linux/fs/fs-writeback.c, branch v3.9

Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

2013-02-28T21:21:44Z

Pull writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang: "Two writeback fixes - fix negative (setpoint - dirty) in 32bit archs - use down_read_trylock() in writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle()" * tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: Negative (setpoint-dirty) in bdi_position_ratio() vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them

writeback: add more tracepoints

2013-01-14T14:00:36Z

Add tracepoints for page dirtying, writeback_single_inode start, inode dirtying and writeback. For the latter two inode events, a pair of events are defined to denote start and end of the operations (the starting one has _start suffix and the one w/o suffix happens after the operation is complete). These inode ops are FS specific and can be non-trivial and having enclosing tracepoints is useful for external tracers. This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland. v2: writeback_dirty_inode[_start] TPs may be called for files on pseudo FSes w/ unregistered bdi. Check whether bdi->dev is %NULL before dereferencing. v3: buffer dirtying moved to a block TP. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them

2013-01-12T02:47:43Z

writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() is re-implemented by replacing down_read() with down_read_trylock() because - If ->s_umount is write locked, then the sb is not idle. That is writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() needn't wait for the lock. - writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() grabs s_umount lock when it want to start writeback, it may bring us deadlock problem when doing umount. In order to fix the problem, ext4 and btrfs implemented their own writeback functions instead of writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle(), but it introduced the redundant code, it is better to implement a new writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle(). The name of these two functions is cumbersome, so rename them to try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(_nr). This idea came from Christoph Hellwig. Some code is from the patch of Kamal Mostafa. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu

writeback: fix a typo in comment

2012-12-13T01:38:34Z

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion

2012-11-27T01:41:24Z

Commit 169ebd90131b ("writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread") removed iget-iput pair from inode writeback. As a side effect, inodes that are dirty during iput_final() call won't be ever added to inode LRU (iput_final() doesn't add dirty inodes to LRU and later when the inode is cleaned there's noone to add the inode there). Thus inodes are effectively unreclaimable until someone looks them up again. The practical effect of this bug is limited by the fact that inodes are pinned by a dentry for long enough that the inode gets cleaned. But still the bug can have nasty consequences leading up to OOM conditions under certain circumstances. Following can easily reproduce the problem: for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do mkdir $i for (( j = 0; j < 1000; j++ )); do touch $i/$j echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches done done then one needs to run 'sync; ls -lR' to make inodes reclaimable again. We fix the issue by inserting unused clean inodes into the LRU after writeback finishes in inode_sync_complete(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: Al Viro Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: [3.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'writeback-for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

2012-10-12T01:46:03Z

Pull writeback fixes from Fengguang Wu: "Three trivial writeback fixes" * 'writeback-for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug writeback: correct comment for move_expired_inodes() backing-dev: use kstrto* in preference to simple_strtoul

fs/fs-writeback.c: remove unneccesary parameter of __writeback_single_inode()

2012-10-09T07:23:00Z

The parameter 'wb' is never used in this function. Signed-off-by: Yan Hong Acked-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2012-10-07T21:36:39Z

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online resizing has been improved in general. We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks, in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good work by Dmitry Monakhov. There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have submitted fixes for the first time." * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits) ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers ext4: completed_io locking cleanup ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name ext4: ext4_inode_info diet ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu() ext4: ext4_bread usage audit fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments() ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-10-01T16:06:36Z

Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "Tiny usual fixes all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent() treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos ipr: fix small coding style issues doc: fix broken utf8 encoding nfs: comment fix platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter mfd: printk/comment fixes doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket() doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error mmc: fix comment typos dma: fix comments spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf tools/testing: fix comment / output typos ...

fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc

2012-09-21T10:04:36Z

Argument @only_this_sb has been removed. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina