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* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-262-149/+963
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest: ktest: Fix bug when ADD_CONFIG is set but MIN_CONFIG is not ktest: Keep fonud configs separate from default configs ktest: Add prompt to use OUTPUT_MIN_CONFIG ktest: Use Kconfig dependencies to shorten time to make min_config ktest: Add test type make_min_config ktest: Require one TEST_START in config file ktest: Add helper function to avoid duplicate code ktest: Add IGNORE_WARNINGS to ignore warnings in some patches ktest: Fix tar extracting of modules to target ktest: Have the testing tmp dir include machine name ktest: Add POST/PRE_BUILD options ktest: Allow initrd processing without modules defined ktest: Have LOG_FILE evaluate options as well ktest: Have wait on stdio honor bug timeout ktest: Implement our own force min config ktest: Add TEST_NAME option ktest: Add CONFIG_BISECT_GOOD option ktest: Add detection of triple faults ktest: Notify reason to break out of monitoring boot
| * ktest: Fix bug when ADD_CONFIG is set but MIN_CONFIG is notSteven Rostedt2011-07-151-12/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The MIN_CONFIG is a single config that is considered to have all the configs that are required to boot the box. ADD_CONFIG is a list of configs that we add that may contain configs known to be broken (set off) or just configs that we want every box to have and this can include shared configs. If a config has no MIN_CONFIG defined, but has multiple files defined for the ADD_CONFIG, the test will die, because the MIN_CONFIG will default to ADD_CONFIG. The problem is the code to open MIN_CONFIG expects a string of one file, not multiple, and the open will fail. Since the real minconfig that is used is a concatination of MIN_CONFIG and ADD_CONFIG files, we change the code to open that instead of whatever MIN_CONFIG defaults to. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Keep fonud configs separate from default configsSteven Rostedt2011-07-151-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IGNORE_CONFIG file holds the configs that we don't want to change (with their proper settings). But on start up, the make noconfig is executed, and the configs that are on are also put into the ignore config category. But these are configs that were forced on by the kconfig scripts and not something that we found must be enabled to boot our machine. By keeping the configs that are forced on by default, separate from the configs we found that are required to boot the box, we can get a much more interesting IGNORE_CONFIG. In fact, the IGNORE_CONFIG can usually end up being the must have configs to boot, and only have 6 or 7 configs set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add prompt to use OUTPUT_MIN_CONFIGSteven Rostedt2011-07-152-14/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the defined OUTPUT_MIN_CONFIG in the make_min_config test exists, then give a prompt to ask the user if they want to use that config instead, as it is very often the case, especially when the test has been interrupted. The OUTPUT_MIN_CONFIG is usually the config that one wants to use to continue the test where they left off. But if START_MIN_CONFIG is defined (thus the MIN_CONFIG is not the default), then do not prompt, as it will be annoying if the user has this as one of many tests, and the test pauses waiting for input, while the user is sleeping. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Use Kconfig dependencies to shorten time to make min_configSteven Rostedt2011-07-152-22/+273
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To save time, the test does not just grab any option and test it. The Kconfig files are examined to determine the dependencies of the configs. If a config is chosen that depends on another config, that config will be checked first. By checking the parents first, we can eliminate whole groups of configs that may have been enabled. For example, if a USB device config is chosen and depends on CONFIG_USB, the CONFIG_USB will be tested before the device. If CONFIG_USB is found not to be needed, it, as well as all configs that depend on it, will be disabled and removed from the current min_config. Note, the code from streamline_config (make localmodconfig) was copied and used to find the dependencies in the Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add test type make_min_configSteven Rostedt2011-07-152-4/+301
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After doing a make localyesconfig, your kernel configuration may not be the most useful minimum configuration. Having a true minimum config that you can use against other configs is very useful if someone else has a config that breaks on your code. By only forcing those configurations that are truly required to boot your machine will give you less of a chance that one of your set configurations will make the bug go away. This will give you a better chance to be able to reproduce the reported bug matching the broken config. Note, this does take some time, and may require you to run the test over night, or perhaps over the weekend. But it also allows you to interrupt it, and gives you the current minimum config that was found till that time. Note, this test automatically assumes a BUILD_TYPE of oldconfig and its test type acts like boot. TODO: add a test version that makes the config do more than just boot, like having network access. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Require one TEST_START in config fileSteven Rostedt2011-06-141-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There has been too many times that I put in one too many SKIP TEST_STARTs and start the test with the default randconfig by accident that I added this to have ktest ask the user for which test they want to run if no TEST_START is specified. Now if I accidently start the test with all TEST_STARTs skipped, ktest asks what test do I want to run, and I now have a chance to kill it before it does a make mrproper on my build directory. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add helper function to avoid duplicate codeSteven Rostedt2011-06-141-26/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several places had the following code: get_grub_index; get_version; install; start_monitor; return monitor; Creating a function "start_monitor_and_boot()" replaces these mulitple uses with a single call. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add IGNORE_WARNINGS to ignore warnings in some patchesSteven Rostedt2011-06-142-2/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Doing a patchcheck test, there may be warnings that gcc produces which may be OK, and the test should not fail on that commit. By adding a IGNORE_WARNINGS option to list a space delimited SHA1s that are ignored lets the user avoid having the test fail on certain commits. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Fix tar extracting of modules to targetSteven Rostedt2011-06-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tar command to create the module directory is cjf, but the extraction only had xf. This works on most versions of tar, but some versions of tar require xjf for extraction as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Have the testing tmp dir include machine nameSteven Rostedt2011-06-142-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As multiple tests may be executed by the same server, have the test machine name add uniqueness to the value of the temp directory. Otherwise the temp directories may overwrite each other's tests. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add POST/PRE_BUILD optionsSteven Rostedt2011-06-142-3/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are some cases that a patch may be needed to apply to the kernel in patchcheck or bisect tests. Adding a PRE_BUILD option to apply the patch and POST_BUILD to remove it, allows for this to be done easily. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Allow initrd processing without modules definedSteven Rostedt2011-06-131-6/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a config is set with CONFIG_MODULES=n, it does not mean that the kernel does not need an initrd to boot. For systems that depend on LVM and such, an initrd must run first. If POST_INSTALL is defined, then run the post install regardless if modules are needed or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Have LOG_FILE evaluate options as wellSteven Rostedt2011-06-131-58/+68
| | | | | | | | | | | | The LOG_FILE variable needs to evaluate the $ options as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Have wait on stdio honor bug timeoutSteven Rostedt2011-06-131-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After a bug is found, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE timeout is used to determine how much output should be printed before breaking out of the monitor loop. This is to get things like call traces and enough infromation about the bug to help determine what caused it. The STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is usually much shorter than the TIMEOUT that is used to determine when to quit after no more stdio is given. But since the stdio read uses a wait on I/O, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is only checked after we get something from I/O. But if the I/O does not return any more data, we wait the TIMEOUT period instead, even though we already triggered a bug report. The wait on I/O should honor the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE time if a bug has been found. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Implement our own force min configSteven Rostedt2011-06-131-13/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the build KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG environment variable to force the min config may not always work properly. Since ktest is written in perl, it is trivial to read and replace the current config with the configs specified by the min config. Now the min config (and add configs) are read by perl and before a make is done, these configs in the .config file are replaced by the version in the min config. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add TEST_NAME optionSteven Rostedt2011-06-132-2/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Searching through several tests, it gets confusing which test result is for which test. By adding the TEST_NAME option, the user can tell which test result belongs to which test. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add CONFIG_BISECT_GOOD optionSteven Rostedt2011-06-132-7/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the config_bisect compares the min config with the CONFIG_BISECT config. There may be another config that we know is good that we want to ignore configs on. By passing in this config it will ignore the options that are set in the good config. Note: This only ignores the config, it does not (yet) handle options that are different between the two configs. If the good config has "SLAB" set and the bad config has "SLUB" it will not find the bug if the bug had to do with changing these two options. This is something that I intend to implement in the future. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Add detection of triple faultsSteven Rostedt2011-06-132-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a triple fault happens in a test, no call trace nor panic is displayed. Instead, the system reboots to the good kernel. Since the good kernel may display a boot prompt that matches the success string, ktest may think that the test succeeded, when it did not. Detecting triple faults is tricky because it is hard to generalize what a reboot looks like. The best that we can come up with for now is to examine the Linux banner. If we detect that the Linux banner matches the test we want to test, then look to see if we hit another Linux banner with a different kernel is booted. This can be assumed to be a triple fault. We can't just check for two Linux banners because things like early printk may cause the Linux banner to be displayed twice. Checking for different kernel versions should be the safe bet. If this for some reason detects a false triple boot. A new ktest config option is also created: DETECT_TRIPLE_FAULT This can be set to 0 to disable this checking. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ktest: Notify reason to break out of monitoring bootSteven Rostedt2011-06-131-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Different timeouts can cause the ktest monitor to break out of the loop. It becomes annoying that one does not know the reason why it exited the monitor loop. Display the cause of the reason why the loop was exited. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-2615-286/+747
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback: (27 commits) mm: properly reflect task dirty limits in dirty_exceeded logic writeback: don't busy retry writeback on new/freeing inodes writeback: scale IO chunk size up to half device bandwidth writeback: trace global_dirty_state writeback: introduce max-pause and pass-good dirty limits writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit writeback: consolidate variable names in balance_dirty_pages() writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimation writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pages writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight writeback: skip tmpfs early in balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/fs-writeback.c and mm/filemap.c
| * | mm: properly reflect task dirty limits in dirty_exceeded logicJan Kara2011-07-241-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We set bdi->dirty_exceeded (and thus ratelimiting code starts to call balance_dirty_pages() every 8 pages) when a per-bdi limit is exceeded or global limit is exceeded. But per-bdi limit also depends on the task. Thus different tasks reach the limit on that bdi at different levels of dirty pages. The result is that with current code bdi->dirty_exceeded ping-ponged between 1 and 0 depending on which task just got into balance_dirty_pages(). We fix the issue by clearing bdi->dirty_exceeded only when per-bdi amount of dirty pages drops below the threshold (7/8 * bdi_dirty_limit) where task limits already do not have any influence. Impact: The end result is, the dirty pages are kept more tightly under control, with the average number slightly lowered than before. This reduces the risk to throttle light dirtiers and hence more responsive. However it may add overheads by enforcing balance_dirty_pages() calls on every 8 pages when there are 2+ heavy dirtiers. CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: don't busy retry writeback on new/freeing inodesWu Fengguang2011-07-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a system hang bug introduced by commit b7a2441f9966 ("writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io") and e8dfc3058 ("writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback()") easily reproducible with high memory pressure and lots of file creation/deletions, for example, a kernel build in limited memory. It hangs when some inode is in the I_NEW, I_FREEING or I_WILL_FREE state, the flusher will get stuck busy retrying that inode, never releasing wb->list_lock. The lock in turn blocks all kinds of other tasks when they are trying to grab it. As put by Jan, it's a safe change regarding data integrity. I_FREEING or I_WILL_FREE inodes are written back by iput_final() and it is reclaim code that is responsible for eventually removing them. So writeback code can safely ignore them. I_NEW inodes should move out of this state when they are fully set up and in the writeback round following that, we will consider them for writeback. So the change makes sense. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: scale IO chunk size up to half device bandwidthWu Fengguang2011-07-092-13/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES was hard-coded to 1024 because of a concern of not holding I_SYNC for too long. (At least, that was the comment previously.) This doesn't make sense now because the only time we wait for I_SYNC is if we are calling sync or fsync, and in that case we need to write out all of the data anyway. Previously there may have been other code paths that waited on I_SYNC, but not any more. -- Theodore Ts'o So remove the MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES constraint. The writeback pages will adapt to as large as the storage device can write within 500ms. XFS is observed to do IO completions in a batch, and the batch size is equal to the write chunk size. To avoid dirty pages to suddenly drop out of balance_dirty_pages()'s dirty control scope and create large fluctuations, the chunk size is also limited to half the control scope. The balance_dirty_pages() control scrope is [(background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2, dirty_thresh] which is by default [15%, 20%] of global dirty pages, whose range size is dirty_thresh / DIRTY_FULL_SCOPE. The adpative write chunk size will be rounded to the nearest 4MB boundary. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13930 CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: trace global_dirty_stateWu Fengguang2011-07-092-0/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add trace event balance_dirty_state for showing the global dirty page counts and thresholds at each global_dirty_limits() invocation. This will cover the callers throttle_vm_writeout(), over_bground_thresh() and each balance_dirty_pages() loop. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: introduce max-pause and pass-good dirty limitsWu Fengguang2011-07-092-0/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The max-pause limit helps to keep the sleep time inside balance_dirty_pages() within MAX_PAUSE=200ms. The 200ms max sleep means per task rate limit of 8pages/200ms=160KB/s when dirty exceeded, which normally is enough to stop dirtiers from continue pushing the dirty pages high, unless there are a sufficient large number of slow dirtiers (eg. 500 tasks doing 160KB/s will still sum up to 80MB/s, exceeding the write bandwidth of a slow disk and hence accumulating more and more dirty pages). The pass-good limit helps to let go of the good bdi's in the presence of a blocked bdi (ie. NFS server not responding) or slow USB disk which for some reason build up a large number of initial dirty pages that refuse to go away anytime soon. For example, given two bdi's A and B and the initial state bdi_thresh_A = dirty_thresh / 2 bdi_thresh_B = dirty_thresh / 2 bdi_dirty_A = dirty_thresh / 2 bdi_dirty_B = dirty_thresh / 2 Then A get blocked, after a dozen seconds bdi_thresh_A = 0 bdi_thresh_B = dirty_thresh bdi_dirty_A = dirty_thresh / 2 bdi_dirty_B = dirty_thresh / 2 The (bdi_dirty_B < bdi_thresh_B) test is now useless and the dirty pages will be effectively throttled by condition (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh). This has two problems: (1) we lose the protections for light dirtiers (2) balance_dirty_pages() effectively becomes IO-less because the (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) test won't be true. This is good for IO, but balance_dirty_pages() loses an important way to break out of the loop which leads to more spread out throttle delays. DIRTY_PASSGOOD_AREA can eliminate the above issues. The only problem is, DIRTY_PASSGOOD_AREA needs to be defined as 2 to fully cover the above example while this patch uses the more conservative value 8 so as not to surprise people with too many dirty pages than expected. The max-pause limit won't noticeably impact the speed dirty pages are knocked down when there is a sudden drop of global/bdi dirty thresholds. Because the heavy dirties will be throttled below 160KB/s which is slow enough. It does help to avoid long dirty throttle delays and especially will make light dirtiers more responsive. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limitWu Fengguang2011-07-093-3/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The start of a heavy weight application (ie. KVM) may instantly knock down determine_dirtyable_memory() if the swap is not enabled or full. global_dirty_limits() and bdi_dirty_limit() will in turn get global/bdi dirty thresholds that are _much_ lower than the global/bdi dirty pages. balance_dirty_pages() will then heavily throttle all dirtiers including the light ones, until the dirty pages drop below the new dirty thresholds. During this _deep_ dirty-exceeded state, the system may appear rather unresponsive to the users. About "deep" dirty-exceeded: task_dirty_limit() assigns 1/8 lower dirty threshold to heavy dirtiers than light ones, and the dirty pages will be throttled around the heavy dirtiers' dirty threshold and reasonably below the light dirtiers' dirty threshold. In this state, only the heavy dirtiers will be throttled and the dirty pages are carefully controlled to not exceed the light dirtiers' dirty threshold. However if the threshold itself suddenly drops below the number of dirty pages, the light dirtiers will get heavily throttled. So introduce global_dirty_limit for tracking the global dirty threshold with policies - follow downwards slowly - follow up in one shot global_dirty_limit can effectively mask out the impact of sudden drop of dirtyable memory. It will be used in the next patch for two new type of dirty limits. Note that the new dirty limits are not going to avoid throttling the light dirtiers, but could limit their sleep time to 200ms. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: consolidate variable names in balance_dirty_pages()Wu Fengguang2011-07-091-10/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce nr_dirty = NR_FILE_DIRTY + NR_WRITEBACK + NR_UNSTABLE_NFS in order to simplify many tests in the following patches. balance_dirty_pages() will eventually care only about the dirty sums besides nr_writeback. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfsWu Fengguang2011-07-091-11/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a "BdiWriteBandwidth" entry and indent others in /debug/bdi/*/stats. btw, increase digital field width to 10, for keeping the possibly huge BdiWritten number aligned at least for desktop systems. Impact: this could break user space tools if they are dumb enough to depend on the number of white spaces. CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimationWu Fengguang2011-07-095-0/+120
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The estimation value will start from 100MB/s and adapt to the real bandwidth in seconds. It tries to update the bandwidth only when disk is fully utilized. Any inactive period of more than one second will be skipped. The estimated bandwidth will be reflecting how fast the device can writeout when _fully utilized_, and won't drop to 0 when it goes idle. The value will remain constant at disk idle time. At busy write time, if not considering fluctuations, it will also remain high unless be knocked down by possible concurrent reads that compete for the disk time and bandwidth with async writes. The estimation is not done purely in the flusher because there is no guarantee for write_cache_pages() to return timely to update bandwidth. The bdi->avg_write_bandwidth smoothing is very effective for filtering out sudden spikes, however may be a little biased in long term. The overheads are low because the bdi bandwidth update only occurs at 200ms intervals. The 200ms update interval is suitable, because it's not possible to get the real bandwidth for the instance at all, due to large fluctuations. The NFS commits can be as large as seconds worth of data. One XFS completion may be as large as half second worth of data if we are going to increase the write chunk to half second worth of data. In ext4, fluctuations with time period of around 5 seconds is observed. And there is another pattern of irregular periods of up to 20 seconds on SSD tests. That's why we are not only doing the estimation at 200ms intervals, but also averaging them over a period of 3 seconds and then go further to do another level of smoothing in avg_write_bandwidth. CC: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pagesJan Kara2011-07-093-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the BDI_WRITTEN counter. It will be used for estimating the bdi's write bandwidth. Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>: Move BDI_WRITTEN accounting into __bdi_writeout_inc(). This will cover and fix fuse, which only calls bdi_writeout_inc(). CC: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straightWu Fengguang2011-07-096-129/+148
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass struct wb_writeback_work all the way down to writeback_sb_inodes(), and initialize the struct writeback_control there. struct writeback_control is basically designed to control writeback of a single file, but we keep abuse it for writing multiple files in writeback_sb_inodes() and its callers. It immediately clean things up, e.g. suddenly wbc.nr_to_write vs work->nr_pages starts to make sense, and instead of saving and restoring pages_skipped in writeback_sb_inodes it can always start with a clean zero value. It also makes a neat IO pattern change: large dirty files are now written in the full 4MB writeback chunk size, rather than whatever remained quota in wbc->nr_to_write. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: skip tmpfs early in balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()Wu Fengguang2011-06-201-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This helps prevent tmpfs dirtiers from skewing the per-cpu bdp_ratelimits. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: trace event writeback_queue_ioWu Fengguang2011-06-082-4/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note that it adds a little overheads to account the moved/enqueued inodes from b_dirty to b_io. The "moved" accounting may be later used to limit the number of inodes that can be moved in one shot, in order to keep spinlock hold time under control. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: trace event writeback_single_inodeWu Fengguang2011-06-082-0/+74
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is valuable to know how the dirty inodes are iterated and their IO size. "writeback_single_inode: bdi 8:0: ino=134246746 state=I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_SYNC age=414 index=0 to_write=1024 wrote=0" - "state" reflects inode->i_state at the end of writeback_single_inode() - "index" reflects mapping->writeback_index after the ->writepages() call - "to_write" is the wbc->nr_to_write at entrance of writeback_single_inode() - "wrote" is the number of pages actually written v2: add trace event writeback_single_inode_requeue as proposed by Dave. CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestionWu Fengguang2011-06-084-9/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove two unused struct writeback_control fields: .encountered_congestion (completely unused) .nonblocking (never set, checked/showed in XFS,NFS/btrfs) The .for_background check in nfs_write_inode() is also removed btw, as .for_background implies WB_SYNC_NONE. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: remove writeback_control.more_ioWu Fengguang2011-06-084-16/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When wbc.more_io was first introduced, it indicates whether there are at least one superblock whose s_more_io contains more IO work. Now with the per-bdi writeback, it can be replaced with a simple b_more_io test. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fsWu Fengguang2011-06-081-6/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This avoids unnecessary checks and dirty throttling on tmpfs/ramfs. Notes about the tmpfs/ramfs behavior changes: As for 2.6.36 and older kernels, the tmpfs writes will sleep inside balance_dirty_pages() as long as we are over the (dirty+background)/2 global throttle threshold. This is because both the dirty pages and threshold will be 0 for tmpfs/ramfs. Hence this test will always evaluate to TRUE: dirty_exceeded = (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback >= bdi_thresh) || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback >= dirty_thresh); For 2.6.37, someone complained that the current logic does not allow the users to set vm.dirty_ratio=0. So commit 4cbec4c8b9 changed the test to dirty_exceeded = (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback > bdi_thresh) || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback > dirty_thresh); So 2.6.37 will behave differently for tmpfs/ramfs: it will never get throttled unless the global dirty threshold is exceeded (which is very unlikely to happen; once happen, will block many tasks). I'd say that the 2.6.36 behavior is very bad for tmpfs/ramfs. It means for a busy writing server, tmpfs write()s may get livelocked! The "inadvertent" throttling can hardly bring help to any workload because of its "either no throttling, or get throttled to death" property. So based on 2.6.37, this patch won't bring more noticeable changes. CC: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-docWu Fengguang2011-06-081-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify the bdi_dirty_limit() comment. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue timeWu Fengguang2011-06-082-16/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes writeback_control.wb_start and does more straightforward sync livelock prevention by setting .older_than_this to prevent extra inodes from being enqueued in the first place. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback()Wu Fengguang2011-06-081-17/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code refactor for more logical code layout. No behavior change. - remove the mis-named __writeback_inodes_sb() - wb_writeback()/writeback_inodes_wb() will decide when to queue_io() before calling __writeback_inodes_wb() Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lockChristoph Hellwig2011-06-088-68/+85
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the global inode_wb_list_lock into a per-bdi_writeback list_lock, as it's currently the most contended lock in the system for metadata heavy workloads. It won't help for single-filesystem workloads for which we'll need the I/O-less balance_dirty_pages, but at least we can dedicate a cpu to spinning on each bdi now for larger systems. Based on earlier patches from Nick Piggin and Dave Chinner. It reduces lock contentions to 1/4 in this test case: 10 HDD JBOD, 100 dd on each disk, XFS, 6GB ram lock_stat version 0.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vanilla 2.6.39-rc3: inode_wb_list_lock: 42590 44433 0.12 147.74 144127.35 252274 886792 0.08 121.34 917211.23 ------------------ inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85 inode_wb_list_lock 34 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49 inode_wb_list_lock 12893 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0 inode_wb_list_lock 10702 [<ffffffff8115afef>] writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x20a ------------------ inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85 inode_wb_list_lock 19 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49 inode_wb_list_lock 5550 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0 inode_wb_list_lock 8511 [<ffffffff8115b4ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157 2.6.39-rc3 + patch: &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock: 11383 11657 0.14 151.69 40429.51 90825 527918 0.11 145.90 556843.37 ------------------------ &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 10 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1493 [<ffffffff8115b1ed>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3d/0x150 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3652 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1412 [<ffffffff8115a38e>] writeback_single_inode+0x17f/0x223 ------------------------ &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3 [<ffffffff8110b5af>] bdi_lock_two+0x46/0x4b &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 6 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2061 [<ffffffff8115af97>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2629 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f hughd@google.com: fix recursive lock when bdi_lock_two() is called with new the same as old akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup bdev_inode_switch_bdi() comment Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: refill b_io iff emptyWu Fengguang2011-06-081-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no point to carry different refill policies between for_kupdate and other type of works. Use a consistent "refill b_io iff empty" policy which can guarantee fairness in an easy to understand way. A b_io refill will setup a _fixed_ work set with all currently eligible inodes and start a new round of walk through b_io. The "fixed" work set means no new inodes will be added to the work set during the walk. Only when a complete walk over b_io is done, new inodes that are eligible at the time will be enqueued and the walk be started over. This procedure provides fairness among the inodes because it guarantees each inode to be synced once and only once at each round. So all inodes will be free from starvations. This change relies on wb_writeback() to keep retrying as long as we made some progress on cleaning some pages and/or inodes. Without that ability, the old logic on background works relies on aggressively queuing all eligible inodes into b_io at every time. But that's not a guarantee. The below test script completes a slightly faster now: 2.6.39-rc3 2.6.39-rc3-dyn-expire+ ------------------------------------------------ all elapsed 256.043 252.367 stddev 24.381 12.530 tar elapsed 30.097 28.808 dd elapsed 13.214 11.782 #!/bin/zsh cp /c/linux-2.6.38.3.tar.bz2 /dev/shm/ umount /dev/sda7 mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda7 mount /dev/sda7 /fs echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches tic=$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d' ' -f2) cd /fs time tar jxf /dev/shm/linux-2.6.38.3.tar.bz2 & time dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/zero bs=1M count=1000 & wait sync tac=$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d' ' -f2) echo elapsed: $((tac - tic)) It maintains roughly the same small vs. large file writeout shares, and offers large files better chances to be written in nice 4M chunks. Analyzes from Dave Chinner in great details: Let's say we have lots of inodes with 100 dirty pages being created, and one large writeback going on. We expire 8 new inodes for every 1024 pages we write back. With the old code, we do: b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l) 8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 8s) writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (8s, 1l) 8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (8s, 1l, 8s) writeback 8 small inodes 800 pages 1 large inode 224 pages -> b_more_io b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (8s, 1l) 8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (8s, 1l, 8s) ..... Your new code: b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l) 8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 8s) writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io (b_io == 8s) writeback 8 small inodes 800 pages b_io empty: (1800 pages written) b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l) 14 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 14s) writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io (b_io == 14s) writeback 10 small inodes 1000 pages 1 small inode 24 pages -> b_more_io (1l, 1s(24)) writeback 5 small inodes 500 pages b_io empty: (2548 pages written) b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l, 1s(24)) 20 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 1s(24), 20s) ...... Rough progression of pages written at b_io refill: Old code: total large file % of writeback 1024 224 21.9% (fixed) New code: total large file % of writeback 1800 1024 ~55% 2550 1024 ~40% 3050 1024 ~33% 3500 1024 ~29% 3950 1024 ~26% 4250 1024 ~24% 4500 1024 ~22.7% 4700 1024 ~21.7% 4800 1024 ~21.3% 4800 1024 ~21.3% (pretty much steady state from here) Ok, so the steady state is reached with a similar percentage of writeback to the large file as the existing code. Ok, that's good, but providing some evidence that is doesn't change the shared of writeback to the large should be in the commit message ;) The other advantage to this is that we always write 1024 page chunks to the large file, rather than smaller "whatever remains" chunks. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving targetWu Fengguang2011-06-081-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dynamically compute the dirty expire timestamp at queue_io() time. writeback_control.older_than_this used to be determined at entrance to the kupdate writeback work. This _static_ timestamp may go stale if the kupdate work runs on and on. The flusher may then stuck with some old busy inodes, never considering newly expired inodes thereafter. This has two possible problems: - It is unfair for a large dirty inode to delay (for a long time) the writeback of small dirty inodes. - As time goes by, the large and busy dirty inode may contain only _freshly_ dirtied pages. Ignoring newly expired dirty inodes risks delaying the expired dirty pages to the end of LRU lists, triggering the evil pageout(). Nevertheless this patch merely addresses part of the problem. v2: keep policy changes inside wb_writeback() and keep the wbc.older_than_this visibility as suggested by Dave. CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: try more writeback as long as something was writtenWu Fengguang2011-06-081-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | writeback_inodes_wb()/__writeback_inodes_sb() are not aggressive in that they only populate possibly a subset of eligible inodes into b_io at entrance time. When the queued set of inodes are all synced, they just return, possibly with all queued inode pages written but still wbc.nr_to_write > 0. For kupdate and background writeback, there may be more eligible inodes sitting in b_dirty when the current set of b_io inodes are completed. So it is necessary to try another round of writeback as long as we made some progress in this round. When there are no more eligible inodes, no more inodes will be enqueued in queue_io(), hence nothing could/will be synced and we may safely bail. For example, imagine 100 inodes i0, i1, i2, ..., i90, i91, i99 At queue_io() time, i90-i99 happen to be expired and moved to s_io for IO. When finished successfully, if their total size is less than MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES, nr_to_write will be > 0. Then wb_writeback() will quit the background work (w/o this patch) while it's still over background threshold. This will be a fairly normal/frequent case I guess. Now that we do tagged sync and update inode->dirtied_when after the sync, this change won't livelock sync(1). I actually tried to write 1 page per 1ms with this command write-and-fsync -n10000 -S 1000 -c 4096 /fs/test and do sync(1) at the same time. The sync completes quickly on ext4, xfs, btrfs. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_writtenWu Fengguang2011-06-082-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The flusher works on dirty inodes in batches, and may quit prematurely if the batch of inodes happen to be metadata-only dirtied: in this case wbc->nr_to_write won't be decreased at all, which stands for "no pages written" but also mis-interpreted as "no progress". So introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count the inodes get cleaned from VFS POV. A non-zero value means there are some progress on writeback, in which case more writeback can be tried. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelockWu Fengguang2011-06-081-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Explicitly update .dirtied_when on synced inodes, so that they are no longer considered for writeback in the next round. It can prevent both of the following livelock schemes: - while true; do echo data >> f; done - while true; do touch f; done (in theory) The exact livelock condition is, during sync(1): (1) no new inodes are dirtied (2) an inode being actively dirtied On (2), the inode will be tagged and synced with .nr_to_write=LONG_MAX. When finished, it will be redirty_tail()ed because it's still dirty and (.nr_to_write > 0). redirty_tail() won't update its ->dirtied_when on condition (1). The sync work will then revisit it on the next queue_io() and find it eligible again because its old ->dirtied_when predates the sync work start time. We'll do more aggressive "keep writeback as long as we wrote something" logic in wb_writeback(). The "use LONG_MAX .nr_to_write" trick in commit b9543dac5bbc ("writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback") will no longer be enough to stop sync livelock. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stageWu Fengguang2011-06-084-12/+14
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and do livelock prevention for it, too. Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock. Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9, it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems. Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention. Impact: It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk. Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode until finished with the current inode. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2011-07-261-1/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: fix warning with calling smp_processor_id() in preemptible section
| * | block: fix warning with calling smp_processor_id() in preemptible sectionJens Axboe2011-07-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit 5757a6d7 introduced an unsafe calling of smp_processor_id(), with preempt debuggin turned on we spew a lot of: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kjournald/514 caller is __make_request+0x1b8/0x308 [<c0019f44>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe8) from [<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) [<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) from [<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308) [<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308) from [<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558) [<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558) from [<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138) [<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138) from [<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c) [<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c) from [<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8) [<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8) from [<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688) [<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688) from [<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224) [<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224) from [<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94) [<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94) from [<c00137f8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8) Fix this by just using raw_smp_processor_id(), it's just a hint after all. There's no pinning of the CPU or accessing per-cpu structures involved. Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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