linux/fs/buffer.c, branch v4.4

vfs: remove unused wrapper block_page_mkwrite()

2015-11-11T07:19:33Z

The function currently called "__block_page_mkwrite()" used to be called "block_page_mkwrite()" until a wrapper for this function was added by: commit 24da4fab5a61 ("vfs: Create __block_page_mkwrite() helper passing error values back") This wrapper, the current "block_page_mkwrite()", is currently unused. __block_page_mkwrite() is used directly by ext4, nilfs2 and xfs. Remove the unused wrapper, rename __block_page_mkwrite() back to block_page_mkwrite() and update the comment above block_page_mkwrite(). Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm, fs: introduce mapping_gfp_constraint()

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

There are many places which use mapping_gfp_mask to restrict a more generic gfp mask which would be used for allocations which are not directly related to the page cache but they are performed in the same context. Let's introduce a helper function which makes the restriction explicit and easier to track. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec

2015-08-13T18:32:00Z

Call pre-defined helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding for iterating through bi_io_vec[]. Doing that, it's possible to make some parts in filesystems and mm/page_io.c simpler than before. Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet [dpark: add more description in commit message] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park Signed-off-by: Ming Lin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers

2015-07-29T14:55:20Z

Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set' helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too. It was a bit of a mess of atomic vs non-atomic access. With BIO_UPTODATE gone, we don't have any risk of concurrent access to the flags. So relax the restriction and don't make any of them atomic. The flags that do have serialization issues (reffed and chained), we already handle those separately. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15Z

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable

2015-06-02T15:22:34Z

Merge hickup on my part, due to a clash between the writeback changes and the EOPNOTSUPP removal in _submit_bh(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection

2015-06-02T14:40:20Z

As concurrent write sharing of an inode is expected to be very rare and memcg only tracks page ownership on first-use basis severely confining the usefulness of such sharing, cgroup writeback tracks ownership per-inode. While the support for concurrent write sharing of an inode is deemed unnecessary, an inode being written to by different cgroups at different points in time is a lot more common, and, more importantly, charging only by first-use can too readily lead to grossly incorrect behaviors (single foreign page can lead to gigabytes of writeback to be incorrectly attributed). To resolve this issue, cgroup writeback detects the majority dirtier of an inode and will transfer the ownership to it. To avoid unnnecessary oscillation, the detection mechanism keeps track of history and gives out the switch verdict only if the foreign usage pattern is stable over a certain amount of time and/or writeback attempts. The detection mechanism has fairly low space and computation overhead. It adds 8 bytes to struct inode (one int and two u16's) and minimal amount of calculation per IO. The detection mechanism converges to the correct answer usually in several seconds of IO time when there's a clear majority dirtier. Even when there isn't, it can reach an acceptable answer fairly quickly under most circumstances. Please see wb_detach_inode() for more details. This patch only implements detection. Following patches will implement actual switching. v2: wbc_account_io() now checks whether the wbc is associated with a wb before dereferencing it. This can happen when pageout() is writing pages directly without going through the usual writeback path. As pageout() path is single-threaded, we don't want it to be blocked behind a slow cgroup and ultimately want it to delegate actual writing to the usual writeback path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Greg Thelen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back

2015-06-02T14:39:48Z

Currently, for cgroup writeback, the IO submission paths directly associate the bio's with the blkcg from inode_to_wb_blkcg_css(); however, it'd be necessary to keep more writeback context to implement foreign inode writeback detection. wbc (writeback_control) is the natural fit for the extra context - it persists throughout the writeback of each inode and is passed all the way down to IO submission paths. This patch adds wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode(), wbc_detach_inode(), and wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode() which are used to associate wbc with the inode being written back. IO submission paths now use wbc_init_bio() instead of directly associating bio's with blkcg themselves. This leaves inode_to_wb_blkcg_css() w/o any user. The function is removed. wbc currently only tracks the associated wb (bdi_writeback). Future patches will add more for foreign inode detection. The association is established under i_lock which will be depended upon when migrating foreign inodes to other wb's. As currently, once established, inode to wb association never changes, going through wbc when initializing bio's doesn't cause any behavior changes. v2: submit_blk_blkcg() now checks whether the wbc is associated with a wb before dereferencing it. This can happen when pageout() is writing pages directly without going through the usual writeback path. As pageout() path is single-threaded, we don't want it to be blocked behind a slow cgroup and ultimately want it to delegate actual writing to the usual writeback path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Greg Thelen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

buffer, writeback: make __block_write_full_page() honor cgroup writeback

2015-06-02T14:37:23Z

[__]block_write_full_page() is used to implement ->writepage in various filesystems. All writeback logic is now updated to handle cgroup writeback and the block cgroup to issue IOs for is encoded in writeback_control and can be retrieved from the inode; however, [__]block_write_full_page() currently ignores the blkcg indicated by inode and issues all bio's without explicit blkcg association. This patch adds submit_bh_blkcg() which associates the bio with the specified blkio cgroup before issuing and uses it in __block_write_full_page() so that the issued bio's are associated with inode_to_wb_blkcg_css(inode). v2: Updated for per-inode wb association. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting

2015-06-02T14:33:33Z

When modifying PG_Dirty on cached file pages, update the new MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY counter. This is done in the same places where global NR_FILE_DIRTY is managed. The new memcg stat is visible in the per memcg memory.stat cgroupfs file. The most recent past attempt at this was http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8632 The new accounting supports future efforts to add per cgroup dirty page throttling and writeback. It also helps an administrator break down a container's memory usage and provides evidence to understand memcg oom kills (the new dirty count is included in memcg oom kill messages). The ability to move page accounting between memcg (memory.move_charge_at_immigrate) makes this accounting more complicated than the global counter. The existing mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat() lock is used to serialize move accounting with stat updates. Typical update operation: memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page) if (TestSetPageDirty()) { [...] mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(memcg) } mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg) Summary of mem_cgroup_end_page_stat() overhead: - Without CONFIG_MEMCG it's a no-op - With CONFIG_MEMCG and no inter memcg task movement, it's just rcu_read_lock() - With CONFIG_MEMCG and inter memcg task movement, it's rcu_read_lock() + spin_lock_irqsave() A memcg parameter is added to several routines because their callers now grab mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() which returns the memcg later needed by for mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(). Because mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() may disable interrupts, some adjustments are needed: - move __mark_inode_dirty() from __set_page_dirty() to its caller. __mark_inode_dirty() locking does not want interrupts disabled. - use spin_lock_irqsave(tree_lock) rather than spin_lock_irq() in __delete_from_page_cache(), replace_page_cache_page(), invalidate_complete_page2(), and __remove_mapping(). text data bss dec hex filename 8925147 1774832 1785856 12485835 be84cb vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-before 8925339 1774832 1785856 12486027 be858b vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-after +192 text bytes 8965977 1784992 1785856 12536825 bf4bf9 vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-before 8966750 1784992 1785856 12537598 bf4efe vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-after +773 text bytes Performance tests run on v4.0-rc1-36-g4f671fe2f952. Lower is better for all metrics, they're all wall clock or cycle counts. The read and write fault benchmarks just measure fault time, they do not include I/O time. * CONFIG_MEMCG not set: baseline patched kbuild 1m25.030000(+-0.088% 3 samples) 1m25.426667(+-0.120% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.859211561 +-15.10% 0.874162885 +-15.03% dd write 200 MiB 1.670653105 +-17.87% 1.669384764 +-11.99% dd write 1000 MiB 8.434691190 +-14.15% 8.474733215 +-14.77% read fault cycles 254.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) 253.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2021.2(+-3.070% 10 samples) 1984.5(+-1.036% 10 samples) * CONFIG_MEMCG=y root_memcg: baseline patched kbuild 1m25.716667(+-0.105% 3 samples) 1m25.686667(+-0.153% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.855650830 +-14.90% 0.887557919 +-14.90% dd write 200 MiB 1.688322953 +-12.72% 1.667682724 +-13.33% dd write 1000 MiB 8.418601605 +-14.30% 8.673532299 +-15.00% read fault cycles 266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) 266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2051.7(+-1.349% 10 samples) 2049.6(+-1.686% 10 samples) * CONFIG_MEMCG=y non-root_memcg: baseline patched kbuild 1m26.120000(+-0.273% 3 samples) 1m25.763333(+-0.127% 3 samples) dd write 100 MiB 0.861723964 +-15.25% 0.818129350 +-14.82% dd write 200 MiB 1.669887569 +-13.30% 1.698645885 +-13.27% dd write 1000 MiB 8.383191730 +-14.65% 8.351742280 +-14.52% read fault cycles 265.7(+-0.172% 10 samples) 267.0(+-0.000% 10 samples) write fault cycles 2070.6(+-1.512% 10 samples) 2084.4(+-2.148% 10 samples) As expected anon page faults are not affected by this patch. tj: Updated to apply on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() changes. Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe