4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
5 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
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/notifier.h>
31 #include <linux/smp.h>
32 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
33 #include <linux/cpu.h>
34 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
35 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* __set_page_dirty_buffers */
36 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
37 #include <linux/timer.h>
38 #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
41 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
43 #define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
46 * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages
47 * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it.
49 #define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
52 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
54 #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
56 #define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
59 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
60 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
62 static long ratelimit_pages
= 32;
64 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
67 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
69 int dirty_background_ratio
= 10;
72 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
73 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
75 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes
;
78 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
79 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
81 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable
;
84 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
86 int vm_dirty_ratio
= 20;
89 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
90 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
92 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes
;
95 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
97 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval
= 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
99 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dirty_writeback_interval
);
102 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
104 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval
= 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
107 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
112 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
113 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
117 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode
);
119 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
121 unsigned long global_dirty_limit
;
124 * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
126 * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
127 * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
128 * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
131 * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
132 * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
134 * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
135 * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
136 * measured in page writeback completions.
139 static struct fprop_global writeout_completions
;
141 static void writeout_period(unsigned long t
);
142 /* Timer for aging of writeout_completions */
143 static struct timer_list writeout_period_timer
=
144 TIMER_DEFERRED_INITIALIZER(writeout_period
, 0, 0);
145 static unsigned long writeout_period_time
= 0;
148 * Length of period for aging writeout fractions of bdis. This is an
149 * arbitrarily chosen number. The longer the period, the slower fractions will
150 * reflect changes in current writeout rate.
152 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ)
155 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
158 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
159 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
160 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
161 * performing lots of scanning.
163 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
165 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
168 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
173 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
174 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
175 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
176 * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without
177 * requiring writeback.
179 * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the
180 * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that
181 * are allowed to be actually dirtied. Per individual zone, or
182 * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones.
184 * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as
185 * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can
186 * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of
187 * global dirtyable memory first.
190 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total
)
192 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
196 for_each_node_state(node
, N_HIGH_MEMORY
) {
198 &NODE_DATA(node
)->node_zones
[ZONE_HIGHMEM
];
200 x
+= zone_page_state(z
, NR_FREE_PAGES
) +
201 zone_reclaimable_pages(z
) - z
->dirty_balance_reserve
;
204 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
205 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
206 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
207 * that this does not occur.
209 return min(x
, total
);
216 * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages
218 * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
219 * page cache. This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
221 static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
225 x
= global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES
) + global_reclaimable_pages() -
226 dirty_balance_reserve
;
228 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable
)
229 x
-= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x
);
231 return x
+ 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
235 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
237 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
238 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
239 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
240 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
243 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground
, unsigned long *pdirty
)
245 unsigned long background
;
247 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory
);
248 struct task_struct
*tsk
;
250 if (!vm_dirty_bytes
|| !dirty_background_bytes
)
251 available_memory
= global_dirtyable_memory();
254 dirty
= DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
);
256 dirty
= (vm_dirty_ratio
* available_memory
) / 100;
258 if (dirty_background_bytes
)
259 background
= DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
);
261 background
= (dirty_background_ratio
* available_memory
) / 100;
263 if (background
>= dirty
)
264 background
= dirty
/ 2;
266 if (tsk
->flags
& PF_LESS_THROTTLE
|| rt_task(tsk
)) {
267 background
+= background
/ 4;
270 *pbackground
= background
;
272 trace_global_dirty_state(background
, dirty
);
276 * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
279 * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
280 * page cache. This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
282 static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone
*zone
)
285 * The effective global number of dirtyable pages may exclude
286 * highmem as a big-picture measure to keep the ratio between
287 * dirty memory and lowmem reasonable.
289 * But this function is purely about the individual zone and a
290 * highmem zone can hold its share of dirty pages, so we don't
291 * care about vm_highmem_is_dirtyable here.
293 return zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
) +
294 zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
) -
295 zone
->dirty_balance_reserve
;
299 * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
302 * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
303 * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
305 static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone
*zone
)
307 unsigned long zone_memory
= zone_dirtyable_memory(zone
);
308 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
312 dirty
= DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes
, PAGE_SIZE
) *
313 zone_memory
/ global_dirtyable_memory();
315 dirty
= vm_dirty_ratio
* zone_memory
/ 100;
317 if (tsk
->flags
& PF_LESS_THROTTLE
|| rt_task(tsk
))
324 * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
325 * @zone: the zone to check
327 * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
328 * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
330 bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone
*zone
)
332 unsigned long limit
= zone_dirty_limit(zone
);
334 return zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
335 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
) +
336 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_WRITEBACK
) <= limit
;
339 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
340 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
345 ret
= proc_dointvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
346 if (ret
== 0 && write
)
347 dirty_background_bytes
= 0;
351 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
352 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
357 ret
= proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
358 if (ret
== 0 && write
)
359 dirty_background_ratio
= 0;
363 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
364 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
367 int old_ratio
= vm_dirty_ratio
;
370 ret
= proc_dointvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
371 if (ret
== 0 && write
&& vm_dirty_ratio
!= old_ratio
) {
372 writeback_set_ratelimit();
378 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
379 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *lenp
,
382 unsigned long old_bytes
= vm_dirty_bytes
;
385 ret
= proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, lenp
, ppos
);
386 if (ret
== 0 && write
&& vm_dirty_bytes
!= old_bytes
) {
387 writeback_set_ratelimit();
393 static unsigned long wp_next_time(unsigned long cur_time
)
395 cur_time
+= VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
;
396 /* 0 has a special meaning... */
403 * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
404 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
406 static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
)
408 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi
, BDI_WRITTEN
);
409 __fprop_inc_percpu_max(&writeout_completions
, &bdi
->completions
,
411 /* First event after period switching was turned off? */
412 if (!unlikely(writeout_period_time
)) {
414 * We can race with other __bdi_writeout_inc calls here but
415 * it does not cause any harm since the resulting time when
416 * timer will fire and what is in writeout_period_time will be
419 writeout_period_time
= wp_next_time(jiffies
);
420 mod_timer(&writeout_period_timer
, writeout_period_time
);
424 void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
)
428 local_irq_save(flags
);
429 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi
);
430 local_irq_restore(flags
);
432 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc
);
435 * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
437 static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
438 long *numerator
, long *denominator
)
440 fprop_fraction_percpu(&writeout_completions
, &bdi
->completions
,
441 numerator
, denominator
);
445 * On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use
446 * deferred timers so count with missed periods.
448 static void writeout_period(unsigned long t
)
450 int miss_periods
= (jiffies
- writeout_period_time
) /
451 VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
;
453 if (fprop_new_period(&writeout_completions
, miss_periods
+ 1)) {
454 writeout_period_time
= wp_next_time(writeout_period_time
+
455 miss_periods
* VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN
);
456 mod_timer(&writeout_period_timer
, writeout_period_time
);
459 * Aging has zeroed all fractions. Stop wasting CPU on period
462 writeout_period_time
= 0;
467 * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
468 * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
471 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio
;
473 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
, unsigned int min_ratio
)
477 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
478 if (min_ratio
> bdi
->max_ratio
) {
481 min_ratio
-= bdi
->min_ratio
;
482 if (bdi_min_ratio
+ min_ratio
< 100) {
483 bdi_min_ratio
+= min_ratio
;
484 bdi
->min_ratio
+= min_ratio
;
489 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
494 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
, unsigned max_ratio
)
501 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
502 if (bdi
->min_ratio
> max_ratio
) {
505 bdi
->max_ratio
= max_ratio
;
506 bdi
->max_prop_frac
= (FPROP_FRAC_BASE
* max_ratio
) / 100;
508 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock
);
512 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio
);
514 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh
,
515 unsigned long bg_thresh
)
517 return (thresh
+ bg_thresh
) / 2;
520 static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh
)
522 return max(thresh
, global_dirty_limit
);
526 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
527 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
528 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
530 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
531 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
533 * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
534 * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
535 * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
536 * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
537 * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
538 * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
540 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
541 * - starving fast devices
542 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
544 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
545 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
547 unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
, unsigned long dirty
)
550 long numerator
, denominator
;
553 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
555 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi
, &numerator
, &denominator
);
557 bdi_dirty
= (dirty
* (100 - bdi_min_ratio
)) / 100;
558 bdi_dirty
*= numerator
;
559 do_div(bdi_dirty
, denominator
);
561 bdi_dirty
+= (dirty
* bdi
->min_ratio
) / 100;
562 if (bdi_dirty
> (dirty
* bdi
->max_ratio
) / 100)
563 bdi_dirty
= dirty
* bdi
->max_ratio
/ 100;
569 * Dirty position control.
571 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
573 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
574 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
575 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
576 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
578 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
580 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
581 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
583 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
584 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
586 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
588 * (o) global control line
592 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
600 * 1.0 ................................*
606 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
607 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
609 * (o) bdi control line
617 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
618 * 1.0 .......................*
630 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
634 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
635 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
637 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
638 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
639 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
640 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
641 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
643 static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
644 unsigned long thresh
,
645 unsigned long bg_thresh
,
647 unsigned long bdi_thresh
,
648 unsigned long bdi_dirty
)
650 unsigned long write_bw
= bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
651 unsigned long freerun
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh
, bg_thresh
);
652 unsigned long limit
= hard_dirty_limit(thresh
);
653 unsigned long x_intercept
;
654 unsigned long setpoint
; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
655 unsigned long bdi_setpoint
;
657 long long pos_ratio
; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
660 if (unlikely(dirty
>= limit
))
667 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
670 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
672 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
673 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
674 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
675 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
676 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
677 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
679 setpoint
= (freerun
+ limit
) / 2;
680 x
= div_s64((setpoint
- dirty
) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
,
681 limit
- setpoint
+ 1);
683 pos_ratio
= pos_ratio
* x
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
684 pos_ratio
= pos_ratio
* x
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
685 pos_ratio
+= 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
688 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
689 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
690 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
696 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
698 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
699 * := --------------------------
700 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
702 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
704 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
705 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
706 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
708 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
709 * regularly within range
710 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
711 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
712 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
714 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
715 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
716 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
718 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh
> thresh
))
721 * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
722 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
723 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
724 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
725 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
727 bdi_thresh
= max(bdi_thresh
, (limit
- dirty
) / 8);
729 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
730 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
732 x
= div_u64((u64
)bdi_thresh
<< 16, thresh
+ 1);
733 bdi_setpoint
= setpoint
* (u64
)x
>> 16;
735 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
736 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
738 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
739 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
742 span
= (thresh
- bdi_thresh
+ 8 * write_bw
) * (u64
)x
>> 16;
743 x_intercept
= bdi_setpoint
+ span
;
745 if (bdi_dirty
< x_intercept
- span
/ 4) {
746 pos_ratio
= div_u64(pos_ratio
* (x_intercept
- bdi_dirty
),
747 x_intercept
- bdi_setpoint
+ 1);
752 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
753 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
756 x_intercept
= bdi_thresh
/ 2;
757 if (bdi_dirty
< x_intercept
) {
758 if (bdi_dirty
> x_intercept
/ 8)
759 pos_ratio
= div_u64(pos_ratio
* x_intercept
, bdi_dirty
);
767 static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
768 unsigned long elapsed
,
769 unsigned long written
)
771 const unsigned long period
= roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ
);
772 unsigned long avg
= bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
773 unsigned long old
= bdi
->write_bandwidth
;
777 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
779 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
780 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
783 bw
= written
- bdi
->written_stamp
;
785 if (unlikely(elapsed
> period
)) {
790 bw
+= (u64
)bdi
->write_bandwidth
* (period
- elapsed
);
791 bw
>>= ilog2(period
);
794 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
796 if (avg
> old
&& old
>= (unsigned long)bw
)
797 avg
-= (avg
- old
) >> 3;
799 if (avg
< old
&& old
<= (unsigned long)bw
)
800 avg
+= (old
- avg
) >> 3;
803 bdi
->write_bandwidth
= bw
;
804 bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
= avg
;
808 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
809 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
810 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
811 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
812 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
815 static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh
, unsigned long dirty
)
817 unsigned long limit
= global_dirty_limit
;
820 * Follow up in one step.
822 if (limit
< thresh
) {
828 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
829 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
830 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
832 thresh
= max(thresh
, dirty
);
833 if (limit
> thresh
) {
834 limit
-= (limit
- thresh
) >> 5;
839 global_dirty_limit
= limit
;
842 static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh
,
846 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock
);
847 static unsigned long update_time
;
850 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
852 if (time_before(now
, update_time
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
))
855 spin_lock(&dirty_lock
);
856 if (time_after_eq(now
, update_time
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
)) {
857 update_dirty_limit(thresh
, dirty
);
860 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock
);
864 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
866 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
867 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
869 static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
870 unsigned long thresh
,
871 unsigned long bg_thresh
,
873 unsigned long bdi_thresh
,
874 unsigned long bdi_dirty
,
875 unsigned long dirtied
,
876 unsigned long elapsed
)
878 unsigned long freerun
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh
, bg_thresh
);
879 unsigned long limit
= hard_dirty_limit(thresh
);
880 unsigned long setpoint
= (freerun
+ limit
) / 2;
881 unsigned long write_bw
= bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
882 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
= bdi
->dirty_ratelimit
;
883 unsigned long dirty_rate
;
884 unsigned long task_ratelimit
;
885 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit
;
886 unsigned long pos_ratio
;
891 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
892 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
894 dirty_rate
= (dirtied
- bdi
->dirtied_stamp
) * HZ
/ elapsed
;
896 pos_ratio
= bdi_position_ratio(bdi
, thresh
, bg_thresh
, dirty
,
897 bdi_thresh
, bdi_dirty
);
899 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
901 task_ratelimit
= (u64
)dirty_ratelimit
*
902 pos_ratio
>> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
903 task_ratelimit
++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
906 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
907 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
908 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
909 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
911 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
912 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
913 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
914 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
916 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
917 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
918 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
919 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
920 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
922 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
924 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
925 * put (6) into (1) we get
926 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
928 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
929 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
930 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
931 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
932 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
933 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
935 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= div_u64((u64
)task_ratelimit
* write_bw
,
938 * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw
940 if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit
> write_bw
))
941 balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= write_bw
;
944 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
946 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
948 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
949 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out singular points and
950 * limit the step size.
952 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
954 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
955 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
957 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
961 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
962 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
964 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
965 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
966 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
967 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
968 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
969 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
971 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
972 * and filter out the singular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
973 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
974 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
975 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
978 if (dirty
< setpoint
) {
979 x
= min(bdi
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
,
980 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit
, task_ratelimit
));
981 if (dirty_ratelimit
< x
)
982 step
= x
- dirty_ratelimit
;
984 x
= max(bdi
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
,
985 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit
, task_ratelimit
));
986 if (dirty_ratelimit
> x
)
987 step
= dirty_ratelimit
- x
;
991 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
992 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
993 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
995 step
>>= dirty_ratelimit
/ (2 * step
+ 1);
997 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
999 step
= (step
+ 7) / 8;
1001 if (dirty_ratelimit
< balanced_dirty_ratelimit
)
1002 dirty_ratelimit
+= step
;
1004 dirty_ratelimit
-= step
;
1006 bdi
->dirty_ratelimit
= max(dirty_ratelimit
, 1UL);
1007 bdi
->balanced_dirty_ratelimit
= balanced_dirty_ratelimit
;
1009 trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(bdi
, dirty_rate
, task_ratelimit
);
1012 void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
1013 unsigned long thresh
,
1014 unsigned long bg_thresh
,
1015 unsigned long dirty
,
1016 unsigned long bdi_thresh
,
1017 unsigned long bdi_dirty
,
1018 unsigned long start_time
)
1020 unsigned long now
= jiffies
;
1021 unsigned long elapsed
= now
- bdi
->bw_time_stamp
;
1022 unsigned long dirtied
;
1023 unsigned long written
;
1026 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
1028 if (elapsed
< BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
)
1031 dirtied
= percpu_counter_read(&bdi
->bdi_stat
[BDI_DIRTIED
]);
1032 written
= percpu_counter_read(&bdi
->bdi_stat
[BDI_WRITTEN
]);
1035 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
1036 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
1038 if (elapsed
> HZ
&& time_before(bdi
->bw_time_stamp
, start_time
))
1042 global_update_bandwidth(thresh
, dirty
, now
);
1043 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi
, thresh
, bg_thresh
, dirty
,
1044 bdi_thresh
, bdi_dirty
,
1047 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi
, elapsed
, written
);
1050 bdi
->dirtied_stamp
= dirtied
;
1051 bdi
->written_stamp
= written
;
1052 bdi
->bw_time_stamp
= now
;
1055 static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
1056 unsigned long thresh
,
1057 unsigned long bg_thresh
,
1058 unsigned long dirty
,
1059 unsigned long bdi_thresh
,
1060 unsigned long bdi_dirty
,
1061 unsigned long start_time
)
1063 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi
->bw_time_stamp
+ BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
))
1065 spin_lock(&bdi
->wb
.list_lock
);
1066 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi
, thresh
, bg_thresh
, dirty
,
1067 bdi_thresh
, bdi_dirty
, start_time
);
1068 spin_unlock(&bdi
->wb
.list_lock
);
1072 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
1073 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
1075 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
1076 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
1077 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
1079 static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty
,
1080 unsigned long thresh
)
1083 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh
- dirty
) >> 1);
1088 static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
1089 unsigned long bdi_dirty
)
1091 long bw
= bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
;
1095 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
1096 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
1099 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
1101 t
= bdi_dirty
/ (1 + bw
/ roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ
/ 8));
1104 return min_t(long, t
, MAX_PAUSE
);
1107 static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
1109 unsigned long task_ratelimit
,
1110 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
,
1111 int *nr_dirtied_pause
)
1113 long hi
= ilog2(bdi
->avg_write_bandwidth
);
1114 long lo
= ilog2(bdi
->dirty_ratelimit
);
1115 long t
; /* target pause */
1116 long pause
; /* estimated next pause */
1117 int pages
; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */
1119 /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */
1120 t
= max(1, HZ
/ 100);
1123 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
1126 * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
1129 t
+= (hi
- lo
) * (10 * HZ
) / 1024;
1132 * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause
1133 * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time
1134 * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may
1135 * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes
1136 * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next
1137 * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a
1138 * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could
1139 * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit.
1141 * We apply two rules to fix it up:
1142 * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower
1143 * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens,
1144 * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit.
1145 * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal
1146 * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and
1147 * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit.
1149 t
= min(t
, 1 + max_pause
/ 2);
1150 pages
= dirty_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1153 * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test
1154 * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}.
1155 * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty
1156 * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles
1157 * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible
1158 * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages.
1160 if (pages
< DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
) {
1162 pages
= dirty_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1163 if (pages
> DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
) {
1164 pages
= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
;
1165 t
= HZ
* DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
/ dirty_ratelimit
;
1169 pause
= HZ
* pages
/ (task_ratelimit
+ 1);
1170 if (pause
> max_pause
) {
1172 pages
= task_ratelimit
* t
/ roundup_pow_of_two(HZ
);
1175 *nr_dirtied_pause
= pages
;
1177 * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time.
1179 return pages
>= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH
? 1 + t
/ 2 : t
;
1183 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
1184 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
1185 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
1186 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1187 * perform some writeout.
1189 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
1190 unsigned long pages_dirtied
)
1192 unsigned long nr_reclaimable
; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1193 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable
;
1194 unsigned long nr_dirty
; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1195 unsigned long bdi_dirty
;
1196 unsigned long freerun
;
1197 unsigned long background_thresh
;
1198 unsigned long dirty_thresh
;
1199 unsigned long bdi_thresh
;
1204 int nr_dirtied_pause
;
1205 bool dirty_exceeded
= false;
1206 unsigned long task_ratelimit
;
1207 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit
;
1208 unsigned long pos_ratio
;
1209 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
1210 unsigned long start_time
= jiffies
;
1213 unsigned long now
= jiffies
;
1216 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1217 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1218 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1219 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1221 nr_reclaimable
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
1222 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
1223 nr_dirty
= nr_reclaimable
+ global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
);
1225 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
);
1228 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1229 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1230 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1232 freerun
= dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh
,
1234 if (nr_dirty
<= freerun
) {
1235 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
;
1236 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1237 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
=
1238 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty
, dirty_thresh
);
1242 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi
)))
1243 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi
);
1246 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1247 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1248 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1249 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1250 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1251 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1252 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1253 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1254 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1255 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1256 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1258 bdi_thresh
= bdi_dirty_limit(bdi
, dirty_thresh
);
1261 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1262 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1263 * the threshold is low.
1265 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1266 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1267 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1270 if (bdi_thresh
< 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi
)) {
1271 bdi_reclaimable
= bdi_stat_sum(bdi
, BDI_RECLAIMABLE
);
1272 bdi_dirty
= bdi_reclaimable
+
1273 bdi_stat_sum(bdi
, BDI_WRITEBACK
);
1275 bdi_reclaimable
= bdi_stat(bdi
, BDI_RECLAIMABLE
);
1276 bdi_dirty
= bdi_reclaimable
+
1277 bdi_stat(bdi
, BDI_WRITEBACK
);
1280 dirty_exceeded
= (bdi_dirty
> bdi_thresh
) &&
1281 (nr_dirty
> dirty_thresh
);
1282 if (dirty_exceeded
&& !bdi
->dirty_exceeded
)
1283 bdi
->dirty_exceeded
= 1;
1285 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi
, dirty_thresh
, background_thresh
,
1286 nr_dirty
, bdi_thresh
, bdi_dirty
,
1289 dirty_ratelimit
= bdi
->dirty_ratelimit
;
1290 pos_ratio
= bdi_position_ratio(bdi
, dirty_thresh
,
1291 background_thresh
, nr_dirty
,
1292 bdi_thresh
, bdi_dirty
);
1293 task_ratelimit
= ((u64
)dirty_ratelimit
* pos_ratio
) >>
1294 RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
;
1295 max_pause
= bdi_max_pause(bdi
, bdi_dirty
);
1296 min_pause
= bdi_min_pause(bdi
, max_pause
,
1297 task_ratelimit
, dirty_ratelimit
,
1300 if (unlikely(task_ratelimit
== 0)) {
1305 period
= HZ
* pages_dirtied
/ task_ratelimit
;
1307 if (current
->dirty_paused_when
)
1308 pause
-= now
- current
->dirty_paused_when
;
1310 * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier
1311 * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs,
1312 * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in
1313 * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just
1314 * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier.
1316 if (pause
< min_pause
) {
1317 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi
,
1330 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
;
1331 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1332 } else if (period
) {
1333 current
->dirty_paused_when
+= period
;
1334 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1335 } else if (current
->nr_dirtied_pause
<= pages_dirtied
)
1336 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
+= pages_dirtied
;
1339 if (unlikely(pause
> max_pause
)) {
1340 /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */
1341 now
+= min(pause
- max_pause
, max_pause
);
1346 trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi
,
1358 __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE
);
1359 io_schedule_timeout(pause
);
1361 current
->dirty_paused_when
= now
+ pause
;
1362 current
->nr_dirtied
= 0;
1363 current
->nr_dirtied_pause
= nr_dirtied_pause
;
1366 * This is typically equal to (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh) and can
1367 * also keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control.
1373 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
1374 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
1375 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
1377 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
1378 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
1379 * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors. So use
1380 * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
1382 if (bdi_dirty
<= bdi_stat_error(bdi
))
1385 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
1389 if (!dirty_exceeded
&& bdi
->dirty_exceeded
)
1390 bdi
->dirty_exceeded
= 0;
1392 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi
))
1396 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1397 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1398 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1400 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1401 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1406 if (nr_reclaimable
> background_thresh
)
1407 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi
);
1410 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page
*page
, int page_mkwrite
)
1412 if (set_page_dirty(page
) || page_mkwrite
) {
1413 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
1416 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping
);
1420 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits
);
1423 * Normal tasks are throttled by
1425 * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages;
1426 * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages();
1428 * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied
1429 * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be
1430 * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet
1431 * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them
1432 * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case,
1433 * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty
1434 * count and eventually get throttled.
1436 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks
) = 0;
1439 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
1440 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
1441 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
1443 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1444 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1445 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1447 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1448 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1449 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1450 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1452 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space
*mapping
,
1453 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied
)
1455 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
1459 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi
))
1462 ratelimit
= current
->nr_dirtied_pause
;
1463 if (bdi
->dirty_exceeded
)
1464 ratelimit
= min(ratelimit
, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT
- 10));
1468 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1469 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1470 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1471 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1473 p
= &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits
);
1474 if (unlikely(current
->nr_dirtied
>= ratelimit
))
1476 else if (unlikely(*p
>= ratelimit_pages
)) {
1481 * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of
1482 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping
1483 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers.
1485 p
= &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks
);
1486 if (*p
> 0 && current
->nr_dirtied
< ratelimit
) {
1487 nr_pages_dirtied
= min(*p
, ratelimit
- current
->nr_dirtied
);
1488 *p
-= nr_pages_dirtied
;
1489 current
->nr_dirtied
+= nr_pages_dirtied
;
1493 if (unlikely(current
->nr_dirtied
>= ratelimit
))
1494 balance_dirty_pages(mapping
, current
->nr_dirtied
);
1496 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr
);
1498 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask
)
1500 unsigned long background_thresh
;
1501 unsigned long dirty_thresh
;
1504 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
);
1505 dirty_thresh
= hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh
);
1508 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1509 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1511 dirty_thresh
+= dirty_thresh
/ 10; /* wheeee... */
1513 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
) +
1514 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK
) <= dirty_thresh
)
1516 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1519 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1520 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1521 * waiting for IO to complete.
1523 if ((gfp_mask
& (__GFP_FS
|__GFP_IO
)) != (__GFP_FS
|__GFP_IO
))
1529 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1531 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
1532 void __user
*buffer
, size_t *length
, loff_t
*ppos
)
1534 proc_dointvec(table
, write
, buffer
, length
, ppos
);
1539 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data
)
1541 struct request_queue
*q
= (struct request_queue
*)data
;
1542 int nr_pages
= global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY
) +
1543 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS
);
1546 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1549 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q
->backing_dev_info
))
1550 bdi_start_writeback(&q
->backing_dev_info
, nr_pages
,
1551 WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER
);
1555 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1556 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1557 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1559 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info
*info
)
1561 mod_timer(&info
->laptop_mode_wb_timer
, jiffies
+ laptop_mode
);
1565 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1566 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1567 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1569 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1571 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
;
1575 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi
, &bdi_list
, bdi_list
)
1576 del_timer(&bdi
->laptop_mode_wb_timer
);
1583 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1584 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1585 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1586 * get_writeback_state too often.
1588 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1589 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
1593 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
1595 unsigned long background_thresh
;
1596 unsigned long dirty_thresh
;
1597 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh
, &dirty_thresh
);
1598 global_dirty_limit
= dirty_thresh
;
1599 ratelimit_pages
= dirty_thresh
/ (num_online_cpus() * 32);
1600 if (ratelimit_pages
< 16)
1601 ratelimit_pages
= 16;
1604 static int __cpuinit
1605 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block
*self
, unsigned long u
, void *v
)
1607 writeback_set_ratelimit();
1611 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb
= {
1612 .notifier_call
= ratelimit_handler
,
1617 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1619 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1620 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1621 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1623 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1624 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1625 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1626 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1627 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1628 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1629 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1631 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1632 * much memory the box has..
1634 void __init
page_writeback_init(void)
1636 writeback_set_ratelimit();
1637 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb
);
1639 fprop_global_init(&writeout_completions
);
1643 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1644 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1645 * @start: starting page index
1646 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1648 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1649 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1650 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1651 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1652 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1653 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1654 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1657 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1659 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space
*mapping
,
1660 pgoff_t start
, pgoff_t end
)
1662 #define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
1663 unsigned long tagged
;
1666 spin_lock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
1667 tagged
= radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping
->page_tree
,
1668 &start
, end
, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH
,
1669 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
);
1670 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
1671 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged
> WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH
);
1673 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1674 } while (tagged
>= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH
&& start
);
1676 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback
);
1679 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
1680 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1681 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1682 * @writepage: function called for each page
1683 * @data: data passed to writepage function
1685 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
1686 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1687 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1688 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1689 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1690 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1691 * existing IO to complete.
1693 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1694 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1695 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1696 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1697 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1698 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
1700 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
1701 struct writeback_control
*wbc
, writepage_t writepage
,
1706 struct pagevec pvec
;
1708 pgoff_t
uninitialized_var(writeback_index
);
1710 pgoff_t end
; /* Inclusive */
1713 int range_whole
= 0;
1716 pagevec_init(&pvec
, 0);
1717 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
) {
1718 writeback_index
= mapping
->writeback_index
; /* prev offset */
1719 index
= writeback_index
;
1726 index
= wbc
->range_start
>> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
;
1727 end
= wbc
->range_end
>> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
;
1728 if (wbc
->range_start
== 0 && wbc
->range_end
== LLONG_MAX
)
1730 cycled
= 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
1732 if (wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_ALL
|| wbc
->tagged_writepages
)
1733 tag
= PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
;
1735 tag
= PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
;
1737 if (wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_ALL
|| wbc
->tagged_writepages
)
1738 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping
, index
, end
);
1740 while (!done
&& (index
<= end
)) {
1743 nr_pages
= pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec
, mapping
, &index
, tag
,
1744 min(end
- index
, (pgoff_t
)PAGEVEC_SIZE
-1) + 1);
1748 for (i
= 0; i
< nr_pages
; i
++) {
1749 struct page
*page
= pvec
.pages
[i
];
1752 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1753 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1754 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1755 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1756 * because we have a reference on the page.
1758 if (page
->index
> end
) {
1760 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1761 * end == -1 in that case.
1767 done_index
= page
->index
;
1772 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1773 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1774 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1775 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1776 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1777 * pagecache address.
1779 if (unlikely(page
->mapping
!= mapping
)) {
1785 if (!PageDirty(page
)) {
1786 /* someone wrote it for us */
1787 goto continue_unlock
;
1790 if (PageWriteback(page
)) {
1791 if (wbc
->sync_mode
!= WB_SYNC_NONE
)
1792 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
1794 goto continue_unlock
;
1797 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page
));
1798 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
))
1799 goto continue_unlock
;
1801 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc
, mapping
->backing_dev_info
);
1802 ret
= (*writepage
)(page
, wbc
, data
);
1803 if (unlikely(ret
)) {
1804 if (ret
== AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
) {
1809 * done_index is set past this page,
1810 * so media errors will not choke
1811 * background writeout for the entire
1812 * file. This has consequences for
1813 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1814 * not be suitable for data integrity
1817 done_index
= page
->index
+ 1;
1824 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1825 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1826 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1827 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1829 if (--wbc
->nr_to_write
<= 0 &&
1830 wbc
->sync_mode
== WB_SYNC_NONE
) {
1835 pagevec_release(&pvec
);
1838 if (!cycled
&& !done
) {
1841 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1842 * back to the start of the file
1846 end
= writeback_index
- 1;
1849 if (wbc
->range_cyclic
|| (range_whole
&& wbc
->nr_to_write
> 0))
1850 mapping
->writeback_index
= done_index
;
1854 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages
);
1857 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1858 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1860 static int __writepage(struct page
*page
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
,
1863 struct address_space
*mapping
= data
;
1864 int ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, wbc
);
1865 mapping_set_error(mapping
, ret
);
1870 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1871 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1872 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1874 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1875 * address_space_operation.
1877 int generic_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
,
1878 struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
1880 struct blk_plug plug
;
1883 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1884 if (!mapping
->a_ops
->writepage
)
1887 blk_start_plug(&plug
);
1888 ret
= write_cache_pages(mapping
, wbc
, __writepage
, mapping
);
1889 blk_finish_plug(&plug
);
1893 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages
);
1895 int do_writepages(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct writeback_control
*wbc
)
1899 if (wbc
->nr_to_write
<= 0)
1901 if (mapping
->a_ops
->writepages
)
1902 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
1904 ret
= generic_writepages(mapping
, wbc
);
1909 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
1910 * @page: the page to write
1911 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
1913 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1915 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1917 int write_one_page(struct page
*page
, int wait
)
1919 struct address_space
*mapping
= page
->mapping
;
1921 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
1922 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_ALL
,
1926 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
1929 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
1931 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
1932 page_cache_get(page
);
1933 ret
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, &wbc
);
1934 if (ret
== 0 && wait
) {
1935 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
1936 if (PageError(page
))
1939 page_cache_release(page
);
1945 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page
);
1948 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1950 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page
*page
)
1952 if (!PageDirty(page
))
1953 return !TestSetPageDirty(page
);
1958 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1959 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1961 void account_page_dirtied(struct page
*page
, struct address_space
*mapping
)
1963 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
1964 __inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
1965 __inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_DIRTIED
);
1966 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping
->backing_dev_info
, BDI_RECLAIMABLE
);
1967 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping
->backing_dev_info
, BDI_DIRTIED
);
1968 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
);
1969 current
->nr_dirtied
++;
1970 this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits
);
1973 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied
);
1976 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1977 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1980 void account_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
1982 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_WRITEBACK
);
1984 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback
);
1987 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1990 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1991 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1992 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1994 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1995 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1996 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1998 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
1999 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
2001 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page
*page
)
2003 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
)) {
2004 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2005 struct address_space
*mapping2
;
2010 spin_lock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
2011 mapping2
= page_mapping(page
);
2012 if (mapping2
) { /* Race with truncate? */
2013 BUG_ON(mapping2
!= mapping
);
2014 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page
) && !PageUptodate(page
));
2015 account_page_dirtied(page
, mapping
);
2016 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->page_tree
,
2017 page_index(page
), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
2019 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
2020 if (mapping
->host
) {
2021 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
2022 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping
->host
, I_DIRTY_PAGES
);
2028 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers
);
2031 * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
2032 * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
2033 * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
2034 * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
2037 void account_page_redirty(struct page
*page
)
2039 struct address_space
*mapping
= page
->mapping
;
2040 if (mapping
&& mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2041 current
->nr_dirtied
--;
2042 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_DIRTIED
);
2043 dec_bdi_stat(mapping
->backing_dev_info
, BDI_DIRTIED
);
2046 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty
);
2049 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
2050 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
2051 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
2053 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control
*wbc
, struct page
*page
)
2055 wbc
->pages_skipped
++;
2056 account_page_redirty(page
);
2057 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page
);
2059 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage
);
2064 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
2065 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
2066 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
2067 * but should be better not to.
2069 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
2070 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
2072 int set_page_dirty(struct page
*page
)
2074 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2076 if (likely(mapping
)) {
2077 int (*spd
)(struct page
*) = mapping
->a_ops
->set_page_dirty
;
2079 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
2080 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
2081 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
2082 * reset. So no problem.
2083 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
2084 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
2085 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
2086 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
2088 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
2091 spd
= __set_page_dirty_buffers
;
2093 return (*spd
)(page
);
2095 if (!PageDirty(page
)) {
2096 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page
))
2101 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty
);
2104 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
2105 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
2106 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
2108 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
2109 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
2111 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
2113 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page
*page
)
2118 ret
= set_page_dirty(page
);
2122 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock
);
2125 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
2126 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
2128 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
2129 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
2130 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
2131 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
2132 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
2135 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
2136 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
2138 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page
*page
)
2140 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2142 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
2144 if (mapping
&& mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping
)) {
2146 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
2148 * We use this sequence to make sure that
2149 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
2150 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
2151 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
2152 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
2153 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
2154 * cause the writeback.
2156 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
2157 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
2158 * them concurrently from different threads.
2160 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
2161 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
2162 * that will already usually be set. But we
2163 * need the side effects, and it can help us
2166 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
2167 * as a serialization point for all the different
2168 * threads doing their things.
2170 if (page_mkclean(page
))
2171 set_page_dirty(page
);
2173 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
2174 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
2175 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
2176 * page lock at some point after installing their
2177 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
2178 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
2179 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
2180 * for more comments.
2182 if (TestClearPageDirty(page
)) {
2183 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
2184 dec_bdi_stat(mapping
->backing_dev_info
,
2190 return TestClearPageDirty(page
);
2192 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io
);
2194 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
2196 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2200 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
2201 unsigned long flags
;
2203 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
2204 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
2206 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->page_tree
,
2208 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
2209 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi
)) {
2210 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi
, BDI_WRITEBACK
);
2211 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi
);
2214 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
2216 ret
= TestClearPageWriteback(page
);
2219 dec_zone_page_state(page
, NR_WRITEBACK
);
2220 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_WRITTEN
);
2225 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page
*page
)
2227 struct address_space
*mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
2231 struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
= mapping
->backing_dev_info
;
2232 unsigned long flags
;
2234 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
2235 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
2237 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping
->page_tree
,
2239 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK
);
2240 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi
))
2241 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi
, BDI_WRITEBACK
);
2243 if (!PageDirty(page
))
2244 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->page_tree
,
2246 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
);
2247 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping
->page_tree
,
2249 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
);
2250 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping
->tree_lock
, flags
);
2252 ret
= TestSetPageWriteback(page
);
2255 account_page_writeback(page
);
2259 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback
);
2262 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
2265 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space
*mapping
, int tag
)
2267 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping
->page_tree
, tag
);
2269 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged
);