writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage
sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.
Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.
Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.
Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.
Impact: It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index a5763e3..8558b6c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2741,7 +2741,7 @@
index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
- if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
else
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
@@ -2973,7 +2973,7 @@
}
retry:
- if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
while (!ret && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 0f015a0..5ed2ce9 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
long nr_pages;
struct super_block *sb;
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
+ unsigned int tagged_writepages:1;
unsigned int for_kupdate:1;
unsigned int range_cyclic:1;
unsigned int for_background:1;
@@ -650,6 +651,7 @@
{
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = work->sync_mode,
+ .tagged_writepages = work->tagged_writepages,
.older_than_this = NULL,
.for_kupdate = work->for_kupdate,
.for_background = work->for_background,
@@ -657,7 +659,7 @@
};
unsigned long oldest_jif;
long wrote = 0;
- long write_chunk;
+ long write_chunk = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
struct inode *inode;
if (wbc.for_kupdate) {
@@ -683,9 +685,7 @@
* (quickly) tag currently dirty pages
* (maybe slowly) sync all tagged pages
*/
- if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
- write_chunk = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
- else
+ if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc.tagged_writepages)
write_chunk = LONG_MAX;
wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
@@ -1188,10 +1188,11 @@
{
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
struct wb_writeback_work work = {
- .sb = sb,
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
- .done = &done,
- .nr_pages = nr,
+ .sb = sb,
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
+ .tagged_writepages = 1,
+ .done = &done,
+ .nr_pages = nr,
};
WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount));
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 17e7ccc..3f6542c 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */
unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
+ unsigned tagged_writepages:1; /* tag-and-write to avoid livelock */
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 31f6988..955fe35 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -892,12 +892,12 @@
range_whole = 1;
cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
}
- if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
else
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
retry:
- if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
done_index = index;
while (!done && (index <= end)) {
