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1 /*
2  * mm/page-writeback.c
3  *
4  * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
5  * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
6  *
7  * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
8  * address_space level.
9  *
10  * 10Apr2002    Andrew Morton
11  *              Initial version
12  */
13
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
38 /*
39  * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
40  * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
41  */
42 static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
43
44 /*
45  * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
46  * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
47  * It should be somewhat larger than dirtied pages to ensure that reasonably
48  * large amounts of I/O are submitted.
49  */
50 static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied)
51 {
52         if (dirtied < ratelimit_pages)
53                 dirtied = ratelimit_pages;
54
55         return dirtied + dirtied / 2;
56 }
57
58 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
59
60 /*
61  * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
62  */
63 int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
64
65 /*
66  * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
67  * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
68  */
69 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
70
71 /*
72  * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
73  * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
74  */
75 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
76
77 /*
78  * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
79  */
80 int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
81
82 /*
83  * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
84  * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
85  */
86 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
87
88 /*
89  * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
90  */
91 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
92
93 /*
94  * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
95  */
96 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
97
98 /*
99  * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
100  */
101 int block_dump;
102
103 /*
104  * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
105  * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
106  */
107 int laptop_mode;
108
109 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
110
111 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
112
113
114 /*
115  * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
116  *
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.
121  *
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.
124  *
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.
128  *
129  */
130 static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
131 static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
132
133 /*
134  * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
135  *
136  *   period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
137  */
138 static int calc_period_shift(void)
139 {
140         unsigned long dirty_total;
141
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);
148 }
149
150 /*
151  * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
152  */
153 static void update_completion_period(void)
154 {
155         int shift = calc_period_shift();
156         prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
157         prop_change_shift(&vm_dirties, shift);
158 }
159
160 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
161                 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
162                 loff_t *ppos)
163 {
164         int ret;
165
166         ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
167         if (ret == 0 && write)
168                 dirty_background_bytes = 0;
169         return ret;
170 }
171
172 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
173                 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
174                 loff_t *ppos)
175 {
176         int ret;
177
178         ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
179         if (ret == 0 && write)
180                 dirty_background_ratio = 0;
181         return ret;
182 }
183
184 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
185                 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
186                 loff_t *ppos)
187 {
188         int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
189         int ret;
190
191         ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
192         if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
193                 update_completion_period();
194                 vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
195         }
196         return ret;
197 }
198
199
200 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
201                 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
202                 loff_t *ppos)
203 {
204         unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
205         int ret;
206
207         ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
208         if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
209                 update_completion_period();
210                 vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
211         }
212         return ret;
213 }
214
215 /*
216  * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
217  * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
218  */
219 static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
220 {
221         __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
222                               bdi->max_prop_frac);
223 }
224
225 void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
226 {
227         unsigned long flags;
228
229         local_irq_save(flags);
230         __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
231         local_irq_restore(flags);
232 }
233 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
234
235 void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
236 {
237         prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
238 }
239
240 /*
241  * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
242  */
243 static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
244                 long *numerator, long *denominator)
245 {
246         if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) {
247                 prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
248                                 numerator, denominator);
249         } else {
250                 *numerator = 0;
251                 *denominator = 1;
252         }
253 }
254
255 /*
256  * Clip the earned share of dirty pages to that which is actually available.
257  * This avoids exceeding the total dirty_limit when the floating averages
258  * fluctuate too quickly.
259  */
260 static void clip_bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
261                 unsigned long dirty, unsigned long *pbdi_dirty)
262 {
263         unsigned long avail_dirty;
264
265         avail_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
266                  global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
267                  global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
268                  global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP);
269
270         if (avail_dirty < dirty)
271                 avail_dirty = dirty - avail_dirty;
272         else
273                 avail_dirty = 0;
274
275         avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) +
276                 bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
277
278         *pbdi_dirty = min(*pbdi_dirty, avail_dirty);
279 }
280
281 static inline void task_dirties_fraction(struct task_struct *tsk,
282                 long *numerator, long *denominator)
283 {
284         prop_fraction_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties,
285                                 numerator, denominator);
286 }
287
288 /*
289  * scale the dirty limit
290  *
291  * task specific dirty limit:
292  *
293  *   dirty -= (dirty/8) * p_{t}
294  */
295 static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *pdirty)
296 {
297         long numerator, denominator;
298         unsigned long dirty = *pdirty;
299         u64 inv = dirty >> 3;
300
301         task_dirties_fraction(tsk, &numerator, &denominator);
302         inv *= numerator;
303         do_div(inv, denominator);
304
305         dirty -= inv;
306         if (dirty < *pdirty/2)
307                 dirty = *pdirty/2;
308
309         *pdirty = dirty;
310 }
311
312 /*
313  *
314  */
315 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
316
317 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
318 {
319         int ret = 0;
320
321         spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
322         if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
323                 ret = -EINVAL;
324         } else {
325                 min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
326                 if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
327                         bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
328                         bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
329                 } else {
330                         ret = -EINVAL;
331                 }
332         }
333         spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
334
335         return ret;
336 }
337
338 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
339 {
340         int ret = 0;
341
342         if (max_ratio > 100)
343                 return -EINVAL;
344
345         spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
346         if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
347                 ret = -EINVAL;
348         } else {
349                 bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
350                 bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
351         }
352         spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
353
354         return ret;
355 }
356 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
357
358 /*
359  * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
360  * thresholds.
361  *
362  * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
363  * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
364  * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
365  * performing lots of scanning.
366  *
367  * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
368  *
369  * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
370  * excessive.
371  *
372  * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
373  * clamping level.
374  */
375
376 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
377 {
378 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
379         int node;
380         unsigned long x = 0;
381
382         for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
383                 struct zone *z =
384                         &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
385
386                 x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
387                      zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
388         }
389         /*
390          * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
391          * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
392          * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
393          * that this does not occur.
394          */
395         return min(x, total);
396 #else
397         return 0;
398 #endif
399 }
400
401 /**
402  * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
403  *
404  * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
405  * by the kernel for direct mappings.
406  */
407 unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
408 {
409         unsigned long x;
410
411         x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
412
413         if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
414                 x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
415
416         return x + 1;   /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
417 }
418
419 void
420 get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
421                  unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
422 {
423         unsigned long background;
424         unsigned long dirty;
425         unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
426         struct task_struct *tsk;
427
428         if (vm_dirty_bytes)
429                 dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
430         else {
431                 int dirty_ratio;
432
433                 dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
434                 if (dirty_ratio < 5)
435                         dirty_ratio = 5;
436                 dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
437         }
438
439         if (dirty_background_bytes)
440                 background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
441         else
442                 background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
443
444         if (background >= dirty)
445                 background = dirty / 2;
446         tsk = current;
447         if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
448                 background += background / 4;
449                 dirty += dirty / 4;
450         }
451         *pbackground = background;
452         *pdirty = dirty;
453
454         if (bdi) {
455                 u64 bdi_dirty;
456                 long numerator, denominator;
457
458                 /*
459                  * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
460                  */
461                 bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
462
463                 bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
464                 bdi_dirty *= numerator;
465                 do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
466                 bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
467                 if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
468                         bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
469
470                 *pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
471                 clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);
472                 task_dirty_limit(current, pbdi_dirty);
473         }
474 }
475
476 /*
477  * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
478  * data.  It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
479  * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
480  * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
481  * perform some writeout.
482  */
483 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
484                                 unsigned long write_chunk)
485 {
486         long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
487         long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback;
488         unsigned long background_thresh;
489         unsigned long dirty_thresh;
490         unsigned long bdi_thresh;
491         unsigned long pages_written = 0;
492         unsigned long pause = 1;
493
494         struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
495
496         for (;;) {
497                 struct writeback_control wbc = {
498                         .bdi            = bdi,
499                         .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_NONE,
500                         .older_than_this = NULL,
501                         .nr_to_write    = write_chunk,
502                         .range_cyclic   = 1,
503                 };
504
505                 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
506                                 &bdi_thresh, bdi);
507
508                 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
509                                         global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
510                 nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
511
512                 bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
513                 bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
514
515                 if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
516                         break;
517
518                 /*
519                  * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
520                  * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
521                  * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
522                  */
523                 if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <
524                                 (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
525                         break;
526
527                 if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
528                         bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
529
530                 /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
531                  * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
532                  * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
533                  * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
534                  * been flushed to permanent storage.
535                  * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its
536                  * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch
537                  * up.
538                  */
539                 if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) {
540                         writeback_inodes_wbc(&wbc);
541                         pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
542                         get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
543                                        &bdi_thresh, bdi);
544                 }
545
546                 /*
547                  * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
548                  * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
549                  * the threshold is low.
550                  *
551                  * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
552                  * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
553                  * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
554                  * deltas.
555                  */
556                 if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
557                         bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
558                         bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
559                 } else if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) {
560                         bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
561                         bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
562                 }
563
564                 if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
565                         break;
566                 if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
567                         break;          /* We've done our duty */
568
569                 __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
570                 io_schedule_timeout(pause);
571
572                 /*
573                  * Increase the delay for each loop, up to our previous
574                  * default of taking a 100ms nap.
575                  */
576                 pause <<= 1;
577                 if (pause > HZ / 10)
578                         pause = HZ / 10;
579         }
580
581         if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback < bdi_thresh &&
582                         bdi->dirty_exceeded)
583                 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
584
585         if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
586                 return;
587
588         /*
589          * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
590          * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
591          * to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
592          *
593          * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
594          * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
595          */
596         if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
597             (!laptop_mode && ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY)
598                                + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS))
599                                           > background_thresh)))
600                 bdi_start_writeback(bdi, NULL, 0);
601 }
602
603 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
604 {
605         if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
606                 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
607
608                 if (mapping)
609                         balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
610         }
611 }
612
613 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, bdp_ratelimits) = 0;
614
615 /**
616  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
617  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
618  * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
619  *
620  * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
621  * which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
622  * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
623  *
624  * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
625  * calling it too often (ratelimiting).  But once we're over the dirty memory
626  * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
627  * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
628  */
629 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
630                                         unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
631 {
632         unsigned long ratelimit;
633         unsigned long *p;
634
635         ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
636         if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded)
637                 ratelimit = 8;
638
639         /*
640          * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
641          * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
642          */
643         preempt_disable();
644         p =  &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
645         *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
646         if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
647                 ratelimit = sync_writeback_pages(*p);
648                 *p = 0;
649                 preempt_enable();
650                 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, ratelimit);
651                 return;
652         }
653         preempt_enable();
654 }
655 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
656
657 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
658 {
659         unsigned long background_thresh;
660         unsigned long dirty_thresh;
661
662         for ( ; ; ) {
663                 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
664
665                 /*
666                  * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
667                  * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
668                  */
669                 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10;      /* wheeee... */
670
671                 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
672                         global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
673                                 break;
674                 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
675
676                 /*
677                  * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
678                  * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
679                  * waiting for IO to complete.
680                  */
681                 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
682                         break;
683         }
684 }
685
686 /*
687  * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
688  */
689 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
690         void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
691 {
692         proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
693         bdi_arm_supers_timer();
694         return 0;
695 }
696
697 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
698 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
699 {
700         struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
701         int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
702                 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
703
704         /*
705          * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
706          * threshold
707          */
708
709         if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
710                 bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, NULL, nr_pages);
711 }
712
713 /*
714  * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
715  * of all dirty data a few seconds from now.  If the flush is already scheduled
716  * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
717  */
718 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
719 {
720         mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
721 }
722
723 /*
724  * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
725  * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
726  * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
727  */
728 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
729 {
730         struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
731
732         rcu_read_lock();
733
734         list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
735                 del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
736
737         rcu_read_unlock();
738 }
739 #endif
740
741 /*
742  * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
743  * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
744  * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
745  * get_writeback_state too often.
746  *
747  * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
748  * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
749  * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
750  *
751  * But the limit should not be set too high.  Because it also controls the
752  * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
753  * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
754  * time.  So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
755  * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
756  */
757
758 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
759 {
760         ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
761         if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
762                 ratelimit_pages = 16;
763         if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
764                 ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
765 }
766
767 static int __cpuinit
768 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
769 {
770         writeback_set_ratelimit();
771         return NOTIFY_DONE;
772 }
773
774 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
775         .notifier_call  = ratelimit_handler,
776         .next           = NULL,
777 };
778
779 /*
780  * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
781  *
782  * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
783  * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
784  * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
785  *
786  * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
787  * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
788  * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
789  * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
790  * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
791  * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
792  * non-HIGHMEM memory.
793  *
794  * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
795  * much memory the box has..
796  */
797 void __init page_writeback_init(void)
798 {
799         int shift;
800
801         writeback_set_ratelimit();
802         register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
803
804         shift = calc_period_shift();
805         prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
806         prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
807 }
808
809 /**
810  * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
811  * @mapping: address space structure to write
812  * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
813  * @writepage: function called for each page
814  * @data: data passed to writepage function
815  *
816  * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
817  * if it's dirty.  This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
818  * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync().  fsync()
819  * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
820  * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
821  * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
822  * existing IO to complete.
823  */
824 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
825                       struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
826                       void *data)
827 {
828         int ret = 0;
829         int done = 0;
830         struct pagevec pvec;
831         int nr_pages;
832         pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
833         pgoff_t index;
834         pgoff_t end;            /* Inclusive */
835         pgoff_t done_index;
836         int cycled;
837         int range_whole = 0;
838
839         pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
840         if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
841                 writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
842                 index = writeback_index;
843                 if (index == 0)
844                         cycled = 1;
845                 else
846                         cycled = 0;
847                 end = -1;
848         } else {
849                 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
850                 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
851                 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
852                         range_whole = 1;
853                 cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
854
855                 /*
856                  * If this is a data integrity sync, cap the writeback to the
857                  * current end of file. Any extension to the file that occurs
858                  * after this is a new write and we don't need to write those
859                  * pages out to fulfil our data integrity requirements. If we
860                  * try to write them out, we can get stuck in this scan until
861                  * the concurrent writer stops adding dirty pages and extending
862                  * EOF.
863                  */
864                 if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL &&
865                     wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) {
866                         end = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
867                 }
868         }
869
870 retry:
871         done_index = index;
872         while (!done && (index <= end)) {
873                 int i;
874
875                 nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
876                               PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
877                               min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
878                 if (nr_pages == 0)
879                         break;
880
881                 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
882                         struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
883
884                         /*
885                          * At this point, the page may be truncated or
886                          * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
887                          * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
888                          * mapping. However, page->index will not change
889                          * because we have a reference on the page.
890                          */
891                         if (page->index > end) {
892                                 /*
893                                  * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
894                                  * end == -1 in that case.
895                                  */
896                                 done = 1;
897                                 break;
898                         }
899
900                         done_index = page->index + 1;
901
902                         lock_page(page);
903
904                         /*
905                          * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
906                          * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
907                          * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
908                          * real expectation of this data interity operation
909                          * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
910                          * pagecache address.
911                          */
912                         if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
913 continue_unlock:
914                                 unlock_page(page);
915                                 continue;
916                         }
917
918                         if (!PageDirty(page)) {
919                                 /* someone wrote it for us */
920                                 goto continue_unlock;
921                         }
922
923                         if (PageWriteback(page)) {
924                                 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
925                                         wait_on_page_writeback(page);
926                                 else
927                                         goto continue_unlock;
928                         }
929
930                         BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
931                         if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
932                                 goto continue_unlock;
933
934                         ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
935                         if (unlikely(ret)) {
936                                 if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
937                                         unlock_page(page);
938                                         ret = 0;
939                                 } else {
940                                         /*
941                                          * done_index is set past this page,
942                                          * so media errors will not choke
943                                          * background writeout for the entire
944                                          * file. This has consequences for
945                                          * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
946                                          * not be suitable for data integrity
947                                          * writeout).
948                                          */
949                                         done = 1;
950                                         break;
951                                 }
952                         }
953
954                         if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
955                                 if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 &&
956                                     wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
957                                         /*
958                                          * We stop writing back only if we are
959                                          * not doing integrity sync. In case of
960                                          * integrity sync we have to keep going
961                                          * because someone may be concurrently
962                                          * dirtying pages, and we might have
963                                          * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty
964                                          * pages, but have not synced all of the
965                                          * old dirty pages.
966                                          */
967                                         done = 1;
968                                         break;
969                                 }
970                         }
971                 }
972                 pagevec_release(&pvec);
973                 cond_resched();
974         }
975         if (!cycled && !done) {
976                 /*
977                  * range_cyclic:
978                  * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
979                  * back to the start of the file
980                  */
981                 cycled = 1;
982                 index = 0;
983                 end = writeback_index - 1;
984                 goto retry;
985         }
986         if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
987                 mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
988
989         return ret;
990 }
991 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
992
993 /*
994  * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
995  * function and set the mapping flags on error
996  */
997 static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
998                        void *data)
999 {
1000         struct address_space *mapping = data;
1001         int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1002         mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1003         return ret;
1004 }
1005
1006 /**
1007  * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1008  * @mapping: address space structure to write
1009  * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1010  *
1011  * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1012  * address_space_operation.
1013  */
1014 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1015                        struct writeback_control *wbc)
1016 {
1017         /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1018         if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1019                 return 0;
1020
1021         return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1022 }
1023
1024 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1025
1026 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1027 {
1028         int ret;
1029
1030         if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1031                 return 0;
1032         if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
1033                 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
1034         else
1035                 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
1036         return ret;
1037 }
1038
1039 /**
1040  * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
1041  * @page: the page to write
1042  * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
1043  *
1044  * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1045  *
1046  * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1047  */
1048 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1049 {
1050         struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1051         int ret = 0;
1052         struct writeback_control wbc = {
1053                 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1054                 .nr_to_write = 1,
1055         };
1056
1057         BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1058
1059         if (wait)
1060                 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1061
1062         if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1063                 page_cache_get(page);
1064                 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1065                 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1066                         wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1067                         if (PageError(page))
1068                                 ret = -EIO;
1069                 }
1070                 page_cache_release(page);
1071         } else {
1072                 unlock_page(page);
1073         }
1074         return ret;
1075 }
1076 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1077
1078 /*
1079  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1080  */
1081 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1082 {
1083         if (!PageDirty(page))
1084                 SetPageDirty(page);
1085         return 0;
1086 }
1087
1088 /*
1089  * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1090  * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1091  */
1092 void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1093 {
1094         if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1095                 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1096                 __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1097                 task_dirty_inc(current);
1098                 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
1099         }
1100 }
1101
1102 /*
1103  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers.  Just tag the page as dirty in
1104  * its radix tree.
1105  *
1106  * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1107  * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers.  This is a "bottom-up"
1108  * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1109  *
1110  * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1111  * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1112  * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1113  *
1114  * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
1115  * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
1116  */
1117 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1118 {
1119         if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1120                 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1121                 struct address_space *mapping2;
1122
1123                 if (!mapping)
1124                         return 1;
1125
1126                 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1127                 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
1128                 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
1129                         BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
1130                         WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
1131                         account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
1132                         radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1133                                 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1134                 }
1135                 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1136                 if (mapping->host) {
1137                         /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1138                         __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
1139                 }
1140                 return 1;
1141         }
1142         return 0;
1143 }
1144 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
1145
1146 /*
1147  * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
1148  * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
1149  * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
1150  */
1151 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
1152 {
1153         wbc->pages_skipped++;
1154         return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
1155 }
1156 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
1157
1158 /*
1159  * Dirty a page.
1160  *
1161  * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
1162  * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
1163  * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
1164  * but should be better not to.
1165  *
1166  * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
1167  * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
1168  */
1169 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
1170 {
1171         struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1172
1173         if (likely(mapping)) {
1174                 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
1175 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1176                 if (!spd)
1177                         spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
1178 #endif
1179                 return (*spd)(page);
1180         }
1181         if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1182                 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
1183                         return 1;
1184         }
1185         return 0;
1186 }
1187 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
1188
1189 /*
1190  * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
1191  * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked.  This is because another
1192  * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
1193  *
1194  * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
1195  * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
1196  *
1197  * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
1198  */
1199 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
1200 {
1201         int ret;
1202
1203         lock_page_nosync(page);
1204         ret = set_page_dirty(page);
1205         unlock_page(page);
1206         return ret;
1207 }
1208 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
1209
1210 /*
1211  * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
1212  * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
1213  *
1214  * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout.  We leave the page
1215  * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
1216  * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.  The ->writepage
1217  * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
1218  * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
1219  * back into sync.
1220  *
1221  * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
1222  * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
1223  */
1224 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
1225 {
1226         struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1227
1228         BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1229
1230         ClearPageReclaim(page);
1231         if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1232                 /*
1233                  * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
1234                  *
1235                  * We use this sequence to make sure that
1236                  *  (a) we account for dirty stats properly
1237                  *  (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
1238                  *      mark the whole page dirty if it was
1239                  *      dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
1240                  *  (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
1241                  *      cause the writeback.
1242                  *
1243                  * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
1244                  * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
1245                  * them concurrently from different threads.
1246                  *
1247                  * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
1248                  * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
1249                  * that will already usually be set. But we
1250                  * need the side effects, and it can help us
1251                  * avoid races.
1252                  *
1253                  * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
1254                  * as a serialization point for all the different
1255                  * threads doing their things.
1256                  */
1257                 if (page_mkclean(page))
1258                         set_page_dirty(page);
1259                 /*
1260                  * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
1261                  * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
1262                  * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
1263                  * page lock at some point after installing their
1264                  * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
1265                  * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
1266                  * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
1267                  * for more comments.
1268                  */
1269                 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
1270                         dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1271                         dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
1272                                         BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1273                         return 1;
1274                 }
1275                 return 0;
1276         }
1277         return TestClearPageDirty(page);
1278 }
1279 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
1280
1281 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1282 {
1283         struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1284         int ret;
1285
1286         if (mapping) {
1287                 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1288                 unsigned long flags;
1289
1290                 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1291                 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1292                 if (ret) {
1293                         radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1294                                                 page_index(page),
1295                                                 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1296                         if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
1297                                 __dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1298                                 __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
1299                         }
1300                 }
1301                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1302         } else {
1303                 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1304         }
1305         if (ret)
1306                 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1307         return ret;
1308 }
1309
1310 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1311 {
1312         struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1313         int ret;
1314
1315         if (mapping) {
1316                 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1317                 unsigned long flags;
1318
1319                 spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1320                 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1321                 if (!ret) {
1322                         radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1323                                                 page_index(page),
1324                                                 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1325                         if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
1326                                 __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1327                 }
1328                 if (!PageDirty(page))
1329                         radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1330                                                 page_index(page),
1331                                                 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1332                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1333         } else {
1334                 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1335         }
1336         if (!ret)
1337                 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1338         return ret;
1339
1340 }
1341 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
1342
1343 /*
1344  * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
1345  * passed tag.
1346  */
1347 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
1348 {
1349         int ret;
1350         rcu_read_lock();
1351         ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
1352         rcu_read_unlock();
1353         return ret;
1354 }
1355 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);