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Merge upstream tag 'v3.10.84' into LA.BR.1.3.3
This merge brings us up-to-date as of upstream tag v3.10.84
* tag 'v3.10.84' (317 commits):
Linux 3.10.84
fs: Fix S_NOSEC handling
KVM: x86: make vapics_in_nmi_mode atomic
MIPS: Fix KVM guest fixmap address
x86/PCI: Use host bridge _CRS info on Foxconn K8M890-8237A
powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces
arm: KVM: force execution of HCPTR access on VM exit
Revert "crypto: talitos - convert to use be16_add_cpu()"
crypto: talitos - avoid memleak in talitos_alg_alloc()
sctp: Fix race between OOTB responce and route removal
packet: avoid out of bounds read in round robin fanout
packet: read num_members once in packet_rcv_fanout()
bridge: fix br_stp_set_bridge_priority race conditions
bridge: fix multicast router rlist endless loop
sparc: Use GFP_ATOMIC in ldc_alloc_exp_dring() as it can be called in softirq context
Linux 3.10.83
bus: mvebu: pass the coherency availability information at init time
KVM: nSVM: Check for NRIPS support before updating control field
ARM: clk-imx6q: refine sata's parent
d_walk() might skip too much
ipv6: update ip6_rt_last_gc every time GC is run
ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention
xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold
Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic
x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader
fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id executables
hpsa: add missing pci_set_master in kdump path
hpsa: refine the pci enable/disable handling
sb_edac: Fix erroneous bytes->gigabytes conversion
ACPICA: Utilities: Cleanup to remove useless ACPI_PRINTF/FORMAT_xxx helpers.
ACPICA: Utilities: Cleanup to convert physical address printing formats.
__ptrace_may_access() should not deny sub-threads
include/linux/sched.h: don't use task->pid/tgid in same_thread_group/has_group_leader_pid
netfilter: Zero the tuple in nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple()
netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove 'const' and '&' to avoid warnings
config: Enable NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE by default when SWIOTLB is selected
get rid of s_files and files_lock
fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
Linux 3.10.82
lpfc: Add iotag memory barrier
pipe: iovec: Fix memory corruption when retrying atomic copy as non-atomic
drm/mgag200: Reject non-character-cell-aligned mode widths
tracing: Have filter check for balanced ops
crypto: caam - fix RNG buffer cache alignment
Linux 3.10.81
btrfs: cleanup orphans while looking up default subvolume
btrfs: incorrect handling for fiemap_fill_next_extent return
cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver
mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone->wait_table to null after freeing it
drm/i915: Fix DDC probe for passive adapters
pata_octeon_cf: fix broken build
ozwpan: unchecked signed subtraction leads to DoS
ozwpan: divide-by-zero leading to panic
ozwpan: Use proper check to prevent heap overflow
MIPS: Fix enabling of DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong sched_priority of producer
USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Add support for a Motion Tracker Development Board
USB: cp210x: add ID for HubZ dual ZigBee and Z-Wave dongle
block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report
Input: elantech - fix detection of touchpads where the revision matches a known rate
ALSA: usb-audio: add MAYA44 USB+ mixer control names
ALSA: usb-audio: Add mic volume fix quirk for Logitech Quickcam Fusion
ALSA: hda/realtek - Add a fixup for another Acer Aspire 9420
iio: adis16400: Compute the scan mask from channel indices
iio: adis16400: Use != channel indices for the two voltage channels
iio: adis16400: Report pressure channel scale
xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.
udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums
net_sched: invoke ->attach() after setting dev->qdisc
unix/caif: sk_socket can disappear when state is unlocked
net: dp83640: fix broken calibration routine.
bridge: fix parsing of MLDv2 reports
ipv4: Avoid crashing in ip_error
net: phy: Allow EEE for all RGMII variants
Linux 3.10.80
fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(): return -EINVAL on zero-length mappings
vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path
ACPI / init: Fix the ordering of acpi_reserve_resources()
Input: elantech - fix semi-mt protocol for v3 HW
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
md/raid5: don't record new size if resize_stripes fails.
svcrpc: fix potential GSSX_ACCEPT_SEC_CONTEXT decoding failures
ARM: fix missing syscall trace exit
ARM: dts: imx27: only map 4 Kbyte for fec registers
crypto: s390/ghash - Fix incorrect ghash icv buffer handling.
rt2x00: add new rt2800usb device DWA 130
libata: Ignore spurious PHY event on LPM policy change
libata: Add helper to determine when PHY events should be ignored
ext4: check for zero length extent explicitly
ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics
mmc: atmel-mci: fix bad variable type for clkdiv
powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes
usb: gadget: configfs: Fix interfaces array NULL-termination
usb-storage: Add NO_WP_DETECT quirk for Lacie 059f:0651 devices
USB: cp210x: add ID for KCF Technologies PRN device
USB: pl2303: Remove support for Samsung I330
USB: visor: Match I330 phone more precisely
xhci: gracefully handle xhci_irq dead device
xhci: Solve full event ring by increasing TRBS_PER_SEGMENT to 256
xhci: fix isoc endpoint dequeue from advancing too far on transaction error
target/pscsi: Don't leak scsi_host if hba is VIRTUAL_HOST
ASoC: wm8994: correct BCLK DIV 348 to 384
ASoC: wm8960: fix "RINPUT3" audio route error
ASoC: mc13783: Fix wrong mask value used in mc13xxx_reg_rmw() calls
ALSA: hda - Add headphone quirk for Lifebook E752
ALSA: hda - Add Conexant codecs CX20721, CX20722, CX20723 and CX20724
d_walk() might skip too much
lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum
hwmon: (ntc_thermistor) Ensure iio channel is of type IIO_VOLTAGE
libceph: request a new osdmap if lingering request maps to no osd
lguest: fix out-by-one error in address checking.
fs, omfs: add NULL terminator in the end up the token list
KVM: MMU: fix CR4.SMEP=1, CR0.WP=0 with shadow pages
net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg
kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly
staging, rtl8192e, LLVMLinux: Remove unused inline prototype
staging: rtl8712, rtl8712: avoid lots of build warnings
staging, rtl8192e, LLVMLinux: Change extern inline to static inline
drm/i915: Fix declaration of intel_gmbus_{is_forced_bit/is_port_falid}
staging: wlags49_h2: fix extern inline functions
Linux 3.10.79
ACPICA: Utilities: Cleanup to enforce ACPI_PHYSADDR_TO_PTR()/ACPI_PTR_TO_PHYSADDR().
ACPICA: Tables: Change acpi_find_root_pointer() to use acpi_physical_address.
revert "softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs"
sound/oss: fix deadlock in sequencer_ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND)
mmc: card: Don't access RPMB partitions for normal read/write
pinctrl: Don't just pretend to protect pinctrl_maps, do it for real
drm/i915: Add missing MacBook Pro models with dual channel LVDS
ARM: mvebu: armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4: Disable internal RTC
ARM: dts: imx23-olinuxino: Fix dr_mode of usb0
ARM: dts: imx28: Fix AUART4 TX-DMA interrupt name
ARM: dts: imx25: Add #pwm-cells to pwm4
gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug
gpio: unregister gpiochip device before removing it
xen/console: Update console event channel on resume
mm/memory-failure: call shake_page() when error hits thp tail page
nilfs2: fix sanity check of btree level in nilfs_btree_root_broken()
ocfs2: dlm: fix race between purge and get lock resource
Linux 3.10.78
ARC: signal handling robustify
UBI: fix soft lockup in ubi_check_volume()
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't wait after requesting offers
ARM: dts: dove: Fix uart[23] reg property
staging: panel: fix lcd type
usb: gadget: printer: enqueue printer's response for setup request
usb: host: oxu210hp: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
3w-sas: fix command completion race
3w-9xxx: fix command completion race
3w-xxxx: fix command completion race
ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents
rbd: end I/O the entire obj_request on error
serial: of-serial: Remove device_type = "serial" registration
ALSA: hda - Fix mute-LED fixed mode
ALSA: emu10k1: Emu10k2 32 bit DMA mode
ALSA: emu10k1: Fix card shortname string buffer overflow
ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock in OSS emulation
ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock at unloading
ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash().
Linux 3.10.77
s390: Fix build error
nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h>
memstick: mspro_block: add missing curly braces
C6x: time: Ensure consistency in __init
wl18xx: show rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is
lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll
ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
drm/i915: cope with large i2c transfers
drm/radeon: fix doublescan modes (v2)
i2c: core: Export bus recovery functions
IB/mlx4: Fix WQE LSO segment calculation
IB/core: don't disallow registering region starting at 0x0
IB/core: disallow registering 0-sized memory region
stk1160: Make sure current buffer is released
mvsas: fix panic on expander attached SATA devices
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the error path in vmbus_open()
xtensa: provide __NR_sync_file_range2 instead of __NR_sync_file_range
xtensa: xtfpga: fix hardware lockup caused by LCD driver
ACPICA: Utilities: split IO address types from data type models.
drivers: parport: Kconfig: exclude arm64 for PARPORT_PC
scsi: storvsc: Fix a bug in copy_from_bounce_buffer()
UBI: fix check for "too many bytes"
UBI: initialize LEB number variable
UBI: fix out of bounds write
UBI: account for bitflips in both the VID header and data
tools/power turbostat: Use $(CURDIR) instead of $(PWD) and add support for O= option in Makefile
powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
ext4: make fsync to sync parent dir in no-journal for real this time
arm64: kernel: compiling issue, need delete read_current_timer()
video: vgacon: Don't build on arm64
console: Disable VGA text console support on cris
drivers: parport: Kconfig: exclude h8300 for PARPORT_PC
parport: disable PC-style parallel port support on cris
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new device ID
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new USB ID
ptrace: fix race between ptrace_resume() and wait_task_stopped()
fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bug in loading of PIE binaries
Input: elantech - fix absolute mode setting on some ASUS laptops
ALSA: emu10k1: don't deadlock in proc-functions
usb: core: hub: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
usb: host: sl811: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
usb: host: xhci: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
usb: host: isp116x: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
usb: host: r8a66597: use new USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT
usb: define a generic USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT macro
usb: phy: Find the right match in devm_usb_phy_match
ARM: S3C64XX: Use fixed IRQ bases to avoid conflicts on Cragganmore
ARM: 8320/1: fix integer overflow in ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
power_supply: lp8788-charger: Fix leaked power supply on probe fail
ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*()
spi: spidev: fix possible arithmetic overflow for multi-transfer message
cdc-wdm: fix endianness bug in debug statements
MIPS: Hibernate: flush TLB entries earlier
KVM: use slowpath for cross page cached accesses
s390/hibernate: fix save and restore of kernel text section
KVM: s390: Zero out current VMDB of STSI before including level3 data.
usb: gadget: composite: enable BESL support
Btrfs: fix inode eviction infinite loop after cloning into it
Btrfs: fix log tree corruption when fs mounted with -o discard
tcp: avoid looping in tcp_send_fin()
tcp: fix possible deadlock in tcp_send_fin()
ip_forward: Drop frames with attached skb->sk
Linux 3.10.76
dcache: Fix locking bugs in backported "deal with deadlock in d_walk()"
arc: mm: Fix build failure
sb_edac: avoid INTERNAL ERROR message in EDAC with unspecified channel
x86: mm: move mmap_sem unlock from mm_fault_error() to caller
vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS
vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support
deal with deadlock in d_walk()
move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias
kconfig: Fix warning "‘jump’ may be used uninitialized"
KVM: x86: SYSENTER emulation is broken
netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols
Bluetooth: Ignore isochronous endpoints for Intel USB bootloader
Bluetooth: Add support for Intel bootloader devices
Bluetooth: btusb: Add IMC Networks (Broadcom based)
Bluetooth: Add firmware update for Atheros 0cf3:311f
Bluetooth: Enable Atheros 0cf3:311e for firmware upload
mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support
splice: Apply generic position and size checks to each write
jfs: fix readdir regression
serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround
benet: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb.
ixgb: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
tg3: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
bnx2: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
r8169: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
8139too: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
8139cp: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb.
tcp: tcp_make_synack() should clear skb->tstamp
tcp: fix FRTO undo on cumulative ACK of SACKed range
ipv6: Don't reduce hop limit for an interface
tcp: prevent fetching dst twice in early demux code
remove extra definitions of U32_MAX
conditionally define U32_MAX
Linux 3.10.75
pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace
console: Fix console name size mismatch
IB/mlx4: Saturate RoCE port PMA counters in case of overflow
kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limits
net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries
net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes
ipc: fix compat msgrcv with negative msgtyp
core, nfqueue, openvswitch: fix compilation warning
media: s5p-mfc: fix mmap support for 64bit arch
iscsi target: fix oops when adding reject pdu
ocfs2: _really_ sync the right range
be2iscsi: Fix kernel panic when device initialization fails
cifs: fix use-after-free bug in find_writable_file
usb: xhci: apply XHCI_AVOID_BEI quirk to all Intel xHCI controllers
cpuidle: ACPI: do not overwrite name and description of C0
dmaengine: omap-dma: Fix memory leak when terminating running transfer
iio: imu: Use iio_trigger_get for indio_dev->trig assignment
iio: inv_mpu6050: Clear timestamps fifo while resetting hardware fifo
Defer processing of REQ_PREEMPT requests for blocked devices
USB: ftdi_sio: Use jtag quirk for SNAP Connect E10
USB: ftdi_sio: Added custom PID for Synapse Wireless product
radeon: Do not directly dereference pointers to BIOS area.
writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation
writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()
mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat
nbd: fix possible memory leak
iwlwifi: dvm: run INIT firmware again upon .start()
IB/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address arithmetic
IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space
tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open
selinux: fix sel_write_enforce broken return value
ALSA: hda - Fix headphone pin config for Lifebook T731
ALSA: usb - Creative USB X-Fi Pro SB1095 volume knob support
ALSA: hda - Add one more node in the EAPD supporting candidate list
Linux 3.10.74
net: ethernet: pcnet32: Setup the SRAM and NOUFLO on Am79C97{3, 5}
powerpc/mpc85xx: Add ranges to etsec2 nodes
hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0
dm: hold suspend_lock while suspending device during device deletion
vt6655: RFbSetPower fix missing rate RATE_12M
perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion
Revert "iwlwifi: mvm: fix failure path when power_update fails in add_interface"
mac80211: drop unencrypted frames in mesh fwding
mac80211: disable u-APSD queues by default
nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM
tcm_qla2xxx: Fix incorrect use of __transport_register_session
tcm_fc: missing curly braces in ft_invl_hw_context()
ASoC: wm8955: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: adav80x: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: ak4641: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: wm8904: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: wm8903: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: wm2000: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: wm8731: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: tas5086: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: wm8960: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: cs4271: Fix wrong value references for boolean kctl
ASoC: sgtl5000: remove useless register write clearing CHRGPUMP_POWERUP
Change-Id: Ib7976ee2c7224e39074157e28db4158db40b00db
Signed-off-by: Kaushal Kumar <kaushalk@codeaurora.org>
commit c72efb658f7c8b27ca3d0efb5cfd5ded9fcac89e upstream.
From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400
2f800fbd77 ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a
redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing.
bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the
basis for bandwidth calculation. While unlikely, since the above
patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and
underflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result.
Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating
delta. AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the
resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so
it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported. The
risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Fixes: 2f800fbd77 ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 7d70e15480c0450d2bfafaad338a32e884fc215e upstream.
global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.
This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit. This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior. Fix it.
Fixes: c42843f2f0 ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It was found that a number of tasks were blocked in the reclaim path
(throttle_vm_writeout) for seconds, because of vmstat_diff not being
synced in time. Fix that by adding a new function
global_page_state_snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Change-Id: Iec167635ad724a55c27bdbd49eb8686e7857216c
Under memory pressure, it is possible for dirty_thresh, calculated by
global_dirty_limits() in balance_dirty_pages(), to equal zero. Then, if
strictlimit is true, bdi_dirty_limits() tries to resolve the proportion:
bdi_bg_thresh : bdi_thresh = background_thresh : dirty_thresh
by dividing by zero.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: f6789593d5cea42a4ecb1cbeab6a23ade5ebbba7
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Change-Id: Ia43ce540565ae86ea99c290564d058fe81c22cd7
Signed-off-by: Tarun Gupta <tarung@codeaurora.org>
The feature prevents mistrusted filesystems (ie: FUSE mounts created by
unprivileged users) to grow a large number of dirty pages before
throttling. For such filesystems balance_dirty_pages always check bdi
counters against bdi limits. I.e. even if global "nr_dirty" is under
"freerun", it's not allowed to skip bdi checks. The only use case for now
is fuse: it sets bdi max_ratio to 1% by default and system administrators
are supposed to expect that this limit won't be exceeded.
The feature is on if a BDI is marked by BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT flag. A
filesystem may set the flag when it initializes its BDI.
The problematic scenario comes from the fact that nobody pays attention to
the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter (i.e. number of pages under fuse
writeback). The implementation of fuse writeback releases original page
(by calling end_page_writeback) almost immediately. A fuse request queued
for real processing bears a copy of original page. Hence, if userspace
fuse daemon doesn't finalize write requests in timely manner, an
aggressive mmap writer can pollute virtually all memory by those temporary
fuse page copies. They are carefully accounted in NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP, but
nobody cares.
To make further explanations shorter, let me use "NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP
problem" as a shortcut for "a possibility of uncontrolled grow of amount
of RAM consumed by temporary pages allocated by kernel fuse to process
writeback".
The problem was very easy to reproduce. There is a trivial example
filesystem implementation in fuse userspace distribution: fusexmp_fh.c. I
added "sleep(1);" to the write methods, then recompiled and mounted it.
Then created a huge file on the mount point and run a simple program which
mmap-ed the file to a memory region, then wrote a data to the region. An
hour later I observed almost all RAM consumed by fuse writeback. Since
then some unrelated changes in kernel fuse made it more difficult to
reproduce, but it is still possible now.
Putting this theoretical happens-in-the-lab thing aside, there is another
thing that really hurts real world (FUSE) users. This is write-through
page cache policy FUSE currently uses. I.e. handling write(2), kernel
fuse populates page cache and flushes user data to the server
synchronously. This is excessively suboptimal. Pavel Emelyanov's patches
("writeback cache policy") solve the problem, but they also make resolving
NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP problem absolutely necessary. Otherwise, simply copying
a huge file to a fuse mount would result in memory starvation. Miklos,
the maintainer of FUSE, believes strictlimit feature the way to go.
And eventually putting FUSE topics aside, there is one more use-case for
strictlimit feature. Using a slow USB stick (mass storage) in a machine
with huge amount of RAM installed is a well-known pain. Let's make simple
computations. Assuming 64GB of RAM installed, existing implementation of
balance_dirty_pages will start throttling only after 9.6GB of RAM becomes
dirty (freerun == 15% of total RAM). So, the command "cp 9GB_file
/media/my-usb-storage/" may return in a few seconds, but subsequent
"umount /media/my-usb-storage/" will take more than two hours if effective
throughput of the storage is, to say, 1MB/sec.
After inclusion of strictlimit feature, it will be trivial to add a knob
(e.g. /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/x:y/strictlimit) to enable it on demand.
Manually or via udev rule. May be I'm wrong, but it seems to be quite a
natural desire to limit the amount of dirty memory for some devices we are
not fully trust (in the sense of sustainable throughput).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning in page-writeback.c]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 5a53748568f79641eaf40e41081a2f4987f005c2
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Change-Id: I2def00e492ab04b4938d11e35dfc87656b2acf20
Signed-off-by: Tarun Gupta <tarung@codeaurora.org>
The following commits have been reverted from this merge, as they are
known to introduce new bugs and are currently incompatible with our
audio implementation. Investigation of these commits is ongoing, and
they are expected to be brought in at a later time:
86e6de7 ALSA: compress: fix drain calls blocking other compress functions (v6)
16442d4 ALSA: compress: fix drain calls blocking other compress functions
This merge commit also includes a change in block, necessary for
compilation. Upstream has modified elevator_init_fn to prevent race
conditions, requring updates to row_init_queue and test_init_queue.
* commit 'v3.10.28': (1964 commits)
Linux 3.10.28
ARM: 7938/1: OMAP4/highbank: Flush L2 cache before disabling
drm/i915: Don't grab crtc mutexes in intel_modeset_gem_init()
serial: amba-pl011: use port lock to guard control register access
mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
md/raid5: Fix possible confusion when multiple write errors occur.
md/raid10: fix two bugs in handling of known-bad-blocks.
md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block.
md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap.
drm/i915: fix DDI PLLs HW state readout code
nilfs2: fix segctor bug that causes file system corruption
thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once only
ftrace/x86: Load ftrace_ops in parameter not the variable holding it
SELinux: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in selinux_inode_permission()
writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS
hwmon: (coretemp) Fix truncated name of alarm attributes
vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point
staging: comedi: adl_pci9111: fix incorrect irq passed to request_irq()
staging: comedi: addi_apci_1032: fix subdevice type/flags bug
mm/memory-failure.c: recheck PageHuge() after hugetlb page migrate successfully
GFS2: Increase i_writecount during gfs2_setattr_chown
perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix waking up from S3 for AMD family 10h
perf scripting perl: Fix build error on Fedora 12
ARM: 7815/1: kexec: offline non panic CPUs on Kdump panic
Linux 3.10.27
sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock
sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining
sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used
x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround
netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT helper
SCSI: sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request
intel_pstate: Add X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF to cpu match parameters.
mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan
ACPI / Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS
ACPI / TPM: fix memory leak when walking ACPI namespace
mfd: rtsx_pcr: Disable interrupts before cancelling delayed works
clk: exynos5250: fix sysmmu_mfc{l,r} gate clocks
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Add CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag for the sysreg clock
clk: samsung: exynos4: Correct SRC_MFC register
clk: clk-divider: fix divisor > 255 bug
ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE9170 SATA controller
parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional
ARM: shmobile: mackerel: Fix coherent DMA mask
ARM: shmobile: armadillo: Fix coherent DMA mask
ARM: shmobile: kzm9g: Fix coherent DMA mask
ARM: dts: exynos5250: Fix MDMA0 clock number
ARM: fix "bad mode in ... handler" message for undefined instructions
ARM: fix footbridge clockevent device
net: Loosen constraints for recalculating checksum in skb_segment()
bridge: use spin_lock_bh() in br_multicast_set_hash_max
netpoll: Fix missing TXQ unlock and and OOPS.
net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg
virtio-net: fix refill races during restore
virtio_net: don't leak memory or block when too many frags
virtio-net: make all RX paths handle errors consistently
virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers
vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload.
net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior
rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device
ipv6: always set the new created dst's from in ip6_rt_copy
net: fec: fix potential use after free
hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl
drivers/net/hamradio: Integer overflow in hdlcdrv_ioctl()
net: inet_diag: zero out uninitialized idiag_{src,dst} fields
ip_gre: fix msg_name parsing for recvfrom/recvmsg
net: unix: allow bind to fail on mutex lock
ipv6: fix illegal mac_header comparison on 32bit
netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu
tg3: Initialize REG_BASE_ADDR at PCI config offset 120 to 0
net: unix: allow set_peek_off to fail
net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr
ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit
packet: fix send path when running with proto == 0
virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory
macvtap: signal truncated packets
tun: update file current position
macvtap: update file current position
macvtap: Do not double-count received packets
rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback
net: do not pretend FRAGLIST support
IPv6: Fixed support for blackhole and prohibit routes
HID: Revert "Revert "HID: Fix logitech-dj: missing Unifying device issue""
gpio-rcar: R-Car GPIO IRQ share interrupt
clocksource: em_sti: Set cpu_possible_mask to fix SMP broadcast
irqchip: renesas-irqc: Fix irqc_probe error handling
Linux 3.10.26
sh: add EXPORT_SYMBOL(min_low_pfn) and EXPORT_SYMBOL(max_low_pfn) to sh_ksyms_32.c
ext4: fix bigalloc regression
arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine
arm64: Do not flush the D-cache for anonymous pages
arm64: Avoid cache flushing in flush_dcache_page()
ARM: KVM: arch_timers: zero CNTVOFF upon return to host
ARM: hyp: initialize CNTVOFF to zero
clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters
arm64: Remove unused cpu_name ascii in arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
arm64: dts: Reserve the memory used for secondary CPU release address
arm64: check for number of arguments in syscall_get/set_arguments()
arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state
...
Change-Id: Ia0e5d71b536ab49ec3a1179d59238c05bdd03106
Signed-off-by: Ian Maund <imaund@codeaurora.org>
commit a85d9df1ea1d23682a0ed1e100e6965006595d06 upstream.
During aio stress test, we observed the following lockdep warning. This
mean AIO+numa_balancing is currently deadlockable.
The problem is, aio_migratepage disable interrupt, but
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers unintentionally enable it again.
Generally, all helper function should use spin_lock_irqsave() instead of
spin_lock_irq() because they don't know caller at all.
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&(&ctx->completion_lock)->rlock);
<Interrupt>
lock(&(&ctx->completion_lock)->rlock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208
mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0
mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140
trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x1d0
trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x50
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x8c/0xf0
migrate_page_copy+0x434/0x540
aio_migratepage+0xb1/0x140
move_to_new_page+0x7d/0x230
migrate_pages+0x5e5/0x700
migrate_misplaced_page+0xbc/0xf0
do_numa_page+0x102/0x190
handle_pte_fault+0x241/0x970
handle_mm_fault+0x265/0x370
__do_page_fault+0x172/0x5a0
do_page_fault+0x1a/0x70
page_fault+0x28/0x30
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit a1c3bfb2f67ef766de03f1f56bdfff9c8595ab14 upstream.
The VM is currently heavily tuned to avoid swapping. Whether that is
good or bad is a separate discussion, but as long as the VM won't swap
to make room for dirty cache, we can not consider anonymous pages when
calculating the amount of dirtyable memory, the baseline to which
dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio are applied.
A simple workload that occupies a significant size (40+%, depending on
memory layout, storage speeds etc.) of memory with anon/tmpfs pages and
uses the remainder for a streaming writer demonstrates this problem. In
that case, the actual cache pages are a small fraction of what is
considered dirtyable overall, which results in an relatively large
portion of the cache pages to be dirtied. As kswapd starts rotating
these, random tasks enter direct reclaim and stall on IO.
Only consider free pages and file pages dirtyable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit a804552b9a15c931cfc2a92a2e0aed1add8b580a upstream.
Tejun reported stuttering and latency spikes on a system where random
tasks would enter direct reclaim and get stuck on dirty pages. Around
50% of memory was occupied by tmpfs backed by an SSD, and another disk
(rotating) was reading and writing at max speed to shrink a partition.
: The problem was pretty ridiculous. It's a 8gig machine w/ one ssd and 10k
: rpm harddrive and I could reliably reproduce constant stuttering every
: several seconds for as long as buffered IO was going on on the hard drive
: either with tmpfs occupying somewhere above 4gig or a test program which
: allocates about the same amount of anon memory. Although swap usage was
: zero, turning off swap also made the problem go away too.
:
: The trigger conditions seem quite plausible - high anon memory usage w/
: heavy buffered IO and swap configured - and it's highly likely that this
: is happening in the wild too. (this can happen with copying large files
: to usb sticks too, right?)
This patch (of 2):
The dirty_balance_reserve is an approximation of the fraction of free
pages that the page allocator does not make available for page cache
allocations. As a result, it has to be taken into account when
calculating the amount of "dirtyable memory", the baseline to which
dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio are applied.
However, currently the reserve is subtracted from the sum of free and
reclaimable pages, which is non-sensical and leads to erroneous results
when the system is dominated by unreclaimable pages and the
dirty_balance_reserve is bigger than free+reclaimable. In that case, at
least the already allocated cache should be considered dirtyable.
Fix the calculation by subtracting the reserve from the amount of free
pages, then adding the reclaimable pages on top.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_HIGHMEM build]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch is based on KOSAKI's work and I add a little more description,
please refer https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/14/74.
Currently, I found system can enter a state that there are lots of free
pages in a zone but only order-0 and order-1 pages which means the zone is
heavily fragmented, then high order allocation could make direct reclaim
path's long stall(ex, 60 seconds) especially in no swap and no compaciton
enviroment. This problem happened on v3.4, but it seems issue still lives
in current tree, the reason is do_try_to_free_pages enter live lock:
kswapd will go to sleep if the zones have been fully scanned and are still
not balanced. As kswapd thinks there's little point trying all over again
to avoid infinite loop. Instead it changes order from high-order to
0-order because kswapd think order-0 is the most important. Look at
73ce02e9 in detail. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go back to sleep
and may leave zone->all_unreclaimable =3D 0. It assume high-order users
can still perform direct reclaim if they wish.
Direct reclaim continue to reclaim for a high order which is not a
COSTLY_ORDER without oom-killer until kswapd turn on
zone->all_unreclaimble= . This is because to avoid too early oom-kill.
So it means direct_reclaim depends on kswapd to break this loop.
In worst case, direct-reclaim may continue to page reclaim forever when
kswapd sleeps forever until someone like watchdog detect and finally kill
the process. As described in:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/103737
We can't turn on zone->all_unreclaimable from direct reclaim path because
direct reclaim path don't take any lock and this way is racy. Thus this
patch removes zone->all_unreclaimable field completely and recalculates
zone reclaimable state every time.
Note: we can't take the idea that direct-reclaim see zone->pages_scanned
directly and kswapd continue to use zone->all_unreclaimable. Because, it
is racy. commit 929bea7c71 (vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use
zone->all_unreclaimable as a name) describes the detail.
Change-Id: I28cffd677bc9c2d8521849b1a16e211ed24b6d3f
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: uninline zone_reclaimable_pages() and zone_reclaimable()]
Cc: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Zhang <zhangwm@marvell.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lisa Du <cldu@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[lauraa@codeaurora.org: Minor context fixup in mm/vmscan.c]
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: 6e543d5780e36ff5ee56c44d7e2e30db3457a7ed
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
commit e3b6c655b91e01a1dade056cfa358581b47a5351 upstream.
Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386. After some time it hangs and the last
message line is
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]
It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large. More than 1000000000
pages in this case:
period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000); <---------
UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:
ick: pause : -984
ick: pages_dirtied : 0
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
pause:
+ if (pause < 0) {
+ extern int printf(char *, ...);
+ printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
+ printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
+ printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
+ BUG_ON(1);
+ }
trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause. It's suspected and demonstrated that the
max_pause calculation goes wrong:
ick: pause : -717
ick: min_pause : -177
ick: max_pause : -717
ick: pages_dirtied : 14
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the
min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0. Fix all of
them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Walking a bio's page mappings has proved problematic, so create a new
bio flag to indicate that a bio's data needs to be snapshotted in order
to guarantee stable pages during writeback. Next, for the one user
(ext3/jbd) of snapshotting, hook all the places where writes can be
initiated without PG_writeback set, and set BIO_SNAP_STABLE there.
We must also flag journal "metadata" bios for stable writeout, since
file data can be written through the journal. Finally, the
MS_SNAP_STABLE mount flag (only used by ext3) is now superfluous, so get
rid of it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename _submit_bh()'s `flags' to `bio_flags', delobotomize the _submit_bh declaration]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: teeny cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:
- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.
- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.
- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"
Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").
* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
...
When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be
subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages.
Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/695182
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warning]
Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without
needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling
schemes of jbd2. The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot
page contents instead of waiting.
For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking
(which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and
setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock
dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude. If we're
going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the
complaints about high latency will likely return. We might as well
centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Create a helper function to check if a backing device requires stable
page writes and, if so, performs the necessary wait. Then, make it so
that all points in the memory manager that handle making pages writable
use the helper function. This should provide stable page write support
to most filesystems, while eliminating unnecessary waiting for devices
that don't require the feature.
Before this patchset, all filesystems would block, regardless of whether
or not it was necessary. ext3 would wait, but still generate occasional
checksum errors. The network filesystems were left to do their own
thing, so they'd wait too.
After this patchset, all the disk filesystems except ext3 and btrfs will
wait only if the hardware requires it. ext3 (if necessary) snapshots
pages instead of blocking, and btrfs provides its own bdi so the mm will
never wait. Network filesystems haven't been touched, so either they
provide their own stable page guarantees or they don't block at all.
The blocking behavior is back to what it was before 3.0 if you don't
have a disk requiring stable page writes.
Here's the result of using dbench to test latency on ext2:
3.8.0-rc3:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
WriteX 109347 0.028 59.817
ReadX 347180 0.004 3.391
Flush 15514 29.828 287.283
Throughput 57.429 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=287.290 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 105556 0.029 4.273
ReadX 335004 0.005 4.112
Flush 14982 30.540 298.634
Throughput 55.4496 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=298.650 ms
As you can see, the maximum write latency drops considerably with this
patch enabled. The other filesystems (ext3/ext4/xfs/btrfs) behave
similarly, but see the cover letter for those results.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into
new file include/linux/sched/rt.h
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In bdi_position_ratio(), get difference (setpoint-dirty) right even when
negative. Both setpoint and dirty are unsigned long, the difference was
zero-padded thus wrongly sign-extended to s64. This issue affects all
32-bit architectures, does not affect 64-bit architectures where long
and s64 are equivalent.
In this function, dirty is between freerun and limit, the pseudo-float x
is between [-1,1], expected to be negative about half the time. With
zero-padding, instead of a small negative x we obtained a large positive
one so bdi_position_ratio() returned garbage.
Casting the difference to s64 also prevents overflow with left-shift;
though normally these numbers are small and I never observed a 32-bit
overflow there.
(This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.)
Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.auhttp://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182
Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Add tracepoints for page dirtying, writeback_single_inode start, inode
dirtying and writeback. For the latter two inode events, a pair of
events are defined to denote start and end of the operations (the
starting one has _start suffix and the one w/o suffix happens after
the operation is complete). These inode ops are FS specific and can
be non-trivial and having enclosing tracepoints is useful for external
tracers.
This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into
dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland.
v2: writeback_dirty_inode[_start] TPs may be called for files on
pseudo FSes w/ unregistered bdi. Check whether bdi->dev is %NULL
before dereferencing.
v3: buffer dirtying moved to a block TP.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The system uses global_dirtyable_memory() to calculate number of
dirtyable pages/pages that can be allocated to the page cache. A bug
causes an underflow thus making the page count look like a big unsigned
number. This in turn confuses the dirty writeback throttling to
aggressively write back pages as they become dirty (usually 1 page at a
time). This generally only affects systems with highmem because the
underflowed count gets subtracted from the global count of dirtyable
memory.
The problem was introduced with v3.2-4896-gab8fabd
Fix is to ensure we don't get an underflowed total of either highmem or
global dirtyable memory.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no reason to pass the nr_pages_dirtied argument, because
nr_pages_dirtied value from the caller is unused in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr().
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <vtrivedi018@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The CPU hotplug callback related to writeback calls writeback_set_ratelimit()
during every state change in the hotplug sequence. This is unnecessary
since num_online_cpus() changes only once during the entire hotplug operation.
So invoke the function only once per hotplug, thereby avoiding the
unnecessary repetition of those costly calculations.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Finally we can kill the 'sync_supers' kernel thread along with the
'->write_super()' superblock operation because all the users are gone.
Now every file-system is supposed to self-manage own superblock and
its dirty state.
The nice thing about killing this thread is that it improves power management.
Indeed, 'sync_supers' is a source of monotonic system wake-ups - it woke up
every 5 seconds no matter what - even if there were no dirty superblocks and
even if there were no file-systems using this service (e.g., btrfs and
journalled ext4 do not need it). So it was wasting power most of the time. And
because the thread was in the core of the kernel, all systems had to have it.
So I am quite happy to make it go away.
Interestingly, this thread is a left-over from the pdflush kernel thread which
was a self-forking kernel thread responsible for all the write-back in old
Linux kernels. It was turned into per-block device BDI threads, and
'sync_supers' was a left-over. Thus, R.I.P, pdflush as well.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert calculations of proportion of writeback each bdi does to new flexible
proportion code. That allows us to use aging period of fixed wallclock time
which gives better proportion estimates given the hugely varying throughput of
different devices.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
This prevents global_dirty_limit from remaining 0 (the initial value)
for long time, since it's only updated in update_dirty_limit() when
above the dirty freerun area.
It will avoid unexpected consequences when some random code use it as a
convenient approximation of the global dirty threshold.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
The function global_dirtyable_memory is only referenced in this file and
should be marked static to prevent it from being exposed globally.
This quiets the sparse warning:
warning: symbol 'global_dirtyable_memory' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt
cleanup patch series. The same is true of the change to remove the
s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree. I've
run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can
more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge
window. (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from
ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I
ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates for 3.4 from Ted Ts'o:
"Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes
The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt
cleanup patch series. The same is true of the change to remove the
s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree. I've
run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can
more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge
window. (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from
ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I
ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (66 commits)
vfs: remove unused superblock helpers
mm: export dirty_writeback_interval
ext4: remove useless s_dirt assignment
ext4: write superblock only once on unmount
ext4: do not mark superblock as dirty unnecessarily
ext4: correct ext4_punch_hole return codes
ext4: remove restrictive checks for EOFBLOCKS_FL
ext4: always set then trimmed blocks count into len
ext4: fix trimmed block count accunting
ext4: fix start and len arguments handling in ext4_trim_fs()
ext4: update s_free_{inodes,blocks}_count during online resize
ext4: change some printk() calls to use ext4_msg() instead
ext4: avoid output message interleaving in ext4_error_<foo>()
ext4: remove trailing newlines from ext4_msg() and ext4_error() messages
ext4: add no_printk argument validation, fix fallout
ext4: remove redundant "EXT4-fs: " from uses of ext4_msg
ext4: give more helpful error message in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
ext4: remove unused code from ext4_ext_map_blocks()
ext4: rewrite punch hole to use ext4_ext_remove_space()
jbd2: cleanup journal tail after transaction commit
...
Export 'dirty_writeback_interval' to make it visible to
file-systems. We are going to push superblock management down to
file-systems and get rid of the 'sync_supers' kernel thread completly.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When starting a memory hog task, a desktop box w/o swap is found to go
unresponsive for a long time. It's solely caused by lots of congestion
waits in throttle_vm_writeout():
gnome-system-mo-4201 553.073384: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
gnome-system-mo-4201 553.073386: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
gtali-4237 553.080377: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
gtali-4237 553.080378: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
Xorg-3483 553.103375: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
Xorg-3483 553.103377: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
The root cause is, the dirty threshold is knocked down a lot by the memory
hog task. Fixed by using global_dirty_limit which decreases gradually on
such events and can guarantee we stay above (the also decreasing) nr_dirty
in the progress of following down to the new dirty threshold.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The maximum number of dirty pages that exist in the system at any time is
determined by a number of pages considered dirtyable and a user-configured
percentage of those, or an absolute number in bytes.
This number of dirtyable pages is the sum of memory provided by all the
zones in the system minus their lowmem reserves and high watermarks, so
that the system can retain a healthy number of free pages without having
to reclaim dirty pages.
But there is a flaw in that we have a zoned page allocator which does not
care about the global state but rather the state of individual memory
zones. And right now there is nothing that prevents one zone from filling
up with dirty pages while other zones are spared, which frequently leads
to situations where kswapd, in order to restore the watermark of free
pages, does indeed have to write pages from that zone's LRU list. This
can interfere so badly with IO from the flusher threads that major
filesystems (btrfs, xfs, ext4) mostly ignore write requests from reclaim
already, taking away the VM's only possibility to keep such a zone
balanced, aside from hoping the flushers will soon clean pages from that
zone.
Enter per-zone dirty limits. They are to a zone's dirtyable memory what
the global limit is to the global amount of dirtyable memory, and try to
make sure that no single zone receives more than its fair share of the
globally allowed dirty pages in the first place. As the number of pages
considered dirtyable excludes the zones' lowmem reserves and high
watermarks, the maximum number of dirty pages in a zone is such that the
zone can always be balanced without requiring page cleaning.
As this is a placement decision in the page allocator and pages are
dirtied only after the allocation, this patch allows allocators to pass
__GFP_WRITE when they know in advance that the page will be written to and
become dirty soon. The page allocator will then attempt to allocate from
the first zone of the zonelist - which on NUMA is determined by the task's
NUMA memory policy - that has not exceeded its dirty limit.
At first glance, it would appear that the diversion to lower zones can
increase pressure on them, but this is not the case. With a full high
zone, allocations will be diverted to lower zones eventually, so it is
more of a shift in timing of the lower zone allocations. Workloads that
previously could fit their dirty pages completely in the higher zone may
be forced to allocate from lower zones, but the amount of pages that
"spill over" are limited themselves by the lower zones' dirty constraints,
and thus unlikely to become a problem.
For now, the problem of unfair dirty page distribution remains for NUMA
configurations where the zones allowed for allocation are in sum not big
enough to trigger the global dirty limits, wake up the flusher threads and
remedy the situation. Because of this, an allocation that could not
succeed on any of the considered zones is allowed to ignore the dirty
limits before going into direct reclaim or even failing the allocation,
until a future patch changes the global dirty throttling and flusher
thread activation so that they take individual zone states into account.
Test results
15M DMA + 3246M DMA32 + 504 Normal = 3765M memory
40% dirty ratio
16G USB thumb drive
10 runs of dd if=/dev/zero of=disk/zeroes bs=32k count=$((10 << 15))
seconds nr_vmscan_write
(stddev) min| median| max
xfs
vanilla: 549.747( 3.492) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
patched: 550.996( 3.802) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
fuse-ntfs
vanilla: 1183.094(53.178) 54349.000| 59341.000| 65163.000
patched: 558.049(17.914) 0.000| 0.000| 43.000
btrfs
vanilla: 573.679(14.015) 156657.000| 460178.000| 606926.000
patched: 563.365(11.368) 0.000| 0.000| 1362.000
ext4
vanilla: 561.197(15.782) 0.000|2725438.000|4143837.000
patched: 568.806(17.496) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The next patch will introduce per-zone dirty limiting functions in
addition to the traditional global dirty limiting.
Rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to global_dirtyable_memory() before
adding the zone-specific version, and fix up its documentation.
Also, move the functions to determine the dirtyable memory and the
function to calculate the dirty limit based on that together so that their
relationship is more apparent and that they can be commented on as a
group.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per-zone dirty limits try to distribute page cache pages allocated for
writing across zones in proportion to the individual zone sizes, to reduce
the likelihood of reclaim having to write back individual pages from the
LRU lists in order to make progress.
This patch:
The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the full number of free
pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page allocator and
kswapd always try to keep free.
The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of reserved
pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into dirty pages:
+----------+ ---
| anon | |
+----------+ |
| | |
| | -- dirty limit new -- flusher new
| file | | |
| | | |
| | -- dirty limit old -- flusher old
| | |
+----------+ --- reclaim
| reserved |
+----------+
| kernel |
+----------+
This patch introduces a per-zone dirty reserve that takes both the lowmem
reserve as well as the high watermark of the zone into account, and a
global sum of those per-zone values that is subtracted from the global
amount of dirtyable pages. The lowmem reserve is unavailable to page
cache allocations and kswapd tries to keep the high watermark free. We
don't want to end up in a situation where reclaim has to clean pages in
order to balance zones.
Not treating reserved pages as dirtyable on a global level is only a
conceptual fix. In reality, dirty pages are not distributed equally
across zones and reclaim runs into dirty pages on a regular basis.
But it is important to get this right before tackling the problem on a
per-zone level, where the distance between reclaim and the dirty pages is
mostly much smaller in absolute numbers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix highmem build]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The tracing ring-buffer used this function briefly, but not anymore.
Make it local to the writeback code again.
Also, move the function so that no forward declaration needs to be
reintroduced.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.
Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an upper limit to balanced_rate according to the below inequality.
This filters out some rare but huge singular points, which at least
enables more readable gnuplot figures.
When there are N dd dirtiers,
balanced_dirty_ratelimit = write_bw / N
So it holds that
balanced_dirty_ratelimit <= write_bw
The singular points originate from dirty_rate in the below formular:
balanced_dirty_ratelimit = task_ratelimit * write_bw / dirty_rate
where
dirty_rate = (number of page dirties in the past 200ms) / 200ms
In the extreme case, if all dd tasks suddenly get blocked on something
else and hence no pages are dirtied at all, dirty_rate will be 0 and
balanced_dirty_ratelimit will be inf. This could happen in reality.
Note that these huge singular points are not a real threat, since they
are _guaranteed_ to be filtered out by the
min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit)
line in bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(). task_ratelimit is based on the
number of dirty pages, which will never _suddenly_ fly away like
balanced_dirty_ratelimit. So any weirdly large balanced_dirty_ratelimit
will be cut down to the level of task_ratelimit.
There won't be tiny singular points though, as long as the dirty pages
lie inside the dirty throttling region (above the freerun region).
Because there the dd tasks will be throttled by balanced_dirty_pages()
and won't be able to suddenly dirty much more pages than average.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
This helps to reduce dirty throttling polls and hence CPU overheads.
bdi->dirty_exceeded typically only helps when suddenly starting 100+
dd's on a disk, in which case the dd's may need to poll
balance_dirty_pages() earlier than tsk->nr_dirtied_pause.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
The LKP tests see big 56% regression for the case fio_mmap_randwrite_64k.
Shaohua manages to root cause it to be the much smaller dirty pause times
and hence much more frequent invocations to the IO-less balance_dirty_pages().
Since fio_mmap_randwrite_64k effectively contains both reads and writes,
the more frequent pauses triggered more idling in the cfq IO scheduler.
The solution is to increase pause time all the way up to the max 200ms
in this case, which is found to restore most performance. This will help
reduce CPU overheads in other cases, too.
Note that I don't expect many performance critical workloads to run this
access pattern: the mmap read-on-write is rather inefficient and could
be avoided by doing normal writes syscalls.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Control the pause time and the call intervals to balance_dirty_pages()
with three parameters:
1) max_pause, limited by bdi_dirty and MAX_PAUSE
2) the target pause time, grows with the number of dd tasks
and is normally limited by max_pause/2
3) the minimal pause, set to half the target pause
and is used to skip short sleeps and accumulate them into bigger ones
The typical behaviors after patch:
- if ever task_ratelimit is far below dirty_ratelimit, the pause time
will remain constant at max_pause and nr_dirtied_pause will be
fluctuating with task_ratelimit
- in the normal cases, nr_dirtied_pause will remain stable (keep in the
same pace with dirty_ratelimit) and the pause time will be fluctuating
with task_ratelimit
In summary, someone has to fluctuate with task_ratelimit, because
task_ratelimit = nr_dirtied_pause / pause
We normally prefer a stable nr_dirtied_pause, until reaching max_pause.
The notable behavior changes are:
- in stable workloads, there will no longer be sudden big trajectory
switching of nr_dirtied_pause as concerned by Peter. It will be as
smooth as dirty_ratelimit and changing proportionally with it (as
always, assuming bdi bandwidth does not fluctuate across 2^N lines,
otherwise nr_dirtied_pause will show up in 2+ parallel trajectories)
- in the rare cases when something keeps task_ratelimit far below
dirty_ratelimit, the smoothness can no longer be retained and
nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit. This fixes a
(not that destructive but still not good) bug that
dirty_ratelimit gets brought down undesirably
<= balanced_dirty_ratelimit is under estimated
<= weakly executed task_ratelimit
<= pause goes too large and gets trimmed down to max_pause
<= nr_dirtied_pause (based on dirty_ratelimit) is set too large
<= dirty_ratelimit being much larger than task_ratelimit
- introduce min_pause to avoid small pause sleeps
- when pause is trimmed down to max_pause, try to compensate it at the
next pause time
The "refactor" type of changes are:
The max_pause equation is slightly transformed to make it slightly more
efficient.
We now scale target_pause by (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks, which
is effectively equal to the original scaling max_pause by (N * 20ms)
because the original code does implicit target_pause ~= max_pause / 2.
Based on the same implicit ratio, target_pause starts with 10ms on 1 dd.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time,
so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately.
think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages()
In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time
(result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in
the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second.
Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area
is not hitted.
Pseudo code:
period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when;
pause = period - think;
1) normal case: period > think
pause = period - think
dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause
nr_dirtied = 0
period time
|===============================>|
think time pause time
|===============>|==============>|
------|----------------|---------------|------------------------
dirty_paused_when jiffies
2) no pause case: period <= think
don't pause; reduce future pause time by:
dirty_paused_when += period
nr_dirtied = 0
period time
|===============================>|
think time
|===================================================>|
------|--------------------------------+-------------------|----
dirty_paused_when jiffies
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
De-account the accumulative dirty counters on page redirty.
Page redirties (very common in ext4) will introduce mismatch between
counters (a) and (b)
a) NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied
b) NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN
This will introduce systematic errors in balanced_rate and result in
dirty page position errors (ie. the dirty pages are no longer balanced
around the global/bdi setpoints).
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
When dd in 512bytes, generic_perform_write() calls
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() 8 times for the same page, but
obviously the page is only dirtied once.
Fix it by accounting tsk->nr_dirtied and bdp_ratelimits at page dirty time.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
It's a years long problem that a large number of short-lived dirtiers
(eg. gcc instances in a fast kernel build) may starve long-run dirtiers
(eg. dd) as well as pushing the dirty pages to the global hard limit.
The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the
other random dirtying tasks. It sounds not perfect, however should
behave good enough in practice, seeing as that throttled tasks aren't
actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up
and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread.
Randy: fix compile error: 'dirty_throttle_leaks' undeclared in exit.c
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Some trace shows lots of bdi_dirty=0 lines where it's actually some
small value if w/o the accounting errors in the per-cpu bdi stats.
In this case the max pause time should really be set to the smallest
(non-zero) value to avoid IO queue underrun and improve throughput.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
On a system with 1 local mount and 1 NFS mount, if the NFS server
becomes not responding when dd to the NFS mount, the NFS dirty pages may
exceed the global dirty limit and _every_ task involving writing will be
blocked. The whole system appears unresponsive.
The workaround is to permit through the bdi's that only has a small
number of dirty pages. The number chosen (bdi_stat_error pages) is not
enough to enable the local disk to run in optimal throughput, however is
enough to make the system responsive on a broken NFS mount. The user can
then kill the dirtiers on the NFS mount and increase the global dirty
limit to bring up the local disk's throughput.
It risks allowing dirty pages to grow much larger than the global dirty
limit when there are 1000+ mounts, however that's very unlikely to happen,
especially in low memory profiles.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
