn't hold a page reference and the page might get freed after PG_writeback is cleared (and the mapping is unlocked) in test_clear_page_writeback(). The stat functions looking up the page's node or zone are safe, as those attributes are static across allocation and free cycles. But page->mem_cgroup is not, and it will get cleared if we race with truncation or migration. It appears this race window has been around for a while, but less likely to trigger when the memcg stats were updated first thing after PG_writeback is cleared. Recent changes reshuffled this code to update the global node stats before the memcg ones, though, stretching the race window out to an extent where people can reproduce the problem. Update test_clear_page_writeback() to look up and pin page->mem_cgroup before clearing PG_writeback, then not use that pointer afterward. It is a partial revert of 62cccb8c8e7a ("mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()") but leaves the pageref-holding callsites that aren't affected alone. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809183825.GA26387@cmpxchg.org Fixes: 62cccb8c8e7a ("mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reported-by: Bradley Bolen <bradleybolen@gmail.com> Tested-by: Brad Bolen <bradleybolen@gmail.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functionsNikolay Borisov2017-07-121-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold various statistics. Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin with double underscore. However, they both end up calling __add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is already irq-safe. Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since they don't add any further protection than we already have. Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly without the irq-disabling dance. This will likely result in better runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters. While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-071-10/+9
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux Pull Writeback error handling fixes from Jeff Layton: "The main rationale for all of these changes is to tighten up writeback error reporting to userland. There are many ways now that writeback errors can be lost, such that fsync/fdatasync/msync return 0 when writeback actually failed. This pile contains a small set of cleanups and writeback error handling fixes that I was able to break off from the main pile (#2). Two of the patches in this pile are trivial. The exceptions are the patch to fix up error handling in write_one_page, and the patch to make JFS pay attention to write_one_page errors" * tag 'for-linus-v4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux: fs: remove call_fsync helper function mm: clean up error handling in write_one_page JFS: do not ignore return code from write_one_page() mm: drop "wait" parameter from write_one_page()
| * mm: clean up error handling in write_one_pageJeff Layton2017-07-051-7/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't try to check PageError since that's potentially racy and not necessarily going to be set after writepage errors out. Instead, check the mapping for an error after writepage returns. That should also help us detect errors that occurred if the VM tried to clean the page earlier due to memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
| * mm: drop "wait" parameter from write_one_page()Jeff Layton2017-07-051-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The callers all set it to 1. Also, make it clear that this function will not set any sort of AS_* error, and that the caller must do so if necessary. No existing caller uses this on normal files, so none of them need it. Also, add __must_check here since, in general, the callers need to handle an error here in some fashion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525103303.6524-1-jlayton@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructureJohannes Weiner2017-07-061-10/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lruvecs are at the intersection of the NUMA node and memcg, which is the scope for most paging activity. Introduce a convenient accounting infrastructure that maintains statistics per node, per memcg, and the lruvec itself. Then convert over accounting sites for statistics that are already tracked in both nodes and memcgs and can be easily switched. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix crash in the new cgroup stat keeping code] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531171450.GA10481@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: don't track uncharged pages at all Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605175254.GA8547@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add missing free_percpu()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605175354.GB8547@cmpxchg.org [linux@roeck-us.net: hexagon: fix build error caused by include file order] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170617153721.GA4382@roeck-us.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530181724.27197-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-05-081-4/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: - add GETFSMAP support - some performance improvements for very large file systems and for random write workloads into a preallocated file - bug fixes and cleanups. * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: jbd2: cleanup write flags handling from jbd2_write_superblock() ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts ext4: inherit encryption xattr before other xattrs ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ONCE in ext4_end_bio() ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction stalls during writeback ext4: preload block group descriptors ext4: make ext4_shutdown() static ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls vfs: add common GETFSMAP ioctl definitions ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map ext4: remove ext4_xattr_check_entry() ext4: rename ext4_xattr_check_names() to ext4_xattr_check_entries() ext4: merge ext4_xattr_list() into ext4_listxattr() ext4: constify static data that is never modified ext4: trim return value and 'dir' argument from ext4_insert_dentry() jbd2: fix dbench4 performance regression for 'nobarrier' mounts jbd2: Fix lockdep splat with generic/270 test mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback
| * mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writebackTheodore Ts'o2017-04-281-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, file system's writepages() function must not fail with an ENOMEM, since if they do, it's possible for buffered data to be lost. This is because on a data integrity writeback writepages() gets called but once, and if it returns ENOMEM, if you're lucky the error will get reflected back to the userspace process calling fsync(). If you aren't lucky, the user is unmounting the file system, and the dirty pages will simply be lost. For this reason, file system code generally will use GFP_NOFS, and in some cases, will retry the allocation in a loop, on the theory that "kernel livelocks are temporary; data loss is forever". Unfortunately, this can indeed cause livelocks, since inside the writepages() call, the file system is holding various mutexes, and these mutexes may prevent the OOM killer from killing its targetted victim if it is also holding on to those mutexes. A better solution would be to allow writepages() to call the memory allocator with flags that give greater latitude to the allocator to fail, and then release its locks and return ENOMEM, and in the case of background writeback, the writes can be retried at a later time. In the case of data-integrity writeback retry after waiting a brief amount of time. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* | mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcgJohannes Weiner2017-05-031-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The memory controllers stat function names are awkwardly long and arbitrarily different from the zone and node stat functions. The current interface is named: mem_cgroup_read_stat() mem_cgroup_update_stat() mem_cgroup_inc_stat() mem_cgroup_dec_stat() mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat() mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat() This patch renames it to match the corresponding node stat functions: memcg_page_state() [node_page_state()] mod_memcg_state() [mod_node_state()] inc_memcg_state() [inc_node_state()] dec_memcg_state() [dec_node_state()] mod_memcg_page_state() [mod_node_page_state()] inc_memcg_page_state() [inc_node_page_state()] dec_memcg_page_state() [dec_node_page_state()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: memcontrol: re-use node VM page state enumJohannes Weiner2017-05-031-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current duplication is a high-maintenance mess, and it's painful to add new items or query memcg state from the rest of the VM. This increases the size of the stat array marginally, but we should aim to track all these stats on a per-cgroup level anyway. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/page-writeback.c: use setup_deferrable_timerGeliang Tang2017-05-031-3/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | Use setup_deferrable_timer() instead of init_timer_deferrable() to simplify the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8e3d4280a34facbc007346f31df833cec28801e.1488070291.git.geliangtang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API ↵Ingo Molnar2017-03-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dependency Instead of including the full <linux/signal.h>, we are going to include the types-only <linux/signal_types.h> header in <linux/sched.h>, to further decouple the scheduler header from the signal headers. This means that various files which relied on the full <linux/signal.h> need to be updated to gain an explicit dependency on it. Update the code that relies on sched.h's inclusion of the <linux/signal.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* scripts/spelling.txt: add "comsume(r)" pattern and fix typo instancesMasahiro Yamada2017-02-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt: comsume||consume comsumer||consumer comsuming||consuming I see some variable names with this pattern, but this commit is only touching comment blocks to avoid unexpected impact. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-19-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page-writeback.c: place "not" inside of unlikely() statement in ↵Steven Rostedt (VMware)2017-02-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wb_domain_writeout_inc() The likely/unlikely profiler noticed that the unlikely statement in wb_domain_writeout_inc() is constantly wrong. This is due to the "not" (!) being outside the unlikely statement. It is likely that dom->period_time will be set, but unlikely that it wont be. Move the not into the unlikely statement. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170206120035.3c2e2b91@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queueJan Kara2017-02-021-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional changes in this patch. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* radix-tree: delete radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged()Matthew Wilcox2016-12-141-10/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an exceptionally complicated function with just one caller (tag_pages_for_writeback). We devote a large portion of the runtime of the test suite to testing this one function which has one caller. By introducing the new function radix_tree_iter_tag_set(), we can eliminate all of the complexity while keeping the performance. The caller can now use a fairly standard radix_tree_for_each() loop, and it doesn't need to worry about tricksy things like 'start' wrapping. The test suite continues to spend a large amount of time investigating this function, but now it's testing the underlying primitives such as radix_tree_iter_resume() and the radix_tree_for_each_tagged() iterator which are also used by other parts of the kernel. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480369871-5271-57-git-send-email-mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()Jens Axboe2016-11-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers to increase the priority of writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* mm: don't use radix tree writeback tags for pages in swap cacheHuang Ying2016-10-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | File pages use a set of radix tree tags (DIRTY, TOWRITE, WRITEBACK, etc.) to accelerate finding the pages with a specific tag in the radix tree during inode writeback. But for anonymous pages in the swap cache, there is no inode writeback. So there is no need to find the pages with some writeback tags in the radix tree. It is not necessary to touch radix tree writeback tags for pages in the swap cache. Per Rik van Riel's suggestion, a new flag AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS is introduced for address spaces which don't need to update the writeback tags. The flag is set for swap caches. It may be used for DAX file systems, etc. With this patch, the swap out bandwidth improved 22.3% (from ~1.2GB/s to ~1.48GBps) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes. The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device. The improvement comes from the reduced contention on the swap cache radix tree lock. To test sequential swapping out, the test case uses 8 processes, which sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until RAM and part of the swap device is used up. Details of comparison is as follow, base base+patch ---------------- -------------------------- %stddev %change %stddev \ | \ 2506952 ± 2% +28.1% 3212076 ± 7% vm-scalability.throughput 1207402 ± 7% +22.3% 1476578 ± 6% vmstat.swap.so 10.86 ± 12% -23.4% 8.31 ± 16% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list 10.82 ± 13% -33.1% 7.24 ± 14% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_zone_memcg 10.36 ± 11% -100.0% 0.00 ± -1% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__test_set_page_writeback.bdev_write_page.__swap_writepage.swap_writepage 10.52 ± 12% -100.0% 0.00 ± -1% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.test_clear_page_writeback.end_page_writeback.page_endio.pmem_rw_page Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472578089-5560-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm, vmscan: get rid of throttle_vm_writeoutMichal Hocko2016-10-071-30/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | throttle_vm_writeout() was introduced back in 2005 to fix OOMs caused by excessive pageout activity during the reclaim. Too many pages could be put under writeback therefore LRUs would be full of unreclaimable pages until the IO completes and in turn the OOM killer could be invoked. There have been some important changes introduced since then in the reclaim path though. Writers are throttled by balance_dirty_pages when initiating the buffered IO and later during the memory pressure, the direct reclaim is throttled by wait_iff_congested if the node is considered congested by dirty pages on LRUs and the underlying bdi is congested by the queued IO. The kswapd is throttled as well if it encounters pages marked for immediate reclaim or under writeback which signals that that there are too many pages under writeback already. Finally should_reclaim_retry does congestion_wait if the reclaim cannot make any progress and there are too many dirty/writeback pages. Another important aspect is that we do not issue any IO from the direct reclaim context anymore. In a heavy parallel load this could queue a lot of IO which would be very scattered and thus unefficient which would just make the problem worse. This three mechanisms should throttle and keep the amount of IO in a steady state even under heavy IO and memory pressure so yet another throttling point doesn't really seem helpful. Quite contrary, Mikulas Patocka has reported that swap backed by dm-crypt doesn't work properly because the swapout IO cannot make sufficient progress as the writeout path depends on dm_crypt worker which has to allocate memory to perform the encryption. In order to guarantee a forward progress it relies on the mempool allocator. mempool_alloc(), however, prefers to use the underlying (usually page) allocator before it grabs objects from the pool. Such an allocation can dive into the memory reclaim and consequently to throttle_vm_writeout. If there are too many dirty or pages under writeback it will get throttled even though it is in fact a flusher to clear pending pages. kworker/u4:0 D ffff88003df7f438 10488 6 2 0x00000000 Workqueue: kcryptd kcryptd_crypt [dm_crypt] Call Trace: schedule+0x3c/0x90 schedule_timeout+0x1d8/0x360 io_schedule_timeout+0xa4/0x110 congestion_wait+0x86/0x1f0 throttle_vm_writeout+0x44/0xd0 shrink_zone_memcg+0x613/0x720 shrink_zone+0xe0/0x300 do_try_to_free_pages+0x1ad/0x450 try_to_free_pages+0xef/0x300 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x879/0x1210 alloc_pages_current+0xa1/0x1f0 new_slab+0x2d7/0x6a0 ___slab_alloc+0x3fb/0x5c0 __slab_alloc+0x51/0x90 kmem_cache_alloc+0x27b/0x310 mempool_alloc_slab+0x1d/0x30 mempool_alloc+0x91/0x230 bio_alloc_bioset+0xbd/0x260 kcryptd_crypt+0x114/0x3b0 [dm_crypt] Let's just drop throttle_vm_writeout altogether. It is not very much helpful anymore. I have tried to test a potential writeback IO runaway similar to the one described in the original patch which has introduced that [1]. Small virtual machine (512MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 2G of swap space and disk image on a rather slow NFS in a sync mode on the host) with 8 parallel writers each writing 1G worth of data. As soon as the pagecache fills up and the direct reclaim hits then I start anon memory consumer in a loop (allocating 300M and exiting after populating it) in the background to make the memory pressure even stronger as well as to disrupt the steady state for the IO. The direct reclaim is throttled because of the congestion as well as kswapd hitting congestion_wait due to nr_immediate but throttle_vm_writeout doesn't ever trigger the sleep throughout the test. Dirty+writeback are close to nr_dirty_threshold with some fluctuations caused by the anon consumer. [1] https://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm3/broken-out/vm-pageout-throttling.patch Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471171473-21418-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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