*/
static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
+/*
+ * 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 unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+ int node;
+ unsigned long x = 0;
+
+ for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
+ struct zone *z =
+ &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
+
+ x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+ zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
+ }
+ /*
+ * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
+ * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
+ * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
+ * that this does not occur.
+ */
+ return min(x, total);
+#else
+ return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
+ *
+ * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
+ * by the kernel for direct mappings.
+ */
+static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
+{
+ unsigned long x;
+
+ x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages() -
+ dirty_balance_reserve;
+
+ if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
+ x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
+
+ return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
+}
+
/*
* couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
*
return ret;
}
-
int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
loff_t *ppos)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
-/*
- * 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 unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
- int node;
- unsigned long x = 0;
-
- for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
- struct zone *z =
- &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
-
- x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
- zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
- }
- /*
- * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
- * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
- * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
- * that this does not occur.
- */
- return min(x, total);
-#else
- return 0;
-#endif
-}
-
-/**
- * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
- *
- * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
- * by the kernel for direct mappings.
- */
-unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
-{
- unsigned long x;
-
- x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
-
- if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
- x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
-
- return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
-}
-
static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
unsigned long bg_thresh)
{
*
* Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
* dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
- * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
- * balance_dirty_pages().
+ *
+ * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
+ * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
+ * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
+ * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
+ * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
+ * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
*
* It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
* - starving fast devices
*/
if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
bdi_thresh = thresh;
+ /*
+ * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
+ * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
+ * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
+ * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
+ * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
+ */
bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
/*
* scale global setpoint to bdi's:
*
* 8 serves as the safety ratio.
*/
- if (bdi_dirty)
- t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
+ t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
/*
* The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
if (task_ratelimit)
break;
+ /*
+ * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
+ * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
+ * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
+ *
+ * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
+ * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
+ * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors. So use
+ * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
+ */
+ if (bdi_dirty <= bdi_stat_error(bdi))
+ break;
+
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
break;
}
if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
struct address_space *mapping2;
+ unsigned long flags;
if (!mapping)
return 1;
- spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
if (mapping->host) {
/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
+/*
+ * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
+ * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
+ * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
+ * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
+ * control.
+ */
+void account_page_redirty(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+ if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+ current->nr_dirtied--;
+ dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
+ dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty);
+
/*
* When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
* page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
{
wbc->pages_skipped++;
+ account_page_redirty(page);
return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
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