linux.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch v4.12

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

2017-05-08T18:30:05+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - add GETFSMAP support

 - some performance improvements for very large file systems and for
   random write workloads into a preallocated file

 - bug fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: cleanup write flags handling from jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts
  ext4: inherit encryption xattr before other xattrs
  ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ONCE in ext4_end_bio()
  ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction stalls during writeback
  ext4: preload block group descriptors
  ext4: make ext4_shutdown() static
  ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls
  vfs: add common GETFSMAP ioctl definitions
  ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map
  ext4: remove ext4_xattr_check_entry()
  ext4: rename ext4_xattr_check_names() to ext4_xattr_check_entries()
  ext4: merge ext4_xattr_list() into ext4_listxattr()
  ext4: constify static data that is never modified
  ext4: trim return value and 'dir' argument from ext4_insert_dentry()
  jbd2: fix dbench4 performance regression for 'nobarrier' mounts
  jbd2: Fix lockdep splat with generic/270 test
  mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback

mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

The memory controllers stat function names are awkwardly long and
arbitrarily different from the zone and node stat functions.

The current interface is named:

  mem_cgroup_read_stat()
  mem_cgroup_update_stat()
  mem_cgroup_inc_stat()
  mem_cgroup_dec_stat()
  mem_cgroup_update_page_stat()
  mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat()
  mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat()

This patch renames it to match the corresponding node stat functions:

  memcg_page_state()		[node_page_state()]
  mod_memcg_state()		[mod_node_state()]
  inc_memcg_state()		[inc_node_state()]
  dec_memcg_state()		[dec_node_state()]
  mod_memcg_page_state()	[mod_node_page_state()]
  inc_memcg_page_state()	[inc_node_page_state()]
  dec_memcg_page_state()	[dec_node_page_state()]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: re-use node VM page state enum

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

The current duplication is a high-maintenance mess, and it's painful to
add new items or query memcg state from the rest of the VM.

This increases the size of the stat array marginally, but we should aim
to track all these stats on a per-cgroup level anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page-writeback.c: use setup_deferrable_timer

2017-05-03T22:52:08+00:00

Use setup_deferrable_timer() instead of init_timer_deferrable() to
simplify the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8e3d4280a34facbc007346f31df833cec28801e.1488070291.git.geliangtang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback

2017-04-28T13:51:54+00:00

Currently, file system's writepages() function must not fail with an
ENOMEM, since if they do, it's possible for buffered data to be lost.
This is because on a data integrity writeback writepages() gets called
but once, and if it returns ENOMEM, if you're lucky the error will get
reflected back to the userspace process calling fsync().  If you
aren't lucky, the user is unmounting the file system, and the dirty
pages will simply be lost.

For this reason, file system code generally will use GFP_NOFS, and in
some cases, will retry the allocation in a loop, on the theory that
"kernel livelocks are temporary; data loss is forever".
Unfortunately, this can indeed cause livelocks, since inside the
writepages() call, the file system is holding various mutexes, and
these mutexes may prevent the OOM killer from killing its targetted
victim if it is also holding on to those mutexes.

A better solution would be to allow writepages() to call the memory
allocator with flags that give greater latitude to the allocator to
fail, and then release its locks and return ENOMEM, and in the case of
background writeback, the writes can be retried at a later time.  In
the case of data-integrity writeback retry after waiting a brief
amount of time.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of 's signal API dependency

2017-03-02T07:42:37+00:00

Instead of including the full , we are going to include the
types-only  header in , to further
decouple the scheduler header from the signal headers.

This means that various files which relied on the full  need
to be updated to gain an explicit dependency on it.

Update the code that relies on sched.h's inclusion of the  header.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

scripts/spelling.txt: add "comsume(r)" pattern and fix typo instances

2017-02-28T02:43:47+00:00

Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  comsume||consume
  comsumer||consumer
  comsuming||consuming

I see some variable names with this pattern, but this commit is only
touching comment blocks to avoid unexpected impact.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-19-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page-writeback.c: place "not" inside of unlikely() statement in wb_domain_writeout_inc()

2017-02-25T01:46:56+00:00

The likely/unlikely profiler noticed that the unlikely statement in
wb_domain_writeout_inc() is constantly wrong.  This is due to the "not"
(!) being outside the unlikely statement.  It is likely that
dom->period_time will be set, but unlikely that it wont be.  Move the
not into the unlikely statement.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170206120035.3c2e2b91@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue

2017-02-02T15:20:48+00:00

We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

radix-tree: delete radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged()

2016-12-15T00:04:10+00:00

This is an exceptionally complicated function with just one caller
(tag_pages_for_writeback).  We devote a large portion of the runtime of
the test suite to testing this one function which has one caller.  By
introducing the new function radix_tree_iter_tag_set(), we can eliminate
all of the complexity while keeping the performance.  The caller can now
use a fairly standard radix_tree_for_each() loop, and it doesn't need to
worry about tricksy things like 'start' wrapping.

The test suite continues to spend a large amount of time investigating
this function, but now it's testing the underlying primitives such as
radix_tree_iter_resume() and the radix_tree_for_each_tagged() iterator
which are also used by other parts of the kernel.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480369871-5271-57-git-send-email-mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds