On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 07:09:16AM +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Here are the two writeback livelock fixes (patch 3, 4) from Jan Kara.
> The series starts with a preparation patch and carries two more debugging
> patches.
Jan: for your convenience, attached is the combined patch for linux-next.
Thanks,
Fengguang
--- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2010-11-06 23:55:25.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c 2010-11-07 22:01:15.000000000 +0800
@@ -84,13 +84,9 @@ static inline struct inode *wb_inode(str
return list_entry(head, struct inode, i_wb_list);
}
-static void bdi_queue_work(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
- struct wb_writeback_work *work)
+/* Wakeup flusher thread or forker thread to fork it. Requires bdi->wb_lock. */
+static void bdi_wakeup_flusher(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- trace_writeback_queue(bdi, work);
-
- spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
- list_add_tail(&work->list, &bdi->work_list);
if (bdi->wb.task) {
wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task);
} else {
@@ -98,15 +94,26 @@ static void bdi_queue_work(struct backin
* The bdi thread isn't there, wake up the forker thread which
* will create and run it.
*/
- trace_writeback_nothread(bdi, work);
wake_up_process(default_backing_dev_info.wb.task);
}
+}
+
+static void bdi_queue_work(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ struct wb_writeback_work *work)
+{
+ trace_writeback_queue(bdi, work);
+
+ spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
+ list_add_tail(&work->list, &bdi->work_list);
+ if (!bdi->wb.task)
+ trace_writeback_nothread(bdi, work);
+ bdi_wakeup_flusher(bdi);
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
}
static void
__bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
- bool range_cyclic, bool for_background)
+ bool range_cyclic)
{
struct wb_writeback_work *work;
@@ -126,7 +133,6 @@ __bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev
work->sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE;
work->nr_pages = nr_pages;
work->range_cyclic = range_cyclic;
- work->for_background = for_background;
bdi_queue_work(bdi, work);
}
@@ -144,7 +150,7 @@ __bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev
*/
void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages)
{
- __bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_pages, true, false);
+ __bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_pages, true);
}
/**
@@ -152,13 +158,21 @@ void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_
* @bdi: the backing device to write from
*
* Description:
- * This does WB_SYNC_NONE background writeback. The IO is only
- * started when this function returns, we make no guarentees on
- * completion. Caller need not hold sb s_umount semaphore.
+ * This makes sure WB_SYNC_NONE background writeback happens. When
+ * this function returns, it is only guaranteed that for given BDI
+ * some IO is happening if we are over background dirty threshold.
+ * Caller need not hold sb s_umount semaphore.
*/
void bdi_start_background_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- __bdi_start_writeback(bdi, LONG_MAX, true, true);
+ /*
+ * We just wake up the flusher thread. It will perform background
+ * writeback as soon as there is no other work to do.
+ */
+ trace_writeback_wake_background(bdi);
+ spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
+ bdi_wakeup_flusher(bdi);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
}
/*
@@ -513,6 +527,7 @@ static int writeback_sb_inodes(struct su
* buffers. Skip this inode for now.
*/
redirty_tail(inode);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL);
}
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
iput(inode);
@@ -616,6 +631,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
};
unsigned long oldest_jif;
long wrote = 0;
+ long write_chunk;
struct inode *inode;
if (wbc.for_kupdate) {
@@ -628,6 +644,24 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
wbc.range_end = LLONG_MAX;
}
+ /*
+ * WB_SYNC_ALL mode does livelock avoidance by syncing dirty
+ * inodes/pages in one big loop. Setting wbc.nr_to_write=LONG_MAX
+ * here avoids calling into writeback_inodes_wb() more than once.
+ *
+ * The intended call sequence for WB_SYNC_ALL writeback is:
+ *
+ * wb_writeback()
+ * writeback_inodes_wb() <== called only once
+ * write_cache_pages() <== called once for each inode
+ * (quickly) tag currently dirty pages
+ * (maybe slowly) sync all tagged pages
+ */
+ if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
+ write_chunk = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
+ else
+ write_chunk = LONG_MAX;
+
wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
for (;;) {
/*
@@ -637,6 +671,15 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
break;
/*
+ * Background writeout and kupdate-style writeback are
+ * easily livelockable. Stop them if there is other work
+ * to do so that e.g. sync can proceed.
+ */
+ if ((work->for_background || work->for_kupdate) &&
+ !list_empty(&wb->bdi->work_list))
+ break;
+
+ /*
* For background writeout, stop when we are below the
* background dirty threshold
*/
@@ -644,7 +687,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
break;
wbc.more_io = 0;
- wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
+ wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk;
wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
trace_wbc_writeback_start(&wbc, wb->bdi);
@@ -654,8 +697,8 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
writeback_inodes_wb(wb, &wbc);
trace_wbc_writeback_written(&wbc, wb->bdi);
- work->nr_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
- wrote += MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
+ work->nr_pages -= write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
+ wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
/*
* If we consumed everything, see if we have more
@@ -670,7 +713,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
/*
* Did we write something? Try for more
*/
- if (wbc.nr_to_write < MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES)
+ if (wbc.nr_to_write < write_chunk)
continue;
/*
* Nothing written. Wait for some inode to
@@ -707,6 +750,23 @@ get_next_work_item(struct backing_dev_in
return work;
}
+static long wb_check_background_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
+{
+ if (over_bground_thresh()) {
+
+ struct wb_writeback_work work = {
+ .nr_pages = LONG_MAX,
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
+ .for_background = 1,
+ .range_cyclic = 1,
+ };
+
+ return wb_writeback(wb, &work);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
{
unsigned long expired;
@@ -782,6 +842,7 @@ long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writebac
* Check for periodic writeback, kupdated() style
*/
wrote += wb_check_old_data_flush(wb);
+ wrote += wb_check_background_flush(wb);
clear_bit(BDI_writeback_running, &wb->bdi->state);
return wrote;
@@ -868,7 +929,7 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_page
list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) {
if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi))
continue;
- __bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_pages, false, false);
+ __bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_pages, false);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
}
--- linux-next.orig/include/trace/events/writeback.h 2010-11-07 21:54:19.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/trace/events/writeback.h 2010-11-07 21:56:42.000000000 +0800
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \
TP_ARGS(bdi))
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork);
+DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_thread);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_forker_thread);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register);
