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We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has * been forced to throttle against that inode. Also, the code reevaluates * the dirty each time it has written this many pages. */ #define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES 1024 /* * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling. */ static long ratelimit_pages = 32; static long total_pages; /* The total number of pages in the machine. */ static int dirty_exceeded; /* Dirty mem may be over limit */ /* * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write. * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably * large amounts of I/O are submitted. */ static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void) { return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2; } /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ /* * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage */ int dirty_background_ratio = 10; /* * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage */ int vm_dirty_ratio = 40; /* * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in centiseconds * (hundredths of a second) */ int dirty_writeback_centisecs = 5 * 100; /* * The longest number of centiseconds for which data is allowed to remain dirty */ int dirty_expire_centisecs = 30 * 100; /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages); /* * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout * thresholds. * * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and * performing lots of scanning. * * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied. * * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather * excessive. * * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted * clamping level. */ static void get_dirty_limits(struct page_state *ps, long *background, long *dirty) { int background_ratio; /* Percentages */ int dirty_ratio; int unmapped_ratio; get_page_state(ps); unmapped_ratio = 100 - (ps->nr_mapped * 100) / total_pages; dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2) dirty_ratio = unmapped_ratio / 2; if (dirty_ratio < 5) dirty_ratio = 5; background_ratio = dirty_background_ratio; if (background_ratio >= dirty_ratio) background_ratio = dirty_ratio / 2; *background = (background_ratio * total_pages) / 100; *dirty = (dirty_ratio * total_pages) / 100; } /* * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some * writeout. */ void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) { struct page_state ps; long background_thresh; long dirty_thresh; unsigned long pages_written = 0; unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages(); struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; get_dirty_limits(&ps, &background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); while (ps.nr_dirty + ps.nr_writeback > dirty_thresh) { struct writeback_control wbc = { .bdi = bdi, .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .older_than_this = NULL, .nr_to_write = write_chunk, }; dirty_exceeded = 1; if (ps.nr_dirty) writeback_inodes(&wbc); get_dirty_limits(&ps, &background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); if (ps.nr_dirty + ps.nr_writeback <= dirty_thresh) break; pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; if (pages_written >= write_chunk) break; /* We've done our duty */ blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); } if (ps.nr_dirty + ps.nr_writeback <= dirty_thresh) dirty_exceeded = 0; if (!writeback_in_progress(bdi) && ps.nr_dirty > background_thresh) pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0); } /** * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state * @mapping - address_space which was dirtied * * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. * * On really big machines, get_page_state is expensive, so try to avoid calling * it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory limit we * decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes from * overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each. */ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) { static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, ratelimits) = 0; int cpu; long ratelimit; ratelimit = ratelimit_pages; if (dirty_exceeded) ratelimit = 8; cpu = get_cpu(); if (per_cpu(ratelimits, cpu)++ >= ratelimit) { per_cpu(ratelimits, cpu) = 0; put_cpu(); balance_dirty_pages(mapping); return; } put_cpu(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); /* * writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty * memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean. */ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages) { long min_pages = _min_pages; struct writeback_control wbc = { .bdi = NULL, .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .older_than_this = NULL, .nr_to_write = 0, .nonblocking = 1, }; CHECK_EMERGENCY_SYNC for ( ; ; ) { struct page_state ps; long background_thresh; long dirty_thresh; get_dirty_limits(&ps, &background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); if (ps.nr_dirty < background_thresh && min_pages <= 0) break; wbc.encountered_congestion = 0; wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES; writeback_inodes(&wbc); min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write; if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) { /* Wrote less than expected */ if (wbc.encountered_congestion) blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); else break; } } } /* * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages. If `nr_pages' is zero, write back * the whole world. Returns 0 if a pdflush thread was dispatched. Returns * -1 if all pdflush threads were busy. */ int wakeup_bdflush(long nr_pages) { if (nr_pages == 0) { struct page_state ps; get_page_state(&ps); nr_pages = ps.nr_dirty; } return pdflush_operation(background_writeout, nr_pages); } static struct timer_list wb_timer; /* * Periodic writeback of "old" data. * * Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the * dirtying-time in the inode's address_space. So this periodic writeback code * just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are * older than a specific point in time. * * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_centisecs. But if a writeback event * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_centisecs interval, then leave a * one-second gap. * * older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write. So we'll only write back * all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings. */ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) { unsigned long oldest_jif; unsigned long start_jif; unsigned long next_jif; long nr_to_write; struct page_state ps; struct writeback_control wbc = { .bdi = NULL, .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .older_than_this = &oldest_jif, .nr_to_write = 0, .nonblocking = 1, .for_kupdate = 1, }; sync_supers(); get_page_state(&ps); oldest_jif = jiffies - (dirty_expire_centisecs * HZ) / 100; start_jif = jiffies; next_jif = start_jif + (dirty_writeback_centisecs * HZ) / 100; nr_to_write = ps.nr_dirty; while (nr_to_write > 0) { wbc.encountered_congestion = 0; wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES; writeback_inodes(&wbc); if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) { if (wbc.encountered_congestion) blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); else break; /* All the old data is written */ } nr_to_write -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write; } if (time_before(next_jif, jiffies + HZ)) next_jif = jiffies + HZ; mod_timer(&wb_timer, next_jif); } static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused) { if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate, 0) < 0) mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + HZ); /* delay 1 second */ } /* * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time. * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive) get_page_state * too often. * * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory * thresholds before writeback cuts in. * * But the limit should not be set too high. Because it also controls the * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back. * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the * time. So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller * will write six megabyte chunks, max. */ static void set_ratelimit(void) { ratelimit_pages = total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32); if (ratelimit_pages < 16) ratelimit_pages = 16; if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024) ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; } static int ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v) { set_ratelimit(); return 0; } static struct notifier_block ratelimit_nb = { .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler, .next = NULL, }; /* * If the machine has a large highmem:lowmem ratio then scale back the default * dirty memory thresholds: allowing too much dirty highmem pins an excessive * number of buffer_heads. */ void __init page_writeback_init(void) { long buffer_pages = nr_free_buffer_pages(); long correction; total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages(); correction = (100 * 4 * buffer_pages) / total_pages; if (correction < 100) { dirty_background_ratio *= correction; dirty_background_ratio /= 100; vm_dirty_ratio *= correction; vm_dirty_ratio /= 100; } init_timer(&wb_timer); wb_timer.expires = jiffies + (dirty_writeback_centisecs * HZ) / 100; wb_timer.data = 0; wb_timer.function = wb_timer_fn; add_timer(&wb_timer); set_ratelimit(); register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); } int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { if (mapping->a_ops->writepages) return mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc); return generic_writepages(mapping, wbc); } /** * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O * * @page - the page to write * @wait - if true, wait on writeout * * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return. * * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed. */ int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; int ret = 0; struct writeback_control wbc = { .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, }; BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); if (wait && PageWriteback(page)) wait_on_page_writeback(page); write_lock(&mapping->page_lock); list_del(&page->list); if (test_clear_page_dirty(page)) { list_add(&page->list, &mapping->locked_pages); page_cache_get(page); write_unlock(&mapping->page_lock); ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc); if (ret == 0 && wait) { wait_on_page_writeback(page); if (PageError(page)) ret = -EIO; } page_cache_release(page); } else { list_add(&page->list, &mapping->clean_pages); write_unlock(&mapping->page_lock); unlock_page(page); } return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page); /* * Add a page to the dirty page list. * * It is a sad fact of life that this function is called from several places * deeply under spinlocking. It may not sleep. * * If the page has buffers, the uptodate buffers are set dirty, to preserve * dirty-state coherency between the page and the buffers. It the page does * not have buffers then when they are later attached they will all be set * dirty. * * The buffers are dirtied before the page is dirtied. There's a small race * window in which a writepage caller may see the page cleanness but not the * buffer dirtiness. That's fine. If this code were to set the page dirty * before the buffers, a concurrent writepage caller could clear the page dirty * bit, see a bunch of clean buffers and we'd end up with dirty buffers/clean * page on the dirty page list. * * There is also a small window where the page is dirty, and not on dirty_pages. * Also a possibility that by the time the page is added to dirty_pages, it has * been set clean. The page lists are somewhat approximate in this regard. * It's better to have clean pages accidentally attached to dirty_pages than to * leave dirty pages attached to clean_pages. * * We use private_lock to lock against try_to_free_buffers while using the * page's buffer list. Also use this to protect against clean buffers being * added to the page after it was set dirty. * * FIXME: may need to call ->reservepage here as well. That's rather up to the * address_space though. * * For now, we treat swapper_space specially. It doesn't use the normal * block a_ops. * * FIXME: this should move over to fs/buffer.c - buffer_heads have no business in mm/ */ #include <linux/buffer_head.h> int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page) { struct address_space * const mapping = page->mapping; int ret = 0; if (mapping == NULL) { SetPageDirty(page); goto out; } if (!PageUptodate(page)) buffer_error(); spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock); if (page_has_buffers(page)) { struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page); struct buffer_head *bh = head; do { if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) set_buffer_dirty(bh); else buffer_error(); bh = bh->b_this_page; } while (bh != head); } spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock); if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) { write_lock(&mapping->page_lock); if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */ if (!mapping->backing_dev_info->memory_backed) inc_page_state(nr_dirty); list_del(&page->list); list_add(&page->list, &mapping->dirty_pages); } write_unlock(&mapping->page_lock); __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); } out: return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_buffers); /* * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just set the page's dirty bit * and move it to the dirty_pages list. Also perform space reservation if * required. * * __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() may return -ENOSPC. But if it does, the page * is still safe, as long as it actually manages to find some blocks at * writeback time. * * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up" * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying. */ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page) { int ret = 0; if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; if (mapping) { write_lock(&mapping->page_lock); if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */ BUG_ON(page->mapping != mapping); if (!mapping->backing_dev_info->memory_backed) inc_page_state(nr_dirty); list_del(&page->list); list_add(&page->list, &mapping->dirty_pages); } write_unlock(&mapping->page_lock); __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); } } return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers); /* * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping. * * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file. * * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty(). */ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page) { int ret; lock_page(page); ret = set_page_dirty(page); unlock_page(page); return ret; } /* * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting. * Returns true if the page was previously dirty. */ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page) { if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; if (mapping && !mapping->backing_dev_info->memory_backed) dec_page_state(nr_dirty); return 1; } return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_clear_page_dirty); |