linux-stable.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch linux-4.3.y

writeback: fix incorrect calculation of available memory for memcg domains

2015-10-12T16:31:13+00:00

For memcg domains, the amount of available memory was calculated as

 min(the amount currently in use + headroom according to memcg,
     total clean memory)

This isn't quite correct as what should be capped by the amount of
clean memory is the headroom, not the sum of memory in use and
headroom.  For example, if a memcg domain has a significant amount of
dirty memory, the above can lead to a value which is lower than the
current amount in use which doesn't make much sense.  In most
circumstances, the above leads to a number which is somewhat but not
drastically lower.

As the amount of memory which can be readily allocated to the memcg
domain is capped by the amount of system-wide clean memory which is
not already assigned to the memcg itself, the number we want is

 the amount currently in use +
 min(headroom according to memcg, clean memory elsewhere in the system)

This patch updates mem_cgroup_wb_stats() to return the number of
filepages and headroom instead of the calculated available pages.
mdtc_cap_avail() is renamed to mdtc_calc_avail() and performs the
above calculation from file, headroom, dirty and globally clean pages.

v2: Dummy mem_cgroup_wb_stats() implementation wasn't updated leading
    to build failure when !CGROUP_WRITEBACK.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Fixes: c2aa723a6093 ("writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: memcg dirty_throttle_control should be initialized with wb->memcg_completions

2015-10-12T16:31:13+00:00

MDTC_INIT() is used to initialize dirty_throttle_control for memcg
domains.  It used DTC_INIT_COMMON() to initialized mdtc->wb and
->wb_completions which is incorrect as DTC_INIT_COMMON() sets the
latter to wb->completions instead of wb->memcg_completions.  This can
lead to wildly incorrect results when calculating the proportion of
dirty memory the memcg domain should get.

Remove DTC_INIT_COMMON() and update MDTC_INIT() to initialize
mdtc->wb_completions to wb->memcg_completions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Fixes: c2aa723a6093 ("writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying ones

2015-10-12T16:31:12+00:00

bdi_for_each_wb() is used in several places to wake up or issue
writeback work items to all wb's (bdi_writeback's) on a given bdi.
The iteration is performed by walking bdi->cgwb_tree; however, the
tree only indexes wb's which are currently active.

For example, when a memcg gets associated with a different blkcg, the
old wb is removed from the tree so that the new one can be indexed.
The old wb starts dying from then on but will linger till all its
inodes are drained.  As these dying wb's may still host dirty inodes,
writeback operations which affect all wb's must include them.
bdi_for_each_wb() skipping dying wb's led to sync(2) missing and
failing to sync the inodes belonging to those wb's.

This patch adds a RCU protected @bdi->wb_list which lists all wb's
beloinging to that bdi.  wb's are added on creation and removed on
release rather than on the start of destruction.  bdi_for_each_wb()
usages are replaced with list_for_each[_continue]_rcu() iterations
over @bdi->wb_list and bdi_for_each_wb() and its helpers are removed.

v2: Updated as per Jan.  last_wb ref leak in bdi_split_work_to_wbs()
    fixed and unnecessary list head severing in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
    removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Fixes: ebe41ab0c79d ("writeback: implement bdi_for_each_wb()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443012552.19983.209.camel@gmail.com
Cc: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: laptop_mode_timer_fn() needs rcu_read_lock() around bdi_writeback iteration

2015-10-12T16:31:09+00:00

laptop_mode_timer_fn() was using bdi_for_each_wb() without the
required RCU locking leading to the following warning.

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at include/linux/backing-dev.h:415 laptop_mode_timer_fn+0x106/0x170()
 ...
 Call Trace:
    [] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
  [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [] laptop_mode_timer_fn+0x106/0x170
  [] call_timer_fn+0xb3/0x2f0
  [] run_timer_softirq+0x205/0x370
  [] __do_softirq+0xd4/0x460
  [] irq_exit+0x89/0xa0
  [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x50
  [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x84/0x90
 ...

Fix it by adding rcu_read_lock() around the iteration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Fixes: a06fd6b10228 ("writeback: make laptop_mode_timer_fn() handle multiple bdi_writeback's")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-09-11T01:56:14+00:00

Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
  while.  This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
  buffered cgroup writeback.  It was dependent on the other cgroup
  changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.

  Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:

   - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
     skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.

   - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.

   - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.

  Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:

     cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup.  It didn't
     have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
     was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
     writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
     writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.

     This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
     tagged with.  Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
     which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data.  This
     makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
     implemented by cfq.

     - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.

     - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.

  Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:

     This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
     and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.

     - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data.  exit dropped.

     - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.

     - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
       allocation.

     - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
       blkcg.

  And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
  handling:

    blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess.  This patchset
    tries to improve the situation a bit.

     - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
       blkg creation.  This is in itself is an improvement and helps
       colllecting common stats on bio issue.

     - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
       completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
       the same way.  The issue was spotted by Vivek.

     - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
       implements custom per-cpu stats.  This patchset make blkcg core
       support both by default.

     - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
       multiple times.  Unify them"

* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
  blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
  blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
  blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
  blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
  blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
  blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
  blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
  blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
  blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
  blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors
  blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
  blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it
  blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
  blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
  blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
  blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
  ...

writeback: update writeback tracepoints to report cgroup

2015-08-18T22:49:15+00:00

The following tracepoints are updated to report the cgroup used during
cgroup writeback.

* writeback_write_inode[_start]
* writeback_queue
* writeback_exec
* writeback_start
* writeback_written
* writeback_wait
* writeback_nowork
* writeback_wake_background
* wbc_writepage
* writeback_queue_io
* bdi_dirty_ratelimit
* balance_dirty_pages
* writeback_sb_inodes_requeue
* writeback_single_inode[_start]

Note that writeback_bdi_register is separated out from writeback_class
as reporting cgroup doesn't make sense to it.  Tracepoints which take
bdi are updated to take bdi_writeback instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Suggested-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: fix initial dirty limit

2015-08-07T01:39:42+00:00

The initial value of global_wb_domain.dirty_limit set by
writeback_set_ratelimit() is zeroed out by the memset in
wb_domain_init().

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-06-25T23:00:17+00:00

Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...

writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates

2015-06-02T14:40:20+00:00

The mechanism for detecting whether an inode should switch its wb
(bdi_writeback) association is now in place.  This patch build the
framework for the actual switching.

This patch adds a new inode flag I_WB_SWITCHING, which has two
functions.  First, the easy one, it ensures that there's only one
switching in progress for a give inode.  Second, it's used as a
mechanism to synchronize wb stat updates.

The two stats, WB_RECLAIMABLE and WB_WRITEBACK, aren't event counters
but track the current number of dirty pages and pages under writeback
respectively.  As such, when an inode is moved from one wb to another,
the inode's portion of those stats have to be transferred together;
unfortunately, this is a bit tricky as those stat updates are percpu
operations which are performed without holding any lock in some
places.

This patch solves the problem in a similar way as memcg.  Each such
lockless stat updates are wrapped in transaction surrounded by
unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin/end().  During normal operation, they map
to rcu_read_lock/unlock(); however, if I_WB_SWITCHING is asserted,
mapping->tree_lock is grabbed across the transaction.

In turn, the switching path sets I_WB_SWITCHING and waits for a RCU
grace period to pass before actually starting to switch, which
guarantees that all stat update paths are synchronizing against
mapping->tree_lock.

This patch still doesn't implement the actual switching.

v3: Updated on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() updates.
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin() now nests inside
    mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() to match the locking order.

v2: The i_wb access transaction will be used for !stat accesses too.
    Function names and comments updated accordingly.

    s/inode_wb_stat_unlocked_{begin|end}/unlocked_inode_to_wb_{begin|end}/
    s/switch_wb/switch_wbs/

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling

2015-06-02T14:38:13+00:00

While cgroup writeback support now connects memcg and blkcg so that
writeback IOs are properly attributed and controlled, the IO back
pressure propagation mechanism implemented in balance_dirty_pages()
and its subroutines wasn't aware of cgroup writeback.

Processes belonging to a memcg may have access to only subset of total
memory available in the system and not factoring this into dirty
throttling rendered it completely ineffective for processes under
memcg limits and memcg ended up building a separate ad-hoc degenerate
mechanism directly into vmscan code to limit page dirtying.

The previous patches updated balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines
so that they can deal with multiple wb_domain's (writeback domains)
and defined per-memcg wb_domain.  Processes belonging to a non-root
memcg are bound to two wb_domains, global wb_domain and memcg
wb_domain, and should be throttled according to IO pressures from both
domains.  This patch updates dirty throttling code so that it repeats
similar calculations for the two domains - the differences between the
two are few and minor - and applies the lower of the two sets of
resulting constraints.

wb_over_bg_thresh(), which controls when background writeback
terminates, is also updated to consider both global and memcg
wb_domains.  It returns true if dirty is over bg_thresh for either
domain.

This makes the dirty throttling mechanism operational for memcg
domains including writeback-bandwidth-proportional dirty page
distribution inside them but the ad-hoc memcg throttling mechanism in
vmscan is still in place.  The next patch will rip it out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe