4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
6 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
9 * 10Apr2002 akpm@zip.com.au
13 #include <linux/kernel.h>
14 #include <linux/module.h>
15 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
18 #include <linux/swap.h>
19 #include <linux/slab.h>
20 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
21 #include <linux/writeback.h>
22 #include <linux/init.h>
23 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
24 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
25 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
26 #include <linux/mpage.h>
27 #include <linux/rmap.h>
28 #include <linux/percpu.h>
29 #include <linux/notifier.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>
35 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
38 * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
39 * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for
40 * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has
41 * been forced to throttle against that inode. Also, the code reevaluates
42 * the dirty each time it has written this many pages.
44 #define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES 1024
47 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
48 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
50 static long ratelimit_pages
= 32;
52 static int dirty_exceeded __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
; /* Dirty mem may be over limit */
55 * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
56 * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
57 * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably
58 * large amounts of I/O are submitted.
60 static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
62 return ratelimit_pages
+ ratelimit_pages
/ 2;
65 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
68 * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage
70 int dirty_background_ratio
= 5;
73 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
75 int vm_dirty_ratio
= 10;
78 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies
80 int dirty_writeback_interval
= 5 * HZ
;
83 * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty
85 int dirty_expire_interval
= 30 * HZ
;
88 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
93 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
94 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
98 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode
);
100 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
103 static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages
);
106 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
109 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
110 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
111 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
112 * performing lots of scanning.
114 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
116 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
119 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
123 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total
)
125 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
129 for_each_online_node(node
) {
131 &NODE_DATA(node
)->node_zones
[ZONE_HIGHMEM
];
133 x
+= zone_page_state(z
, NR_FREE_PAGES
)
134 + zone_page_state(z
, NR_INACTIVE
)
135 + zone_page_state(z
, NR_ACTIVE
);
138 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
139 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
140 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
141 * that this does not occur.
143 return min(x
, total
);
149 static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
153 x
= global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES
)
154 + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE
)
155 + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE
);
156 x
-= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x
);
157 return x
+ 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
161 get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground
, long *pdirty
,
162 struct address_space
*mapping
)
164 int background_ratio
; /* Percentages */
169 unsigned long available_memory
= determine_dirtyable_memory();
170 struct task_struct
*tsk
;
172 unmapped_ratio
= 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED
) +
173 global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES
)) * 100) /
176 dirty_ratio
= vm_dirty_ratio
;
177 if (dirty_ratio
> unmapped_ratio
/ 2)
178 dirty_ratio
= unmapped_ratio
/ 2;
183 background_ratio
= dirty_background_ratio
;
184 if (background_ratio
>= dirty_ratio
)
185 background_ratio
= dirty_ratio
/ 2;
187 background
= (background_ratio
* available_memory
) / 100;
188 dirty
= (dirty_ratio
* available_memory
) / 100;
190 if (tsk
->flags
& PF_LESS_THROTTLE
|| rt_task(tsk
)) {
191 background
+= background
/ 4;
194 *pbackground
= background
;
199 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
200 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
201 * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
202 * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some
205 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space
*mapping
)
208 long background_thresh
;
210 unsigned long pages_written
= 0;
211 unsigned long write_chunk
= sync_writeback_pages();
213 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
216 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
218 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_NONE
,
219 .older_than_this
= NULL
,
220 .nr_to_write
= write_chunk
,
224 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
, mapping
);
225 nr_reclaimable
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
226 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
227 if (nr_reclaimable
+ global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
) <=
234 /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
235 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
236 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
237 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
238 * been flushed to permanent storage.
240 if (nr_reclaimable
) {
241 writeback_inodes(&wbc
);
242 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
,
243 &dirty_thresh
, mapping
);
244 nr_reclaimable
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
245 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
247 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
)
250 pages_written
+= write_chunk
- wbc
.nr_to_write
;
251 if (pages_written
>= write_chunk
)
252 break; /* We've done our duty */
254 congestion_wait(WRITE
, HZ
/10);
257 if (nr_reclaimable
+ global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
)
258 <= dirty_thresh
&& dirty_exceeded
)
261 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi
))
262 return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */
265 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
266 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
267 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
269 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
270 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
272 if ((laptop_mode
&& pages_written
) ||
273 (!laptop_mode
&& (nr_reclaimable
> background_thresh
)))
274 pdflush_operation(background_writeout
, 0);
277 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page
*page
)
279 if (set_page_dirty(page
)) {
280 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
283 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping
);
288 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
289 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
290 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
292 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
293 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
294 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
296 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
297 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
298 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
299 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
301 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space
*mapping
,
302 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied
)
304 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits
) = 0;
305 unsigned long ratelimit
;
308 ratelimit
= ratelimit_pages
;
313 * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
314 * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
317 p
= &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits
);
318 *p
+= nr_pages_dirtied
;
319 if (unlikely(*p
>= ratelimit
)) {
322 balance_dirty_pages(mapping
);
327 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr
);
329 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask
)
331 long background_thresh
;
334 if ((gfp_mask
& (__GFP_FS
|__GFP_IO
)) != (__GFP_FS
|__GFP_IO
)) {
336 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
337 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
338 * waiting for IO to complete.
340 congestion_wait(WRITE
, HZ
/10);
345 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
, NULL
);
348 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
349 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
351 dirty_thresh
+= dirty_thresh
/ 10; /* wheeee... */
353 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
) +
354 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
) <= dirty_thresh
)
356 congestion_wait(WRITE
, HZ
/10);
361 * writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
362 * memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.
364 static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages
)
366 long min_pages
= _min_pages
;
367 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
369 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_NONE
,
370 .older_than_this
= NULL
,
377 long background_thresh
;
380 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
, NULL
);
381 if (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
382 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
) < background_thresh
385 wbc
.encountered_congestion
= 0;
386 wbc
.nr_to_write
= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES
;
387 wbc
.pages_skipped
= 0;
388 writeback_inodes(&wbc
);
389 min_pages
-= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES
- wbc
.nr_to_write
;
390 if (wbc
.nr_to_write
> 0 || wbc
.pages_skipped
> 0) {
391 /* Wrote less than expected */
392 congestion_wait(WRITE
, HZ
/10);
393 if (!wbc
.encountered_congestion
)
400 * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages. If `nr_pages' is zero, write back
401 * the whole world. Returns 0 if a pdflush thread was dispatched. Returns
402 * -1 if all pdflush threads were busy.
404 int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages
)
407 nr_pages
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
408 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
409 return pdflush_operation(background_writeout
, nr_pages
);
412 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused
);
413 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused
);
415 static DEFINE_TIMER(wb_timer
, wb_timer_fn
, 0, 0);
416 static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer
, laptop_timer_fn
, 0, 0);
419 * Periodic writeback of "old" data.
421 * Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the
422 * dirtying-time in the inode's address_space. So this periodic writeback code
423 * just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are
424 * older than a specific point in time.
426 * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_interval. But if a writeback event
427 * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_interval interval, then leave a
430 * older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write. So we'll only write back
431 * all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings.
433 static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg
)
435 unsigned long oldest_jif
;
436 unsigned long start_jif
;
437 unsigned long next_jif
;
439 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
441 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_NONE
,
442 .older_than_this
= &oldest_jif
,
451 oldest_jif
= jiffies
- dirty_expire_interval
;
453 next_jif
= start_jif
+ dirty_writeback_interval
;
454 nr_to_write
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
455 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
) +
456 (inodes_stat
.nr_inodes
- inodes_stat
.nr_unused
);
457 while (nr_to_write
> 0) {
458 wbc
.encountered_congestion
= 0;
459 wbc
.nr_to_write
= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES
;
460 writeback_inodes(&wbc
);
461 if (wbc
.nr_to_write
> 0) {
462 if (wbc
.encountered_congestion
)
463 congestion_wait(WRITE
, HZ
/10);
465 break; /* All the old data is written */
467 nr_to_write
-= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES
- wbc
.nr_to_write
;
469 if (time_before(next_jif
, jiffies
+ HZ
))
470 next_jif
= jiffies
+ HZ
;
471 if (dirty_writeback_interval
)
472 mod_timer(&wb_timer
, next_jif
);
476 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
478 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
479 struct file
*file
, void __user
*buffer
, size_t *length
, loff_t
*ppos
)
481 proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(table
, write
, file
, buffer
, length
, ppos
);
482 if (dirty_writeback_interval
)
483 mod_timer(&wb_timer
, jiffies
+ dirty_writeback_interval
);
485 del_timer(&wb_timer
);
489 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused
)
491 if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate
, 0) < 0)
492 mod_timer(&wb_timer
, jiffies
+ HZ
); /* delay 1 second */
495 static void laptop_flush(unsigned long unused
)
500 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused
)
502 pdflush_operation(laptop_flush
, 0);
506 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
507 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
508 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
510 void laptop_io_completion(void)
512 mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer
, jiffies
+ laptop_mode
);
516 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
517 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
518 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
520 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
522 del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer
);
526 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
527 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
528 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
529 * get_writeback_state too often.
531 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
532 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
533 * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
535 * But the limit should not be set too high. Because it also controls the
536 * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
537 * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
538 * time. So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
539 * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
542 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
544 ratelimit_pages
= vm_total_pages
/ (num_online_cpus() * 32);
545 if (ratelimit_pages
< 16)
546 ratelimit_pages
= 16;
547 if (ratelimit_pages
* PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
> 4096 * 1024)
548 ratelimit_pages
= (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
;
552 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block
*self
, unsigned long u
, void *v
)
554 writeback_set_ratelimit();
558 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb
= {
559 .notifier_call
= ratelimit_handler
,
564 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
566 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
567 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
568 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
570 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
571 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
572 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
573 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
574 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
575 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
576 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
578 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
579 * much memory the box has..
581 void __init
page_writeback_init(void)
583 mod_timer(&wb_timer
, jiffies
+ dirty_writeback_interval
);
584 writeback_set_ratelimit();
585 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb
);
589 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
590 * @mapping: address space structure to write
591 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
592 * @writepage: function called for each page
593 * @data: data passed to writepage function
595 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
596 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
597 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
598 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
599 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
600 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
601 * existing IO to complete.
603 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
604 struct writeback_control
*wbc
, writepage_t writepage
,
607 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
613 pgoff_t end
; /* Inclusive */
617 if (wbc
->nonblocking
&& bdi_write_congested(bdi
)) {
618 wbc
->encountered_congestion
= 1;
622 pagevec_init(&pvec
, 0);
623 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
) {
624 index
= mapping
->writeback_index
; /* Start from prev offset */
627 index
= wbc
->range_start
>> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
;
628 end
= wbc
->range_end
>> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
;
629 if (wbc
->range_start
== 0 && wbc
->range_end
== LLONG_MAX
)
634 while (!done
&& (index
<= end
) &&
635 (nr_pages
= pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec
, mapping
, &index
,
637 min(end
- index
, (pgoff_t
)PAGEVEC_SIZE
-1) + 1))) {
641 for (i
= 0; i
< nr_pages
; i
++) {
642 struct page
*page
= pvec
.pages
[i
];
645 * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
646 * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
647 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
648 * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
653 if (unlikely(page
->mapping
!= mapping
)) {
658 if (!wbc
->range_cyclic
&& page
->index
> end
) {
664 if (wbc
->sync_mode
!= WB_SYNC_NONE
)
665 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
667 if (PageWriteback(page
) ||
668 !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
673 ret
= (*writepage
)(page
, wbc
, data
);
675 if (unlikely(ret
== AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
))
677 if (ret
|| (--(wbc
->nr_to_write
) <= 0))
679 if (wbc
->nonblocking
&& bdi_write_congested(bdi
)) {
680 wbc
->encountered_congestion
= 1;
684 pagevec_release(&pvec
);
687 if (!scanned
&& !done
) {
689 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
690 * back to the start of the file
696 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
|| (range_whole
&& wbc
->nr_to_write
> 0))
697 mapping
->writeback_index
= index
;
700 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages
);
703 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
704 * function and set the mapping flags on error
706 static int __writepage(struct page
*page
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
,
709 struct address_space
*mapping
= data
;
710 int ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, wbc
);
711 mapping_set_error(mapping
, ret
);
716 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
717 * @mapping: address space structure to write
718 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
720 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
721 * address_space_operation.
723 int generic_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
724 struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
726 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
727 if (!mapping
->a_ops
->writepage
)
730 return write_cache_pages(mapping
, wbc
, __writepage
, mapping
);
733 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages
);
735 int do_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
739 if (wbc
->nr_to_write
<= 0)
741 wbc
->for_writepages
= 1;
742 if (mapping
->a_ops
->writepages
)
743 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
745 ret
= generic_writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
746 wbc
->for_writepages
= 0;
751 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
752 * @page: the page to write
753 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
755 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
757 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
759 int write_one_page(struct page
*page
, int wait
)
761 struct address_space
*mapping
= page
->mapping
;
763 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
764 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_ALL
,
768 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
771 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
773 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
774 page_cache_get(page
);
775 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, &wbc
);
776 if (ret
== 0 && wait
) {
777 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
781 page_cache_release(page
);
787 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page
);
790 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
792 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page
*page
)
794 if (!PageDirty(page
))
800 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
803 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
804 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
805 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
807 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
808 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
809 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
811 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
812 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() insode tree_lock.
814 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page
*page
)
816 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
)) {
817 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
818 struct address_space
*mapping2
;
823 write_lock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
824 mapping2
= page_mapping(page
);
825 if (mapping2
) { /* Race with truncate? */
826 BUG_ON(mapping2
!= mapping
);
827 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
828 __inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
829 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
);
831 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->page_tree
,
832 page_index(page
), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
834 write_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
836 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
837 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping
->host
, I_DIRTY_PAGES
);
843 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers
);
846 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
847 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
848 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
850 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control
*wbc
, struct page
*page
)
852 wbc
->pages_skipped
++;
853 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page
);
855 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage
);
858 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
859 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
861 int fastcall
set_page_dirty(struct page
*page
)
863 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
865 if (likely(mapping
)) {
866 int (*spd
)(struct page
*) = mapping
->a_ops
->set_page_dirty
;
869 spd
= __set_page_dirty_buffers
;
873 if (!PageDirty(page
)) {
874 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
))
879 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty
);
882 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
883 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
884 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
886 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
887 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
889 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
891 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page
*page
)
895 lock_page_nosync(page
);
896 ret
= set_page_dirty(page
);
900 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock
);
903 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
904 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
906 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
907 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
908 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
909 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
910 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
913 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
914 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
916 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page
*page
)
918 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
920 if (mapping
&& mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
922 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
924 * We use this sequence to make sure that
925 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
926 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
927 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
928 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
929 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
930 * cause the writeback.
932 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
933 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
934 * them concurrently from different threads.
936 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
937 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
938 * that will already usually be set. But we
939 * need the side effects, and it can help us
942 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
943 * as a serialization point for all the different
944 * threads doing their things.
946 * FIXME! We still have a race here: if somebody
947 * adds the page back to the page tables in
948 * between the "page_mkclean()" and the "TestClearPageDirty()",
949 * we might have it mapped without the dirty bit set.
951 if (page_mkclean(page
))
952 set_page_dirty(page
);
953 if (TestClearPageDirty(page
)) {
954 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
959 return TestClearPageDirty(page
);
961 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io
);
963 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
965 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
971 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
972 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
974 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->page_tree
,
976 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
977 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
979 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
984 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
986 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
992 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
993 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
995 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->page_tree
,
997 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
998 if (!PageDirty(page
))
999 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->page_tree
,
1001 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
1002 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
1004 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
1009 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback
);
1012 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marged with the
1015 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space
*mapping
, int tag
)
1017 unsigned long flags
;
1020 read_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
1021 ret
= radix_tree_tagged(&mapping
->page_tree
, tag
);
1022 read_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
1025 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged
);