Currently, if someone submits jobs for the default bdi, we can lose wake-up
events. E.g., this can happen if 'bdi_queue_work()' is called when
'bdi_forker_thread()' is executing code after 'wb_do_writeback(me, 0)', but
before 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)'.
This situation is unlikely, and the result is not very severe - we'll just
delay the execution of the work, but this is still not very nice.
This patch fixes the issue by checking whether the default bdi has works before
the forker thread goes sleep.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently the forker thread can lose wake-ups which may lead to unnecessary
delays in processing bdi works. E.g., consider the following scenario.
1. 'bdi_forker_thread()' walks the 'bdi_list', finds out there is nothing to
do, and is about to finish the loop.
2. A bdi thread decides to exit because it was inactive for long time.
3. 'bdi_queue_work()' adds a work to the bdi which just exited, so it wakes up
the forker thread.
4. but 'bdi_forker_thread()' executes 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)'
and goes sleep. We lose a wake-up.
Losing the wake-up is not fatal, but this means that the bdi work processing
will be delayed by up to 5 sec. This race is theoretical, I never hit it, but
it is worth fixing.
The fix is to execute 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' _before_ walking
'bdi_list', not after.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch fixes a very unlikely race condition on the bdi forker thread error
path: when bdi thread creation fails, 'bdi->wb.task' may contain the error code
for a short period of time. If at the same time someone submits a work to this
bdi, we can end up with an oops 'bdi_queue_work()' while executing
'wake_up_process(wb->task)'.
This patch fixes the issue by introducing a temporary variable 'task' and
storing the possible error code there, so that 'wb->task' would never take
erroneous values.
Note, this race is very unlikely and I never hit it, so it is theoretical, but
nevertheless worth fixing.
This patch also merges 2 comments which were previously separate.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The write-back code mixes words "thread" and "task" for the same things. This
is not a big deal, but still an inconsistency.
hch: a convention I tend to use and I've seen in various places
is to always use _task for the storage of the task_struct pointer,
and thread everywhere else. This especially helps with having
foo_thread for the actual thread and foo_task for a global
variable keeping the task_struct pointer
This patch renames:
* 'bdi_add_default_flusher_task()' -> 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()'
* 'bdi_forker_task()' -> 'bdi_forker_thread()'
because bdi threads are 'bdi_writeback_thread()', so these names are more
consistent.
This patch also amends commentaries and makes them refer the forker and bdi
threads as "thread", not "task".
Also, while on it, make 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' declaration use
'static void' instead of 'void static' and make checkpatch.pl happy.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Add a trace event to the ->writepage loop in write_cache_pages to give
visibility into how the ->writepage call is changing variables within the
writeback control structure. Of most interest is how wbc->nr_to_write changes
from call to call, especially with filesystems that write multiple pages
in ->writepage.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Tracing high level background writeback events is good, but it doesn't
give the entire picture. Add visibility into write throttling to catch IO
dispatched by foreground throttling of processing dirtying lots of pages.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Trace queue/sched/exec parts of the writeback loop. This provides
insight into when and why flusher threads are scheduled to run. e.g
a sync invocation leaves traces like:
sync-[...]: writeback_queue: bdi 8:0: sb_dev 8:1 nr_pages=7712 sync_mode=0 kupdate=0 range_cyclic=0 background=0
flush-8:0-[...]: writeback_exec: bdi 8:0: sb_dev 8:1 nr_pages=7712 sync_mode=0 kupdate=0 range_cyclic=0 background=0
This also lays the foundation for adding more writeback tracing to
provide deeper insight into the whole writeback path.
The original tracing code is from Jens Axboe, though this version is
a rewrite as a result of the code being traced changing
significantly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Move all code for the writeback thread into fs/fs-writeback.c instead of
splitting it over two functions in two files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The wb_list member of struct backing_device_info always has exactly one
element. Just use the direct bdi->wb pointer instead and simplify some
code.
Also remove bdi_task_init which is now trivial to prepare for the next
patch.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.
Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
Revert "slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot"
slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode.
slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
SLUB: Constants need UL
slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
SLOB: Free objects to their own list
slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling in PAT code
x86, tlb: Clean up and correct used type
x86, iomap: Fix wrong page aligned size calculation in ioremapping code
x86, mm: Create symbolic index into address_markers array
x86, ioremap: Fix normal ram range check
x86, ioremap: Fix incorrect physical address handling in PAE mode
x86-64, mm: Initialize VDSO earlier on 64 bits
x86, kmmio/mmiotrace: Fix double free of kmmio_fault_pages
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
Revert "net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU"
mce: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU
vfs: add fs.h to define struct file
lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function
rcu: add __rcu API for later sparse checking
rcu: add an rcu_dereference_index_check()
tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
mm: remove all rcu head initializations
fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations
powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step
kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4
kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations
mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage
KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC
ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump
ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die
gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()
gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets
kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm
kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips
kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86
kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API
gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol
kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
The kdb kmap should never get used outside of the kernel debugger
exception context.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel<jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
This is a wrapper for memblock_find_base() using slightly different
arguments (start,end instead of start,size for example) in order to
make it easier to convert existing arch/x86 code.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Arch code can define ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK in asm/memblock.h,
which in turns causes memblock code and data to go respectively
into the .init and .initdata sections. This will be used by the
x86 architecture.
If ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK is defined, the debugfs files to inspect
the memblock arrays after boot are not created.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
And ensure we don't hand out 0 as a valid allocation. We put the
low limit at PAGE_SIZE arbitrarily.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
will used by x86 memblock_x86_find_in_range_node and nobootmem replacement
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Print out the location info in addition to which array is being
resized. Also use memblocK_dbg() to put that under control of
the memblock_debug flag.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This exposes memblock_debug and associated memblock_dbg() macro,
along with memblock_can_resize so that x86 can use these when
ported to use memblock
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
memblock_alloc_nid() used to fallback to allocating anywhere by using
memblock_alloc() as a fallback.
However, some of my previous patches limit memblock_alloc() to the region
covered by MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE which is not quite what we want
for memblock_alloc_try_nid().
So we fix it by explicitely using MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE.
Not that so far only sparc uses memblock_alloc_nid() and it hasn't been updated
to clamp the accessible zone yet. Thus the temporary "breakage" should have
no effect.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The former is now strict, it will fail if it cannot honor the allocation
within the node, while the later implements the previous semantic which
falls back to allocating anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We now provide a default (weak) implementation of memblock_nid_range()
which uses the early_pfn_map[] if CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
is set. Sparc still needs to use its own method due to the way
the pages can be scattered between nodes.
This implementation is inefficient due to our main algorithm and
callback construct wanting to work on an ascending addresses bases
while early_pfn_map[] would rather work with nid's (it's unsorted
at that stage). But it should work and we can look into improving
it subsequently, possibly using arch compile options to chose a
different algorithm alltogether.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To constraint the search of a region between two boundaries,
which will be used by the new NUMA aware allocator among others.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Some archs such as ARM want to avoid coalescing accross things such
as the lowmem/highmem boundary or similar. This provides the option
to control it via an arch callback for which a weak default is provided
which always allows coalescing.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When one of the array gets full, we resize it. After much thinking and
a few iterations of that code, I went back to on-demand resizing using
the (new) internal memblock_find_base() function, which is pretty much what
Yinghai initially proposed, though there some differences in the details.
To work this relies on the default alloc limit being set sensibly by
the architecture.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Some shuffling is needed for doing array resize so we may as well
put some sense into the ordering of the functions in the whole memblock.c
file. No code change. Added some comments.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This will be used by the array resize code and might prove useful
to some arch code as well at which point it can be made non-static.
Also add comment as to why aligning size is important
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
v2. Fix loss of size alignment
v3. Fix result code
This function will be used to locate a free area to put the new memblock
arrays when attempting to resize them. memblock_alloc_region() is gone,
the two callsites now call memblock_add_region().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
v2. Fix membase_alloc_nid_region() conversion
Since we allocate one more than needed, why not do a bit of sanity checking
here to ensure we don't walk past the end of the array ?
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is in preparation for having resizable arrays.
Note that we still allocate one more than needed, this is unchanged from
the previous implementation.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Right now, both the "memory" and "reserved" memblock_type structures have
a "size" member. It represents the calculated memory size in the former
case and is unused in the latter.
This moves it out to the main memblock structure instead
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Let's not waste space and cycles on archs that don't support >32-bit
physical address space.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The RMA (RMO is a misnomer) is a concept specific to ppc64 (in fact
server ppc64 though I hijack it on embedded ppc64 for similar purposes)
and represents the area of memory that can be accessed in real mode
(aka with MMU off), or on embedded, from the exception vectors (which
is bolted in the TLB) which pretty much boils down to the same thing.
We take that out of the generic MEMBLOCK data structure and move it into
arch/powerpc where it belongs, renaming it to "RMA" while at it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This introduce memblock.current_limit which is used to limit allocations
from memblock_alloc() or memblock_alloc_base(..., MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE).
The old MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE changes value from 0 to ~(u64)0 and can still
be used with memblock_alloc_base() to allocate really anywhere.
It is -no-longer- cropped to MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT which disappears.
Note to archs: I'm leaving the default limit to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE. I
strongly recommend that you ensure that you set an appropriate limit
during boot in order to guarantee that an memblock_alloc() at any time
results in something that is accessible with a simple __va().
The reason is that a subsequent patch will introduce the ability for
the array to resize itself by reallocating itself. The MEMBLOCK core will
honor the current limit when performing those allocations.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online
percpu: make @dyn_size always mean min dyn_size in first chunk init functions
To make it fast, we steal ARM's binary search for memblock_is_memory()
and we use that to also the replace existing implementation of
memblock_is_reserved().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
All callers expect a boolean result which is true if the region
overlaps a reserved region. However, the implementation actually
returns -1 if there is no overlap, and a region index (0 based)
if there is.
Make it behave as callers (and common sense) expect.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
