PF_SWAPWRITE has been redundant since v3.2 commit ee72886d8e ("mm:
vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim").
Coincidentally, NeilBrown's current patch "remove inode_congested()"
deletes may_write_to_inode(), which appeared to be the one function which
took notice of PF_SWAPWRITE. But if you study the old logic, and the
conditions under which may_write_to_inode() was called, you discover that
flag and function have been pointless for a decade.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/75e80e7-742d-e3bd-531-614db8961e4@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
inode_congested() reports if the backing-device for the inode is
congested. No bdi reports congestion any more, so this always returns
'false'.
So remove inode_congested() and related functions, and remove the call
sites, assuming that inode_congested() always returns 'false'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164549983741.9187.2174285592262191311.stgit@noble.brown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rename blk_flush_plug to __blk_flush_plug and add a wrapper that includes
the NULL check instead of open coding that check everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127070549.1377856-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_needs_flush_plug fails to account for the cb_list, which needs
flushing as well. Remove it and just check if there is a plug instead
of poking into the internals of the plug structure.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127070549.1377856-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull fscache rewrite from David Howells:
"This is a set of patches that rewrites the fscache driver and the
cachefiles driver, significantly simplifying the code compared to
what's upstream, removing the complex operation scheduling and object
state machine in favour of something much smaller and simpler.
The series is structured such that the first few patches disable
fscache use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles
driver entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away
with without causing build failures in the network filesystems.
The patches after that recreate fscache and then cachefiles,
attempting to add the pieces in a logical order. Finally, the
filesystems are reenabled and then the very last patch changes the
documentation.
[!] Note: I have dropped the cifs patch for the moment, leaving local
caching in cifs disabled. I've been having trouble getting that
working. I think I have it done, but it needs more testing (there
seem to be some test failures occurring with v5.16 also from
xfstests), so I propose deferring that patch to the end of the
merge window.
WHY REWRITE?
============
Fscache's operation scheduling API was intended to handle sequencing
of cache operations, which were all required (where possible) to run
asynchronously in parallel with the operations being done by the
network filesystem, whilst allowing the cache to be brought online and
offline and to interrupt service for invalidation.
With the advent of the tmpfile capacity in the VFS, however, an
opportunity arises to do invalidation much more simply, without having
to wait for I/O that's actually in progress: Cachefiles can simply
create a tmpfile, cut over the file pointer for the backing object
attached to a cookie and abandon the in-progress I/O, dismissing it
upon completion.
Future work here would involve using Omar Sandoval's vfs_link() with
AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] to allow an extant file to be displaced by a new
hard link from a tmpfile as currently I have to unlink the old file
first.
These patches can also simplify the object state handling as I/O
operations to the cache don't all have to be brought to a stop in
order to invalidate a file. To that end, and with an eye on to writing
a new backing cache model in the future, I've taken the opportunity to
simplify the indexing structure.
I've separated the index cookie concept from the file cookie concept
by C type now. The former is now called a "volume cookie" (struct
fscache_volume) and there is a container of file cookies. There are
then just the two levels. All the index cookie levels are collapsed
into a single volume cookie, and this has a single printable string as
a key. For instance, an AFS volume would have a key of something like
"afs,example.com,1000555", combining the filesystem name, cell name
and volume ID. This is freeform, but must not have '/' chars in it.
I've also eliminated all pointers back from fscache into the network
filesystem. This required the duplication of a little bit of data in
the cookie (cookie key, coherency data and file size), but it's not
actually that much. This gets rid of problems with making sure we keep
netfs data structures around so that the cache can access them.
These patches mean that most of the code that was in the drivers
before is simply gone and those drivers are now almost entirely new
code. That being the case, there doesn't seem any particular reason to
try and maintain bisectability across it. Further, there has to be a
point in the middle where things are cut over as there's a single
point everything has to go through (ie. /dev/cachefiles) and it can't
be in use by two drivers at once.
ISSUES YET OUTSTANDING
======================
There are some issues still outstanding, unaddressed by this patchset,
that will need fixing in future patchsets, but that don't stop this
series from being usable:
(1) The cachefiles driver needs to stop using the backing filesystem's
metadata to store information about what parts of the cache are
populated. This is not reliable with modern extent-based
filesystems.
Fixing this is deferred to a separate patchset as it involves
negotiation with the network filesystem and the VM as to how much
data to download to fulfil a read - which brings me on to (2)...
(2) NFS (and CIFS with the dropped patch) do not take account of how
the cache would like I/O to be structured to meet its granularity
requirements. Previously, the cache used page granularity, which
was fine as the network filesystems also dealt in page
granularity, and the backing filesystem (ext4, xfs or whatever)
did whatever it did out of sight. However, we now have folios to
deal with and the cache will now have to store its own metadata to
track its contents.
The change I'm looking at making for cachefiles is to store
content bitmaps in one or more xattrs and making a bit in the map
correspond to something like a 256KiB block. However, the size of
an xattr and the fact that they have to be read/updated in one go
means that I'm looking at covering 1GiB of data per 512-byte map
and storing each map in an xattr. Cachefiles has the potential to
grow into a fully fledged filesystem of its very own if I'm not
careful.
However, I'm also looking at changing things even more radically
and going to a different model of how the cache is arranged and
managed - one that's more akin to the way, say, openafs does
things - which brings me on to (3)...
(3) The way cachefilesd does culling is very inefficient for large
caches and it would be better to move it into the kernel if I can
as cachefilesd has to keep asking the kernel if it can cull a
file. Changing the way the backend works would allow this to be
addressed.
BITS THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL
==============================
There are some bits I've added that may be controversial:
(1) I've provided a flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, that cachefiles uses to check
if a files is already being used by some other kernel service
(e.g. a duplicate cachefiles cache in the same directory) and
reject it if it is. This isn't entirely necessary, but it helps
prevent accidental data corruption.
I don't want to use S_SWAPFILE as that has other effects, but
quite possibly swapon() should set S_KERNEL_FILE too.
Note that it doesn't prevent userspace from interfering, though
perhaps it should. (I have made it prevent a marked directory from
being rmdir-able).
(2) Cachefiles wants to keep the backing file for a cookie open whilst
we might need to write to it from network filesystem writeback.
The problem is that the network filesystem unuses its cookie when
its file is closed, and so we have nothing pinning the cachefiles
file open and it will get closed automatically after a short time
to avoid EMFILE/ENFILE problems.
Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being
done due to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will
oops if we try to open a file in that context because they want to
access current->fs or suchlike.
To get around this, I added the following:
(A) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network
filesystem inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the
cookie caching that inode.
(B) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that
is set when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty
page from i_pages - at which point it clears
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this flag.
This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB
can be done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
that clears I_DIRTY_PAGES.
(C) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set,
sets I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to
pin the cache resources.
(D) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by
->write_inode() to unuse the cookie.
(E) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when
the inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This
cleans up any lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.
The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the
cache as well as to the server.
For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that
should allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the
dirty regions separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and
is also going to be affected by folios, one way or another, since
it deals with pages"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510611.1641942444@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> # 9p
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com # afs
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> # ceph
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com> # nfs
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com> # nfs
* tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (67 commits)
9p, afs, ceph, nfs: Use current_is_kswapd() rather than gfpflags_allow_blocking()
fscache: Add a tracepoint for cookie use/unuse
fscache: Rewrite documentation
ceph: add fscache writeback support
ceph: conversion to new fscache API
nfs: Implement cache I/O by accessing the cache directly
nfs: Convert to new fscache volume/cookie API
9p: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
9p: Use fscache indexing rewrite and reenable caching
afs: Skip truncation on the server of data we haven't written yet
afs: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
afs: Convert afs to use the new fscache API
fscache, cachefiles: Display stat of culling events
fscache, cachefiles: Display stats of no-space events
cachefiles: Allow cachefiles to actually function
fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data
cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines
cachefiles: Implement cookie resize for truncate
cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling
...
Cachefiles has a problem in that it needs to keep the backing file for a
cookie open whilst there are local modifications pending that need to be
written to it. However, we don't want to keep the file open indefinitely,
as that causes EMFILE/ENFILE/ENOMEM problems.
Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being done due
to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will oops if we try to
open a file in that context because they want to access current->fs or
other resources that have already been dismantled.
To get around this, I added the following:
(1) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network filesystem
inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the cookie caching
that inode.
(2) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that is set
when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty page from
i_pages - at which point it clears I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this
flag.
This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB can be
done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY that clears
I_DIRTY_PAGES.
(3) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set, sets
I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to pin the cache
resources.
(4) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by ->write_inode()
to unuse the cookie.
(5) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when the
inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This cleans up any
lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.
The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the cache as
well as to the server.
For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that should
allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the dirty regions
separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and is also going to be
affected by folios, one way or another, since it deals with pages
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819615157.215744.17623791756928043114.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906917856.143852.8224898306177154573.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967124567.1823006.14188359004568060298.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021524705.640689.17824932021727663017.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
This gets the statistics correct for large folios by modifying the
counters by the number of pages in the folio instead of by 1.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Hi Linus,
Please, pull the following hardening fixes and cleanups that I've
been collecting during the last development cycle. All of them have
been baking in linux-next.
Fix -Wcast-function-type error:
- firewire: Remove function callback casts (Oscar Carter)
Fix application of sizeof operator:
- firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer (jing yangyang)
Replace open coded instances with size_t saturating arithmetic helpers:
- assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments (Len Baker)
- writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
Flexible array transformation:
- KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member (Len Baker)
Use 2-factor argument multiplication form:
- nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
Thanks
--
Gustavo
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Merge tag 'kspp-misc-fixes-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux
Pull hardening fixes and cleanups from Gustavo A. R. Silva:
"Various hardening fixes and cleanups that I've been collecting during
the last development cycle:
Fix -Wcast-function-type error:
- firewire: Remove function callback casts (Oscar Carter)
Fix application of sizeof operator:
- firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer (jing yangyang)
Replace open coded instances with size_t saturating arithmetic
helpers:
- assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments
(Len Baker)
- writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len
Baker)
- aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic (Len Baker)
- dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
(Len Baker)
Flexible array transformation:
- KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member (Len
Baker)
Use 2-factor argument multiplication form:
- nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R.
Silva)
- xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)"
* tag 'kspp-misc-fixes-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
firewire: Remove function callback casts
nouveau/svm: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc()
firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer
dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
KVM: PPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member
aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
xfs: Use kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc()
assoc_array: Avoid open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments
As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.
In this case these are not actually dynamic sizes: all the operands
involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to
refactor them anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of
code.
So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() functions.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed
manually.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Consolidate the various helpers into a single blk_flush_plug helper that
takes a plk_plug and the from_scheduler bool and switch all callsites to
call it directly. Checks that the plug is non-NULL must be performed by
the caller, something that most already do anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020144119.142582-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"173 patches.
Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits)
mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
mm: KSM: fix data type
selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
...
Currently cgroup_writeback_by_id calls mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to get dirty
pages for a memcg. However mem_cgroup_wb_stats() does a lot more than
just get the number of dirty pages. Just directly get the number of dirty
pages instead of calling mem_cgroup_wb_stats(). Also
cgroup_writeback_by_id() is only called for best-effort dirty flushing, so
remove the unused 'nr' parameter and no need to explicitly flush memcg
stats.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210722182627.2267368-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we trigger writeback bandwidth estimation from
balance_dirty_pages() and from wb_writeback(). However neither of these
need to trigger when the system is relatively idle and writeback is
triggered e.g. from fsync(2). Make sure writeback estimates happen
reliably by triggering them from do_writepages().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "writeback: Fix bandwidth estimates", v4.
Fix estimate of writeback throughput when device is not fully busy doing
writeback. Michael Stapelberg has reported that such workload (e.g.
generated by linking) tends to push estimated throughput down to 0 and as
a result writeback on the device is practically stalled.
The first three patches fix the reported issue, the remaining two patches
are unrelated cleanups of problems I've noticed when reading the code.
This patch (of 4):
Track number of inodes under writeback for each bdi_writeback structure.
We will use this to decide whether wb does any IO and so we can estimate
its writeback throughput. In principle we could use number of pages under
writeback (WB_WRITEBACK counter) for this however normal percpu counter
reads are too inaccurate for our purposes and summing the counter is too
expensive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104519.16394-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that all users of sync_inode() have been deleted, remove
sync_inode().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull misc fs updates from Jan Kara:
"The new quotactl_fd() syscall (remake of quotactl_path() syscall that
got introduced & disabled in 5.13 cycle), and couple of udf, reiserfs,
isofs, and writeback fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'fs_for_v5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
writeback: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg css
quota: remove unnecessary oom message
isofs: remove redundant continue statement
quota: Wire up quotactl_fd syscall
quota: Change quotactl_path() systcall to an fd-based one
reiserfs: Remove unneed check in reiserfs_write_full_page()
udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function
reiserfs: add check for invalid 1st journal block
Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes to
the nearest living ancestor wb. It helps to get rid of per-cgroup
writeback structures themselves and of pinned memory and block cgroups,
which are significantly larger structures (mostly due to large per-cpu
statistics data). This prevents memory waste and helps to avoid different
scalability problems caused by large piles of dying cgroups.
Reuse the existing mechanism of inode switching used for foreign inode
detection. To speed things up batch up to 115 inode switching in a single
operation (the maximum number is selected so that the resulting struct
inode_switch_wbs_context can fit into 1024 bytes). Because every
switching consists of two steps divided by an RCU grace period, it would
be too slow without batching. Please note that the whole batch counts as
a single operation (when increasing/decreasing isw_nr_in_flight). This
allows to keep umounting working (flush the switching queue), however
prevents cleanups from consuming the whole switching quota and effectively
blocking the frn switching.
A cgwb cleanup operation can fail due to different reasons (e.g. not
enough memory, the cgwb has an in-flight/pending io, an attached inode in
a wrong state, etc). In this case the next scheduled cleanup will make a
new attempt. An attempt is made each time a new cgwb is offlined (in
other words a memcg and/or a blkcg is deleted by a user). In the future
an additional attempt scheduled by a timer can be implemented.
[guro@fb.com: replace open-coded "115" with arithmetic]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMEcSBcq/VXMiPPO@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com
[guro@fb.com: add smp_mb() to inode_prepare_wbs_switch()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMFa+guFw7OFjf3X@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com
[willy@infradead.org: fix documentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615200242.1716568-2-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-9-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently only a single inode can be switched to another writeback
structure at once. That means to switch an inode a separate
inode_switch_wbs_context structure must be allocated, and a separate rcu
callback and work must be scheduled.
It's fine for the existing ad-hoc switching, which is not happening that
often, but sub-optimal for massive switching required in order to release
a writeback structure. To prepare for it, let's add a support for
switching multiple inodes at once.
Instead of containing a single inode pointer, inode_switch_wbs_context
will contain a NULL-terminated array of inode pointers.
inode_do_switch_wbs() will be called for each inode.
To optimize the locking bdi->wb_switch_rwsem, old_wb's and new_wb's
list_locks will be acquired and released only once altogether for all
inodes. wb_wakeup() will be also be called only once. Instead of calling
wb_put(old_wb) after each successful switch, wb_put_many() is introduced
and used.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-8-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Split out the functional part of the inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() function
as inode_do switch_wbs() to reuse it later for switching inodes attached
to dying cgwbs.
This commit doesn't bring any functional changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-7-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently there is no way to iterate over inodes attached to a specific
cgwb structure. It limits the ability to efficiently reclaim the
writeback structure itself and associated memory and block cgroup
structures without scanning all inodes belonging to a sb, which can be
prohibitively expensive.
While dirty/in-active-writeback an inode belongs to one of the
bdi_writeback's io lists: b_dirty, b_io, b_more_io and b_dirty_time. Once
cleaned up, it's removed from all io lists. So the inode->i_io_list can
be reused to maintain the list of inodes, attached to a bdi_writeback
structure.
This patch introduces a new wb->b_attached list, which contains all inodes
which were dirty at least once and are attached to the given cgwb. Inodes
attached to the root bdi_writeback structures are never placed on such
list. The following patch will use this list to try to release cgwbs
structures more efficiently.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-6-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Inode's wb switching requires two steps divided by an RCU grace period.
It's currently implemented as an RCU callback inode_switch_wbs_rcu_fn(),
which schedules inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() as a work.
Switching to the rcu_work API allows to do the same in a cleaner and
slightly shorter form.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-5-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
isw_nr_in_flight is used to determine whether the inode switch queue
should be flushed from the umount path. Currently it's increased after
grabbing an inode and even scheduling the switch work. It means the
umount path can walk past cleanup_offline_cgwb() with active inode
references, which can result in a "Busy inodes after unmount." message and
use-after-free issues (with inode->i_sb which gets freed).
Fix it by incrementing isw_nr_in_flight before doing anything with the
inode and decrementing in the case when switching wasn't scheduled.
The problem hasn't yet been seen in the real life and was discovered by
Jan Kara by looking into the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-4-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
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>
A full memory barrier is required between clearing SB_ACTIVE flag in
generic_shutdown_super() and checking isw_nr_in_flight in
cgroup_writeback_umount(), otherwise a new switch operation might be
scheduled after atomic_read(&isw_nr_in_flight) returned 0. This would
result in a non-flushed isw_wq, and a potential crash.
The problem hasn't yet been seen in the real life and was discovered by
Jan Kara by looking into the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
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>
Patch series "cgroup, blkcg: prevent dirty inodes to pin dying memory cgroups", v9.
When an inode is getting dirty for the first time it's associated with a
wb structure (see __inode_attach_wb()). It can later be switched to
another wb (if e.g. some other cgroup is writing a lot of data to the
same inode), but otherwise stays attached to the original wb until being
reclaimed.
The problem is that the wb structure holds a reference to the original
memory and blkcg cgroups. So if an inode has been dirty once and later is
actively used in read-only mode, it has a good chance to pin down the
original memory and blkcg cgroups forever. This is often the case with
services bringing data for other services, e.g. updating some rpm
packages.
In the real life it becomes a problem due to a large size of the memcg
structure, which can easily be 1000x larger than an inode. Also a really
large number of dying cgroups can raise different scalability issues, e.g.
making the memory reclaim costly and less effective.
To solve the problem inodes should be eventually detached from the
corresponding writeback structure. It's inefficient to do it after every
writeback completion. Instead it can be done whenever the original memory
cgroup is offlined and writeback structure is getting killed. Scanning
over a (potentially long) list of inodes and detach them from the
writeback structure can take quite some time. To avoid scanning all
inodes, attached inodes are kept on a new list (b_attached). To make it
less noticeable to a user, the scanning and switching is performed from a
work context.
Big thanks to Jan Kara, Dennis Zhou, Hillf Danton and Tejun Heo for their
ideas and contribution to this patchset.
This patch (of 8):
If an inode's state has I_WILL_FREE flag set, the inode will be freed
soon, so there is no point in trying to switch the inode to a different
cgwb.
I_WILL_FREE was ignored since the introduction of the inode switching, so
it looks like it doesn't lead to any noticeable issues for a user. This
is why the patch is not intended for a stable backport.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-1-guro@fb.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-2-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The caller of wb_get_create() should pin the memcg, because
wb_get_create() relies on this guarantee. The rcu read lock
only can guarantee that the memcg css returned by css_from_id()
cannot be released, but the reference of the memcg can be zero.
rcu_read_lock()
memcg_css = css_from_id()
wb_get_create(memcg_css)
cgwb_create(memcg_css)
// css_get can change the ref counter from 0 back to 1
css_get(memcg_css)
rcu_read_unlock()
Fix it by holding a reference to the css before calling
wb_get_create(). This is not a problem I encountered in the
real world. Just the result of a code review.
Fixes: 682aa8e1a6 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402091145.80635-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
block_dump is an old debugging interface, one of it's functions is used
to print the information about who write which file on disk. If we
enable block_dump through /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and turn on debug log
level, we can gather information about write process name, target file
name and disk from kernel message. This feature is realized in
block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(), it print above information into kernel
message directly when marking inode dirty, so it is noisy and can easily
trigger log storm. At the same time, get the dentry refcount is also not
safe, we found it will lead to deadlock on ext4 file system with
data=journal mode.
After tracepoints has been introduced into the kernel, we got a
tracepoint in __mark_inode_dirty(), which is a better replacement of
block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(). The only downside is that it only trace
the inode number and not a file name, but it probably doesn't matter
because the original printed file name in block_dump is not accurate in
some cases, and we can still find it through the inode number and device
id. So this patch delete the dirting inode part of block_dump feature.
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Some comments for writeback_single_inode() and
__writeback_single_inode() are outdated or not very helpful, especially
with regards to writeback list handling. Update them.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-10-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
wbc->for_sync implies wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL, so there's no need
to check for both. Just check for WB_SYNC_ALL.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-9-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Improve some comments, and don't bother checking for the I_DIRTY_TIME
flag in the case where we just cleared it.
Also, warn if I_DIRTY_TIME and I_DIRTY_PAGES are passed to
__mark_inode_dirty() at the same time, as this case isn't handled.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-8-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
->dirty_inode is now only called when I_DIRTY_INODE (I_DIRTY_SYNC and/or
I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) is set. However it may still be passed other dirty
flags at the same time, provided that these other flags happened to be
passed to __mark_inode_dirty() at the same time as I_DIRTY_INODE.
This doesn't make sense because there is no reason for filesystems to
care about these extra flags. Nor are filesystems notified about all
updates to these other flags.
Therefore, mask the flags before passing them to ->dirty_inode.
Also properly document ->dirty_inode in vfs.rst.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
There is no need to call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates
(i.e. for __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_TIME)), since by the definition of
lazytime, filesystems must ignore these updates. Filesystems only need
to care about the updated timestamps when they expire.
Therefore, only call ->dirty_inode when I_DIRTY_INODE is set.
Based on a patch from Christoph Hellwig:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325122825.1086872-4-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
When lazytime is enabled and an inode is being written due to its
in-memory updated timestamps having expired, either due to a sync() or
syncfs() system call or due to dirtytime_expire_interval having elapsed,
the VFS needs to inform the filesystem so that the filesystem can copy
the inode's timestamps out to the on-disk data structures.
This is done by __writeback_single_inode() calling
mark_inode_dirty_sync(), which then calls ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC).
However, this occurs after __writeback_single_inode() has already
cleared the dirty flags from ->i_state. This causes two bugs:
- mark_inode_dirty_sync() redirties the inode, causing it to remain
dirty. This wastefully causes the inode to be written twice. But
more importantly, it breaks cases where sync_filesystem() is expected
to clean dirty inodes. This includes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY
ioctl (as reported at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@gmail.com), as well
as possibly filesystem freezing (freeze_super()).
- Since ->i_state doesn't contain I_DIRTY_TIME when ->dirty_inode() is
called from __writeback_single_inode() for lazytime expiration,
xfs_fs_dirty_inode() ignores the notification. (XFS only cares about
lazytime expirations, and it assumes that i_state will contain
I_DIRTY_TIME during those.) Therefore, lazy timestamps aren't
persisted by sync(), syncfs(), or dirtytime_expire_interval on XFS.
Fix this by moving the call to mark_inode_dirty_sync() to earlier in
__writeback_single_inode(), before the dirty flags are cleared from
i_state. This makes filesystems be properly notified of the timestamp
expiration, and it avoids incorrectly redirtying the inode.
This fixes xfstest generic/580 (which tests
FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY) when run on ext4 or f2fs with lazytime
enabled. It also fixes the new lazytime xfstest I've proposed, which
reproduces the above-mentioned XFS bug
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005818.92978-1-ebiggers@kernel.org).
Alternatively, we could call ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC) directly. But
due to the introduction of I_SYNC_QUEUED, mark_inode_dirty_sync() is the
right thing to do because mark_inode_dirty_sync() now knows not to move
the inode to a writeback list if it is currently queued for sync.
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4 ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Depends-on: 5afced3bf2 ("writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
BDIs get unregistered during device removal, and this WARN can be
trivially triggered by hot-removing a NVMe device while running fsx
It is otherwise harmless as we still hold a BDI reference, and the
writeback has been shut down already.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200928122613.434820-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Merge tag 'block-5.10-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Series of merge handling cleanups (Baolin, Christoph)
- Series of blk-throttle fixes and cleanups (Baolin)
- Series cleaning up BDI, seperating the block device from the
backing_dev_info (Christoph)
- Removal of bdget() as a generic API (Christoph)
- Removal of blkdev_get() as a generic API (Christoph)
- Cleanup of is-partition checks (Christoph)
- Series reworking disk revalidation (Christoph)
- Series cleaning up bio flags (Christoph)
- bio crypt fixes (Eric)
- IO stats inflight tweak (Gabriel)
- blk-mq tags fixes (Hannes)
- Buffer invalidation fixes (Jan)
- Allow soft limits for zone append (Johannes)
- Shared tag set improvements (John, Kashyap)
- Allow IOPRIO_CLASS_RT for CAP_SYS_NICE (Khazhismel)
- DM no-wait support (Mike, Konstantin)
- Request allocation improvements (Ming)
- Allow md/dm/bcache to use IO stat helpers (Song)
- Series improving blk-iocost (Tejun)
- Various cleanups (Geert, Damien, Danny, Julia, Tetsuo, Tian, Wang,
Xianting, Yang, Yufen, yangerkun)
* tag 'block-5.10-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (191 commits)
block: fix uapi blkzoned.h comments
blk-mq: move cancel of hctx->run_work to the front of blk_exit_queue
blk-mq: get rid of the dead flush handle code path
block: get rid of unnecessary local variable
block: fix comment and add lockdep assert
blk-mq: use helper function to test hw stopped
block: use helper function to test queue register
block: remove redundant mq check
block: invoke blk_mq_exit_sched no matter whether have .exit_sched
percpu_ref: don't refer to ref->data if it isn't allocated
block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message
blk-throttle: Re-use the throtl_set_slice_end()
blk-throttle: Open code __throtl_de/enqueue_tg()
blk-throttle: Move service tree validation out of the throtl_rb_first()
blk-throttle: Move the list operation after list validation
blk-throttle: Fix IO hang for a corner case
blk-throttle: Avoid tracking latency if low limit is invalid
blk-throttle: Avoid getting the current time if tg->last_finish_time is 0
blk-throttle: Remove a meaningless parameter for throtl_downgrade_state()
block: Remove redundant 'return' statement
...
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 <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Commit 32927393dc ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the
definition of dirtytime_interval_handler to match its prototype in
linux/writeback.h which fixes the following sparse error/warning:
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: expected void *
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: got void [noderef] __user *buffer
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: error: symbol 'dirtytime_interval_handler' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)):
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )
fs/fs-writeback.c: note: in included file:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: note: previously declared as:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )
Fixes: 32927393dc ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907093140.13434-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The only use of I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE is to detect in
__writeback_single_inode() that inode got there because flush worker
decided it's time to writeback the dirty inode time stamps (either
because we are syncing or because of age). However we can detect this
directly in __writeback_single_inode() and there's no need for the
strange propagation with I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE flag.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
When we are processing writeback for sync(2), move_expired_inodes()
didn't set any inode expiry value (older_than_this). This can result in
writeback never completing if there's steady stream of inodes added to
b_dirty_time list as writeback rechecks dirty lists after each writeback
round whether there's more work to be done. Fix the problem by using
sync(2) start time is inode expiry value when processing b_dirty_time
list similarly as for ordinarily dirtied inodes. This requires some
refactoring of older_than_this handling which simplifies the code
noticeably as a bonus.
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4 ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Inode's i_io_list list head is used to attach inode to several different
lists - wb->{b_dirty, b_dirty_time, b_io, b_more_io}. When flush worker
prepares a list of inodes to writeback e.g. for sync(2), it moves inodes
to b_io list. Thus it is critical for sync(2) data integrity guarantees
that inode is not requeued to any other writeback list when inode is
queued for processing by flush worker. That's the reason why
writeback_single_inode() does not touch i_io_list (unless the inode is
completely clean) and why __mark_inode_dirty() does not touch i_io_list
if I_SYNC flag is set.
However there are two flaws in the current logic:
1) When inode has only I_DIRTY_TIME set but it is already queued in b_io
list due to sync(2), concurrent __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC)
can still move inode back to b_dirty list resulting in skipping
writeback of inode time stamps during sync(2).
2) When inode is on b_dirty_time list and writeback_single_inode() races
with __mark_inode_dirty() like:
writeback_single_inode() __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_PAGES)
inode->i_state |= I_SYNC
__writeback_single_inode()
inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES;
if (inode->i_state & I_SYNC)
bail
if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
- not true so nothing done
We end up with I_DIRTY_PAGES inode on b_dirty_time list and thus
standard background writeback will not writeback this inode leading to
possible dirty throttling stalls etc. (thanks to Martijn Coenen for this
analysis).
Fix these problems by tracking whether inode is queued in b_io or
b_more_io lists in a new I_SYNC_QUEUED flag. When this flag is set, we
know flush worker has queued inode and we should not touch i_io_list.
On the other hand we also know that once flush worker is done with the
inode it will requeue the inode to appropriate dirty list. When
I_SYNC_QUEUED is not set, __mark_inode_dirty() can (and must) move inode
to appropriate dirty list.
Reported-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Tested-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4 ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currently, operations on inode->i_io_list are protected by
wb->list_lock. In the following patches we'll need to maintain
consistency between inode->i_state and inode->i_io_list so change the
code so that inode->i_lock protects also all inode's i_io_list handling.
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # Prerequisite for "writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback"
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the
default, caused by transaction leaks.
* Clean up fiemap handling in ext4
* Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code
* Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out
of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been
reserved by inode preallocation.
* Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename()
* Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code
* Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to ext4_ext_dirty()'s and
ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers.
* Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set()
* Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last
in data=journal mode.
* Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails
* Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"A lot of bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including:
- Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the
default, caused by transaction leaks.
- Clean up fiemap handling in ext4
- Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code
- Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out
of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been
reserved by inode preallocation.
- Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename()
- Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code
- Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to
ext4_ext_dirty()'s and ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers.
- Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set()
- Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last
in data=journal mode.
- Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails
- Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits)
ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction starts during writeback
ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set
ext4: remove the access_ok() check in ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache
fs: remove the access_ok() check in ioctl_fiemap
fs: handle FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC in fiemap_prep
fs: move fiemap range validation into the file systems instances
iomap: fix the iomap_fiemap prototype
fs: move the fiemap definitions out of fs.h
fs: mark __generic_block_fiemap static
ext4: remove the call to fiemap_check_flags in ext4_fiemap
ext4: split _ext4_fiemap
ext4: fix fiemap size checks for bitmap files
ext4: fix EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK macro
add comment for ext4_dir_entry_2 file_type member
jbd2: avoid leaking transaction credits when unreserving handle
ext4: drop ext4_journal_free_reserved()
ext4: mballoc: use lock for checking free blocks while retrying
ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_good_group()
ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling
ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_discard_preallocations()
...
Ext4 needs to remove inode from writeback lists after it is out of
visibility of its journalling machinery (which can still dirty the
inode). Export inode_io_list_del() for it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421085445.5731-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Merge tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"Core block changes that have been queued up for this release:
- Remove dead blk-throttle and blk-wbt code (Guoqing)
- Include pid in blktrace note traces (Jan)
- Don't spew I/O errors on wouldblock termination (me)
- Zone append addition (Johannes, Keith, Damien)
- IO accounting improvements (Konstantin, Christoph)
- blk-mq hardware map update improvements (Ming)
- Scheduler dispatch improvement (Salman)
- Inline block encryption support (Satya)
- Request map fixes and improvements (Weiping)
- blk-iocost tweaks (Tejun)
- Fix for timeout failing with error injection (Keith)
- Queue re-run fixes (Douglas)
- CPU hotplug improvements (Christoph)
- Queue entry/exit improvements (Christoph)
- Move DMA drain handling to the few drivers that use it (Christoph)
- Partition handling cleanups (Christoph)"
* tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (127 commits)
block: mark bio_wouldblock_error() bio with BIO_QUIET
blk-wbt: rename __wbt_update_limits to wbt_update_limits
blk-wbt: remove wbt_update_limits
blk-throttle: remove tg_drain_bios
blk-throttle: remove blk_throtl_drain
null_blk: force complete for timeout request
blk-mq: drain I/O when all CPUs in a hctx are offline
blk-mq: add blk_mq_all_tag_iter
blk-mq: open code __blk_mq_alloc_request in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx
blk-mq: use BLK_MQ_NO_TAG in more places
blk-mq: rename BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL to BLK_MQ_NO_TAG
blk-mq: move more request initialization to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init
blk-mq: simplify the blk_mq_get_request calling convention
blk-mq: remove the bio argument to ->prepare_request
nvme: force complete cancelled requests
blk-mq: blk-mq: provide forced completion method
block: fix a warning when blkdev.h is included for !CONFIG_BLOCK builds
block: blk-crypto-fallback: remove redundant initialization of variable err
block: reduce part_stat_lock() scope
block: use __this_cpu_add() instead of access by smp_processor_id()
...
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 919e3bd9a8
("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 <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> [mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The name is only printed for a not registered bdi in writeback. Use the
device name there as is more useful anyway for the unlike case that the
warning triggers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and
bdi_writeback structures. In this world, things are fairly
straightforward; the first thing bdi_unregister() does is to shutdown
the bdi_writeback structure (or wb), and part of that writeback ensures
that no other work queued against the wb, and that the wb is fully
drained.
With memcg, however, there is a one-to-many relationship between the bdi
and bdi_writeback structures; that is, there are multiple wb objects
which can all point to a single bdi. There is a refcount which prevents
the bdi object from being released (and hence, unregistered). So in
theory, the bdi_unregister() *should* only get called once its refcount
goes to zero (bdi_put will drop the refcount, and when it is zero,
release_bdi gets called, which calls bdi_unregister).
Unfortunately, del_gendisk() in block/gen_hd.c never got the memo about
the Brave New memcg World, and calls bdi_unregister directly. It does
this without informing the file system, or the memcg code, or anything
else. This causes the root wb associated with the bdi to be
unregistered, but none of the memcg-specific wb's are shutdown. So when
one of these wb's are woken up to do delayed work, they try to
dereference their wb->bdi->dev to fetch the device name, but
unfortunately bdi->dev is now NULL, thanks to the bdi_unregister()
called by del_gendisk(). As a result, *boom*.
Fortunately, it looks like the rest of the writeback path is perfectly
happy with bdi->dev and bdi->owner being NULL, so the simplest fix is to
create a bdi_dev_name() function which can handle bdi->dev being NULL.
This also allows us to bulletproof the writeback tracepoints to prevent
them from dereferencing a NULL pointer and crashing the kernel if one is
tracing with memcg's enabled, and an iSCSI device dies or a USB storage
stick is pulled.
The most common way of triggering this will be hotremoval of a device
while writeback with memcg enabled is going on. It was triggering
several times a day in a heavily loaded production environment.
Google Bug Id: 145475544
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227194829.150110-1-tytso@mit.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191228005211.163952-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cgroup writeback tries to refresh the associated wb immediately if the
current wb is dead. This is to avoid keeping issuing IOs on the stale
wb after memcg - blkcg association has changed (ie. when blkcg got
disabled / enabled higher up in the hierarchy).
Unfortunately, the logic gets triggered spuriously on inodes which are
associated with dead cgroups. When the logic is triggered on dead
cgroups, the attempt fails only after doing quite a bit of work
allocating and initializing a new wb.
While c3aab9a0bd ("mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping
has no dirty pages") alleviated the issue significantly as it now only
triggers when the inode has dirty pages. However, the condition can
still be triggered before the inode is switched to a different cgroup
and the logic simply doesn't make sense.
Skip the immediate switching if the associated memcg is dying.
This is a simplified version of the following two patches:
* https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190513183053.GA73423@dennisz-mbp/
* http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156355839560.2063.5265687291430814589.stgit@buzz
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Fixes: e8a7abf5a5 ("writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks")
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linus Torvalds