kernel-ark/mm/backing-dev.c
Artem Bityutskiy fff5b85aa4 writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
Currently, bdi threads can decide to exit if there were no useful activities
for 5 minutes. However, this causes nasty races: we can easily oops in the
'bdi_queue_work()' if the bdi thread decides to exit while we are waking it up.

And even if we do not oops, but the bdi tread exits immediately after we wake
it up, we'd lose the wake-up event and have an unnecessary delay (up to 5 secs)
in the bdi work processing.

This patch makes the forker thread to be the central place which not only
creates bdi threads, but also kills them if they were inactive long enough.
This better design-wise.

Another reason why this change was done is to prepare for the further changes
which will prevent the bdi threads from waking up every 5 sec and wasting
power. Indeed, when the task does not wake up periodically anymore, it won't be
able to exit either.

This patch also moves the the 'wake_up_bit()' call from the bdi thread to the
forker thread as well. So now the forker thread sets the BDI_pending bit, then
forks the task or kills it, then clears the bit and wakes up the waiting
process.

The only process which may wain on the bit is 'bdi_wb_shutdown()'. This
function was changed as well - now it first removes the bdi from the
'bdi_list', then waits on the 'BDI_pending' bit. Once it wakes up, it is
guaranteed that the forker thread won't race with it, because the bdi is not
visible. Note, the forker thread sets the 'BDI_pending' bit under the
'bdi->wb_lock' which is essential for proper serialization.

And additionally, when we change 'bdi->wb.task', we now take the
'bdi->work_lock', to make sure that we do not lose wake-ups which we otherwise
would when raced with, say, 'bdi_queue_work()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:53:56 +02:00

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#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
static atomic_long_t bdi_seq = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page)
{
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_unplug_io_fn);
struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = {
.name = "default",
.ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024 / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE,
.state = 0,
.capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY,
.unplug_io_fn = default_unplug_io_fn,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(default_backing_dev_info);
struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info = {
.name = "noop",
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info);
static struct class *bdi_class;
/*
* bdi_lock protects updates to bdi_list and bdi_pending_list, as well as
* reader side protection for bdi_pending_list. bdi_list has RCU reader side
* locking.
*/
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
LIST_HEAD(bdi_list);
LIST_HEAD(bdi_pending_list);
static struct task_struct *sync_supers_tsk;
static struct timer_list sync_supers_timer;
static int bdi_sync_supers(void *);
static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
static struct dentry *bdi_debug_root;
static void bdi_debug_init(void)
{
bdi_debug_root = debugfs_create_dir("bdi", NULL);
}
static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = m->private;
struct bdi_writeback *wb = &bdi->wb;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long bdi_thresh;
unsigned long nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io, nr_wb;
struct inode *inode;
nr_wb = nr_dirty = nr_io = nr_more_io = 0;
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_dirty, i_list)
nr_dirty++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_io, i_list)
nr_io++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_more_io, i_list)
nr_more_io++;
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, &bdi_thresh, bdi);
#define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
seq_printf(m,
"BdiWriteback: %8lu kB\n"
"BdiReclaimable: %8lu kB\n"
"BdiDirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"DirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"BackgroundThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"b_dirty: %8lu\n"
"b_io: %8lu\n"
"b_more_io: %8lu\n"
"bdi_list: %8u\n"
"state: %8lx\n",
(unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK)),
(unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE)),
K(bdi_thresh), K(dirty_thresh),
K(background_thresh), nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io,
!list_empty(&bdi->bdi_list), bdi->state);
#undef K
return 0;
}
static int bdi_debug_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
return single_open(file, bdi_debug_stats_show, inode->i_private);
}
static const struct file_operations bdi_debug_stats_fops = {
.open = bdi_debug_stats_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
.release = single_release,
};
static void bdi_debug_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *name)
{
bdi->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, bdi_debug_root);
bdi->debug_stats = debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, bdi->debug_dir,
bdi, &bdi_debug_stats_fops);
}
static void bdi_debug_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_stats);
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir);
}
#else
static inline void bdi_debug_init(void)
{
}
static inline void bdi_debug_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
const char *name)
{
}
static inline void bdi_debug_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
}
#endif
static ssize_t read_ahead_kb_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
char *end;
unsigned long read_ahead_kb;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
read_ahead_kb = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
bdi->ra_pages = read_ahead_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
ret = count;
}
return ret;
}
#define K(pages) ((pages) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
#define BDI_SHOW(name, expr) \
static ssize_t name##_show(struct device *dev, \
struct device_attribute *attr, char *page) \
{ \
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev); \
\
return snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE-1, "%lld\n", (long long)expr); \
}
BDI_SHOW(read_ahead_kb, K(bdi->ra_pages))
static ssize_t min_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
char *end;
unsigned int ratio;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
ratio = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
ret = bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, ratio);
if (!ret)
ret = count;
}
return ret;
}
BDI_SHOW(min_ratio, bdi->min_ratio)
static ssize_t max_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
char *end;
unsigned int ratio;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
ratio = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
ret = bdi_set_max_ratio(bdi, ratio);
if (!ret)
ret = count;
}
return ret;
}
BDI_SHOW(max_ratio, bdi->max_ratio)
#define __ATTR_RW(attr) __ATTR(attr, 0644, attr##_show, attr##_store)
static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RW(read_ahead_kb),
__ATTR_RW(min_ratio),
__ATTR_RW(max_ratio),
__ATTR_NULL,
};
static __init int bdi_class_init(void)
{
bdi_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "bdi");
if (IS_ERR(bdi_class))
return PTR_ERR(bdi_class);
bdi_class->dev_attrs = bdi_dev_attrs;
bdi_debug_init();
return 0;
}
postcore_initcall(bdi_class_init);
static int __init default_bdi_init(void)
{
int err;
sync_supers_tsk = kthread_run(bdi_sync_supers, NULL, "sync_supers");
BUG_ON(IS_ERR(sync_supers_tsk));
init_timer(&sync_supers_timer);
setup_timer(&sync_supers_timer, sync_supers_timer_fn, 0);
bdi_arm_supers_timer();
err = bdi_init(&default_backing_dev_info);
if (!err)
bdi_register(&default_backing_dev_info, NULL, "default");
return err;
}
subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init);
static void bdi_wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
memset(wb, 0, sizeof(*wb));
wb->bdi = bdi;
wb->last_old_flush = jiffies;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->b_dirty);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->b_io);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->b_more_io);
}
int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return wb_has_dirty_io(&bdi->wb);
}
static void bdi_flush_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.older_than_this = NULL,
.range_cyclic = 1,
.nr_to_write = 1024,
};
writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc);
}
/*
* kupdated() used to do this. We cannot do it from the bdi_forker_thread()
* or we risk deadlocking on ->s_umount. The longer term solution would be
* to implement sync_supers_bdi() or similar and simply do it from the
* bdi writeback thread individually.
*/
static int bdi_sync_supers(void *unused)
{
set_user_nice(current, 0);
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule();
/*
* Do this periodically, like kupdated() did before.
*/
sync_supers();
}
return 0;
}
void bdi_arm_supers_timer(void)
{
unsigned long next;
if (!dirty_writeback_interval)
return;
next = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10) + jiffies;
mod_timer(&sync_supers_timer, round_jiffies_up(next));
}
static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
{
wake_up_process(sync_supers_tsk);
bdi_arm_supers_timer();
}
/*
* Calculate the longest interval (jiffies) bdi threads are allowed to be
* inactive.
*/
static unsigned long bdi_longest_inactive(void)
{
unsigned long interval;
interval = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
return max(5UL * 60 * HZ, interval);
}
static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
{
struct bdi_writeback *me = ptr;
current->flags |= PF_FLUSHER | PF_SWAPWRITE;
set_freezable();
/*
* Our parent may run at a different priority, just set us to normal
*/
set_user_nice(current, 0);
for (;;) {
struct task_struct *task = NULL;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
enum {
NO_ACTION, /* Nothing to do */
FORK_THREAD, /* Fork bdi thread */
KILL_THREAD, /* Kill inactive bdi thread */
} action = NO_ACTION;
/*
* Temporary measure, we want to make sure we don't see
* dirty data on the default backing_dev_info
*/
if (wb_has_dirty_io(me) || !list_empty(&me->bdi->work_list))
wb_do_writeback(me, 0);
spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
list_for_each_entry(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) {
bool have_dirty_io;
if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi) ||
bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi))
continue;
WARN(!test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state),
"bdi %p/%s is not registered!\n", bdi, bdi->name);
have_dirty_io = !list_empty(&bdi->work_list) ||
wb_has_dirty_io(&bdi->wb);
/*
* If the bdi has work to do, but the thread does not
* exist - create it.
*/
if (!bdi->wb.task && have_dirty_io) {
/*
* Set the pending bit - if someone will try to
* unregister this bdi - it'll wait on this bit.
*/
set_bit(BDI_pending, &bdi->state);
action = FORK_THREAD;
break;
}
spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock);
/*
* If there is no work to do and the bdi thread was
* inactive long enough - kill it. The wb_lock is taken
* to make sure no-one adds more work to this bdi and
* wakes the bdi thread up.
*/
if (bdi->wb.task && !have_dirty_io &&
time_after(jiffies, bdi->wb.last_active +
bdi_longest_inactive())) {
task = bdi->wb.task;
bdi->wb.task = NULL;
spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock);
set_bit(BDI_pending, &bdi->state);
action = KILL_THREAD;
break;
}
spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock);
}
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
/* Keep working if default bdi still has things to do */
if (!list_empty(&me->bdi->work_list))
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
switch (action) {
case FORK_THREAD:
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
task = kthread_run(bdi_writeback_thread, &bdi->wb, "flush-%s",
dev_name(bdi->dev));
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
/*
* If thread creation fails, force writeout of
* the bdi from the thread.
*/
bdi_flush_io(bdi);
} else {
/*
* The spinlock makes sure we do not lose
* wake-ups when racing with 'bdi_queue_work()'.
*/
spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock);
bdi->wb.task = task;
spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock);
}
break;
case KILL_THREAD:
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
kthread_stop(task);
break;
case NO_ACTION:
if (dirty_writeback_interval)
schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10));
else
schedule();
try_to_freeze();
/* Back to the main loop */
continue;
}
/*
* Clear pending bit and wakeup anybody waiting to tear us down.
*/
clear_bit(BDI_pending, &bdi->state);
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
wake_up_bit(&bdi->state, BDI_pending);
}
return 0;
}
/*
* Remove bdi from bdi_list, and ensure that it is no longer visible
*/
static void bdi_remove_from_list(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
list_del_rcu(&bdi->bdi_list);
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
synchronize_rcu();
}
int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;
int ret = 0;
struct device *dev;
if (bdi->dev) /* The driver needs to use separate queues per device */
goto exit;
va_start(args, fmt);
dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto exit;
}
spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
list_add_tail_rcu(&bdi->bdi_list, &bdi_list);
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
bdi->dev = dev;
/*
* Just start the forker thread for our default backing_dev_info,
* and add other bdi's to the list. They will get a thread created
* on-demand when they need it.
*/
if (bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi)) {
struct bdi_writeback *wb = &bdi->wb;
wb->task = kthread_run(bdi_forker_thread, wb, "bdi-%s",
dev_name(dev));
if (IS_ERR(wb->task)) {
wb->task = NULL;
ret = -ENOMEM;
bdi_remove_from_list(bdi);
goto exit;
}
}
bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev));
set_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state);
trace_writeback_bdi_register(bdi);
exit:
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register);
int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev)
{
return bdi_register(bdi, NULL, "%u:%u", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register_dev);
/*
* Remove bdi from the global list and shutdown any threads we have running
*/
static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi))
return;
/*
* Make sure nobody finds us on the bdi_list anymore
*/
bdi_remove_from_list(bdi);
/*
* If setup is pending, wait for that to complete first
*/
wait_on_bit(&bdi->state, BDI_pending, bdi_sched_wait,
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
/*
* Finally, kill the kernel thread. We don't need to be RCU
* safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility. Force
* unfreeze of the thread before calling kthread_stop(), otherwise
* it would never exet if it is currently stuck in the refrigerator.
*/
if (bdi->wb.task) {
thaw_process(bdi->wb.task);
kthread_stop(bdi->wb.task);
}
}
/*
* This bdi is going away now, make sure that no super_blocks point to it
*/
static void bdi_prune_sb(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
struct super_block *sb;
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
if (sb->s_bdi == bdi)
sb->s_bdi = NULL;
}
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
}
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (bdi->dev) {
trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi);
bdi_prune_sb(bdi);
if (!bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi))
bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi);
bdi_debug_unregister(bdi);
device_unregister(bdi->dev);
bdi->dev = NULL;
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister);
int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
int i, err;
bdi->dev = NULL;
bdi->min_ratio = 0;
bdi->max_ratio = 100;
bdi->max_prop_frac = PROP_FRAC_BASE;
spin_lock_init(&bdi->wb_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->bdi_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->work_list);
bdi_wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi);
for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
err = percpu_counter_init(&bdi->bdi_stat[i], 0);
if (err)
goto err;
}
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
err = prop_local_init_percpu(&bdi->completions);
if (err) {
err:
while (i--)
percpu_counter_destroy(&bdi->bdi_stat[i]);
}
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_init);
void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
int i;
/*
* Splice our entries to the default_backing_dev_info, if this
* bdi disappears
*/
if (bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi)) {
struct bdi_writeback *dst = &default_backing_dev_info.wb;
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_dirty, &dst->b_dirty);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_io, &dst->b_io);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_more_io, &dst->b_more_io);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
}
bdi_unregister(bdi);
for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
percpu_counter_destroy(&bdi->bdi_stat[i]);
prop_local_destroy_percpu(&bdi->completions);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_destroy);
/*
* For use from filesystems to quickly init and register a bdi associated
* with dirty writeback
*/
int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, char *name,
unsigned int cap)
{
char tmp[32];
int err;
bdi->name = name;
bdi->capabilities = cap;
err = bdi_init(bdi);
if (err)
return err;
sprintf(tmp, "%.28s%s", name, "-%d");
err = bdi_register(bdi, NULL, tmp, atomic_long_inc_return(&bdi_seq));
if (err) {
bdi_destroy(bdi);
return err;
}
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_setup_and_register);
static wait_queue_head_t congestion_wqh[2] = {
__WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[0]),
__WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[1])
};
void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync)
{
enum bdi_state bit;
wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[sync];
bit = sync ? BDI_sync_congested : BDI_async_congested;
clear_bit(bit, &bdi->state);
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
if (waitqueue_active(wqh))
wake_up(wqh);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_bdi_congested);
void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync)
{
enum bdi_state bit;
bit = sync ? BDI_sync_congested : BDI_async_congested;
set_bit(bit, &bdi->state);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_bdi_congested);
/**
* congestion_wait - wait for a backing_dev to become uncongested
* @sync: SYNC or ASYNC IO
* @timeout: timeout in jiffies
*
* Waits for up to @timeout jiffies for a backing_dev (any backing_dev) to exit
* write congestion. If no backing_devs are congested then just wait for the
* next write to be completed.
*/
long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout)
{
long ret;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[sync];
prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
ret = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait);