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1 /*
2 * mm/page-writeback.c
4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
6 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
7 * address_space level.
9 * 10Apr2002 akpm@zip.com.au
10 * Initial version
13 #include <linux/kernel.h>
14 #include <linux/module.h>
15 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
16 #include <linux/fs.h>
17 #include <linux/mm.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.
90 int block_dump;
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.
96 int laptop_mode;
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
107 * thresholds.
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
117 * excessive.
119 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
120 * clamping level.
123 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
125 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
126 int node;
127 unsigned long x = 0;
129 for_each_online_node(node) {
130 struct zone *z =
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);
144 #else
145 return 0;
146 #endif
149 static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
151 unsigned long x;
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 */
160 static void
161 get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty,
162 struct address_space *mapping)
164 int background_ratio; /* Percentages */
165 int dirty_ratio;
166 int unmapped_ratio;
167 long background;
168 long dirty;
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) /
174 available_memory;
176 dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
177 if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2)
178 dirty_ratio = unmapped_ratio / 2;
180 if (dirty_ratio < 5)
181 dirty_ratio = 5;
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;
189 tsk = current;
190 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
191 background += background / 4;
192 dirty += dirty / 4;
194 *pbackground = background;
195 *pdirty = dirty;
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
203 * writeout.
205 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
207 long nr_reclaimable;
208 long background_thresh;
209 long dirty_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;
215 for (;;) {
216 struct writeback_control wbc = {
217 .bdi = bdi,
218 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
219 .older_than_this = NULL,
220 .nr_to_write = write_chunk,
221 .range_cyclic = 1,
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) <=
228 dirty_thresh)
229 break;
231 if (!dirty_exceeded)
232 dirty_exceeded = 1;
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);
246 if (nr_reclaimable +
247 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)
248 <= dirty_thresh)
249 break;
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)
259 dirty_exceeded = 0;
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);
282 if (mapping)
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;
306 unsigned long *p;
308 ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
309 if (dirty_exceeded)
310 ratelimit = 8;
313 * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
314 * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
316 preempt_disable();
317 p = &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
318 *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
319 if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
320 *p = 0;
321 preempt_enable();
322 balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
323 return;
325 preempt_enable();
327 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
329 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
331 long background_thresh;
332 long dirty_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);
341 return;
344 for ( ; ; ) {
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)
355 break;
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 = {
368 .bdi = NULL,
369 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
370 .older_than_this = NULL,
371 .nr_to_write = 0,
372 .nonblocking = 1,
373 .range_cyclic = 1,
376 for ( ; ; ) {
377 long background_thresh;
378 long dirty_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
383 && min_pages <= 0)
384 break;
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)
394 break;
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)
406 if (nr_pages == 0)
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
428 * one-second gap.
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;
438 long nr_to_write;
439 struct writeback_control wbc = {
440 .bdi = NULL,
441 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
442 .older_than_this = &oldest_jif,
443 .nr_to_write = 0,
444 .nonblocking = 1,
445 .for_kupdate = 1,
446 .range_cyclic = 1,
449 sync_supers();
451 oldest_jif = jiffies - dirty_expire_interval;
452 start_jif = jiffies;
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);
464 else
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,
484 jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
485 } else {
486 del_timer(&wb_timer);
488 return 0;
491 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
493 if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate, 0) < 0)
494 mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + HZ); /* delay 1 second */
497 static void laptop_flush(unsigned long unused)
499 sys_sync();
502 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
504 pdflush_operation(laptop_flush, 0);
508 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
509 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
510 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
512 void laptop_io_completion(void)
514 mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
518 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
519 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
520 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
522 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
524 del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
528 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
529 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
530 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
531 * get_writeback_state too often.
533 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
534 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
535 * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
537 * But the limit should not be set too high. Because it also controls the
538 * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
539 * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
540 * time. So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
541 * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
544 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
546 ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
547 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
548 ratelimit_pages = 16;
549 if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
550 ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
553 static int __cpuinit
554 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
556 writeback_set_ratelimit();
557 return NOTIFY_DONE;
560 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
561 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
562 .next = NULL,
566 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
568 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
569 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
570 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
572 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
573 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
574 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
575 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
576 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
577 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
578 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
580 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
581 * much memory the box has..
583 void __init page_writeback_init(void)
585 mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
586 writeback_set_ratelimit();
587 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
591 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
592 * @mapping: address space structure to write
593 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
594 * @writepage: function called for each page
595 * @data: data passed to writepage function
597 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
598 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
599 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
600 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
601 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
602 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
603 * existing IO to complete.
605 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
606 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
607 void *data)
609 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
610 int ret = 0;
611 int done = 0;
612 struct pagevec pvec;
613 int nr_pages;
614 pgoff_t index;
615 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
616 int scanned = 0;
617 int range_whole = 0;
619 if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
620 wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
621 return 0;
624 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
625 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
626 index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */
627 end = -1;
628 } else {
629 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
630 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
631 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
632 range_whole = 1;
633 scanned = 1;
635 retry:
636 while (!done && (index <= end) &&
637 (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
638 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
639 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) {
640 unsigned i;
642 scanned = 1;
643 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
644 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
647 * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
648 * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
649 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
650 * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
651 * mapping
653 lock_page(page);
655 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
656 unlock_page(page);
657 continue;
660 if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
661 done = 1;
662 unlock_page(page);
663 continue;
666 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
667 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
669 if (PageWriteback(page) ||
670 !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
671 unlock_page(page);
672 continue;
675 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
677 if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) {
678 unlock_page(page);
679 ret = 0;
681 if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0))
682 done = 1;
683 if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
684 wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
685 done = 1;
688 pagevec_release(&pvec);
689 cond_resched();
691 if (!scanned && !done) {
693 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
694 * back to the start of the file
696 scanned = 1;
697 index = 0;
698 goto retry;
700 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
701 mapping->writeback_index = index;
702 return ret;
704 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
707 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
708 * function and set the mapping flags on error
710 static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
711 void *data)
713 struct address_space *mapping = data;
714 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
715 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
716 return ret;
720 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
721 * @mapping: address space structure to write
722 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
724 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
725 * address_space_operation.
727 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
728 struct writeback_control *wbc)
730 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
731 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
732 return 0;
734 return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
737 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
739 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
741 int ret;
743 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
744 return 0;
745 wbc->for_writepages = 1;
746 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
747 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
748 else
749 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
750 wbc->for_writepages = 0;
751 return ret;
755 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
756 * @page: the page to write
757 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
759 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
761 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
763 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
765 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
766 int ret = 0;
767 struct writeback_control wbc = {
768 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
769 .nr_to_write = 1,
772 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
774 if (wait)
775 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
777 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
778 page_cache_get(page);
779 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
780 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
781 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
782 if (PageError(page))
783 ret = -EIO;
785 page_cache_release(page);
786 } else {
787 unlock_page(page);
789 return ret;
791 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
794 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
796 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
798 if (!PageDirty(page))
799 SetPageDirty(page);
800 return 0;
804 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
805 * its radix tree.
807 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
808 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
809 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
811 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
812 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
813 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
815 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
816 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() insode tree_lock.
818 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
820 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
821 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
822 struct address_space *mapping2;
824 if (!mapping)
825 return 1;
827 write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
828 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
829 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
830 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
831 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
832 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
833 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
835 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
836 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
838 write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
839 if (mapping->host) {
840 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
841 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
843 return 1;
845 return 0;
847 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
850 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
851 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
852 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
854 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
856 wbc->pages_skipped++;
857 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
859 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
862 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
863 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
865 int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
867 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
869 if (likely(mapping)) {
870 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
871 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
872 if (!spd)
873 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
874 #endif
875 return (*spd)(page);
877 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
878 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
879 return 1;
881 return 0;
883 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
886 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
887 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
888 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
890 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
891 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
893 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
895 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
897 int ret;
899 lock_page_nosync(page);
900 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
901 unlock_page(page);
902 return ret;
904 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
907 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
908 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
910 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
911 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
912 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
913 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
914 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
915 * back into sync.
917 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
918 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
920 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
922 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
924 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
926 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
928 * We use this sequence to make sure that
929 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
930 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
931 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
932 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
933 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
934 * cause the writeback.
936 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
937 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
938 * them concurrently from different threads.
940 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
941 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
942 * that will already usually be set. But we
943 * need the side effects, and it can help us
944 * avoid races.
946 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
947 * as a serialization point for all the different
948 * threads doing their things.
950 * FIXME! We still have a race here: if somebody
951 * adds the page back to the page tables in
952 * between the "page_mkclean()" and the "TestClearPageDirty()",
953 * we might have it mapped without the dirty bit set.
955 if (page_mkclean(page))
956 set_page_dirty(page);
957 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
958 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
959 return 1;
961 return 0;
963 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
965 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
967 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
969 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
970 int ret;
972 if (mapping) {
973 unsigned long flags;
975 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
976 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
977 if (ret)
978 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
979 page_index(page),
980 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
981 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
982 } else {
983 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
985 return ret;
988 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
990 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
991 int ret;
993 if (mapping) {
994 unsigned long flags;
996 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
997 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
998 if (!ret)
999 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1000 page_index(page),
1001 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1002 if (!PageDirty(page))
1003 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1004 page_index(page),
1005 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1006 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1007 } else {
1008 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1010 return ret;
1013 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
1016 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marged with the
1017 * passed tag.
1019 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
1021 unsigned long flags;
1022 int ret;
1024 read_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1025 ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
1026 read_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1027 return ret;
1029 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);