linux/mm/backing-dev.c, branch v2.6.35

writeback: simplify the write back thread queue

2010-07-06T06:59:53Z

First remove items from work_list as soon as we start working on them. This means we don't have to track any pending or visited state and can get rid of all the RCU magic freeing the work items - we can simply free them once the operation has finished. Second use a real completion for tracking synchronous requests - if the caller sets the completion pointer we complete it, otherwise use it as a boolean indicator that we can free the work item directly. Third unify struct wb_writeback_args and struct bdi_work into a single data structure, wb_writeback_work. Previous we set all parameters into a struct wb_writeback_args, copied it into struct bdi_work, copied it again on the stack to use it there. Instead of just allocate one structure dynamically or on the stack and use it all the way through the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: remove writeback_inodes_wbc

2010-07-06T06:54:03Z

This was just an odd wrapper around writeback_inodes_wb. Removing this also allows to get rid of the bdi member of struct writeback_control which was rather out of place there. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs

2010-05-21T18:00:35Z

Commit 69b62d01 fixed up most of the places where we would enter busy schedule() spins when disabling the periodic background writeback. This fixes up the sb timer so that it doesn't get hammered on with the delay disabled, and ensures that it gets rearmed if needed when /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs gets modified. bdi_forker_task() also needs to check for !dirty_writeback_centisecs and use schedule() appropriately, fix that up too. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi

2010-04-25T06:54:42Z

noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in __mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: add helper function for doing init and register of a bdi for a file system

2010-04-22T09:39:36Z

Pretty trivial helper, just sets up the bdi and registers it. An atomic sequence count is used to ensure that the registered sysfs names are unique. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure

2010-04-02T07:46:55Z

I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would fail. While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of oopsing. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race

2009-12-03T12:49:43Z

To touch task->flags directly is racy. thaw_process() still has race (changing non_current->flags, but this is another issue) though, I think it's much better off. So, use thaw_process() instead. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Thaw refrigerated bdi flusher threads before invoking kthread_stop on them

2009-11-12T12:08:11Z

Unfreezes the bdi flusher task when the said task needs to exit. Steps to reproduce this. 1) Mount a file system from MMC/SD card. 2) Unmount the file system. This creates a flusher task. 3) Attempt suspend to RAM. System is unresponsive. This is because the bdi flusher thread is already in the refrigerator and will remain so until it is thawed. The MMC driver suspend routine call stack will ultimately issue a 'kthread_stop' on the bdi flusher thread and will block until the flusher thread is exited. Since the bdi flusher thread is in the refrigerator it never cleans up until thawed. Signed-off-by: Romit Dasgupta Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

backing-dev: bdi sb prune should be in the unregister path, not destroy

2009-11-03T19:18:44Z

Commit 592b09a42fc3ae6737a0f3ecf4fee42ecd0296f8 was different from the tested path, in that it moved the bdi super_block prune from unregister to destroy context. This doesn't fully fix the sync hang bug on unexpected device removal, as need to prune the bdi cache pointer before killing flusher thread. Tested-by: Artur Skawina Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

backing-dev: ensure that a removed bdi no longer has super_block referencing it

2009-10-29T10:46:12Z

When the bdi is being removed, we have to ensure that no super_blocks currently have that cached in sb->s_bdi. Normally this is ensured by the sb having a longer life span than the bdi, but if the device is suddenly yanked, we have to kill this reference. sb->s_bdi is pointed to freed memory at that point. This fixes a problem with sync(1) hanging when a USB stick is pulled without cleanly umounting it first. Reported-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe