writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount

When umount calls sync_filesystem(), we first do a WB_SYNC_NONE
writeback to kick off writeback of pending dirty inodes, then follow
that up with a WB_SYNC_ALL to wait for it. Since umount already holds
the sb s_umount mutex, WB_SYNC_NONE ends up doing nothing and all
writeback happens as WB_SYNC_ALL. This can greatly slow down umount,
since WB_SYNC_ALL writeback is a data integrity operation and thus
a bigger hammer than simple WB_SYNC_NONE. For barrier aware file systems
it's a lot slower.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

2 files changed, 38 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 760dc8d..67db897 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct wb_writeback_args {
 	int for_kupdate:1;
 	int range_cyclic:1;
 	int for_background:1;
+	int sb_pinned:1;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -230,6 +231,11 @@ static void bdi_sync_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 		.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_ALL,
 		.nr_pages	= LONG_MAX,
 		.range_cyclic	= 0,
+		/*
+		 * Setting sb_pinned is not necessary for WB_SYNC_ALL, but
+		 * lets make it explicitly clear.
+		 */
+		.sb_pinned	= 1,
 	};
 	struct bdi_work work;
 
@@ -245,21 +251,23 @@ static void bdi_sync_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
  * @bdi: the backing device to write from
  * @sb: write inodes from this super_block
  * @nr_pages: the number of pages to write
+ * @sb_locked: caller already holds sb umount sem.
  *
  * Description:
  *   This does WB_SYNC_NONE opportunistic writeback. The IO is only
  *   started when this function returns, we make no guarentees on
- *   completion. Caller need not hold sb s_umount semaphore.
+ *   completion. Caller specifies whether sb umount sem is held already or not.
  *
  */
 void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb,
-			 long nr_pages)
+			 long nr_pages, int sb_locked)
 {
 	struct wb_writeback_args args = {
 		.sb		= sb,
 		.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
 		.nr_pages	= nr_pages,
 		.range_cyclic	= 1,
+		.sb_pinned	= sb_locked,
 	};
 
 	/*
@@ -577,7 +585,7 @@ static enum sb_pin_state pin_sb_for_writeback(struct writeback_control *wbc,
 	/*
 	 * Caller must already hold the ref for this
 	 */
-	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
+	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->sb_pinned) {
 		WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount));
 		return SB_NOT_PINNED;
 	}
@@ -751,6 +759,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 		.for_kupdate		= args->for_kupdate,
 		.for_background		= args->for_background,
 		.range_cyclic		= args->range_cyclic,
+		.sb_pinned		= args->sb_pinned,
 	};
 	unsigned long oldest_jif;
 	long wrote = 0;
@@ -1193,6 +1202,18 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
 	iput(old_inode);
 }
 
+static void __writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, int sb_locked)
+{
+	unsigned long nr_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+	unsigned long nr_unstable = global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+	long nr_to_write;
+
+	nr_to_write = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
+			(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
+
+	bdi_start_writeback(sb->s_bdi, sb, nr_to_write, sb_locked);
+}
+
 /**
  * writeback_inodes_sb	-	writeback dirty inodes from given super_block
  * @sb: the superblock
@@ -1204,18 +1225,23 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
  */
 void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	unsigned long nr_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY);
-	unsigned long nr_unstable = global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-	long nr_to_write;
-
-	nr_to_write = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
-			(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
-
-	bdi_start_writeback(sb->s_bdi, sb, nr_to_write);
+	__writeback_inodes_sb(sb, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb);
 
 /**
+ * writeback_inodes_sb_locked	- writeback dirty inodes from given super_block
+ * @sb: the superblock
+ *
+ * Like writeback_inodes_sb(), except the caller already holds the
+ * sb umount sem.
+ */
+void writeback_inodes_sb_locked(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	__writeback_inodes_sb(sb, 1);
+}
+
+/**
  * writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle	-	start writeback if none underway
  * @sb: the superblock
  *
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 92b2281..de6a441 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 	if (wait)
 		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
 	else
-		writeback_inodes_sb(sb);
+		writeback_inodes_sb_locked(sb);
 
 	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
 		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);