From f8e6e4bd9fd8c452565f3eaeb358e3cc08d880f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:07:11 -0700 Subject: mm: Use the new blk_opf_t type Improve static type checking by using the new blk_opf_t type for block layer request flags. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Stefan Roesch Cc: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714180729.1065367-46-bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/writeback.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index da21d63f70e2..e91bea371b18 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ struct writeback_control { #endif }; -static inline int wbc_to_write_flags(struct writeback_control *wbc) +static inline blk_opf_t wbc_to_write_flags(struct writeback_control *wbc) { - int flags = 0; + blk_opf_t flags = 0; if (wbc->punt_to_cgroup) flags = REQ_CGROUP_PUNT; -- cgit v1.2.3 From fe6c9c6e3e3e332b998393d214fba9d09ab0acb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:51:46 -0700 Subject: mm: Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags() function This adds the helper function balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(). It adds the parameter flags to balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(). The flags parameter is passed to balance_dirty_pages(). For async buffered writes the flag value will be BDP_ASYNC. If balance_dirty_pages() gets called for async buffered write, we don't want to wait. Instead we need to indicate to the caller that throttling is needed so that it can stop writing and offload the rest of the write to a context that can block. The new helper function is also used by balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623175157.1715274-4-shr@fb.com [axboe: fix kerneltest bot 'ret' issue] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/writeback.h | 7 +++++++ mm/page-writeback.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index da21d63f70e2..b8c9610c2313 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -364,7 +364,14 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty); unsigned long wb_calc_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long thresh); void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb); + +/* Invoke balance dirty pages in async mode. */ +#define BDP_ASYNC 0x0001 + void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping); +int balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned int flags); + bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb); typedef int (*writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 90b1998c16a1..d0d466a5c804 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1554,8 +1554,8 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to * perform some writeout. */ -static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, - unsigned long pages_dirtied) +static int balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, + unsigned long pages_dirtied, unsigned int flags) { struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor = { GDTC_INIT(wb) }; struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor = { MDTC_INIT(wb, &gdtc_stor) }; @@ -1575,6 +1575,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi; bool strictlimit = bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT; unsigned long start_time = jiffies; + int ret = 0; for (;;) { unsigned long now = jiffies; @@ -1803,6 +1804,10 @@ pause: period, pause, start_time); + if (flags & BDP_ASYNC) { + ret = -EAGAIN; + break; + } __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); wb->dirty_sleep = now; io_schedule_timeout(pause); @@ -1834,6 +1839,7 @@ pause: if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) break; } + return ret; } static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); @@ -1855,27 +1861,34 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; /** - * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state - * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied + * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags - Balance dirty memory state. + * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied. + * @flags: BDP flags. * * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. * - * Once we're over the dirty memory limit we decrease the ratelimiting - * by a lot, to prevent individual processes from overshooting the limit - * by (ratelimit_pages) each. + * See balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() for details. + * + * Return: If @flags contains BDP_ASYNC, it may return -EAGAIN to + * indicate that memory is out of balance and the caller must wait + * for I/O to complete. Otherwise, it will return 0 to indicate + * that either memory was already in balance, or it was able to sleep + * until the amount of dirty memory returned to balance. */ -void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) +int balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned int flags) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); struct bdi_writeback *wb = NULL; int ratelimit; + int ret = 0; int *p; if (!(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK)) - return; + return ret; if (inode_cgwb_enabled(inode)) wb = wb_get_create_current(bdi, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -1915,9 +1928,27 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) preempt_enable(); if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) - balance_dirty_pages(wb, current->nr_dirtied); + ret = balance_dirty_pages(wb, current->nr_dirtied, flags); wb_put(wb); + return ret; +} + +/** + * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state. + * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied. + * + * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page + * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's + * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. + * + * Once we're over the dirty memory limit we decrease the ratelimiting + * by a lot, to prevent individual processes from overshooting the limit + * by (ratelimit_pages) each. + */ +void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(mapping, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); -- cgit v1.2.3