kernel/linux.git/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h, branch v6.19.11

Merge tag 'for-6.19/block-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-12-04T03:26:18+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - Fix head insertion for mq-deadline, a regression from when priority support was added - Series simplifying and improving the ublk user copy code - Various ublk related cleanups - Fixup REQ_NOWAIT handling in loop/zloop, clearing NOWAIT when the request is punted to a thread for handling - Merge and then later revert loop dio nowait support, as it ended up causing excessive stack usage for when the inline issue code needs to dip back into the full file system code - Improve auto integrity code, making it less deadlock prone - Speedup polled IO handling, but manually managing the hctx lookups - Fixes for blk-throttle for SSD devices - Small series with fixes for the S390 dasd driver - Add support for caching zones, avoiding unnecessary report zone queries - MD pull requests via Yu: - fix null-ptr-dereference regression for dm-raid0 - fix IO hang for raid5 when array is broken with IO inflight - remove legacy 1s delay to speed up system shutdown - change maintainer's email address - data can be lost if array is created with different lbs devices, fix this problem and record lbs of the array in metadata - fix rcu protection for md_thread - fix mddev kobject lifetime regression - enable atomic writes for md-linear - some cleanups - bcache updates via Coly - remove useless discard and cache device code - improve usage of per-cpu workqueues - Reorganize the IO scheduler switching code, fixing some lockdep reports as well - Improve the block layer P2P DMA support - Add support to the block tracing code for zoned devices - Segment calculation improves, and memory alignment flexibility improvements - Set of prep and cleanups patches for ublk batching support. The actual batching hasn't been added yet, but helps shrink down the workload of getting that patchset ready for 6.20 - Fix for how the ps3 block driver handles segments offsets - Improve how block plugging handles batch tag allocations - nbd fixes for use-after-free of the configuration on device clear/put - Set of improvements and fixes for zloop - Add Damien as maintainer of the block zoned device code handling - Various other fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.19/block-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (162 commits) block/rnbd: correct all kernel-doc complaints blk-mq: use queue_hctx in blk_mq_map_queue_type md: remove legacy 1s delay in md_notify_reboot md/raid5: fix IO hang when array is broken with IO inflight md: warn about updating super block failure md/raid0: fix NULL pointer dereference in create_strip_zones() for dm-raid sbitmap: fix all kernel-doc warnings ublk: add helper of __ublk_fetch() ublk: pass const pointer to ublk_queue_is_zoned() ublk: refactor auto buffer register in ublk_dispatch_req() ublk: add `union ublk_io_buf` with improved naming ublk: add parameter `struct io_uring_cmd *` to ublk_prep_auto_buf_reg() kfifo: add kfifo_alloc_node() helper for NUMA awareness blk-mq: fix potential uaf for 'queue_hw_ctx' blk-mq: use array manage hctx map instead of xarray ublk: prevent invalid access with DEBUG s390/dasd: Use scnprintf() instead of sprintf() s390/dasd: Move device name formatting into separate function s390/dasd: Remove unnecessary debugfs_create() return checks s390/dasd: Fix gendisk parent after copy pair swap ...

fs: Add the __data_racy annotation to backing_dev_info.ra_pages

2025-11-18T22:00:11+00:00

Some but not all .ra_pages changes happen while block layer I/O is paused with blk_mq_freeze_queue(). Filesystems may read .ra_pages even while block layer I/O is paused, e.g. from inside their .fadvise callback. Annotating all .ra_pages reads with READ_ONCE() would be cumbersome. Hence, add the __data_racy annotatation to the .ra_pages member variable. Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Nilay Shroff Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: Add logging for slow writeback (exceeds sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs)

2025-10-20T18:22:39+00:00

When a writeback work lasts for sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs, we want to identify that there are tasks waiting for a long time-this helps us pinpoint potential issues. Additionally, recording the starting jiffies is useful when debugging a crashed vmcore. Signed-off-by: Julian Sun Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

writeback: Wake up waiting tasks when finishing the writeback of a chunk.

2025-10-20T18:22:39+00:00

Writing back a large number of pages can take a lots of time. This issue is exacerbated when the underlying device is slow or subject to block layer rate limiting, which in turn triggers unexpected hung task warnings. We can trigger a wake-up once a chunk has been written back and the waiting time for writeback exceeds half of sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs. This action allows the hung task detector to be aware of the writeback progress, thereby eliminating these unexpected hung task warnings. This patch has passed the xfstests 'check -g quick' test based on ext4, with no additional failures introduced. Signed-off-by: Julian Sun Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

writeback: Avoid contention on wb->list_lock when switching inodes

2025-09-19T11:11:00+00:00

There can be multiple inode switch works that are trying to switch inodes to / from the same wb. This can happen in particular if some cgroup exits which owns many (thousands) inodes and we need to switch them all. In this case several inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instances will be just spinning on the same wb->list_lock while only one of them makes forward progress. This wastes CPU cycles and quickly leads to softlockup reports and unusable system. Instead of running several inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instances in parallel switching to the same wb and contending on wb->list_lock, run just one work item per wb and manage a queue of isw items switching to this wb. Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

blk-wbt: Fix detection of dirty-throttled tasks

2024-02-06T16:44:03+00:00

The detection of dirty-throttled tasks in blk-wbt has been subtly broken since its beginning in 2016. Namely if we are doing cgroup writeback and the throttled task is not in the root cgroup, balance_dirty_pages() will set dirty_sleep for the non-root bdi_writeback structure. However blk-wbt checks dirty_sleep only in the root cgroup bdi_writeback structure. Thus detection of recently throttled tasks is not working in this case (we noticed this when we switched to cgroup v2 and suddently writeback was slow). Since blk-wbt has no easy way to get to proper bdi_writeback and furthermore its intention has always been to work on the whole device rather than on individual cgroups, just move the dirty_sleep timestamp from bdi_writeback to backing_dev_info. That fixes the checking for recently throttled task and saves memory for everybody as a bonus. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b57d74aff9ab ("writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123175826.21452-1-jack@suse.cz [axboe: fixup indentation errors] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: remove enum wb_congested_state

2022-07-30T01:12:35+00:00

enum wb_congested_state and the member 'congested' in bdi_writeback are useless since commit a88f2096d5a2 ("remove congestion tracking framework"), so remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220719083349.87547-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

remove congestion tracking framework

2022-03-22T22:57:01+00:00

This framework is no longer used - so discard it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164549983747.9187.6171768583526866601.stgit@noble.brown Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Ilya Dryomov Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Paolo Valente Cc: Philipp Reisner Cc: Ryusuke Konishi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: simplify bdi refcounting

2021-11-06T20:30:34+00:00

Move grabbing and releasing the bdi refcount out of the common wb_init/wb_exit helpers into code that is only used for the non-default memcg driven bdi_writeback structures. [hch@lst.de: add comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027074207.GA12793@lst.de [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021124441.668816-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload

2021-09-03T16:58:10+00:00

Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughput is heavily underestimated and tends to steadily sink until it reaches zero. This has rather bad impact on writeback throttling (causing stalls). The problem is that writeback throughput estimate gets updated at most once per 200 ms. One update happens early after we submit pages for writeback (at that point writeout of only small fraction of pages is completed and thus observed throughput is tiny). Next update happens only during the next write spike (updates happen only from inode writeback and dirty throttling code) and if that is more than 1s after previous spike, we decide system was idle and just ignore whatever was written until this moment. Fix the problem by making sure writeback throughput estimate is also updated shortly after writeback completes to get reasonable estimate of throughput for spiky workloads. [jack@suse.cz: avoid division by 0 in wb_update_dirty_ratelimit()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617095309.3542373-1-stapelberg+linux@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-3-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg Tested-by: Michael Stapelberg Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds