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Dave Hansen 998ef75ddb fs: do not prefault sys_write() user buffer pages
=== Short summary ====

iov_iter_fault_in_readable() works around a really rare case and we can
avoid the deadlock it addresses in another way: disable page faults and
work around copy failures by faulting after the copy in a slow path
instead of before in a hot one.

I have a little microbenchmark that does repeated, small writes to tmpfs.
This patch speeds that micro up by 6.2%.

=== Long version ===

When doing a sys_write() we have a source buffer in userspace and then a
target file page.

If both of those are the same physical page, there is a potential deadlock
that we avoid.  It would happen something like this:

1. We start the write to the file
2. Allocate page cache page and set it !Uptodate
3. Touch the userspace buffer to copy in the user data
4. Page fault (since source of the write not yet mapped)
5. Page fault code tries to lock the page and deadlocks

(more details on this below)

To avoid this, we prefault the page to guarantee that this fault does not
occur.  But, this prefault comes at a cost.  It is one of the most
expensive things that we do in a hot write() path (especially if we
compare it to the read path).  It is working around a pretty rare case.

To fix this, it's pretty simple.  We move the "prefault" code to run after
we attempt the copy.  We explicitly disable page faults _during_ the copy,
detect the copy failure, then execute the "prefault" ouside of where the
page lock needs to be held.

iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() actually already has an implicit
pagefault_disable() inside of it (at least on x86), but we add an explicit
one.  I don't think we can depend on every kmap_atomic() implementation to
pagefault_disable() for eternity.

===================================================

The stack trace when this happens looks like this:

  wait_on_page_bit_killable+0xc0/0xd0
  __lock_page_or_retry+0x84/0xa0
  filemap_fault+0x1ed/0x3d0
  __do_fault+0x41/0xc0
  handle_mm_fault+0x9bb/0x1210
  __do_page_fault+0x17f/0x3d0
  do_page_fault+0xc/0x10
  page_fault+0x22/0x30
  generic_perform_write+0xca/0x1a0
  __generic_file_write_iter+0x190/0x1f0
  ext4_file_write_iter+0xe9/0x460
  __vfs_write+0xaa/0xe0
  vfs_write+0xa6/0x1a0
  SyS_write+0x46/0xa0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a
  0xffffffffffffffff

(Note, this does *NOT* happen in practice today because
 the kmap_atomic() does a pagefault_disable().  The trace
 above was obtained by taking out the pagefault_disable().)

You can trigger the deadlock with this little code snippet:

	fd = open("foo", O_RDWR);
	fdmap = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
	write(fd, &fdmap[0], 1);

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Cassella <cassella@cray.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1dc51b8288 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...
2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e4bc13adfd Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...
2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
Michal Hocko 6afdb859b7 mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths
page_cache_read, do_generic_file_read, __generic_file_splice_read and
__ntfs_grab_cache_pages currently ignore mapping_gfp_mask when calling
add_to_page_cache_lru which might cause recursion into fs down in the
direct reclaim path if the mapping really relies on GFP_NOFS semantic.

This doesn't seem to be the case now because page_cache_read (page fault
path) doesn't seem to suffer from the reclaim recursion issues and
do_generic_file_read and __generic_file_splice_read also shouldn't be
called under fs locks which would deadlock in the reclaim path.  Anyway it
is better to obey mapping gfp mask and prevent from later breakage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24 17:49:44 -07:00
Michal Hocko 4165b9b461 hugetlb: do not account hugetlb pages as NR_FILE_PAGES
hugetlb pages uses add_to_page_cache to track shared mappings.  This is
OK from the data structure point of view but it is less so from the
NR_FILE_PAGES accounting:

	- huge pages are accounted as 4k which is clearly wrong
	- this counter is used as the amount of the reclaimable page
	  cache which is incorrect as well because hugetlb pages are
	  special and not reclaimable
	- the counter is then exported to userspace via /proc/meminfo
	  (in Cached:), /proc/vmstat and /proc/zoneinfo as
	  nr_file_pages which is confusing at least:
	  Cached:          8883504 kB
	  HugePages_Free:     8348
	  ...
	  Cached:          8916048 kB
	  HugePages_Free:      156
	  ...
	  thats 8192 huge pages allocated which is ~16G accounted as 32M

There are usually not that many huge pages in the system for this to
make any visible difference e.g.  by fooling __vm_enough_memory or
zone_pagecache_reclaimable.

Fix this by special casing huge pages in both __delete_from_page_cache
and __add_to_page_cache_locked.  replace_page_cache_page is currently
only used by fuse and that shouldn't touch hugetlb pages AFAICS but it
is more robust to check for special casing there as well.

Hugetlb pages shouldn't get to any other paths where we do accounting:
	- migration - we have a special handling via
	  hugetlbfs_migrate_page
	- shmem - doesn't handle hugetlb pages directly even for
	  SHM_HUGETLB resp. MAP_HUGETLB
	- swapcache - hugetlb is not swapable

This has a user visible effect but I believe it is reasonable because the
previously exported number is simply bogus.

An alternative would be to account hugetlb pages with their real size and
treat them similar to shmem.  But this has some drawbacks.

First we would have to special case in kernel users of NR_FILE_PAGES and
considering how hugetlb is special we would have to do it everywhere.  We
do not want Cached exported by /proc/meminfo to include it because the
value would be even more misleading.

__vm_enough_memory and zone_pagecache_reclaimable would have to do the
same thing because those pages are simply not reclaimable.  The correction
is even not trivial because we would have to consider all active hugetlb
page sizes properly.  Users of the counter outside of the kernel would
have to do the same.

So the question is why to account something that needs to be basically
excluded for each reasonable usage.  This doesn't make much sense to me.

It seems that this has been broken since hugetlb was introduced but I
haven't checked the whole history.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24 17:49:43 -07:00
Jan Kara 5fa8e0a1c6 fs: Rename file_remove_suid() to file_remove_privs()
file_remove_suid() is a misnomer since it removes also file capabilities
stored in xattrs and sets S_NOSEC flag. Also should_remove_suid() tells
something else than whether file_remove_suid() call is necessary which
leads to bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-23 18:01:08 -04:00
Tejun Heo 682aa8e1a6 writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
The mechanism for detecting whether an inode should switch its wb
(bdi_writeback) association is now in place.  This patch build the
framework for the actual switching.

This patch adds a new inode flag I_WB_SWITCHING, which has two
functions.  First, the easy one, it ensures that there's only one
switching in progress for a give inode.  Second, it's used as a
mechanism to synchronize wb stat updates.

The two stats, WB_RECLAIMABLE and WB_WRITEBACK, aren't event counters
but track the current number of dirty pages and pages under writeback
respectively.  As such, when an inode is moved from one wb to another,
the inode's portion of those stats have to be transferred together;
unfortunately, this is a bit tricky as those stat updates are percpu
operations which are performed without holding any lock in some
places.

This patch solves the problem in a similar way as memcg.  Each such
lockless stat updates are wrapped in transaction surrounded by
unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin/end().  During normal operation, they map
to rcu_read_lock/unlock(); however, if I_WB_SWITCHING is asserted,
mapping->tree_lock is grabbed across the transaction.

In turn, the switching path sets I_WB_SWITCHING and waits for a RCU
grace period to pass before actually starting to switch, which
guarantees that all stat update paths are synchronizing against
mapping->tree_lock.

This patch still doesn't implement the actual switching.

v3: Updated on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() updates.
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin() now nests inside
    mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() to match the locking order.

v2: The i_wb access transaction will be used for !stat accesses too.
    Function names and comments updated accordingly.

    s/inode_wb_stat_unlocked_{begin|end}/unlocked_inode_to_wb_{begin|end}/
    s/switch_wb/switch_wbs/

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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:40:20 -06:00
Tejun Heo b16b1deb55 writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
Currently, for cgroup writeback, the IO submission paths directly
associate the bio's with the blkcg from inode_to_wb_blkcg_css();
however, it'd be necessary to keep more writeback context to implement
foreign inode writeback detection.  wbc (writeback_control) is the
natural fit for the extra context - it persists throughout the
writeback of each inode and is passed all the way down to IO
submission paths.

This patch adds wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode(), wbc_detach_inode(), and
wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode() which are used to associate wbc with the
inode being written back.  IO submission paths now use wbc_init_bio()
instead of directly associating bio's with blkcg themselves.  This
leaves inode_to_wb_blkcg_css() w/o any user.  The function is removed.

wbc currently only tracks the associated wb (bdi_writeback).  Future
patches will add more for foreign inode detection.  The association is
established under i_lock which will be depended upon when migrating
foreign inodes to other wb's.

As currently, once established, inode to wb association never changes,
going through wbc when initializing bio's doesn't cause any behavior
changes.

v2: submit_blk_blkcg() now checks whether the wbc is associated with a
    wb before dereferencing it.  This can happen when pageout() is
    writing pages directly without going through the usual writeback
    path.  As pageout() path is single-threaded, we don't want it to
    be blocked behind a slow cgroup and ultimately want it to delegate
    actual writing to the usual writeback path.

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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:39:48 -06:00
Greg Thelen c4843a7593 memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting
When modifying PG_Dirty on cached file pages, update the new
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY counter.  This is done in the same places where
global NR_FILE_DIRTY is managed.  The new memcg stat is visible in the
per memcg memory.stat cgroupfs file.  The most recent past attempt at
this was http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8632

The new accounting supports future efforts to add per cgroup dirty
page throttling and writeback.  It also helps an administrator break
down a container's memory usage and provides evidence to understand
memcg oom kills (the new dirty count is included in memcg oom kill
messages).

The ability to move page accounting between memcg
(memory.move_charge_at_immigrate) makes this accounting more
complicated than the global counter.  The existing
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat() lock is used to serialize move
accounting with stat updates.
Typical update operation:
	memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page)
	if (TestSetPageDirty()) {
		[...]
		mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(memcg)
	}
	mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg)

Summary of mem_cgroup_end_page_stat() overhead:
- Without CONFIG_MEMCG it's a no-op
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and no inter memcg task movement, it's just
  rcu_read_lock()
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and inter memcg  task movement, it's
  rcu_read_lock() + spin_lock_irqsave()

A memcg parameter is added to several routines because their callers
now grab mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() which returns the memcg later
needed by for mem_cgroup_update_page_stat().

Because mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() may disable interrupts, some
adjustments are needed:
- move __mark_inode_dirty() from __set_page_dirty() to its caller.
  __mark_inode_dirty() locking does not want interrupts disabled.
- use spin_lock_irqsave(tree_lock) rather than spin_lock_irq() in
  __delete_from_page_cache(), replace_page_cache_page(),
  invalidate_complete_page2(), and __remove_mapping().

   text    data     bss      dec    hex filename
8925147 1774832 1785856 12485835 be84cb vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-before
8925339 1774832 1785856 12486027 be858b vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-after
                            +192 text bytes
8965977 1784992 1785856 12536825 bf4bf9 vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-before
8966750 1784992 1785856 12537598 bf4efe vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-after
                            +773 text bytes

Performance tests run on v4.0-rc1-36-g4f671fe2f952.  Lower is better for
all metrics, they're all wall clock or cycle counts.  The read and write
fault benchmarks just measure fault time, they do not include I/O time.

* CONFIG_MEMCG not set:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.030000(+-0.088% 3 samples)       1m25.426667(+-0.120% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.859211561 +-15.10%                  0.874162885 +-15.03%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.670653105 +-17.87%                  1.669384764 +-11.99%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.434691190 +-14.15%                  8.474733215 +-14.77%
  read fault cycles       254.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            253.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2021.2(+-3.070% 10 samples)           1984.5(+-1.036% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.716667(+-0.105% 3 samples)       1m25.686667(+-0.153% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.855650830 +-14.90%                  0.887557919 +-14.90%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.688322953 +-12.72%                  1.667682724 +-13.33%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.418601605 +-14.30%                  8.673532299 +-15.00%
  read fault cycles       266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2051.7(+-1.349% 10 samples)           2049.6(+-1.686% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y non-root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m26.120000(+-0.273% 3 samples)       1m25.763333(+-0.127% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.861723964 +-15.25%                  0.818129350 +-14.82%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.669887569 +-13.30%                  1.698645885 +-13.27%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.383191730 +-14.65%                  8.351742280 +-14.52%
  read fault cycles       265.7(+-0.172% 10 samples)            267.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2070.6(+-1.512% 10 samples)           2084.4(+-2.148% 10 samples)

As expected anon page faults are not affected by this patch.

tj: Updated to apply on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() changes.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 4fc8adcfec Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the ->direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb->ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at ->f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check ->ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file->f_path.dentry->d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb->ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: ->direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
2015-04-16 23:27:56 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 1dcf58d6e6 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - arch/sh updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - kernel/watchdog feature

 - about half of mm/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits)
  Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
  Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
  arm: add support for memtest
  arm64: add support for memtest
  memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
  mm: move memtest under mm
  mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
  mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
  memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
  mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
  mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
  mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
  s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
  s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
  arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
  ...
2015-04-14 16:49:17 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov b9ea25152e page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page()
This patch replaces cancel_dirty_page() with a helper function
account_page_cleaned() which only updates counters.  It's called from
truncate_complete_page() and from try_to_free_buffers() (hack for ext3).
Page is locked in both cases, page-lock protects against concurrent
dirtiers: see commit 2d6d7f9828 ("mm: protect set_page_dirty() from
ongoing truncation").

Delete_from_page_cache() shouldn't be called for dirty pages, they must
be handled by caller (either written or truncated).  This patch treats
final dirty accounting fixup at the end of __delete_from_page_cache() as
a debug check and adds WARN_ON_ONCE() around it.  If something removes
dirty pages without proper handling that might be a bug and unwritten
data might be lost.

Hugetlbfs has no dirty pages accounting, ClearPageDirty() is enough
here.

cancel_dirty_page() in nfs_wb_page_cancel() is redundant.  This is
helper for nfs_invalidate_page() and it's called only in case complete
invalidation.

The mess was started in v2.6.20 after commits 46d2277c79 ("Clean up
and make try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages") and
3e67c0987d ("truncate: clear page dirtiness before running
try_to_free_buffers()") first was reverted right in v2.6.20 in commit
ecdfc9787f ("Resurrect 'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackery"), second in
v2.6.25 commit a2b345642f ("Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3
data=journal").

Custom fixes were introduced between these points.  NFS in v2.6.23, commit
1b3b4a1a2d ("NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_page()").
Kludge in __delete_from_page_cache() in v2.6.24, commit 3a6927906f ("Do
dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cache").  Since
v2.6.25 all of them are redundant.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
Al Viro 2ba48ce513 mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb->ki_flags
... avoiding write_iter/fcntl races.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11 22:30:22 -04:00
Al Viro 3309dd04cb switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
... returning -E... upon error and amount of data left in iter after
(possible) truncation upon success.  Note, that normal case gives
a non-zero (positive) return value, so any tests for != 0 _must_ be
updated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/file.c
2015-04-11 22:30:21 -04:00
Al Viro 0fa6b005af generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
all remaining callers are passing 0; some just obscure that fact.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11 22:29:48 -04:00
Al Viro 5f380c7fa7 lift generic_write_checks() into callers of __generic_file_write_iter()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11 22:29:47 -04:00
Al Viro 0b8def9d6d __generic_file_write_iter: keep ->ki_pos and return value consistent
A side effect worth noting: in O_APPEND case we set ->ki_pos early,
so if it turns out to be an error or a zero-length write, we'll
end up with ->ki_pos modified.  Safe, since all callers never
look at the ->ki_pos after the call of __generic_file_write_iter()
returning non-positive, all the way to caller of ->write_iter() and
those discard ->ki_pos when getting that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11 22:29:47 -04:00
Omar Sandoval 22c6186ece direct_IO: remove rw from a_ops->direct_IO()
Now that no one is using rw, remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11 22:29:45 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig e2e40f2c1e fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h
struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-03-25 20:28:11 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox d475c6346a dax,ext2: replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O
Use the generic AIO infrastructure instead of custom read and write
methods.  In addition to giving us support for AIO, this adds the missing
locking between read() and truncate().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-16 17:56:03 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox fbbbad4bc2 vfs,ext2: introduce IS_DAX(inode)
Use an inode flag to tag inodes which should avoid using the page cache.
Convert ext2 to use it instead of mapping_is_xip().  Prevent I/Os to files
tagged with the DAX flag from falling back to buffered I/O.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-16 17:56:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6bec003528 Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in
  preparation for a rework of the life time rules.  In this part, the
  most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from
  it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the
  address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits.

  Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that
  have a swap backing.  Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the
  lustre backing_dev_info from staging.  Last patch was from Al,
  unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside"

* 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  Make super_blocks and sb_lock static
  mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities
  fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode
  staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info
  fs: remove default_backing_dev_info
  fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info
  nfs: don't call bdi_unregister
  ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister
  fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info
  fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info
  nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code
  block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device
  block_dev: only write bdev inode on close
  fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
  fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED
  fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info
2015-02-12 13:50:21 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov d83a08db5b mm: drop vm_ops->remap_pages and generic_file_remap_pages() stub
Nobody uses it anymore.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix filemap_xip.c]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.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>
2015-02-10 14:30:30 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig de1414a654 fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info
Now that we got rid of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use
sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block
device special case.  Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of
mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of
mapping->backing_dev_info.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-01-20 14:03:04 -07:00
Michal Hocko 45f87de57f mm: get rid of radix tree gfp mask for pagecache_get_page
Commit 2457aec637 ("mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page
cache allocation where possible") has added a separate parameter for
specifying gfp mask for radix tree allocations.

Not only this is less than optimal from the API point of view because it
is error prone, it is also buggy currently because
grab_cache_page_write_begin is using GFP_KERNEL for radix tree and if
fgp_flags doesn't contain FGP_NOFS (mostly controlled by fs by
AOP_FLAG_NOFS flag) but the mapping_gfp_mask has __GFP_FS cleared then
the radix tree allocation wouldn't obey the restriction and might
recurse into filesystem and cause deadlocks.  This is the case for most
filesystems unfortunately because only ext4 and gfs2 are using
AOP_FLAG_NOFS.

Let's simply remove radix_gfp_mask parameter because the allocation
context is same for both page cache and for the radix tree.  Just make
sure that the radix tree gets only the sane subset of the mask (e.g.  do
not pass __GFP_WRITE).

Long term it is more preferable to convert remaining users of
AOP_FLAG_NOFS to use mapping_gfp_mask instead and simplify this
interface even further.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-29 12:45:45 -08:00
Al Viro 777eda2c5b new helper: iter_is_iovec()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-12-17 06:43:56 -05:00
Davidlohr Bueso c8c06efa8b mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem
The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory.  To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem.  In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.

This conversion is straightforward.  For now, all users take the write
lock.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:45 -08:00
Paul McQuade 99dadfdde0 mm/filemap.c: remove trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 25641c0c8d NFS client updates for Linux 3.18
Highlights include:
 
 Stable fixes:
 - fix an NFSv4.1 state renewal regression
 - fix open/lock state recovery error handling
 - fix lock recovery when CREATE_SESSION/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM fails
 - fix statd when reconnection fails
 - Don't wake tasks during connection abort
 - Don't start reboot recovery if lease check fails
 - fix duplicate proc entries
 
 Features:
 - pNFS block driver fixes and clean ups from Christoph
 - More code cleanups from Anna
 - Improve mmap() writeback performance
 - Replace use of PF_TRANS with a more generic mechanism for avoiding
   deadlocks in nfs_release_page
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.18-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Highlights include:

  Stable fixes:
   - fix an NFSv4.1 state renewal regression
   - fix open/lock state recovery error handling
   - fix lock recovery when CREATE_SESSION/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM fails
   - fix statd when reconnection fails
   - don't wake tasks during connection abort
   - don't start reboot recovery if lease check fails
   - fix duplicate proc entries

  Features:
  - pNFS block driver fixes and clean ups from Christoph
  - More code cleanups from Anna
  - Improve mmap() writeback performance
  - Replace use of PF_TRANS with a more generic mechanism for avoiding
    deadlocks in nfs_release_page"

* tag 'nfs-for-3.18-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (66 commits)
  NFSv4.1: Fix an NFSv4.1 state renewal regression
  NFSv4: fix open/lock state recovery error handling
  NFSv4: Fix lock recovery when CREATE_SESSION/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM fails
  NFS: Fabricate fscache server index key correctly
  SUNRPC: Add missing support for RPC_CLNT_CREATE_NO_RETRANS_TIMEOUT
  NFSv3: Fix missing includes of nfs3_fs.h
  NFS/SUNRPC: Remove other deadlock-avoidance mechanisms in nfs_release_page()
  NFS: avoid waiting at all in nfs_release_page when congested.
  NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems.
  MM: export page_wakeup functions
  SCHED: add some "wait..on_bit...timeout()" interfaces.
  NFS: don't use STABLE writes during writeback.
  NFSv4: use exponential retry on NFS4ERR_DELAY for async requests.
  rpc: Add -EPERM processing for xs_udp_send_request()
  rpc: return sent and err from xs_sendpages()
  lockd: Try to reconnect if statd has moved
  SUNRPC: Don't wake tasks during connection abort
  Fixing lease renewal
  nfs: fix duplicate proc entries
  pnfs/blocklayout: Fix a 64-bit division/remainder issue in bl_map_stripe
  ...
2014-10-08 12:49:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 28596c9722 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull "trivial tree" updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual pile from trivial tree everyone is so eagerly waiting for"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Remove MN10300_PROC_MN2WS0038
  mei: fix comments
  treewide: Fix typos in Kconfig
  kprobes: update jprobe_example.c for do_fork() change
  Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
  Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes
  Documentation: update links in Changes
  Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml
  score: Remove GENERIC_HAS_IOMAP
  gpio: fix 'CONFIG_GPIO_IRQCHIP' comments
  tty: doc: Fix grammar in serial/tty
  dma-debug: modify check_for_stack output
  treewide: fix errors in printk
  genirq: fix reference in devm_request_threaded_irq comment
  treewide: fix synchronize_rcu() in comments
  checkstack.pl: port to AArch64
  doc: queue-sysfs: minor fixes
  init/do_mounts: better syntax description
  MIPS: fix comment spelling
  powerpc/simpleboot: fix comment
  ...
2014-10-07 21:16:26 -04:00
NeilBrown a4796e37c1 MM: export page_wakeup functions
This will allow NFS to wait for PG_private to be cleared and,
particularly, to send a wake-up when it is.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2014-09-25 08:25:09 -04:00
NeilBrown cbbce82209 SCHED: add some "wait..on_bit...timeout()" interfaces.
In commit c1221321b7
   sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout

I suggested that a "wait_on_bit_timeout()" interface would not meet my
need.  This isn't true - I was just over-engineering.

Including a 'private' field in wait_bit_key instead of a focused
"timeout" field was just premature generalization.  If some other
use is ever found, it can be generalized or added later.

So this patch renames "private" to "timeout" with a meaning "stop
waiting when "jiffies" reaches or passes "timeout",
and adds two of the many possible wait..bit..timeout() interfaces:

wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout(), which is the one I want to use,
and out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout() which is a reasonably general
example.  Others can be added as needed.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2014-09-25 08:23:57 -04:00
Masanari Iida da3dae54e4 Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml
This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/kernel-api.xml.
It is because the file is generated from the source comments,
I have to fix the comments in source codes.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-09 10:34:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f6f993328b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in here:

   - acct.c fixes and general rework of mnt_pin mechanism.  That allows
     to go for delayed-mntput stuff, which will permit mntput() on deep
     stack without worrying about stack overflows - fs shutdown will
     happen on shallow stack.  IOW, we can do Eric's umount-on-rmdir
     series without introducing tons of stack overflows on new mntput()
     call chains it introduces.
   - Bruce's d_splice_alias() patches
   - more Miklos' rename() stuff.
   - a couple of regression fixes (stable fodder, in the end of branch)
     and a fix for API idiocy in iov_iter.c.

  There definitely will be another pile, maybe even two.  I'd like to
  get Eric's series in this time, but even if we miss it, it'll go right
  in the beginning of for-next in the next cycle - the tricky part of
  prereqs is in this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  fix copy_tree() regression
  __generic_file_write_iter(): fix handling of sync error after DIO
  switch iov_iter_get_pages() to passing maximal number of pages
  fs: mark __d_obtain_alias static
  dcache: d_splice_alias should detect loops
  exportfs: update Exporting documentation
  dcache: d_find_alias needn't recheck IS_ROOT && DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: remove unused d_find_alias parameter
  dcache: d_obtain_alias callers don't all want DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias should ignore DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias mustn't create directory aliases
  dcache: close d_move race in d_splice_alias
  dcache: move d_splice_alias
  namei: trivial fix to vfs_rename_dir comment
  VFS: allow ->d_manage() to declare -EISDIR in rcu_walk mode.
  cifs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  hostfs: support rename flags
  shmem: support RENAME_EXCHANGE
  shmem: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  btrfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE
  ...
2014-08-11 11:44:11 -07:00
Al Viro 60bb45297f __generic_file_write_iter(): fix handling of sync error after DIO
If DIO results in short write and sync write fails, we want to bugger off
whether the DIO part has written anything or not; the logics on the return
will take care of the right return value.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.16]
Reported-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-08-11 12:27:40 -04:00
Johannes Weiner 0a31bc97c8 mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API
The memcg uncharging code that is involved towards the end of a page's
lifetime - truncation, reclaim, swapout, migration - is impressively
complicated and fragile.

Because anonymous and file pages were always charged before they had their
page->mapping established, uncharges had to happen when the page type
could still be known from the context; as in unmap for anonymous, page
cache removal for file and shmem pages, and swap cache truncation for swap
pages.  However, these operations happen well before the page is actually
freed, and so a lot of synchronization is necessary:

- Charging, uncharging, page migration, and charge migration all need
  to take a per-page bit spinlock as they could race with uncharging.

- Swap cache truncation happens during both swap-in and swap-out, and
  possibly repeatedly before the page is actually freed.  This means
  that the memcg swapout code is called from many contexts that make
  no sense and it has to figure out the direction from page state to
  make sure memory and memory+swap are always correctly charged.

- On page migration, the old page might be unmapped but then reused,
  so memcg code has to prevent untimely uncharging in that case.
  Because this code - which should be a simple charge transfer - is so
  special-cased, it is not reusable for replace_page_cache().

But now that charged pages always have a page->mapping, introduce
mem_cgroup_uncharge(), which is called after the final put_page(), when we
know for sure that nobody is looking at the page anymore.

For page migration, introduce mem_cgroup_migrate(), which is called after
the migration is successful and the new page is fully rmapped.  Because
the old page is no longer uncharged after migration, prevent double
charges by decoupling the page's memcg association (PCG_USED and
pc->mem_cgroup) from the page holding an actual charge.  The new bits
PCG_MEM and PCG_MEMSW represent the respective charges and are transferred
to the new page during migration.

mem_cgroup_migrate() is suitable for replace_page_cache() as well,
which gets rid of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache().  However, care
needs to be taken because both the source and the target page can
already be charged and on the LRU when fuse is splicing: grab the page
lock on the charge moving side to prevent changing pc->mem_cgroup of a
page under migration.  Also, the lruvecs of both pages change as we
uncharge the old and charge the new during migration, and putback may
race with us, so grab the lru lock and isolate the pages iff on LRU to
prevent races and ensure the pages are on the right lruvec afterward.

Swap accounting is massively simplified: because the page is no longer
uncharged as early as swap cache deletion, a new mem_cgroup_swapout() can
transfer the page's memory+swap charge (PCG_MEMSW) to the swap entry
before the final put_page() in page reclaim.

Finally, page_cgroup changes are now protected by whatever protection the
page itself offers: anonymous pages are charged under the page table lock,
whereas page cache insertions, swapin, and migration hold the page lock.
Uncharging happens under full exclusion with no outstanding references.
Charging and uncharging also ensure that the page is off-LRU, which
serializes against charge migration.  Remove the very costly page_cgroup
lock and set pc->flags non-atomically.

[mhocko@suse.cz: mem_cgroup_charge_statistics needs preempt_disable]
[vdavydov@parallels.com: fix flags definition]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 00501b531c mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API
These patches rework memcg charge lifetime to integrate more naturally
with the lifetime of user pages.  This drastically simplifies the code and
reduces charging and uncharging overhead.  The most expensive part of
charging and uncharging is the page_cgroup bit spinlock, which is removed
entirely after this series.

Here are the top-10 profile entries of a stress test that reads a 128G
sparse file on a freshly booted box, without even a dedicated cgroup (i.e.
 executing in the root memcg).  Before:

    15.36%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.31%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.48%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     4.23%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.38%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.32%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
     2.18%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common
     1.92%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.86%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.62%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn

After:

    15.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.48%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.42%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     3.98%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.46%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.13%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.88%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn
     1.39%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] free_pcppages_bulk
     1.30%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] kfree

As you can see, the memcg footprint has shrunk quite a bit.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  37970    9892     400   48262    bc86 mm/memcontrol.o.old
  35239    9892     400   45531    b1db mm/memcontrol.o

This patch (of 4):

The memcg charge API charges pages before they are rmapped - i.e.  have an
actual "type" - and so every callsite needs its own set of charge and
uncharge functions to know what type is being operated on.  Worse,
uncharge has to happen from a context that is still type-specific, rather
than at the end of the page's lifetime with exclusive access, and so
requires a lot of synchronization.

Rewrite the charge API to provide a generic set of try_charge(),
commit_charge() and cancel_charge() transaction operations, much like
what's currently done for swap-in:

  mem_cgroup_try_charge() attempts to reserve a charge, reclaiming
  pages from the memcg if necessary.

  mem_cgroup_commit_charge() commits the page to the charge once it
  has a valid page->mapping and PageAnon() reliably tells the type.

  mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() aborts the transaction.

This reduces the charge API and enables subsequent patches to
drastically simplify uncharging.

As pages need to be committed after rmap is established but before they
are added to the LRU, page_add_new_anon_rmap() must stop doing LRU
additions again.  Revive lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable().

[hughd@google.com: fix shmem_unuse]
[hughd@google.com: Add comments on the private use of -EAGAIN]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
Paul Cassella 9a95f3cf7b mm: describe mmap_sem rules for __lock_page_or_retry() and callers
Add a comment describing the circumstances in which
__lock_page_or_retry() will or will not release the mmap_sem when
returning 0.

Add comments to lock_page_or_retry()'s callers (filemap_fault(),
do_swap_page()) noting the impact on VM_FAULT_RETRY returns.

Add comments on up the call tree, particularly replacing the false "We
return with mmap_sem still held" comments.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cassella <cassella@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:20 -07:00
Hugh Dickins eb39d618f9 mm: replace init_page_accessed by __SetPageReferenced
Do we really need an exported alias for __SetPageReferenced()? Its
callers better know what they're doing, in which case the page would not
be already marked referenced.  Kill init_page_accessed(), just
__SetPageReferenced() inline.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 98959948a7 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Move the nohz kick code out of the scheduler tick to a dedicated IPI,
   from Frederic Weisbecker.

  This necessiated quite some background infrastructure rework,
  including:

   * Clean up some irq-work internals
   * Implement remote irq-work
   * Implement nohz kick on top of remote irq-work
   * Move full dynticks timer enqueue notification to new kick
   * Move multi-task notification to new kick
   * Remove unecessary barriers on multi-task notification

 - Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions and allow
   wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout.  (Neil Brown)

 - Another round of sched/numa improvements, cleanups and fixes.  (Rik
   van Riel)

 - Implement fast idling of CPUs when the system is partially loaded,
   for better scalability.  (Tim Chen)

 - Restructure and fix the CPU hotplug handling code that may leave
   cfs_rq and rt_rq's throttled when tasks are migrated away from a dead
   cpu.  (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Robustify the sched topology setup code.  (Peterz Zijlstra)

 - Improve sched_feat() handling wrt.  static_keys (Jason Baron)

 - Misc fixes.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  sched/fair: Fix 'make xmldocs' warning caused by missing description
  sched: Use macro for magic number of -1 for setparam
  sched: Robustify topology setup
  sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic
  sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
  sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
  sched/numa: Revert "Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads"
  sched: Fix static_key race with sched_feat()
  sched: Remove extra static_key*() function indirection
  sched/rt: Fix replenish_dl_entity() comments to match the current upstream code
  sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr()
  sched/deadline: Kill task_struct->pi_top_task
  sched: Rework check_for_tasks()
  sched/rt: Enqueue just unthrottled rt_rq back on the stack in __disable_runtime()
  sched/fair: Disable runtime_enabled on dying rq
  sched/numa: Change scan period code to match intent
  sched/numa: Rework best node setting in task_numa_migrate()
  sched/numa: Examine a task move when examining a task swap
  sched/numa: Simplify task_numa_compare()
  sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads
  ...
2014-08-04 16:23:30 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 75325189c9 mm: fix filemap.c pagecache_get_page() kernel-doc warnings
Fix kernel-doc warnings in mm/filemap.c: pagecache_get_page():

  Warning(..//mm/filemap.c:1054): No description found for parameter 'cache_gfp_mask'
  Warning(..//mm/filemap.c:1054): No description found for parameter 'radix_gfp_mask'
  Warning(..//mm/filemap.c:1054): Excess function parameter 'gfp_mask' description in 'pagecache_get_page'

Fixes: 2457aec637 ("mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible")

[mgorman@suse.de: change everything]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-30 17:16:13 -07:00
NeilBrown 743162013d sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().

So:
 Rename wait_on_bit and        wait_on_bit_lock to
        wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
 to make it explicit that they need an action function.

 Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
 which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
 a standard one.
 The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
 based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
 function.

 All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
 can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
 action functions have been discarded.
 wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
 event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
 interpolate their own error code as appropriate.

The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"

The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.

A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack.  So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).

Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS.  CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16 15:10:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 16b9057804 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix.  This is the
  minimal set; there's more pending stuff.

  In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
  we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff.  In the next
  pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
  (kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c).  In this pile: more
  iov_iter work.  Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
  order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
  this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
  lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
  kill generic_file_splice_write()
  ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
  fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
  ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  ->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
  bio_vec-backed iov_iter
  optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
  lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
  ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
  ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
  fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
  btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
  xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ...
2014-06-12 10:30:18 -07:00
Al Viro 9c1d5284c7 Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus
Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-06-12 00:28:09 -04:00
Mel Gorman 888cf2db47 mm: avoid unnecessary atomic operations during end_page_writeback()
If a page is marked for immediate reclaim then it is moved to the tail of
the LRU list.  This occurs when the system is under enough memory pressure
for pages under writeback to reach the end of the LRU but we test for this
using atomic operations on every writeback.  This patch uses an optimistic
non-atomic test first.  It'll miss some pages in rare cases but the
consequences are not severe enough to warrant such a penalty.

While the function does not dominate profiles during a simple dd test the
cost of it is reduced.

73048     0.7428  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc5-mmotm-20140513 end_page_writeback
23740     0.2409  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc5-lessatomic     end_page_writeback

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
Mel Gorman 2457aec637 mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after.  Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage.  The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.

The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page.  This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.

The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.

	find_get_page
	find_lock_page
	find_or_create_page
	grab_cache_page_nowait
	grab_cache_page_write_begin

All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not.  Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.

Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job.  There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted.  This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change.  It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.

The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations.  The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing.  In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO.  The sync results are expected to be
more stable.  The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.

The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts.  Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison.  As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures.  The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.

The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.

async dd
                                    3.15.0-rc3            3.15.0-rc3
                                       vanilla           accessed-v2
ext3    Max      elapsed     13.9900 (  0.00%)     11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs	Max      elapsed      0.5100 (  0.00%)      0.4900 (  3.92%)
btrfs   Max      elapsed     12.8100 (  0.00%)     12.7800 (  0.23%)
ext4	Max      elapsed     18.6000 (  0.00%)     13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs	Max      elapsed     12.5600 (  0.00%)      2.0900 ( 83.36%)

The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.

        samples percentage
ext3       86107    0.9783  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext3       23833    0.2710  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3        5036    0.0573  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4       64566    0.8961  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext4        5322    0.0713  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4        2869    0.0384  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs        62126    1.7675  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
xfs         1904    0.0554  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs          103    0.0030  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs      10655    0.1338  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
btrfs       2020    0.0273  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs        587    0.0079  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs      59562    3.2628  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
tmpfs       1210    0.0696  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs         94    0.0054  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox 57d998456a fs/mpage.c: factor page_endio() out of mpage_end_io()
page_endio() takes care of updating all the appropriate page flags once
I/O has finished to a page.  Switch to using mapping_set_error() instead
of setting AS_EIO directly; this will handle thin-provisioned devices
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 776edb5931 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
Jens Axboe 7fcbbaf183 mm/filemap.c: avoid always dirtying mapping->flags on O_DIRECT
In some testing I ran today (some fio jobs that spread over two nodes),
we end up spending 40% of the time in filemap_check_errors().  That
smells fishy.  Looking further, this is basically what happens:

blkdev_aio_read()
    generic_file_aio_read()
        filemap_write_and_wait_range()
            if (!mapping->nr_pages)
                filemap_check_errors()

and filemap_check_errors() always attempts two test_and_clear_bit() on
the mapping flags, thus dirtying it for every single invocation.  The
patch below tests each of these bits before clearing them, avoiding this
issue.  In my test case (4-socket box), performance went from 1.7M IOPS
to 4.0M IOPS.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-23 09:37:29 -07:00
Al Viro 6abd232274 bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-05-06 17:39:44 -04:00