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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: cache the extent state everywhere we possibly can V2</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T15:00:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-03T19:33:23+00:00</published>
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This patch just goes through and fixes everybody that does

lock_extent()
blah
unlock_extent()

to use

lock_extent_bits()
blah
unlock_extent_cached()

and pass around a extent_state so we only have to do the searches once per
function.  This gives me about a 3 mb/s boots on my random write test.  I have
not converted some things, like the relocation and ioctl's, since they aren't
heavily used and the relocation stuff is in the middle of being re-written.  I
also changed the clear_extent_bit() to only unset the cached state if we are
clearing EXTENT_LOCKED and related stuff, so we can do things like this

lock_extent_bits()
clear delalloc bits
unlock_extent_cached()

without losing our cached state.  I tested this thoroughly and turned on
LEAK_DEBUG to make sure we weren't leaking extent states, everything worked out
fine.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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This patch just goes through and fixes everybody that does

lock_extent()
blah
unlock_extent()

to use

lock_extent_bits()
blah
unlock_extent_cached()

and pass around a extent_state so we only have to do the searches once per
function.  This gives me about a 3 mb/s boots on my random write test.  I have
not converted some things, like the relocation and ioctl's, since they aren't
heavily used and the relocation stuff is in the middle of being re-written.  I
also changed the clear_extent_bit() to only unset the cached state if we are
clearing EXTENT_LOCKED and related stuff, so we can do things like this

lock_extent_bits()
clear delalloc bits
unlock_extent_cached()

without losing our cached state.  I tested this thoroughly and turned on
LEAK_DEBUG to make sure we weren't leaking extent states, everything worked out
fine.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: change how we mount subvolumes</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T14:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-04T17:38:27+00:00</published>
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This work is in preperation for being able to set a different root as the
default mounting root.

There is currently a problem with how we mount subvolumes.  We cannot currently
mount a subvolume of a subvolume, you can only mount subvolumes/snapshots of the
default subvolume.  So say you take a snapshot of the default subvolume and call
it snap1, and then take a snapshot of snap1 and call it snap2, so now you have

/
/snap1
/snap1/snap2

as your available volumes.  Currently you can only mount / and /snap1,
you cannot mount /snap1/snap2.  To fix this problem instead of passing
subvolid=&lt;name&gt; you must pass in subvolid=&lt;treeid&gt;, where &lt;treeid&gt; is
the tree id that gets spit out via the subvolume listing you get from
the subvolume listing patches (btrfs filesystem list).  This allows us
to mount /, /snap1 and /snap1/snap2 as the root volume.

In addition to the above, we also now read the default dir item in the
tree root to get the root key that it points to.  For now this just
points at what has always been the default subvolme, but later on I plan
to change it to point at whatever root you want to be the new default
root, so you can just set the default mount and not have to mount with
-o subvolid=&lt;treeid&gt;.  I tested this out with the above scenario and it
worked perfectly.  Thanks,

mount -o subvol operates inside the selected subvolid.  For example:

mount -o subvol=snap1,subvolid=256 /dev/xxx /mnt

/mnt will have the snap1 directory for the subvolume with id
256.

mount -o subvol=snap /dev/xxx /mnt

/mnt will be the snap directory of whatever the default subvolume
is.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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This work is in preperation for being able to set a different root as the
default mounting root.

There is currently a problem with how we mount subvolumes.  We cannot currently
mount a subvolume of a subvolume, you can only mount subvolumes/snapshots of the
default subvolume.  So say you take a snapshot of the default subvolume and call
it snap1, and then take a snapshot of snap1 and call it snap2, so now you have

/
/snap1
/snap1/snap2

as your available volumes.  Currently you can only mount / and /snap1,
you cannot mount /snap1/snap2.  To fix this problem instead of passing
subvolid=&lt;name&gt; you must pass in subvolid=&lt;treeid&gt;, where &lt;treeid&gt; is
the tree id that gets spit out via the subvolume listing you get from
the subvolume listing patches (btrfs filesystem list).  This allows us
to mount /, /snap1 and /snap1/snap2 as the root volume.

In addition to the above, we also now read the default dir item in the
tree root to get the root key that it points to.  For now this just
points at what has always been the default subvolme, but later on I plan
to change it to point at whatever root you want to be the new default
root, so you can just set the default mount and not have to mount with
-o subvolid=&lt;treeid&gt;.  I tested this out with the above scenario and it
worked perfectly.  Thanks,

mount -o subvol operates inside the selected subvolid.  For example:

mount -o subvol=snap1,subvolid=256 /dev/xxx /mnt

/mnt will have the snap1 directory for the subvolume with id
256.

mount -o subvol=snap /dev/xxx /mnt

/mnt will be the snap directory of whatever the default subvolume
is.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: use RB_ROOT to intialize rb_trees instead of setting rb_node to NULL</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T21:26:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-23T19:43:04+00:00</published>
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btrfs inialize rb trees in quite a number of places by settin rb_node =
NULL;  The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72fb8bba0d4f678 in the
linux-next tree adds a new field to that struct which needs to be NULL for
the new rbtree library code to work properly.  This patch uses RB_ROOT as
the intializer so all of the relevant fields will be NULL'd.  Without the
patch I get a panic.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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btrfs inialize rb trees in quite a number of places by settin rb_node =
NULL;  The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72fb8bba0d4f678 in the
linux-next tree adds a new field to that struct which needs to be NULL for
the new rbtree library code to work properly.  This patch uses RB_ROOT as
the intializer so all of the relevant fields will be NULL'd.  Without the
patch I get a panic.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: remove BUG_ON() due to mounting bad filesystem</title>
<updated>2010-02-04T16:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miao Xie</name>
<email>miaox@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-02T08:46:44+00:00</published>
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Mounting a bad filesystem caused a BUG_ON(). The following is steps to
reproduce it.
 # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda2
 # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
 # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
 (the program says that /dev/sda2 was mounted, and then exits. )
 # umount /mnt
 # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

At the third step, mkfs.btrfs exited in the way of make filesystem. So the
initialization of the filesystem didn't finish. So the filesystem was bad, and
it caused BUG_ON() when mounting it. But BUG_ON() should be called by the wrong
code, not user's operation, so I think it is a bug of btrfs.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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Mounting a bad filesystem caused a BUG_ON(). The following is steps to
reproduce it.
 # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda2
 # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
 # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
 (the program says that /dev/sda2 was mounted, and then exits. )
 # umount /mnt
 # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

At the third step, mkfs.btrfs exited in the way of make filesystem. So the
initialization of the filesystem didn't finish. So the filesystem was bad, and
it caused BUG_ON() when mounting it. But BUG_ON() should be called by the wrong
code, not user's operation, so I think it is a bug of btrfs.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs, fix memory leaks in error paths</title>
<updated>2010-01-18T01:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-06T16:57:22+00:00</published>
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Stanse found 2 memory leaks in relocate_block_group and
__btrfs_map_block. cluster and multi are not freed/assigned on all
paths. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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Stanse found 2 memory leaks in relocate_block_group and
__btrfs_map_block. cluster and multi are not freed/assigned on all
paths. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: Add delayed iput</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T17:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan, Zheng</name>
<email>zheng.yan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-12T09:36:34+00:00</published>
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iput() can trigger new transactions if we are dropping the
final reference, so calling it in btrfs_commit_transaction
may end up deadlock. This patch adds delayed iput to avoid
the issue.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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iput() can trigger new transactions if we are dropping the
final reference, so calling it in btrfs_commit_transaction
may end up deadlock. This patch adds delayed iput to avoid
the issue.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: Make truncate(2) more ENOSPC friendly</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T17:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan, Zheng</name>
<email>zheng.yan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-12T09:35:36+00:00</published>
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truncating and deleting regular files are unbound operations,
so it's not good to do them in a single transaction. This
patch makes btrfs_truncate and btrfs_delete_inode start a
new transaction after all items in a tree leaf are deleted.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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truncating and deleting regular files are unbound operations,
so it's not good to do them in a single transaction. This
patch makes btrfs_truncate and btrfs_delete_inode start a
new transaction after all items in a tree leaf are deleted.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: Avoid orphan inodes cleanup while replaying log</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T17:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan, Zheng</name>
<email>zheng.yan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-12T09:34:40+00:00</published>
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We do log replay in a single transaction, so it's not good to do unbound
operations. This patch cleans up orphan inodes cleanup after replaying
the log. It also avoids doing other unbound operations such as truncating
a file during replaying log. These unbound operations are postponed to
the orphan inode cleanup stage.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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We do log replay in a single transaction, so it's not good to do unbound
operations. This patch cleans up orphan inodes cleanup after replaying
the log. It also avoids doing other unbound operations such as truncating
a file during replaying log. These unbound operations are postponed to
the orphan inode cleanup stage.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>Btrfs: fix deadlock on async thread startup</title>
<updated>2009-10-05T13:44:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Mason</name>
<email>chris.mason@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-02T23:11:56+00:00</published>
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The btrfs async worker threads are used for a wide variety of things,
including processing bio end_io functions.  This means that when
the endio threads aren't running, the rest of the FS isn't
able to do the final processing required to clear PageWriteback.

The endio threads also try to exit as they become idle and
start more as the work piles up.  The problem is that starting more
threads means kthreadd may need to allocate ram, and that allocation
may wait until the global number of writeback pages on the system is
below a certain limit.

The result of that throttling is that end IO threads wait on
kthreadd, who is waiting on IO to end, which will never happen.

This commit fixes the deadlock by handing off thread startup to a
dedicated thread.  It also fixes a bug where the on-demand thread
creation was creating far too many threads because it didn't take into
account threads being started by other procs.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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The btrfs async worker threads are used for a wide variety of things,
including processing bio end_io functions.  This means that when
the endio threads aren't running, the rest of the FS isn't
able to do the final processing required to clear PageWriteback.

The endio threads also try to exit as they become idle and
start more as the work piles up.  The problem is that starting more
threads means kthreadd may need to allocate ram, and that allocation
may wait until the global number of writeback pages on the system is
below a certain limit.

The result of that throttling is that end IO threads wait on
kthreadd, who is waiting on IO to end, which will never happen.

This commit fixes the deadlock by handing off thread startup to a
dedicated thread.  It also fixes a bug where the on-demand thread
creation was creating far too many threads because it didn't take into
account threads being started by other procs.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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