linux.git/fs/fs-writeback.c, branch v5.8

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2020-06-05T23:19:28+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A lot of bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including:

   - Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the
     default, caused by transaction leaks.

   - Clean up fiemap handling in ext4

   - Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code

   - Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out
     of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been
     reserved by inode preallocation.

   - Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename()

   - Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code

   - Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to
     ext4_ext_dirty()'s and ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers.

   - Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set()

   - Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last
     in data=journal mode.

   - Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails

   - Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits)
  ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction starts during writeback
  ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set
  ext4: remove the access_ok() check in ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache
  fs: remove the access_ok() check in ioctl_fiemap
  fs: handle FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC in fiemap_prep
  fs: move fiemap range validation into the file systems instances
  iomap: fix the iomap_fiemap prototype
  fs: move the fiemap definitions out of fs.h
  fs: mark __generic_block_fiemap static
  ext4: remove the call to fiemap_check_flags in ext4_fiemap
  ext4: split _ext4_fiemap
  ext4: fix fiemap size checks for bitmap files
  ext4: fix EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK macro
  add comment for ext4_dir_entry_2 file_type member
  jbd2: avoid leaking transaction credits when unreserving handle
  ext4: drop ext4_journal_free_reserved()
  ext4: mballoc: use lock for checking free blocks while retrying
  ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_good_group()
  ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling
  ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_discard_preallocations()
  ...

writeback: Export inode_io_list_del()

2020-06-04T03:16:49+00:00

Ext4 needs to remove inode from writeback lists after it is out of
visibility of its journalling machinery (which can still dirty the
inode). Export inode_io_list_del() for it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421085445.5731-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Merge tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2020-06-02T22:29:19+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Core block changes that have been queued up for this release:

   - Remove dead blk-throttle and blk-wbt code (Guoqing)

   - Include pid in blktrace note traces (Jan)

   - Don't spew I/O errors on wouldblock termination (me)

   - Zone append addition (Johannes, Keith, Damien)

   - IO accounting improvements (Konstantin, Christoph)

   - blk-mq hardware map update improvements (Ming)

   - Scheduler dispatch improvement (Salman)

   - Inline block encryption support (Satya)

   - Request map fixes and improvements (Weiping)

   - blk-iocost tweaks (Tejun)

   - Fix for timeout failing with error injection (Keith)

   - Queue re-run fixes (Douglas)

   - CPU hotplug improvements (Christoph)

   - Queue entry/exit improvements (Christoph)

   - Move DMA drain handling to the few drivers that use it (Christoph)

   - Partition handling cleanups (Christoph)"

* tag 'for-5.8/block-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (127 commits)
  block: mark bio_wouldblock_error() bio with BIO_QUIET
  blk-wbt: rename __wbt_update_limits to wbt_update_limits
  blk-wbt: remove wbt_update_limits
  blk-throttle: remove tg_drain_bios
  blk-throttle: remove blk_throtl_drain
  null_blk: force complete for timeout request
  blk-mq: drain I/O when all CPUs in a hctx are offline
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_all_tag_iter
  blk-mq: open code __blk_mq_alloc_request in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx
  blk-mq: use BLK_MQ_NO_TAG in more places
  blk-mq: rename BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL to BLK_MQ_NO_TAG
  blk-mq: move more request initialization to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init
  blk-mq: simplify the blk_mq_get_request calling convention
  blk-mq: remove the bio argument to ->prepare_request
  nvme: force complete cancelled requests
  blk-mq: blk-mq: provide forced completion method
  block: fix a warning when blkdev.h is included for !CONFIG_BLOCK builds
  block: blk-crypto-fallback: remove redundant initialization of variable err
  block: reduce part_stat_lock() scope
  block: use __this_cpu_add() instead of access by smp_processor_id()
  ...

mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead

2020-06-02T17:59:08+00:00

After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds.  If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.

These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count.  This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g.  releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT).  However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.

So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.

A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).

Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput.  With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.

Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero.  static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 	[mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Chuck Lever 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: remove the name field in struct backing_dev_info

2020-05-09T22:15:13+00:00

The name is only printed for a not registered bdi in writeback.  Use the
device name there as is more useful anyway for the unlike case that the
warning triggers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears

2020-01-31T18:30:36+00:00

Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and
bdi_writeback structures.  In this world, things are fairly
straightforward; the first thing bdi_unregister() does is to shutdown
the bdi_writeback structure (or wb), and part of that writeback ensures
that no other work queued against the wb, and that the wb is fully
drained.

With memcg, however, there is a one-to-many relationship between the bdi
and bdi_writeback structures; that is, there are multiple wb objects
which can all point to a single bdi.  There is a refcount which prevents
the bdi object from being released (and hence, unregistered).  So in
theory, the bdi_unregister() *should* only get called once its refcount
goes to zero (bdi_put will drop the refcount, and when it is zero,
release_bdi gets called, which calls bdi_unregister).

Unfortunately, del_gendisk() in block/gen_hd.c never got the memo about
the Brave New memcg World, and calls bdi_unregister directly.  It does
this without informing the file system, or the memcg code, or anything
else.  This causes the root wb associated with the bdi to be
unregistered, but none of the memcg-specific wb's are shutdown.  So when
one of these wb's are woken up to do delayed work, they try to
dereference their wb->bdi->dev to fetch the device name, but
unfortunately bdi->dev is now NULL, thanks to the bdi_unregister()
called by del_gendisk().  As a result, *boom*.

Fortunately, it looks like the rest of the writeback path is perfectly
happy with bdi->dev and bdi->owner being NULL, so the simplest fix is to
create a bdi_dev_name() function which can handle bdi->dev being NULL.
This also allows us to bulletproof the writeback tracepoints to prevent
them from dereferencing a NULL pointer and crashing the kernel if one is
tracing with memcg's enabled, and an iSCSI device dies or a USB storage
stick is pulled.

The most common way of triggering this will be hotremoval of a device
while writeback with memcg enabled is going on.  It was triggering
several times a day in a heavily loaded production environment.

Google Bug Id: 145475544

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227194829.150110-1-tytso@mit.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191228005211.163952-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup,writeback: don't switch wbs immediately on dead wbs if the memcg is dead

2019-11-08T20:37:24+00:00

cgroup writeback tries to refresh the associated wb immediately if the
current wb is dead.  This is to avoid keeping issuing IOs on the stale
wb after memcg - blkcg association has changed (ie. when blkcg got
disabled / enabled higher up in the hierarchy).

Unfortunately, the logic gets triggered spuriously on inodes which are
associated with dead cgroups.  When the logic is triggered on dead
cgroups, the attempt fails only after doing quite a bit of work
allocating and initializing a new wb.

While c3aab9a0bd91 ("mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping
has no dirty pages") alleviated the issue significantly as it now only
triggers when the inode has dirty pages.  However, the condition can
still be triggered before the inode is switched to a different cgroup
and the logic simply doesn't make sense.

Skip the immediate switching if the associated memcg is dying.

This is a simplified version of the following two patches:

 * https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190513183053.GA73423@dennisz-mbp/
 * http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156355839560.2063.5265687291430814589.stgit@buzz

Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Fixes: e8a7abf5a5bd ("writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks")
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs/fs-writeback.c: fix kernel-doc warning

2019-10-14T22:04:01+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warning in fs/fs-writeback.c:

  fs/fs-writeback.c:913: warning: Excess function parameter 'nr_pages' description in 'cgroup_writeback_by_id'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/756645ac-0ce8-d47e-d30a-04d9e4923a4f@infradead.org
Fixes: d62241c7a406 ("writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id()")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: fix use-after-free in finish_writeback_work()

2019-10-07T22:47:19+00:00

finish_writeback_work() reads @done->waitq after decrementing
@done->cnt.  However, once @done->cnt reaches zero, @done may be freed
(from stack) at any moment and @done->waitq can contain something
unrelated by the time finish_writeback_work() tries to read it.  This
led to the following crash.

  "BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002"
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  CPU: 40 PID: 555153 Comm: kworker/u98:50 Kdump: loaded Not tainted
  ...
  Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-1)
  RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x30
  Code: 48 89 d8 5b c3 e8 50 db 6b ff eb f4 0f 1f 40 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 9c 5b fa 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00  0f b1 17 75 05 48 89 d8 5b c3 89 c6 e8 fe ca 6b ff eb f2 66 90
  RSP: 0018:ffffc90049b27d98 EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000002
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: ffff889fff407600 R11: ffff88ba9395d740 R12: 000000000000e300
  R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bfdfa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 0000000002409005 CR4: 00000000001606e0
  Call Trace:
   __wake_up_common_lock+0x63/0xc0
   wb_workfn+0xd2/0x3e0
   process_one_work+0x1f5/0x3f0
   worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0
   kthread+0x111/0x130
   ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fix it by reading and caching @done->waitq before decrementing
@done->cnt.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924010631.GH2233839@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com
Fixes: 5b9cce4c7eb069 ("writeback: Generalize and expose wb_completion")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Debugged-by: Chris Mason 
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: 	[5.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks

2019-08-30T13:42:49+00:00

cgroup foreign inode handling has quite a bit of heuristics and
internal states which sometimes makes it difficult to understand
what's going on.  Add tracepoints to improve visibility.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe