writeback: control dirty pause time
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1 /*
2 * mm/page-writeback.c
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
8 * address_space level.
10 * 10Apr2002 Andrew Morton
11 * Initial version
14 #include <linux/kernel.h>
15 #include <linux/module.h>
16 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
17 #include <linux/fs.h>
18 #include <linux/mm.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>
36 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
37 #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
40 * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
42 #define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
45 * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
47 #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
49 #define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT 10
52 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
53 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
55 static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
57 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
60 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
62 int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
65 * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
66 * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
68 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
71 * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
72 * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
74 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
77 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
79 int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
82 * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
83 * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
85 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
88 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
90 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
93 * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
95 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
98 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
100 int block_dump;
103 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
104 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
106 int laptop_mode;
108 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
110 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
112 unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
115 * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
117 * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
118 * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
119 * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
120 * share.
122 * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
123 * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
125 * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
126 * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
127 * measured in page writeback completions.
130 static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
131 static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
134 * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
136 * period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
138 static int calc_period_shift(void)
140 unsigned long dirty_total;
142 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
143 dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
144 else
145 dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) /
146 100;
147 return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
151 * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
153 static void update_completion_period(void)
155 int shift = calc_period_shift();
156 prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
157 prop_change_shift(&vm_dirties, shift);
159 writeback_set_ratelimit();
162 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
163 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
164 loff_t *ppos)
166 int ret;
168 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
169 if (ret == 0 && write)
170 dirty_background_bytes = 0;
171 return ret;
174 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
175 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
176 loff_t *ppos)
178 int ret;
180 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
181 if (ret == 0 && write)
182 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
183 return ret;
186 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
187 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
188 loff_t *ppos)
190 int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
191 int ret;
193 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
194 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
195 update_completion_period();
196 vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
198 return ret;
202 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
203 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
204 loff_t *ppos)
206 unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
207 int ret;
209 ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
210 if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
211 update_completion_period();
212 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
214 return ret;
218 * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
219 * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
221 static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
223 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
224 __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
225 bdi->max_prop_frac);
228 void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
230 unsigned long flags;
232 local_irq_save(flags);
233 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
234 local_irq_restore(flags);
236 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
238 void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
240 prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
244 * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
246 static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
247 long *numerator, long *denominator)
249 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
250 numerator, denominator);
256 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
258 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
260 int ret = 0;
262 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
263 if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
264 ret = -EINVAL;
265 } else {
266 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
267 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
268 bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
269 bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
270 } else {
271 ret = -EINVAL;
274 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
276 return ret;
279 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
281 int ret = 0;
283 if (max_ratio > 100)
284 return -EINVAL;
286 spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
287 if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
288 ret = -EINVAL;
289 } else {
290 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
291 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
293 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
295 return ret;
297 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
300 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
301 * thresholds.
303 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
304 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
305 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
306 * performing lots of scanning.
308 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
310 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
311 * excessive.
313 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
314 * clamping level.
317 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
319 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
320 int node;
321 unsigned long x = 0;
323 for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
324 struct zone *z =
325 &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
327 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
328 zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
331 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
332 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
333 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
334 * that this does not occur.
336 return min(x, total);
337 #else
338 return 0;
339 #endif
343 * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
345 * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
346 * by the kernel for direct mappings.
348 unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
350 unsigned long x;
352 x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
354 if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
355 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
357 return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
360 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
361 unsigned long bg_thresh)
363 return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
366 static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
368 return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
372 * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
374 * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
375 * - vm.dirty_background_ratio or vm.dirty_background_bytes
376 * - vm.dirty_ratio or vm.dirty_bytes
377 * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
378 * real-time tasks.
380 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
382 unsigned long background;
383 unsigned long dirty;
384 unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
385 struct task_struct *tsk;
387 if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
388 available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
390 if (vm_dirty_bytes)
391 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
392 else
393 dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
395 if (dirty_background_bytes)
396 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
397 else
398 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
400 if (background >= dirty)
401 background = dirty / 2;
402 tsk = current;
403 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
404 background += background / 4;
405 dirty += dirty / 4;
407 *pbackground = background;
408 *pdirty = dirty;
409 trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
413 * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
414 * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
415 * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
417 * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
418 * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
419 * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
420 * balance_dirty_pages().
422 * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
423 * - starving fast devices
424 * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
426 * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
427 * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
429 unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
431 u64 bdi_dirty;
432 long numerator, denominator;
435 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
437 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
439 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
440 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
441 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
443 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
444 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
445 bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
447 return bdi_dirty;
451 * Dirty position control.
453 * (o) global/bdi setpoints
455 * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
456 * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
457 * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
458 * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
460 * pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
462 * if (dirty < setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
463 * if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
465 * if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up pos_ratio
466 * if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
468 * task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
470 * (o) global control line
472 * ^ pos_ratio
474 * | |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
475 * 2.0 .............*
476 * | .*
477 * | . *
478 * | . *
479 * | . *
480 * | . *
481 * | . *
482 * 1.0 ................................*
483 * | . . *
484 * | . . *
485 * | . . *
486 * | . . *
487 * | . . *
488 * 0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
489 * freerun^ setpoint^ limit^ dirty pages
491 * (o) bdi control line
493 * ^ pos_ratio
495 * | *
496 * | *
497 * | *
498 * | *
499 * | * |<=========== span ============>|
500 * 1.0 .......................*
501 * | . *
502 * | . *
503 * | . *
504 * | . *
505 * | . *
506 * | . *
507 * | . *
508 * | . *
509 * | . *
510 * | . *
511 * | . *
512 * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
513 * | . .
514 * | . .
515 * | . .
516 * 0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
517 * bdi_setpoint^ x_intercept^
519 * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
520 * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
521 * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
522 * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
523 * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
525 static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
526 unsigned long thresh,
527 unsigned long bg_thresh,
528 unsigned long dirty,
529 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
530 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
532 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
533 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
534 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
535 unsigned long x_intercept;
536 unsigned long setpoint; /* dirty pages' target balance point */
537 unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
538 unsigned long span;
539 long long pos_ratio; /* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
540 long x;
542 if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
543 return 0;
546 * global setpoint
548 * setpoint - dirty 3
549 * f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
550 * limit - setpoint
552 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
554 * (1) f(freerun) = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
555 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
556 * (3) f(limit) = 0 => the hard limit
557 * (4) df/dx <= 0 => negative feedback control
558 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
559 * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
561 setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
562 x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
563 limit - setpoint + 1);
564 pos_ratio = x;
565 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
566 pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
567 pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
570 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
571 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
572 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
576 * bdi setpoint
578 * f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
580 * x_intercept - bdi_dirty
581 * := --------------------------
582 * x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
584 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
586 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
587 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw) (in single bdi case)
588 * or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
590 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
591 * regularly within range
592 * [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
593 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
594 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
596 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
597 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
598 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
600 if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
601 bdi_thresh = thresh;
603 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
604 * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
606 x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
607 bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
609 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
610 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
612 * bdi_thresh thresh - bdi_thresh
613 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
614 * thresh thresh
616 span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
617 x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
619 if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
620 pos_ratio *= x_intercept - bdi_dirty;
621 do_div(pos_ratio, x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
622 } else
623 pos_ratio /= 4;
625 return pos_ratio;
628 static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
629 unsigned long elapsed,
630 unsigned long written)
632 const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
633 unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
634 unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
635 u64 bw;
638 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
640 * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
641 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
642 * period
644 bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
645 bw *= HZ;
646 if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
647 do_div(bw, elapsed);
648 avg = bw;
649 goto out;
651 bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
652 bw >>= ilog2(period);
655 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
657 if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
658 avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
660 if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
661 avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
663 out:
664 bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
665 bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
669 * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
670 * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
671 * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
672 * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
673 * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
674 * threshold.
676 static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
678 unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
681 * Follow up in one step.
683 if (limit < thresh) {
684 limit = thresh;
685 goto update;
689 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
690 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
691 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
693 thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
694 if (limit > thresh) {
695 limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
696 goto update;
698 return;
699 update:
700 global_dirty_limit = limit;
703 static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
704 unsigned long dirty,
705 unsigned long now)
707 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
708 static unsigned long update_time;
711 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
713 if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
714 return;
716 spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
717 if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
718 update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
719 update_time = now;
721 spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
725 * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
727 * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
728 * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
730 static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
731 unsigned long thresh,
732 unsigned long bg_thresh,
733 unsigned long dirty,
734 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
735 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
736 unsigned long dirtied,
737 unsigned long elapsed)
739 unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
740 unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
741 unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
742 unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
743 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
744 unsigned long dirty_rate;
745 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
746 unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
747 unsigned long pos_ratio;
748 unsigned long step;
749 unsigned long x;
752 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
753 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
755 dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
757 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
758 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
760 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
762 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
763 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
764 task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
767 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
768 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
769 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
770 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
772 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
773 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) (1)
774 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
775 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio (2)
777 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
778 * the dirty rate. Consider the state
779 * pos_ratio = 0.5 (3)
780 * rate = 2 * (write_bw / N) (4)
781 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
782 * be throttled at
783 * task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N) (5)
784 * yielding
785 * dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw (6)
786 * put (6) into (1) we get
787 * rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) (7)
789 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
790 * rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N) (8)
791 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
792 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
793 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
794 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
796 balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
797 dirty_rate | 1);
800 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
802 * bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
804 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
805 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
806 * limit the step size.
808 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
810 * task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
811 * = (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
813 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
817 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
818 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
819 * For example, when
820 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
821 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
822 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
823 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
824 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
825 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
827 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
828 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
829 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
830 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
831 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
833 step = 0;
834 if (dirty < setpoint) {
835 x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
836 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
837 if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
838 step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
839 } else {
840 x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
841 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
842 if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
843 step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
847 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
848 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
849 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
851 step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
853 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
855 step = (step + 7) / 8;
857 if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
858 dirty_ratelimit += step;
859 else
860 dirty_ratelimit -= step;
862 bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
863 bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
866 void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
867 unsigned long thresh,
868 unsigned long bg_thresh,
869 unsigned long dirty,
870 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
871 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
872 unsigned long start_time)
874 unsigned long now = jiffies;
875 unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
876 unsigned long dirtied;
877 unsigned long written;
880 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
882 if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
883 return;
885 dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
886 written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
889 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
890 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
892 if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
893 goto snapshot;
895 if (thresh) {
896 global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
897 bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
898 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
899 dirtied, elapsed);
901 bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
903 snapshot:
904 bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
905 bdi->written_stamp = written;
906 bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
909 static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
910 unsigned long thresh,
911 unsigned long bg_thresh,
912 unsigned long dirty,
913 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
914 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
915 unsigned long start_time)
917 if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
918 return;
919 spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
920 __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
921 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
922 spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
926 * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
927 * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
929 * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
930 * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
931 * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
933 static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
934 unsigned long thresh)
936 if (thresh > dirty)
937 return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
939 return 1;
942 static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
943 unsigned long bdi_dirty)
945 unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
946 unsigned long hi = ilog2(bw);
947 unsigned long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
948 unsigned long t;
950 /* target for 20ms max pause on 1-dd case */
951 t = HZ / 50;
954 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
955 * overheads.
957 * (N * 20ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
959 if (hi > lo)
960 t += (hi - lo) * (20 * HZ) / 1024;
963 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
964 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
965 * idle.
967 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
969 if (bdi_dirty)
970 t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
973 * The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
974 * Apply a minimal value of 4 to get a non-zero max_pause/4.
976 return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
980 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
981 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
982 * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
983 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
984 * perform some writeout.
986 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
987 unsigned long pages_dirtied)
989 unsigned long nr_reclaimable; /* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
990 unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
991 unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
992 unsigned long bdi_dirty;
993 unsigned long freerun;
994 unsigned long background_thresh;
995 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
996 unsigned long bdi_thresh;
997 long pause = 0;
998 long max_pause;
999 bool dirty_exceeded = false;
1000 unsigned long task_ratelimit;
1001 unsigned long dirty_ratelimit;
1002 unsigned long pos_ratio;
1003 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1004 unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
1006 for (;;) {
1008 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1009 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1010 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1011 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1013 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1014 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
1015 nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
1017 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1020 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1021 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1022 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1024 freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1025 background_thresh);
1026 if (nr_dirty <= freerun)
1027 break;
1029 if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1030 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1033 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1034 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1035 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1036 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1037 * go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1038 * bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1039 * In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1040 * dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1041 * bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1042 * bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1043 * at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1045 bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
1048 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1049 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1050 * the threshold is low.
1052 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1053 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1054 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1055 * deltas.
1057 if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1058 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1059 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
1060 bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1061 } else {
1062 bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1063 bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
1064 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1067 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
1068 (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
1069 if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1070 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
1072 bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1073 nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1074 start_time);
1076 max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1078 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1079 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1080 background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1081 bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
1082 if (unlikely(pos_ratio == 0)) {
1083 pause = max_pause;
1084 goto pause;
1086 task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
1087 pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
1088 pause = (HZ * pages_dirtied) / (task_ratelimit | 1);
1089 if (unlikely(pause <= 0)) {
1090 pause = 1; /* avoid resetting nr_dirtied_pause below */
1091 break;
1093 pause = min(pause, max_pause);
1095 pause:
1096 __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
1097 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
1099 dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
1101 * max-pause area. If dirty exceeded but still within this
1102 * area, no need to sleep for more than 200ms: (a) 8 pages per
1103 * 200ms is typically more than enough to curb heavy dirtiers;
1104 * (b) the pause time limit makes the dirtiers more responsive.
1106 if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh)
1107 break;
1110 if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1111 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
1113 current->nr_dirtied = 0;
1114 if (pause == 0) { /* in freerun area */
1115 current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1116 dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
1117 } else if (pause <= max_pause / 4 &&
1118 pages_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause) {
1119 current->nr_dirtied_pause = clamp_val(
1120 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1121 pages_dirtied + pages_dirtied / 8,
1122 pages_dirtied * 4);
1123 } else if (pause >= max_pause) {
1124 current->nr_dirtied_pause = 1 | clamp_val(
1125 dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1126 pages_dirtied / 4,
1127 pages_dirtied - pages_dirtied / 8);
1130 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
1131 return;
1134 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1135 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1136 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1138 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1139 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1141 if (laptop_mode)
1142 return;
1144 if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
1145 bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1148 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
1150 if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
1151 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1153 if (mapping)
1154 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
1158 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
1161 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
1162 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
1163 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
1165 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1166 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
1167 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1169 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1170 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
1171 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1172 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1174 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1175 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
1177 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1178 int ratelimit;
1179 int *p;
1181 if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1182 return;
1184 ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1185 if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1186 ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
1188 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
1190 preempt_disable();
1192 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1193 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1194 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1195 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1197 p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
1198 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1199 *p = 0;
1200 else {
1201 *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
1202 if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1203 *p = 0;
1204 ratelimit = 0;
1207 preempt_enable();
1209 if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1210 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
1212 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
1214 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
1216 unsigned long background_thresh;
1217 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1219 for ( ; ; ) {
1220 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1223 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1224 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1226 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
1228 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1229 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1230 break;
1231 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1234 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1235 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
1236 * waiting for IO to complete.
1238 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1239 break;
1244 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1246 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
1247 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
1249 proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
1250 bdi_arm_supers_timer();
1251 return 0;
1254 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1255 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
1257 struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1258 int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1259 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
1262 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1263 * threshold
1265 if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
1266 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages);
1270 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1271 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
1272 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1274 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
1276 mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
1280 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1281 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1282 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1284 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1286 struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1288 rcu_read_lock();
1290 list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1291 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1293 rcu_read_unlock();
1295 #endif
1298 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1299 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1300 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1301 * get_writeback_state too often.
1303 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1304 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
1305 * thresholds.
1308 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
1310 unsigned long background_thresh;
1311 unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1312 global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1313 ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
1314 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1315 ratelimit_pages = 16;
1318 static int __cpuinit
1319 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1321 writeback_set_ratelimit();
1322 return NOTIFY_DONE;
1325 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
1326 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
1327 .next = NULL,
1331 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1333 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1334 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1335 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1337 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1338 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1339 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1340 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1341 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1342 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1343 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1345 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1346 * much memory the box has..
1348 void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1350 int shift;
1352 writeback_set_ratelimit();
1353 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
1355 shift = calc_period_shift();
1356 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
1357 prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
1361 * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1362 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1363 * @start: starting page index
1364 * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1366 * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1367 * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1368 * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1369 * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
1370 * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1371 * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1372 * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1375 * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1377 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1378 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1380 #define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
1381 unsigned long tagged;
1383 do {
1384 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1385 tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1386 &start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1387 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1388 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1389 WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1390 cond_resched();
1391 /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1392 } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
1394 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1397 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
1398 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1399 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1400 * @writepage: function called for each page
1401 * @data: data passed to writepage function
1403 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
1404 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1405 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
1406 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1407 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
1408 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1409 * existing IO to complete.
1411 * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1412 * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1413 * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1414 * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1415 * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1416 * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
1418 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1419 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1420 void *data)
1422 int ret = 0;
1423 int done = 0;
1424 struct pagevec pvec;
1425 int nr_pages;
1426 pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
1427 pgoff_t index;
1428 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
1429 pgoff_t done_index;
1430 int cycled;
1431 int range_whole = 0;
1432 int tag;
1434 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1435 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
1436 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1437 index = writeback_index;
1438 if (index == 0)
1439 cycled = 1;
1440 else
1441 cycled = 0;
1442 end = -1;
1443 } else {
1444 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1445 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1446 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1447 range_whole = 1;
1448 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
1450 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
1451 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1452 else
1453 tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
1454 retry:
1455 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
1456 tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
1457 done_index = index;
1458 while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1459 int i;
1461 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
1462 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1463 if (nr_pages == 0)
1464 break;
1466 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1467 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1470 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1471 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1472 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1473 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1474 * because we have a reference on the page.
1476 if (page->index > end) {
1478 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1479 * end == -1 in that case.
1481 done = 1;
1482 break;
1485 done_index = page->index;
1487 lock_page(page);
1490 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1491 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1492 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1493 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1494 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1495 * pagecache address.
1497 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
1498 continue_unlock:
1499 unlock_page(page);
1500 continue;
1503 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1504 /* someone wrote it for us */
1505 goto continue_unlock;
1508 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1509 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1510 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1511 else
1512 goto continue_unlock;
1515 BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1516 if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
1517 goto continue_unlock;
1519 trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
1520 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
1521 if (unlikely(ret)) {
1522 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1523 unlock_page(page);
1524 ret = 0;
1525 } else {
1527 * done_index is set past this page,
1528 * so media errors will not choke
1529 * background writeout for the entire
1530 * file. This has consequences for
1531 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1532 * not be suitable for data integrity
1533 * writeout).
1535 done_index = page->index + 1;
1536 done = 1;
1537 break;
1542 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1543 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1544 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1545 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1547 if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1548 wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1549 done = 1;
1550 break;
1553 pagevec_release(&pvec);
1554 cond_resched();
1556 if (!cycled && !done) {
1558 * range_cyclic:
1559 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1560 * back to the start of the file
1562 cycled = 1;
1563 index = 0;
1564 end = writeback_index - 1;
1565 goto retry;
1567 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1568 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
1570 return ret;
1572 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1575 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1576 * function and set the mapping flags on error
1578 static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1579 void *data)
1581 struct address_space *mapping = data;
1582 int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1583 mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1584 return ret;
1588 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1589 * @mapping: address space structure to write
1590 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1592 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1593 * address_space_operation.
1595 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1596 struct writeback_control *wbc)
1598 struct blk_plug plug;
1599 int ret;
1601 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1602 if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1603 return 0;
1605 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1606 ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1607 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1608 return ret;
1611 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1613 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1615 int ret;
1617 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1618 return 0;
1619 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
1620 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
1621 else
1622 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
1623 return ret;
1627 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
1628 * @page: the page to write
1629 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
1631 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1633 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1635 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1637 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1638 int ret = 0;
1639 struct writeback_control wbc = {
1640 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1641 .nr_to_write = 1,
1644 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1646 if (wait)
1647 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1649 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1650 page_cache_get(page);
1651 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1652 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1653 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1654 if (PageError(page))
1655 ret = -EIO;
1657 page_cache_release(page);
1658 } else {
1659 unlock_page(page);
1661 return ret;
1663 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1666 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1668 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1670 if (!PageDirty(page))
1671 return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
1672 return 0;
1676 * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1677 * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1679 void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1681 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1682 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1683 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
1684 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1685 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
1686 task_dirty_inc(current);
1687 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
1690 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
1693 * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1694 * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1695 * wrt interrupts.
1697 void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1699 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1701 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1704 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
1705 * its radix tree.
1707 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1708 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
1709 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1711 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1712 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1713 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1715 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
1716 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
1718 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1720 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1721 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1722 struct address_space *mapping2;
1724 if (!mapping)
1725 return 1;
1727 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1728 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
1729 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
1730 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
1731 WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
1732 account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
1733 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1734 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1736 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1737 if (mapping->host) {
1738 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1739 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
1741 return 1;
1743 return 0;
1745 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
1748 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
1749 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
1750 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
1752 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
1754 wbc->pages_skipped++;
1755 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
1757 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
1760 * Dirty a page.
1762 * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
1763 * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
1764 * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
1765 * but should be better not to.
1767 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
1768 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
1770 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
1772 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1774 if (likely(mapping)) {
1775 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
1777 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
1778 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
1779 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
1780 * reset. So no problem.
1781 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
1782 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
1783 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
1784 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
1786 ClearPageReclaim(page);
1787 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1788 if (!spd)
1789 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
1790 #endif
1791 return (*spd)(page);
1793 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1794 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
1795 return 1;
1797 return 0;
1799 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
1802 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
1803 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
1804 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
1806 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
1807 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
1809 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
1811 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
1813 int ret;
1815 lock_page(page);
1816 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
1817 unlock_page(page);
1818 return ret;
1820 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
1823 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
1824 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
1826 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
1827 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
1828 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
1829 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
1830 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
1831 * back into sync.
1833 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
1834 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
1836 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
1838 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1840 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1842 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1844 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
1846 * We use this sequence to make sure that
1847 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
1848 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
1849 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
1850 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
1851 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
1852 * cause the writeback.
1854 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
1855 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
1856 * them concurrently from different threads.
1858 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
1859 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
1860 * that will already usually be set. But we
1861 * need the side effects, and it can help us
1862 * avoid races.
1864 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
1865 * as a serialization point for all the different
1866 * threads doing their things.
1868 if (page_mkclean(page))
1869 set_page_dirty(page);
1871 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
1872 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
1873 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
1874 * page lock at some point after installing their
1875 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
1876 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
1877 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
1878 * for more comments.
1880 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
1881 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1882 dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
1883 BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1884 return 1;
1886 return 0;
1888 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
1890 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
1892 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1894 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1895 int ret;
1897 if (mapping) {
1898 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1899 unsigned long flags;
1901 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1902 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1903 if (ret) {
1904 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1905 page_index(page),
1906 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1907 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
1908 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1909 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
1912 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1913 } else {
1914 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1916 if (ret) {
1917 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1918 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
1920 return ret;
1923 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1925 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1926 int ret;
1928 if (mapping) {
1929 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1930 unsigned long flags;
1932 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1933 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1934 if (!ret) {
1935 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1936 page_index(page),
1937 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1938 if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
1939 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1941 if (!PageDirty(page))
1942 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1943 page_index(page),
1944 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1945 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1946 page_index(page),
1947 PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1948 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1949 } else {
1950 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1952 if (!ret)
1953 account_page_writeback(page);
1954 return ret;
1957 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
1960 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
1961 * passed tag.
1963 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
1965 return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
1967 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);