4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
5 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra
7 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
10 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton
14 #include <linux/kernel.h>
15 #include <linux/export.h>
16 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
19 #include <linux/swap.h>
20 #include <linux/slab.h>
21 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
22 #include <linux/writeback.h>
23 #include <linux/init.h>
24 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
25 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
26 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
27 #include <linux/mpage.h>
28 #include <linux/rmap.h>
29 #include <linux/percpu.h>
30 #include <linux/smp.h>
31 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
32 #include <linux/cpu.h>
33 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
34 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* __set_page_dirty_buffers */
35 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
36 #include <linux/timer.h>
37 #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
38 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
39 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
40 #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
45 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
47 #define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
50 * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages
51 * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it.
53 #define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
56 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
58 #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
60 #define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
63 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
64 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
66 static long ratelimit_pages
= 32;
68 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
71 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
73 int dirty_background_ratio
= 10;
76 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
77 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
79 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes
;
82 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
83 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
85 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable
;
88 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
90 int vm_dirty_ratio
= 20;
93 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
94 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
96 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes
;
99 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
101 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval
= 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
103 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dirty_writeback_interval
);
106 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
108 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval
= 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
111 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
116 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
117 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
121 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode
);
123 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
125 struct wb_domain global_wb_domain
;
127 /* consolidated parameters for balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines */
128 struct dirty_throttle_control
{
129 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
130 struct wb_domain
*dom
;
131 struct dirty_throttle_control
*gdtc
; /* only set in memcg dtc's */
133 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
;
134 struct fprop_local_percpu
*wb_completions
;
136 unsigned long avail
; /* dirtyable */
137 unsigned long dirty
; /* file_dirty + write + nfs */
138 unsigned long thresh
; /* dirty threshold */
139 unsigned long bg_thresh
; /* dirty background threshold */
141 unsigned long wb_dirty
; /* per-wb counterparts */
142 unsigned long wb_thresh
;
143 unsigned long wb_bg_thresh
;
145 unsigned long pos_ratio
;
149 * Length of period for aging writeout fractions of bdis. This is an
150 * arbitrarily chosen number. The longer the period, the slower fractions will
151 * reflect changes in current writeout rate.
153 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ)
155 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
157 #define GDTC_INIT(__wb) .wb = (__wb), \
158 .dom = &global_wb_domain, \
159 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions
161 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB .dom = &global_wb_domain
163 #define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc) .wb = (__wb), \
164 .dom = mem_cgroup_wb_domain(__wb), \
165 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->memcg_completions, \
168 static bool mdtc_valid(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
173 static struct wb_domain
*dtc_dom(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
178 static struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc_gdtc(struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc
)
183 static struct fprop_local_percpu
*wb_memcg_completions(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
185 return &wb
->memcg_completions
;
188 static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
189 unsigned long *minp
, unsigned long *maxp
)
191 unsigned long this_bw
= wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
192 unsigned long tot_bw
= atomic_long_read(&wb
->bdi
->tot_write_bandwidth
);
193 unsigned long long min
= wb
->bdi
->min_ratio
;
194 unsigned long long max
= wb
->bdi
->max_ratio
;
197 * @wb may already be clean by the time control reaches here and
198 * the total may not include its bw.
200 if (this_bw
< tot_bw
) {
215 #else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
217 #define GDTC_INIT(__wb) .wb = (__wb), \
218 .wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions
219 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB
220 #define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc)
222 static bool mdtc_valid(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
227 static struct wb_domain
*dtc_dom(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
229 return &global_wb_domain
;
232 static struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc_gdtc(struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc
)
237 static struct fprop_local_percpu
*wb_memcg_completions(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
242 static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
243 unsigned long *minp
, unsigned long *maxp
)
245 *minp
= wb
->bdi
->min_ratio
;
246 *maxp
= wb
->bdi
->max_ratio
;
249 #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
252 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
253 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
254 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
255 * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without
256 * requiring writeback.
258 * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the
259 * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that
260 * are allowed to be actually dirtied. Per individual zone, or
261 * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones.
263 * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as
264 * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can
265 * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of
266 * global dirtyable memory first.
270 * node_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a node
273 * Returns the node's number of pages potentially available for dirty
274 * page cache. This is the base value for the per-node dirty limits.
276 static unsigned long node_dirtyable_memory(struct pglist_data
*pgdat
)
278 unsigned long nr_pages
= 0;
281 for (z
= 0; z
< MAX_NR_ZONES
; z
++) {
282 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ z
;
284 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
287 nr_pages
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
291 * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
292 * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
293 * clean pages in order to balance the zones.
295 nr_pages
-= min(nr_pages
, pgdat
->totalreserve_pages
);
297 nr_pages
+= node_page_state(pgdat
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
298 nr_pages
+= node_page_state(pgdat
, NR_ACTIVE_FILE
);
303 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total
)
305 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
310 for_each_node_state(node
, N_HIGH_MEMORY
) {
311 for (i
= ZONE_NORMAL
+ 1; i
< MAX_NR_ZONES
; i
++) {
313 unsigned long nr_pages
;
315 if (!is_highmem_idx(i
))
318 z
= &NODE_DATA(node
)->node_zones
[i
];
319 if (!populated_zone(z
))
322 nr_pages
= zone_page_state(z
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
323 /* watch for underflows */
324 nr_pages
-= min(nr_pages
, high_wmark_pages(z
));
325 nr_pages
+= zone_page_state(z
, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE
);
326 nr_pages
+= zone_page_state(z
, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE
);
332 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
333 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
334 * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation
335 * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes
336 * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more
337 * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never
344 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
345 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
346 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
347 * that this does not occur.
349 return min(x
, total
);
356 * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages
358 * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
359 * page cache. This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
361 static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
365 x
= global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES
);
367 * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
368 * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
369 * clean pages in order to balance the zones.
371 x
-= min(x
, totalreserve_pages
);
373 x
+= global_node_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
374 x
+= global_node_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE
);
376 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable
)
377 x
-= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x
);
379 return x
+ 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
383 * domain_dirty_limits - calculate thresh and bg_thresh for a wb_domain
384 * @dtc: dirty_throttle_control of interest
386 * Calculate @dtc->thresh and ->bg_thresh considering
387 * vm_dirty_{bytes|ratio} and dirty_background_{bytes|ratio}. The caller
388 * must ensure that @dtc->avail is set before calling this function. The
389 * dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
392 static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
394 const unsigned long available_memory
= dtc
->avail
;
395 struct dirty_throttle_control
*gdtc
= mdtc_gdtc(dtc
);
396 unsigned long bytes
= vm_dirty_bytes
;
397 unsigned long bg_bytes
= dirty_background_bytes
;
398 /* convert ratios to per-PAGE_SIZE for higher precision */
399 unsigned long ratio
= (vm_dirty_ratio
* PAGE_SIZE
) / 100;
400 unsigned long bg_ratio
= (dirty_background_ratio
* PAGE_SIZE
) / 100;
401 unsigned long thresh
;
402 unsigned long bg_thresh
;
403 struct task_struct
*tsk
;
405 /* gdtc is !NULL iff @dtc is for memcg domain */
407 unsigned long global_avail
= gdtc
->avail
;
410 * The byte settings can't be applied directly to memcg
411 * domains. Convert them to ratios by scaling against
412 * globally available memory. As the ratios are in
413 * per-PAGE_SIZE, they can be obtained by dividing bytes by
417 ratio
= min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes
, global_avail
),
420 bg_ratio
= min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes
, global_avail
),
422 bytes
= bg_bytes
= 0;
426 thresh
= DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
);
428 thresh
= (ratio
* available_memory
) / PAGE_SIZE
;
431 bg_thresh
= DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
);
433 bg_thresh
= (bg_ratio
* available_memory
) / PAGE_SIZE
;
435 if (bg_thresh
>= thresh
)
436 bg_thresh
= thresh
/ 2;
438 if (tsk
->flags
& PF_LESS_THROTTLE
|| rt_task(tsk
)) {
439 bg_thresh
+= bg_thresh
/ 4 + global_wb_domain
.dirty_limit
/ 32;
440 thresh
+= thresh
/ 4 + global_wb_domain
.dirty_limit
/ 32;
442 dtc
->thresh
= thresh
;
443 dtc
->bg_thresh
= bg_thresh
;
445 /* we should eventually report the domain in the TP */
447 trace_global_dirty_state(bg_thresh
, thresh
);
451 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
452 * @pbackground: out parameter for bg_thresh
453 * @pdirty: out parameter for thresh
455 * Calculate bg_thresh and thresh for global_wb_domain. See
456 * domain_dirty_limits() for details.
458 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground
, unsigned long *pdirty
)
460 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc
= { GDTC_INIT_NO_WB
};
462 gdtc
.avail
= global_dirtyable_memory();
463 domain_dirty_limits(&gdtc
);
465 *pbackground
= gdtc
.bg_thresh
;
466 *pdirty
= gdtc
.thresh
;
470 * node_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node
473 * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node, based
474 * on the node's dirtyable memory.
476 static unsigned long node_dirty_limit(struct pglist_data
*pgdat
)
478 unsigned long node_memory
= node_dirtyable_memory(pgdat
);
479 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
483 dirty
= DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
) *
484 node_memory
/ global_dirtyable_memory();
486 dirty
= vm_dirty_ratio
* node_memory
/ 100;
488 if (tsk
->flags
& PF_LESS_THROTTLE
|| rt_task(tsk
))
495 * node_dirty_ok - tells whether a node is within its dirty limits
496 * @pgdat: the node to check
498 * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @pgdat are within the node's
499 * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
501 bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data
*pgdat
)
503 unsigned long limit
= node_dirty_limit(pgdat
);
504 unsigned long nr_pages
= 0;
506 nr_pages
+= node_page_state(pgdat
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
507 nr_pages
+= node_page_state(pgdat
, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
508 nr_pages
+= node_page_state(pgdat
, NR_WRITEBACK
);
510 return nr_pages
<= limit
;
513 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
514 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
519 ret
= proc_dointvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
520 if (ret
== 0 && write
)
521 dirty_background_bytes
= 0;
525 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
526 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
531 ret
= proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
532 if (ret
== 0 && write
)
533 dirty_background_ratio
= 0;
537 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
538 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
541 int old_ratio
= vm_dirty_ratio
;
544 ret
= proc_dointvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
545 if (ret
== 0 && write
&& vm_dirty_ratio
!= old_ratio
) {
546 writeback_set_ratelimit();
552 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
553 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
556 unsigned long old_bytes
= vm_dirty_bytes
;
559 ret
= proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
560 if (ret
== 0 && write
&& vm_dirty_bytes
!= old_bytes
) {
561 writeback_set_ratelimit();
567 static unsigned long wp_next_time(unsigned long cur_time
)
569 cur_time
+= VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
;
570 /* 0 has a special meaning... */
576 static void wb_domain_writeout_inc(struct wb_domain
*dom
,
577 struct fprop_local_percpu
*completions
,
578 unsigned int max_prop_frac
)
580 __fprop_inc_percpu_max(&dom
->completions
, completions
,
582 /* First event after period switching was turned off? */
583 if (unlikely(!dom
->period_time
)) {
585 * We can race with other __bdi_writeout_inc calls here but
586 * it does not cause any harm since the resulting time when
587 * timer will fire and what is in writeout_period_time will be
590 dom
->period_time
= wp_next_time(jiffies
);
591 mod_timer(&dom
->period_timer
, dom
->period_time
);
596 * Increment @wb's writeout completion count and the global writeout
597 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
599 static inline void __wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
601 struct wb_domain
*cgdom
;
603 inc_wb_stat(wb
, WB_WRITTEN
);
604 wb_domain_writeout_inc(&global_wb_domain
, &wb
->completions
,
605 wb
->bdi
->max_prop_frac
);
607 cgdom
= mem_cgroup_wb_domain(wb
);
609 wb_domain_writeout_inc(cgdom
, wb_memcg_completions(wb
),
610 wb
->bdi
->max_prop_frac
);
613 void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
617 local_irq_save(flags
);
618 __wb_writeout_inc(wb
);
619 local_irq_restore(flags
);
621 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wb_writeout_inc
);
624 * On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use
625 * deferred timers so count with missed periods.
627 static void writeout_period(struct timer_list
*t
)
629 struct wb_domain
*dom
= from_timer(dom
, t
, period_timer
);
630 int miss_periods
= (jiffies
- dom
->period_time
) /
631 VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
;
633 if (fprop_new_period(&dom
->completions
, miss_periods
+ 1)) {
634 dom
->period_time
= wp_next_time(dom
->period_time
+
635 miss_periods
* VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
);
636 mod_timer(&dom
->period_timer
, dom
->period_time
);
639 * Aging has zeroed all fractions. Stop wasting CPU on period
642 dom
->period_time
= 0;
646 int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain
*dom
, gfp_t gfp
)
648 memset(dom
, 0, sizeof(*dom
));
650 spin_lock_init(&dom
->lock
);
652 timer_setup(&dom
->period_timer
, writeout_period
, TIMER_DEFERRABLE
);
654 dom
->dirty_limit_tstamp
= jiffies
;
656 return fprop_global_init(&dom
->completions
, gfp
);
659 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
660 void wb_domain_exit(struct wb_domain
*dom
)
662 del_timer_sync(&dom
->period_timer
);
663 fprop_global_destroy(&dom
->completions
);
668 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
669 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
672 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio
;
674 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
, unsigned int min_ratio
)
678 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
679 if (min_ratio
> bdi
->max_ratio
) {
682 min_ratio
-= bdi
->min_ratio
;
683 if (bdi_min_ratio
+ min_ratio
< 100) {
684 bdi_min_ratio
+= min_ratio
;
685 bdi
->min_ratio
+= min_ratio
;
690 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
695 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
, unsigned max_ratio
)
702 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
703 if (bdi
->min_ratio
> max_ratio
) {
706 bdi
->max_ratio
= max_ratio
;
707 bdi
->max_prop_frac
= (FPROP_FRAC_BASE
* max_ratio
) / 100;
709 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
713 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio
);
715 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh
,
716 unsigned long bg_thresh
)
718 return (thresh
+ bg_thresh
) / 2;
721 static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(struct wb_domain
*dom
,
722 unsigned long thresh
)
724 return max(thresh
, dom
->dirty_limit
);
728 * Memory which can be further allocated to a memcg domain is capped by
729 * system-wide clean memory excluding the amount being used in the domain.
731 static void mdtc_calc_avail(struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc
,
732 unsigned long filepages
, unsigned long headroom
)
734 struct dirty_throttle_control
*gdtc
= mdtc_gdtc(mdtc
);
735 unsigned long clean
= filepages
- min(filepages
, mdtc
->dirty
);
736 unsigned long global_clean
= gdtc
->avail
- min(gdtc
->avail
, gdtc
->dirty
);
737 unsigned long other_clean
= global_clean
- min(global_clean
, clean
);
739 mdtc
->avail
= filepages
+ min(headroom
, other_clean
);
743 * __wb_calc_thresh - @wb's share of dirty throttling threshold
744 * @dtc: dirty_throttle_context of interest
746 * Returns @wb's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
747 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
749 * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
750 * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
751 * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
752 * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
753 * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
754 * more (rather than completely block them) when the wb dirty pages go high.
756 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
757 * - starving fast devices
758 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
760 * The wb's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
761 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
763 static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
765 struct wb_domain
*dom
= dtc_dom(dtc
);
766 unsigned long thresh
= dtc
->thresh
;
768 long numerator
, denominator
;
769 unsigned long wb_min_ratio
, wb_max_ratio
;
772 * Calculate this BDI's share of the thresh ratio.
774 fprop_fraction_percpu(&dom
->completions
, dtc
->wb_completions
,
775 &numerator
, &denominator
);
777 wb_thresh
= (thresh
* (100 - bdi_min_ratio
)) / 100;
778 wb_thresh
*= numerator
;
779 do_div(wb_thresh
, denominator
);
781 wb_min_max_ratio(dtc
->wb
, &wb_min_ratio
, &wb_max_ratio
);
783 wb_thresh
+= (thresh
* wb_min_ratio
) / 100;
784 if (wb_thresh
> (thresh
* wb_max_ratio
) / 100)
785 wb_thresh
= thresh
* wb_max_ratio
/ 100;
790 unsigned long wb_calc_thresh(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
, unsigned long thresh
)
792 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc
= { GDTC_INIT(wb
),
794 return __wb_calc_thresh(&gdtc
);
799 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
802 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
804 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
805 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
806 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
807 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
808 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
809 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
811 static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint
,
818 x
= div64_s64(((s64
)setpoint
- (s64
)dirty
) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
,
819 (limit
- setpoint
) | 1);
821 pos_ratio
= pos_ratio
* x
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
822 pos_ratio
= pos_ratio
* x
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
823 pos_ratio
+= 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
825 return clamp(pos_ratio
, 0LL, 2LL << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
);
829 * Dirty position control.
831 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
833 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/wb setpoints.
834 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
835 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
836 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
838 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
840 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
841 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
843 * if (wb_dirty < wb_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
844 * if (wb_dirty > wb_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
846 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
848 * (o) global control line
852 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
860 * 1.0 ................................*
866 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
867 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
869 * (o) wb control line
877 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
878 * 1.0 .......................*
890 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
894 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
895 * wb_setpoint^ x_intercept^
897 * The wb control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that wb_dirty can
898 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
899 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
900 * card's wb_dirty may rush to many times higher than wb_setpoint.
901 * - the wb dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
903 static void wb_position_ratio(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
905 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= dtc
->wb
;
906 unsigned long write_bw
= wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
907 unsigned long freerun
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(dtc
->thresh
, dtc
->bg_thresh
);
908 unsigned long limit
= hard_dirty_limit(dtc_dom(dtc
), dtc
->thresh
);
909 unsigned long wb_thresh
= dtc
->wb_thresh
;
910 unsigned long x_intercept
;
911 unsigned long setpoint
; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
912 unsigned long wb_setpoint
;
914 long long pos_ratio
; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
919 if (unlikely(dtc
->dirty
>= limit
))
925 * See comment for pos_ratio_polynom().
927 setpoint
= (freerun
+ limit
) / 2;
928 pos_ratio
= pos_ratio_polynom(setpoint
, dtc
->dirty
, limit
);
931 * The strictlimit feature is a tool preventing mistrusted filesystems
932 * from growing a large number of dirty pages before throttling. For
933 * such filesystems balance_dirty_pages always checks wb counters
934 * against wb limits. Even if global "nr_dirty" is under "freerun".
935 * This is especially important for fuse which sets bdi->max_ratio to
936 * 1% by default. Without strictlimit feature, fuse writeback may
937 * consume arbitrary amount of RAM because it is accounted in
938 * NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP which is not involved in calculating "nr_dirty".
940 * Here, in wb_position_ratio(), we calculate pos_ratio based on
941 * two values: wb_dirty and wb_thresh. Let's consider an example:
942 * total amount of RAM is 16GB, bdi->max_ratio is equal to 1%, global
943 * limits are set by default to 10% and 20% (background and throttle).
944 * Then wb_thresh is 1% of 20% of 16GB. This amounts to ~8K pages.
945 * wb_calc_thresh(wb, bg_thresh) is about ~4K pages. wb_setpoint is
946 * about ~6K pages (as the average of background and throttle wb
947 * limits). The 3rd order polynomial will provide positive feedback if
948 * wb_dirty is under wb_setpoint and vice versa.
950 * Note, that we cannot use global counters in these calculations
951 * because we want to throttle process writing to a strictlimit wb
952 * much earlier than global "freerun" is reached (~23MB vs. ~2.3GB
953 * in the example above).
955 if (unlikely(wb
->bdi
->capabilities
& BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT
)) {
956 long long wb_pos_ratio
;
958 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
< 8) {
959 dtc
->pos_ratio
= min_t(long long, pos_ratio
* 2,
960 2 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
);
964 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
>= wb_thresh
)
967 wb_setpoint
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(wb_thresh
,
970 if (wb_setpoint
== 0 || wb_setpoint
== wb_thresh
)
973 wb_pos_ratio
= pos_ratio_polynom(wb_setpoint
, dtc
->wb_dirty
,
977 * Typically, for strictlimit case, wb_setpoint << setpoint
978 * and pos_ratio >> wb_pos_ratio. In the other words global
979 * state ("dirty") is not limiting factor and we have to
980 * make decision based on wb counters. But there is an
981 * important case when global pos_ratio should get precedence:
982 * global limits are exceeded (e.g. due to activities on other
983 * wb's) while given strictlimit wb is below limit.
985 * "pos_ratio * wb_pos_ratio" would work for the case above,
986 * but it would look too non-natural for the case of all
987 * activity in the system coming from a single strictlimit wb
988 * with bdi->max_ratio == 100%.
990 * Note that min() below somewhat changes the dynamics of the
991 * control system. Normally, pos_ratio value can be well over 3
992 * (when globally we are at freerun and wb is well below wb
993 * setpoint). Now the maximum pos_ratio in the same situation
994 * is 2. We might want to tweak this if we observe the control
995 * system is too slow to adapt.
997 dtc
->pos_ratio
= min(pos_ratio
, wb_pos_ratio
);
1002 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
1003 * the wb is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
1004 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
1010 * f(wb_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (wb_dirty - wb_setpoint)
1012 * x_intercept - wb_dirty
1013 * := --------------------------
1014 * x_intercept - wb_setpoint
1016 * The main wb control line is a linear function that subjects to
1018 * (1) f(wb_setpoint) = 1.0
1019 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single wb case)
1020 * or equally: x_intercept = wb_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
1022 * For single wb case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
1023 * regularly within range
1024 * [wb_setpoint - write_bw/2, wb_setpoint + write_bw/2]
1025 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
1026 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
1028 * For JBOD case, wb_thresh (not wb_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
1029 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
1030 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled wb_thresh.
1032 if (unlikely(wb_thresh
> dtc
->thresh
))
1033 wb_thresh
= dtc
->thresh
;
1035 * It's very possible that wb_thresh is close to 0 not because the
1036 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
1037 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
1038 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
1039 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
1041 wb_thresh
= max(wb_thresh
, (limit
- dtc
->dirty
) / 8);
1043 * scale global setpoint to wb's:
1044 * wb_setpoint = setpoint * wb_thresh / thresh
1046 x
= div_u64((u64
)wb_thresh
<< 16, dtc
->thresh
| 1);
1047 wb_setpoint
= setpoint
* (u64
)x
>> 16;
1049 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single wb case as indicated by
1050 * (thresh - wb_thresh ~= 0) and transit to wb_thresh in JBOD case.
1052 * wb_thresh thresh - wb_thresh
1053 * span = --------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------ * wb_thresh
1056 span
= (dtc
->thresh
- wb_thresh
+ 8 * write_bw
) * (u64
)x
>> 16;
1057 x_intercept
= wb_setpoint
+ span
;
1059 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
< x_intercept
- span
/ 4) {
1060 pos_ratio
= div64_u64(pos_ratio
* (x_intercept
- dtc
->wb_dirty
),
1061 (x_intercept
- wb_setpoint
) | 1);
1066 * wb reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
1067 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
1070 x_intercept
= wb_thresh
/ 2;
1071 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
< x_intercept
) {
1072 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
> x_intercept
/ 8)
1073 pos_ratio
= div_u64(pos_ratio
* x_intercept
,
1079 dtc
->pos_ratio
= pos_ratio
;
1082 static void wb_update_write_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
1083 unsigned long elapsed
,
1084 unsigned long written
)
1086 const unsigned long period
= roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ
);
1087 unsigned long avg
= wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
1088 unsigned long old
= wb
->write_bandwidth
;
1092 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
1094 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
1095 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
1098 * @written may have decreased due to account_page_redirty().
1099 * Avoid underflowing @bw calculation.
1101 bw
= written
- min(written
, wb
->written_stamp
);
1103 if (unlikely(elapsed
> period
)) {
1104 do_div(bw
, elapsed
);
1108 bw
+= (u64
)wb
->write_bandwidth
* (period
- elapsed
);
1109 bw
>>= ilog2(period
);
1112 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
1114 if (avg
> old
&& old
>= (unsigned long)bw
)
1115 avg
-= (avg
- old
) >> 3;
1117 if (avg
< old
&& old
<= (unsigned long)bw
)
1118 avg
+= (old
- avg
) >> 3;
1121 /* keep avg > 0 to guarantee that tot > 0 if there are dirty wbs */
1122 avg
= max(avg
, 1LU);
1123 if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb
)) {
1124 long delta
= avg
- wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
1125 WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_long_add_return(delta
,
1126 &wb
->bdi
->tot_write_bandwidth
) <= 0);
1128 wb
->write_bandwidth
= bw
;
1129 wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
= avg
;
1132 static void update_dirty_limit(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
1134 struct wb_domain
*dom
= dtc_dom(dtc
);
1135 unsigned long thresh
= dtc
->thresh
;
1136 unsigned long limit
= dom
->dirty_limit
;
1139 * Follow up in one step.
1141 if (limit
< thresh
) {
1147 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
1148 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
1149 * dom->dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
1151 thresh
= max(thresh
, dtc
->dirty
);
1152 if (limit
> thresh
) {
1153 limit
-= (limit
- thresh
) >> 5;
1158 dom
->dirty_limit
= limit
;
1161 static void domain_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
,
1164 struct wb_domain
*dom
= dtc_dom(dtc
);
1167 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
1169 if (time_before(now
, dom
->dirty_limit_tstamp
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
))
1172 spin_lock(&dom
->lock
);
1173 if (time_after_eq(now
, dom
->dirty_limit_tstamp
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
)) {
1174 update_dirty_limit(dtc
);
1175 dom
->dirty_limit_tstamp
= now
;
1177 spin_unlock(&dom
->lock
);
1181 * Maintain wb->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
1183 * Normal wb tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
1184 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
1186 static void wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
,
1187 unsigned long dirtied
,
1188 unsigned long elapsed
)
1190 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= dtc
->wb
;
1191 unsigned long dirty
= dtc
->dirty
;
1192 unsigned long freerun
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(dtc
->thresh
, dtc
->bg_thresh
);
1193 unsigned long limit
= hard_dirty_limit(dtc_dom(dtc
), dtc
->thresh
);
1194 unsigned long setpoint
= (freerun
+ limit
) / 2;
1195 unsigned long write_bw
= wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
1196 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
= wb
->dirty_ratelimit
;
1197 unsigned long dirty_rate
;
1198 unsigned long task_ratelimit
;
1199 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit
;
1202 unsigned long shift
;
1205 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
1206 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
1208 dirty_rate
= (dirtied
- wb
->dirtied_stamp
) * HZ
/ elapsed
;
1211 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
1213 task_ratelimit
= (u64
)dirty_ratelimit
*
1214 dtc
->pos_ratio
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
1215 task_ratelimit
++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
1218 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
1219 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the wb's
1220 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
1221 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
1223 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
1224 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
1225 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
1226 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
1228 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
1229 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
1230 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
1231 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
1232 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
1234 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
1236 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
1237 * put (6) into (1) we get
1238 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
1240 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
1241 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
1242 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
1243 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
1244 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
1245 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
1247 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= div_u64((u64
)task_ratelimit
* write_bw
,
1250 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw
1252 if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit
> write_bw
))
1253 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= write_bw
;
1256 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
1258 * wb->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
1260 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
1261 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out singular points and
1262 * limit the step size.
1264 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
1266 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
1267 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
1269 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
1273 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
1274 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
1276 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
1277 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
1278 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
1279 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
1280 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
1281 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
1283 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
1284 * and filter out the singular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
1285 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
1286 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
1287 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
1292 * For strictlimit case, calculations above were based on wb counters
1293 * and limits (starting from pos_ratio = wb_position_ratio() and up to
1294 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit = task_ratelimit * write_bw / dirty_rate).
1295 * Hence, to calculate "step" properly, we have to use wb_dirty as
1296 * "dirty" and wb_setpoint as "setpoint".
1298 * We rampup dirty_ratelimit forcibly if wb_dirty is low because
1299 * it's possible that wb_thresh is close to zero due to inactivity
1300 * of backing device.
1302 if (unlikely(wb
->bdi
->capabilities
& BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT
)) {
1303 dirty
= dtc
->wb_dirty
;
1304 if (dtc
->wb_dirty
< 8)
1305 setpoint
= dtc
->wb_dirty
+ 1;
1307 setpoint
= (dtc
->wb_thresh
+ dtc
->wb_bg_thresh
) / 2;
1310 if (dirty
< setpoint
) {
1311 x
= min3(wb
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
,
1312 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
, task_ratelimit
);
1313 if (dirty_ratelimit
< x
)
1314 step
= x
- dirty_ratelimit
;
1316 x
= max3(wb
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
,
1317 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
, task_ratelimit
);
1318 if (dirty_ratelimit
> x
)
1319 step
= dirty_ratelimit
- x
;
1323 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
1324 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
1325 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
1327 shift
= dirty_ratelimit
/ (2 * step
+ 1);
1328 if (shift
< BITS_PER_LONG
)
1329 step
= DIV_ROUND_UP(step
>> shift
, 8);
1333 if (dirty_ratelimit
< balanced_dirty_ratelimit
)
1334 dirty_ratelimit
+= step
;
1336 dirty_ratelimit
-= step
;
1338 wb
->dirty_ratelimit
= max(dirty_ratelimit
, 1UL);
1339 wb
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= balanced_dirty_ratelimit
;
1341 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(wb
, dirty_rate
, task_ratelimit
);
1344 static void __wb_update_bandwidth(struct dirty_throttle_control
*gdtc
,
1345 struct dirty_throttle_control
*mdtc
,
1346 unsigned long start_time
,
1347 bool update_ratelimit
)
1349 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= gdtc
->wb
;
1350 unsigned long now
= jiffies
;
1351 unsigned long elapsed
= now
- wb
->bw_time_stamp
;
1352 unsigned long dirtied
;
1353 unsigned long written
;
1355 lockdep_assert_held(&wb
->list_lock
);
1358 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
1360 if (elapsed
< BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
)
1363 dirtied
= percpu_counter_read(&wb
->stat
[WB_DIRTIED
]);
1364 written
= percpu_counter_read(&wb
->stat
[WB_WRITTEN
]);
1367 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
1368 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
1370 if (elapsed
> HZ
&& time_before(wb
->bw_time_stamp
, start_time
))
1373 if (update_ratelimit
) {
1374 domain_update_bandwidth(gdtc
, now
);
1375 wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(gdtc
, dirtied
, elapsed
);
1378 * @mdtc is always NULL if !CGROUP_WRITEBACK but the
1379 * compiler has no way to figure that out. Help it.
1381 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
) && mdtc
) {
1382 domain_update_bandwidth(mdtc
, now
);
1383 wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(mdtc
, dirtied
, elapsed
);
1386 wb_update_write_bandwidth(wb
, elapsed
, written
);
1389 wb
->dirtied_stamp
= dirtied
;
1390 wb
->written_stamp
= written
;
1391 wb
->bw_time_stamp
= now
;
1394 void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
, unsigned long start_time
)
1396 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc
= { GDTC_INIT(wb
) };
1398 __wb_update_bandwidth(&gdtc
, NULL
, start_time
, false);
1402 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited()
1403 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
1405 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
1406 * global_zone_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
1407 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
1409 static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty
,
1410 unsigned long thresh
)
1413 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh
- dirty
) >> 1);
1418 static unsigned long wb_max_pause(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
1419 unsigned long wb_dirty
)
1421 unsigned long bw
= wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
1425 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
1426 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
1429 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
1431 t
= wb_dirty
/ (1 + bw
/ roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ
/ 8));
1434 return min_t(unsigned long, t
, MAX_PAUSE
);
1437 static long wb_min_pause(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
1439 unsigned long task_ratelimit
,
1440 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
,
1441 int *nr_dirtied_pause
)
1443 long hi
= ilog2(wb
->avg_write_bandwidth
);
1444 long lo
= ilog2(wb
->dirty_ratelimit
);
1445 long t
; /* target pause */
1446 long pause
; /* estimated next pause */
1447 int pages
; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */
1449 /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */
1450 t
= max(1, HZ
/ 100);
1453 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
1456 * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
1459 t
+= (hi
- lo
) * (10 * HZ
) / 1024;
1462 * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause
1463 * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time
1464 * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may
1465 * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes
1466 * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next
1467 * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a
1468 * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could
1469 * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit.
1471 * We apply two rules to fix it up:
1472 * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower
1473 * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens,
1474 * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit.
1475 * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal
1476 * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and
1477 * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit.
1479 t
= min(t
, 1 + max_pause
/ 2);
1480 pages
= dirty_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1483 * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test
1484 * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}.
1485 * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty
1486 * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles
1487 * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible
1488 * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages.
1490 if (pages
< DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
) {
1492 pages
= dirty_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1493 if (pages
> DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
) {
1494 pages
= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
;
1495 t
= HZ
* DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
/ dirty_ratelimit
;
1499 pause
= HZ
* pages
/ (task_ratelimit
+ 1);
1500 if (pause
> max_pause
) {
1502 pages
= task_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1505 *nr_dirtied_pause
= pages
;
1507 * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time.
1509 return pages
>= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
? 1 + t
/ 2 : t
;
1512 static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control
*dtc
)
1514 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= dtc
->wb
;
1515 unsigned long wb_reclaimable
;
1518 * wb_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1519 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1520 * - in JBOD setup, wb_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1521 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1522 * go into state (wb_dirty >> wb_thresh) either because
1523 * wb_dirty starts high, or because wb_thresh drops low.
1524 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1525 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until wb_dirty drops under
1526 * wb_thresh. Instead the auxiliary wb control line in
1527 * wb_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1528 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down wb_dirty.
1530 dtc
->wb_thresh
= __wb_calc_thresh(dtc
);
1531 dtc
->wb_bg_thresh
= dtc
->thresh
?
1532 div_u64((u64
)dtc
->wb_thresh
* dtc
->bg_thresh
, dtc
->thresh
) : 0;
1535 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1536 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1537 * the threshold is low.
1539 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1540 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1541 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1544 if (dtc
->wb_thresh
< 2 * wb_stat_error()) {
1545 wb_reclaimable
= wb_stat_sum(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
);
1546 dtc
->wb_dirty
= wb_reclaimable
+ wb_stat_sum(wb
, WB_WRITEBACK
);
1548 wb_reclaimable
= wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
);
1549 dtc
->wb_dirty
= wb_reclaimable
+ wb_stat(wb
, WB_WRITEBACK
);
1554 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
1555 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
1556 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
1557 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1558 * perform some writeout.
1560 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
,
1561 unsigned long pages_dirtied
)
1563 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor
= { GDTC_INIT(wb
) };
1564 struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor
= { MDTC_INIT(wb
, &gdtc_stor
) };
1565 struct dirty_throttle_control
* const gdtc
= &gdtc_stor
;
1566 struct dirty_throttle_control
* const mdtc
= mdtc_valid(&mdtc_stor
) ?
1568 struct dirty_throttle_control
*sdtc
;
1569 unsigned long nr_reclaimable
; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1574 int nr_dirtied_pause
;
1575 bool dirty_exceeded
= false;
1576 unsigned long task_ratelimit
;
1577 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
;
1578 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= wb
->bdi
;
1579 bool strictlimit
= bdi
->capabilities
& BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT
;
1580 unsigned long start_time
= jiffies
;
1583 unsigned long now
= jiffies
;
1584 unsigned long dirty
, thresh
, bg_thresh
;
1585 unsigned long m_dirty
= 0; /* stop bogus uninit warnings */
1586 unsigned long m_thresh
= 0;
1587 unsigned long m_bg_thresh
= 0;
1590 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1591 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1592 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1593 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1595 nr_reclaimable
= global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
1596 global_node_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
1597 gdtc
->avail
= global_dirtyable_memory();
1598 gdtc
->dirty
= nr_reclaimable
+ global_node_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
);
1600 domain_dirty_limits(gdtc
);
1602 if (unlikely(strictlimit
)) {
1603 wb_dirty_limits(gdtc
);
1605 dirty
= gdtc
->wb_dirty
;
1606 thresh
= gdtc
->wb_thresh
;
1607 bg_thresh
= gdtc
->wb_bg_thresh
;
1609 dirty
= gdtc
->dirty
;
1610 thresh
= gdtc
->thresh
;
1611 bg_thresh
= gdtc
->bg_thresh
;
1615 unsigned long filepages
, headroom
, writeback
;
1618 * If @wb belongs to !root memcg, repeat the same
1619 * basic calculations for the memcg domain.
1621 mem_cgroup_wb_stats(wb
, &filepages
, &headroom
,
1622 &mdtc
->dirty
, &writeback
);
1623 mdtc
->dirty
+= writeback
;
1624 mdtc_calc_avail(mdtc
, filepages
, headroom
);
1626 domain_dirty_limits(mdtc
);
1628 if (unlikely(strictlimit
)) {
1629 wb_dirty_limits(mdtc
);
1630 m_dirty
= mdtc
->wb_dirty
;
1631 m_thresh
= mdtc
->wb_thresh
;
1632 m_bg_thresh
= mdtc
->wb_bg_thresh
;
1634 m_dirty
= mdtc
->dirty
;
1635 m_thresh
= mdtc
->thresh
;
1636 m_bg_thresh
= mdtc
->bg_thresh
;
1641 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1642 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1643 * when the wb limits are ramping up in case of !strictlimit.
1645 * In strictlimit case make decision based on the wb counters
1646 * and limits. Small writeouts when the wb limits are ramping
1647 * up are the price we consciously pay for strictlimit-ing.
1649 * If memcg domain is in effect, @dirty should be under
1650 * both global and memcg freerun ceilings.
1652 if (dirty
<= dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh
, bg_thresh
) &&
1654 m_dirty
<= dirty_freerun_ceiling(m_thresh
, m_bg_thresh
))) {
1655 unsigned long intv
= dirty_poll_interval(dirty
, thresh
);
1656 unsigned long m_intv
= ULONG_MAX
;
1658 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
;
1659 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1661 m_intv
= dirty_poll_interval(m_dirty
, m_thresh
);
1662 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
= min(intv
, m_intv
);
1666 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb
)))
1667 wb_start_background_writeback(wb
);
1670 * Calculate global domain's pos_ratio and select the
1671 * global dtc by default.
1674 wb_dirty_limits(gdtc
);
1676 dirty_exceeded
= (gdtc
->wb_dirty
> gdtc
->wb_thresh
) &&
1677 ((gdtc
->dirty
> gdtc
->thresh
) || strictlimit
);
1679 wb_position_ratio(gdtc
);
1684 * If memcg domain is in effect, calculate its
1685 * pos_ratio. @wb should satisfy constraints from
1686 * both global and memcg domains. Choose the one
1687 * w/ lower pos_ratio.
1690 wb_dirty_limits(mdtc
);
1692 dirty_exceeded
|= (mdtc
->wb_dirty
> mdtc
->wb_thresh
) &&
1693 ((mdtc
->dirty
> mdtc
->thresh
) || strictlimit
);
1695 wb_position_ratio(mdtc
);
1696 if (mdtc
->pos_ratio
< gdtc
->pos_ratio
)
1700 if (dirty_exceeded
&& !wb
->dirty_exceeded
)
1701 wb
->dirty_exceeded
= 1;
1703 if (time_is_before_jiffies(wb
->bw_time_stamp
+
1704 BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
)) {
1705 spin_lock(&wb
->list_lock
);
1706 __wb_update_bandwidth(gdtc
, mdtc
, start_time
, true);
1707 spin_unlock(&wb
->list_lock
);
1710 /* throttle according to the chosen dtc */
1711 dirty_ratelimit
= wb
->dirty_ratelimit
;
1712 task_ratelimit
= ((u64
)dirty_ratelimit
* sdtc
->pos_ratio
) >>
1713 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
1714 max_pause
= wb_max_pause(wb
, sdtc
->wb_dirty
);
1715 min_pause
= wb_min_pause(wb
, max_pause
,
1716 task_ratelimit
, dirty_ratelimit
,
1719 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit
== 0)) {
1724 period
= HZ
* pages_dirtied
/ task_ratelimit
;
1726 if (current
->dirty_paused_when
)
1727 pause
-= now
- current
->dirty_paused_when
;
1729 * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier
1730 * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs,
1731 * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in
1732 * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just
1733 * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier.
1735 if (pause
< min_pause
) {
1736 trace_balance_dirty_pages(wb
,
1749 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
;
1750 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1751 } else if (period
) {
1752 current
->dirty_paused_when
+= period
;
1753 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1754 } else if (current
->nr_dirtied_pause
<= pages_dirtied
)
1755 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
+= pages_dirtied
;
1758 if (unlikely(pause
> max_pause
)) {
1759 /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */
1760 now
+= min(pause
- max_pause
, max_pause
);
1765 trace_balance_dirty_pages(wb
,
1777 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE
);
1778 wb
->dirty_sleep
= now
;
1779 io_schedule_timeout(pause
);
1781 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
+ pause
;
1782 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1783 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
= nr_dirtied_pause
;
1786 * This is typically equal to (dirty < thresh) and can also
1787 * keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control.
1793 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
1794 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good wb's a pipe
1795 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
1797 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the consumer-producer
1798 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
1799 * more page. However wb_dirty has accounting errors. So use
1800 * the larger and more IO friendly wb_stat_error.
1802 if (sdtc
->wb_dirty
<= wb_stat_error())
1805 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
1809 if (!dirty_exceeded
&& wb
->dirty_exceeded
)
1810 wb
->dirty_exceeded
= 0;
1812 if (writeback_in_progress(wb
))
1816 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1817 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1818 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1820 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1821 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1826 if (nr_reclaimable
> gdtc
->bg_thresh
)
1827 wb_start_background_writeback(wb
);
1830 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits
);
1833 * Normal tasks are throttled by
1835 * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages;
1836 * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages();
1838 * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied
1839 * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be
1840 * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet
1841 * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them
1842 * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case,
1843 * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty
1844 * count and eventually get throttled.
1846 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks
) = 0;
1849 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state
1850 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
1852 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1853 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1854 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1856 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1857 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1858 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1859 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1861 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space
*mapping
)
1863 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
1864 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= inode_to_bdi(inode
);
1865 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= NULL
;
1869 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi
))
1872 if (inode_cgwb_enabled(inode
))
1873 wb
= wb_get_create_current(bdi
, GFP_KERNEL
);
1877 ratelimit
= current
->nr_dirtied_pause
;
1878 if (wb
->dirty_exceeded
)
1879 ratelimit
= min(ratelimit
, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT
- 10));
1883 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1884 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1885 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1886 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1888 p
= this_cpu_ptr(&bdp_ratelimits
);
1889 if (unlikely(current
->nr_dirtied
>= ratelimit
))
1891 else if (unlikely(*p
>= ratelimit_pages
)) {
1896 * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of
1897 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping
1898 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers.
1900 p
= this_cpu_ptr(&dirty_throttle_leaks
);
1901 if (*p
> 0 && current
->nr_dirtied
< ratelimit
) {
1902 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied
;
1903 nr_pages_dirtied
= min(*p
, ratelimit
- current
->nr_dirtied
);
1904 *p
-= nr_pages_dirtied
;
1905 current
->nr_dirtied
+= nr_pages_dirtied
;
1909 if (unlikely(current
->nr_dirtied
>= ratelimit
))
1910 balance_dirty_pages(wb
, current
->nr_dirtied
);
1914 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
);
1917 * wb_over_bg_thresh - does @wb need to be written back?
1918 * @wb: bdi_writeback of interest
1920 * Determines whether background writeback should keep writing @wb or it's
1921 * clean enough. Returns %true if writeback should continue.
1923 bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
1925 struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor
= { GDTC_INIT(wb
) };
1926 struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor
= { MDTC_INIT(wb
, &gdtc_stor
) };
1927 struct dirty_throttle_control
* const gdtc
= &gdtc_stor
;
1928 struct dirty_throttle_control
* const mdtc
= mdtc_valid(&mdtc_stor
) ?
1932 * Similar to balance_dirty_pages() but ignores pages being written
1933 * as we're trying to decide whether to put more under writeback.
1935 gdtc
->avail
= global_dirtyable_memory();
1936 gdtc
->dirty
= global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
1937 global_node_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
1938 domain_dirty_limits(gdtc
);
1940 if (gdtc
->dirty
> gdtc
->bg_thresh
)
1943 if (wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
) >
1944 wb_calc_thresh(gdtc
->wb
, gdtc
->bg_thresh
))
1948 unsigned long filepages
, headroom
, writeback
;
1950 mem_cgroup_wb_stats(wb
, &filepages
, &headroom
, &mdtc
->dirty
,
1952 mdtc_calc_avail(mdtc
, filepages
, headroom
);
1953 domain_dirty_limits(mdtc
); /* ditto, ignore writeback */
1955 if (mdtc
->dirty
> mdtc
->bg_thresh
)
1958 if (wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
) >
1959 wb_calc_thresh(mdtc
->wb
, mdtc
->bg_thresh
))
1967 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1969 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
1970 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *length
, loff_t
*ppos
)
1972 unsigned int old_interval
= dirty_writeback_interval
;
1975 ret
= proc_dointvec(table
, write
, buffer
, length
, ppos
);
1978 * Writing 0 to dirty_writeback_interval will disable periodic writeback
1979 * and a different non-zero value will wakeup the writeback threads.
1980 * wb_wakeup_delayed() would be more appropriate, but it's a pain to
1981 * iterate over all bdis and wbs.
1982 * The reason we do this is to make the change take effect immediately.
1984 if (!ret
&& write
&& dirty_writeback_interval
&&
1985 dirty_writeback_interval
!= old_interval
)
1986 wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_PERIODIC
);
1992 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(struct timer_list
*t
)
1994 struct backing_dev_info
*backing_dev_info
=
1995 from_timer(backing_dev_info
, t
, laptop_mode_wb_timer
);
1997 wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(backing_dev_info
, WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER
);
2001 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
2002 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
2003 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
2005 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info
*info
)
2007 mod_timer(&info
->laptop_mode_wb_timer
, jiffies
+ laptop_mode
);
2011 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
2012 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
2013 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
2015 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
2017 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
;
2021 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi
, &bdi_list
, bdi_list
)
2022 del_timer(&bdi
->laptop_mode_wb_timer
);
2029 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
2030 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
2031 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
2032 * get_writeback_state too often.
2034 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
2035 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
2039 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
2041 struct wb_domain
*dom
= &global_wb_domain
;
2042 unsigned long background_thresh
;
2043 unsigned long dirty_thresh
;
2045 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
);
2046 dom
->dirty_limit
= dirty_thresh
;
2047 ratelimit_pages
= dirty_thresh
/ (num_online_cpus() * 32);
2048 if (ratelimit_pages
< 16)
2049 ratelimit_pages
= 16;
2052 static int page_writeback_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu
)
2054 writeback_set_ratelimit();
2059 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
2061 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
2062 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
2063 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
2065 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
2066 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
2067 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
2068 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
2069 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
2070 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
2071 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
2073 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
2074 * much memory the box has..
2076 void __init
page_writeback_init(void)
2078 BUG_ON(wb_domain_init(&global_wb_domain
, GFP_KERNEL
));
2080 cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN
, "mm/writeback:online",
2081 page_writeback_cpu_online
, NULL
);
2082 cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_MM_WRITEBACK_DEAD
, "mm/writeback:dead", NULL
,
2083 page_writeback_cpu_online
);
2087 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
2088 * @mapping: address space structure to write
2089 * @start: starting page index
2090 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
2092 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
2093 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
2094 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
2095 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
2096 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
2097 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
2098 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
2101 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce the i_pages lock
2104 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space
*mapping
,
2105 pgoff_t start
, pgoff_t end
)
2107 #define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
2108 unsigned long tagged
= 0;
2109 struct radix_tree_iter iter
;
2112 xa_lock_irq(&mapping
->i_pages
);
2113 radix_tree_for_each_tagged(slot
, &mapping
->i_pages
, &iter
, start
,
2114 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
) {
2115 if (iter
.index
> end
)
2117 radix_tree_iter_tag_set(&mapping
->i_pages
, &iter
,
2118 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
);
2120 if ((tagged
% WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH
) != 0)
2122 slot
= radix_tree_iter_resume(slot
, &iter
);
2123 xa_unlock_irq(&mapping
->i_pages
);
2125 xa_lock_irq(&mapping
->i_pages
);
2127 xa_unlock_irq(&mapping
->i_pages
);
2129 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback
);
2132 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
2133 * @mapping: address space structure to write
2134 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
2135 * @writepage: function called for each page
2136 * @data: data passed to writepage function
2138 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
2139 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
2140 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
2141 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
2142 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
2143 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
2144 * existing IO to complete.
2146 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
2147 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
2148 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
2149 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
2150 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
2151 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
2153 * To avoid deadlocks between range_cyclic writeback and callers that hold
2154 * pages in PageWriteback to aggregate IO until write_cache_pages() returns,
2155 * we do not loop back to the start of the file. Doing so causes a page
2156 * lock/page writeback access order inversion - we should only ever lock
2157 * multiple pages in ascending page->index order, and looping back to the start
2158 * of the file violates that rule and causes deadlocks.
2160 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
2161 struct writeback_control
*wbc
, writepage_t writepage
,
2166 struct pagevec pvec
;
2168 pgoff_t
uninitialized_var(writeback_index
);
2170 pgoff_t end
; /* Inclusive */
2172 int range_whole
= 0;
2175 pagevec_init(&pvec
);
2176 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
) {
2177 writeback_index
= mapping
->writeback_index
; /* prev offset */
2178 index
= writeback_index
;
2181 index
= wbc
->range_start
>> PAGE_SHIFT
;
2182 end
= wbc
->range_end
>> PAGE_SHIFT
;
2183 if (wbc
->range_start
== 0 && wbc
->range_end
== LLONG_MAX
)
2186 if (wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_ALL
|| wbc
->tagged_writepages
)
2187 tag
= PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
;
2189 tag
= PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
;
2190 if (wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_ALL
|| wbc
->tagged_writepages
)
2191 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping
, index
, end
);
2193 while (!done
&& (index
<= end
)) {
2196 nr_pages
= pagevec_lookup_range_tag(&pvec
, mapping
, &index
, end
,
2201 for (i
= 0; i
< nr_pages
; i
++) {
2202 struct page
*page
= pvec
.pages
[i
];
2204 done_index
= page
->index
;
2209 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
2210 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
2211 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
2212 * real expectation of this data interity operation
2213 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
2214 * pagecache address.
2216 if (unlikely(page
->mapping
!= mapping
)) {
2222 if (!PageDirty(page
)) {
2223 /* someone wrote it for us */
2224 goto continue_unlock
;
2227 if (PageWriteback(page
)) {
2228 if (wbc
->sync_mode
!= WB_SYNC_NONE
)
2229 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
2231 goto continue_unlock
;
2234 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page
));
2235 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
))
2236 goto continue_unlock
;
2238 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc
, inode_to_bdi(mapping
->host
));
2239 ret
= (*writepage
)(page
, wbc
, data
);
2240 if (unlikely(ret
)) {
2241 if (ret
== AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
) {
2246 * done_index is set past this page,
2247 * so media errors will not choke
2248 * background writeout for the entire
2249 * file. This has consequences for
2250 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
2251 * not be suitable for data integrity
2254 done_index
= page
->index
+ 1;
2261 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
2262 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
2263 * keep going until we have written all the pages
2264 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
2266 if (--wbc
->nr_to_write
<= 0 &&
2267 wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_NONE
) {
2272 pagevec_release(&pvec
);
2277 * If we hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
2278 * back the index back to the start of the file for the next
2279 * time we are called.
2281 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
&& !done
)
2283 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
|| (range_whole
&& wbc
->nr_to_write
> 0))
2284 mapping
->writeback_index
= done_index
;
2288 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages
);
2291 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
2292 * function and set the mapping flags on error
2294 static int __writepage(struct page
*page
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
,
2297 struct address_space
*mapping
= data
;
2298 int ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, wbc
);
2299 mapping_set_error(mapping
, ret
);
2304 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
2305 * @mapping: address space structure to write
2306 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
2308 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
2309 * address_space_operation.
2311 int generic_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
2312 struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
2314 struct blk_plug plug
;
2317 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
2318 if (!mapping
->a_ops
->writepage
)
2321 blk_start_plug(&plug
);
2322 ret
= write_cache_pages(mapping
, wbc
, __writepage
, mapping
);
2323 blk_finish_plug(&plug
);
2327 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages
);
2329 int do_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
2333 if (wbc
->nr_to_write
<= 0)
2336 if (mapping
->a_ops
->writepages
)
2337 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
2339 ret
= generic_writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
2340 if ((ret
!= -ENOMEM
) || (wbc
->sync_mode
!= WB_SYNC_ALL
))
2343 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/50);
2349 * write_one_page - write out a single page and wait on I/O
2350 * @page: the page to write
2352 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
2354 * Note that the mapping's AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC flags will be cleared when this
2357 int write_one_page(struct page
*page
)
2359 struct address_space
*mapping
= page
->mapping
;
2361 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
2362 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_ALL
,
2366 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
2368 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
2370 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
2372 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, &wbc
);
2374 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
2381 ret
= filemap_check_errors(mapping
);
2384 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page
);
2387 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
2389 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page
*page
)
2391 if (!PageDirty(page
))
2392 return !TestSetPageDirty(page
);
2397 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
2399 * Caller must hold lock_page_memcg().
2401 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
2403 void account_page_dirtied(struct page
*page
, struct address_space
*mapping
)
2405 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2407 trace_writeback_dirty_page(page
, mapping
);
2409 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2410 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
;
2412 inode_attach_wb(inode
, page
);
2413 wb
= inode_to_wb(inode
);
2415 __inc_lruvec_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
2416 __inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING
);
2417 __inc_node_page_state(page
, NR_DIRTIED
);
2418 inc_wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
);
2419 inc_wb_stat(wb
, WB_DIRTIED
);
2420 task_io_account_write(PAGE_SIZE
);
2421 current
->nr_dirtied
++;
2422 this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits
);
2425 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied
);
2428 * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback.
2430 * Caller must hold lock_page_memcg().
2432 void account_page_cleaned(struct page
*page
, struct address_space
*mapping
,
2433 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
)
2435 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2436 dec_lruvec_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
2437 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING
);
2438 dec_wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
);
2439 task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_SIZE
);
2444 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
2447 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
2448 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
2449 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
2451 * The caller must ensure this doesn't race with truncation. Most will simply
2452 * hold the page lock, but e.g. zap_pte_range() calls with the page mapped and
2453 * the pte lock held, which also locks out truncation.
2455 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page
*page
)
2457 lock_page_memcg(page
);
2458 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
)) {
2459 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2460 unsigned long flags
;
2463 unlock_page_memcg(page
);
2467 xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2468 BUG_ON(page_mapping(page
) != mapping
);
2469 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page
) && !PageUptodate(page
));
2470 account_page_dirtied(page
, mapping
);
2471 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->i_pages
, page_index(page
),
2472 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
2473 xa_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2474 unlock_page_memcg(page
);
2476 if (mapping
->host
) {
2477 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
2478 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping
->host
, I_DIRTY_PAGES
);
2482 unlock_page_memcg(page
);
2485 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers
);
2488 * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
2489 * (NR_DIRTIED, WB_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
2490 * counters (NR_WRITTEN, WB_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
2491 * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
2494 void account_page_redirty(struct page
*page
)
2496 struct address_space
*mapping
= page
->mapping
;
2498 if (mapping
&& mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2499 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2500 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
;
2501 struct wb_lock_cookie cookie
= {};
2503 wb
= unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode
, &cookie
);
2504 current
->nr_dirtied
--;
2505 dec_node_page_state(page
, NR_DIRTIED
);
2506 dec_wb_stat(wb
, WB_DIRTIED
);
2507 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode
, &cookie
);
2510 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty
);
2513 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
2514 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
2515 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
2517 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control
*wbc
, struct page
*page
)
2521 wbc
->pages_skipped
++;
2522 ret
= __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page
);
2523 account_page_redirty(page
);
2526 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage
);
2531 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
2532 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
2533 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
2534 * but should be better not to.
2536 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
2537 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
2539 int set_page_dirty(struct page
*page
)
2541 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2543 page
= compound_head(page
);
2544 if (likely(mapping
)) {
2545 int (*spd
)(struct page
*) = mapping
->a_ops
->set_page_dirty
;
2547 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
2548 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
2549 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
2550 * reset. So no problem.
2551 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
2552 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
2553 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
2554 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
2556 if (PageReclaim(page
))
2557 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
2560 spd
= __set_page_dirty_buffers
;
2562 return (*spd
)(page
);
2564 if (!PageDirty(page
)) {
2565 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
))
2570 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty
);
2573 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
2574 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
2575 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
2577 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
2578 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
2580 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
2582 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page
*page
)
2587 ret
= set_page_dirty(page
);
2591 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock
);
2594 * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it does NOT
2595 * actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be around. It also
2596 * leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync activity will still find it on
2597 * the dirty lists, and in particular, clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still
2598 * look at the dirty bits in the VM.
2600 * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page is truncated,
2601 * and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, fs/buffer.c does
2602 * this when it notices that somebody has cleaned out all the buffers on a
2603 * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is
2604 * horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
2606 void __cancel_dirty_page(struct page
*page
)
2608 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2610 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2611 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2612 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
;
2613 struct wb_lock_cookie cookie
= {};
2615 lock_page_memcg(page
);
2616 wb
= unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode
, &cookie
);
2618 if (TestClearPageDirty(page
))
2619 account_page_cleaned(page
, mapping
, wb
);
2621 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode
, &cookie
);
2622 unlock_page_memcg(page
);
2624 ClearPageDirty(page
);
2627 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cancel_dirty_page
);
2630 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
2631 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
2633 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
2634 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
2635 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
2636 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
2637 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
2640 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
2641 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
2643 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page
*page
)
2645 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2648 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
2650 if (mapping
&& mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2651 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2652 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
;
2653 struct wb_lock_cookie cookie
= {};
2656 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
2658 * We use this sequence to make sure that
2659 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
2660 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
2661 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
2662 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
2663 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
2664 * cause the writeback.
2666 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
2667 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
2668 * them concurrently from different threads.
2670 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
2671 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
2672 * that will already usually be set. But we
2673 * need the side effects, and it can help us
2676 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
2677 * as a serialization point for all the different
2678 * threads doing their things.
2680 if (page_mkclean(page
))
2681 set_page_dirty(page
);
2683 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
2684 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
2685 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
2686 * page lock while dirtying the page, and pages are
2687 * always locked coming in here, so we get the desired
2690 wb
= unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode
, &cookie
);
2691 if (TestClearPageDirty(page
)) {
2692 dec_lruvec_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
2693 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING
);
2694 dec_wb_stat(wb
, WB_RECLAIMABLE
);
2697 unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode
, &cookie
);
2700 return TestClearPageDirty(page
);
2702 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io
);
2704 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
2706 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2707 struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
;
2708 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
2711 memcg
= lock_page_memcg(page
);
2712 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, page_pgdat(page
));
2713 if (mapping
&& mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping
)) {
2714 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2715 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= inode_to_bdi(inode
);
2716 unsigned long flags
;
2718 xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2719 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
2721 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->i_pages
, page_index(page
),
2722 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
2723 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi
)) {
2724 struct bdi_writeback
*wb
= inode_to_wb(inode
);
2726 dec_wb_stat(wb
, WB_WRITEBACK
);
2727 __wb_writeout_inc(wb
);
2731 if (mapping
->host
&& !mapping_tagged(mapping
,
2732 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
))
2733 sb_clear_inode_writeback(mapping
->host
);
2735 xa_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2737 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
2740 * NOTE: Page might be free now! Writeback doesn't hold a page
2741 * reference on its own, it relies on truncation to wait for
2742 * the clearing of PG_writeback. The below can only access
2743 * page state that is static across allocation cycles.
2746 dec_lruvec_state(lruvec
, NR_WRITEBACK
);
2747 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING
);
2748 inc_node_page_state(page
, NR_WRITTEN
);
2750 __unlock_page_memcg(memcg
);
2754 int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page
*page
, bool keep_write
)
2756 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2759 lock_page_memcg(page
);
2760 if (mapping
&& mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping
)) {
2761 struct inode
*inode
= mapping
->host
;
2762 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= inode_to_bdi(inode
);
2763 unsigned long flags
;
2765 xa_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2766 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
2770 on_wblist
= mapping_tagged(mapping
,
2771 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
2773 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->i_pages
, page_index(page
),
2774 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
2775 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi
))
2776 inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode
), WB_WRITEBACK
);
2779 * We can come through here when swapping anonymous
2780 * pages, so we don't necessarily have an inode to track
2783 if (mapping
->host
&& !on_wblist
)
2784 sb_mark_inode_writeback(mapping
->host
);
2786 if (!PageDirty(page
))
2787 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->i_pages
, page_index(page
),
2788 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
2790 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->i_pages
, page_index(page
),
2791 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
);
2792 xa_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->i_pages
, flags
);
2794 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
2797 inc_lruvec_page_state(page
, NR_WRITEBACK
);
2798 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING
);
2800 unlock_page_memcg(page
);
2804 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__test_set_page_writeback
);
2807 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
2810 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space
*mapping
, int tag
)
2812 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping
->i_pages
, tag
);
2814 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged
);
2817 * wait_for_stable_page() - wait for writeback to finish, if necessary.
2818 * @page: The page to wait on.
2820 * This function determines if the given page is related to a backing device
2821 * that requires page contents to be held stable during writeback. If so, then
2822 * it will wait for any pending writeback to complete.
2824 void wait_for_stable_page(struct page
*page
)
2826 if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(page
->mapping
->host
)))
2827 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
2829 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_stable_page
);