linux/mm/page-writeback.c
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   1/*
   2 * mm/page-writeback.c
   3 *
   4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
   5 *
   6 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
   7 * address_space level.
   8 *
   9 * 10Apr2002    akpm@zip.com.au
  10 *              Initial version
  11 */
  12
  13#include <linux/kernel.h>
  14#include <linux/module.h>
  15#include <linux/spinlock.h>
  16#include <linux/fs.h>
  17#include <linux/mm.h>
  18#include <linux/swap.h>
  19#include <linux/slab.h>
  20#include <linux/pagemap.h>
  21#include <linux/writeback.h>
  22#include <linux/init.h>
  23#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
  24#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
  25#include <linux/blkdev.h>
  26#include <linux/mpage.h>
  27#include <linux/rmap.h>
  28#include <linux/percpu.h>
  29#include <linux/notifier.h>
  30#include <linux/smp.h>
  31#include <linux/sysctl.h>
  32#include <linux/cpu.h>
  33#include <linux/syscalls.h>
  34#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
  35#include <linux/pagevec.h>
  36
  37/*
  38 * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
  39 * operation.  We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for
  40 * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has
  41 * been forced to throttle against that inode.  Also, the code reevaluates
  42 * the dirty each time it has written this many pages.
  43 */
  44#define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES     1024
  45
  46/*
  47 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
  48 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
  49 */
  50static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
  51
  52static int dirty_exceeded __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;   /* Dirty mem may be over limit */
  53
  54/*
  55 * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
  56 * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
  57 * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably
  58 * large amounts of I/O are submitted.
  59 */
  60static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
  61{
  62        return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2;
  63}
  64
  65/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
  66
  67/*
  68 * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage
  69 */
  70int dirty_background_ratio = 5;
  71
  72/*
  73 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
  74 */
  75int vm_dirty_ratio = 10;
  76
  77/*
  78 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies
  79 */
  80int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ;
  81
  82/*
  83 * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty
  84 */
  85int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ;
  86
  87/*
  88 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
  89 */
  90int block_dump;
  91
  92/*
  93 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
  94 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
  95 */
  96int laptop_mode;
  97
  98EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
  99
 100/* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
 101
 102
 103static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
 104
 105/*
 106 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
 107 * thresholds.
 108 *
 109 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
 110 * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
 111 * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
 112 * performing lots of scanning.
 113 *
 114 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
 115 *
 116 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
 117 * excessive.
 118 *
 119 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
 120 * clamping level.
 121 */
 122
 123static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
 124{
 125#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 126        int node;
 127        unsigned long x = 0;
 128
 129        for_each_online_node(node) {
 130                struct zone *z =
 131                        &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
 132
 133                x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES)
 134                        + zone_page_state(z, NR_INACTIVE)
 135                        + zone_page_state(z, NR_ACTIVE);
 136        }
 137        /*
 138         * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
 139         * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
 140         * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
 141         * that this does not occur.
 142         */
 143        return min(x, total);
 144#else
 145        return 0;
 146#endif
 147}
 148
 149static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
 150{
 151        unsigned long x;
 152
 153        x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES)
 154                + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE)
 155                + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE);
 156        x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
 157        return x + 1;   /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
 158}
 159
 160static void
 161get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty,
 162                                        struct address_space *mapping)
 163{
 164        int background_ratio;           /* Percentages */
 165        int dirty_ratio;
 166        int unmapped_ratio;
 167        long background;
 168        long dirty;
 169        unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
 170        struct task_struct *tsk;
 171
 172        unmapped_ratio = 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
 173                                global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)) * 100) /
 174                                        available_memory;
 175
 176        dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
 177        if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2)
 178                dirty_ratio = unmapped_ratio / 2;
 179
 180        if (dirty_ratio < 5)
 181                dirty_ratio = 5;
 182
 183        background_ratio = dirty_background_ratio;
 184        if (background_ratio >= dirty_ratio)
 185                background_ratio = dirty_ratio / 2;
 186
 187        background = (background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
 188        dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
 189        tsk = current;
 190        if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
 191                background += background / 4;
 192                dirty += dirty / 4;
 193        }
 194        *pbackground = background;
 195        *pdirty = dirty;
 196}
 197
 198/*
 199 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
 200 * data.  It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
 201 * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
 202 * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some
 203 * writeout.
 204 */
 205static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
 206{
 207        long nr_reclaimable;
 208        long background_thresh;
 209        long dirty_thresh;
 210        unsigned long pages_written = 0;
 211        unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages();
 212
 213        struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 214
 215        for (;;) {
 216                struct writeback_control wbc = {
 217                        .bdi            = bdi,
 218                        .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_NONE,
 219                        .older_than_this = NULL,
 220                        .nr_to_write    = write_chunk,
 221                        .range_cyclic   = 1,
 222                };
 223
 224                get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, mapping);
 225                nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 226                                        global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
 227                if (nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <=
 228                        dirty_thresh)
 229                                break;
 230
 231                if (!dirty_exceeded)
 232                        dirty_exceeded = 1;
 233
 234                /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
 235                 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
 236                 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
 237                 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
 238                 * been flushed to permanent storage.
 239                 */
 240                if (nr_reclaimable) {
 241                        writeback_inodes(&wbc);
 242                        get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh,
 243                                                &dirty_thresh, mapping);
 244                        nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 245                                        global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
 246                        if (nr_reclaimable +
 247                                global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)
 248                                        <= dirty_thresh)
 249                                                break;
 250                        pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
 251                        if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
 252                                break;          /* We've done our duty */
 253                }
 254                congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 255        }
 256
 257        if (nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)
 258                <= dirty_thresh && dirty_exceeded)
 259                        dirty_exceeded = 0;
 260
 261        if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
 262                return;         /* pdflush is already working this queue */
 263
 264        /*
 265         * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
 266         * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
 267         * to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
 268         *
 269         * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
 270         * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
 271         */
 272        if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
 273             (!laptop_mode && (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)))
 274                pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
 275}
 276
 277void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
 278{
 279        if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
 280                struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 281
 282                if (mapping)
 283                        balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
 284        }
 285}
 286
 287/**
 288 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
 289 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
 290 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
 291 *
 292 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
 293 * which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
 294 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
 295 *
 296 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
 297 * calling it too often (ratelimiting).  But once we're over the dirty memory
 298 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
 299 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
 300 */
 301void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
 302                                        unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
 303{
 304        static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits) = 0;
 305        unsigned long ratelimit;
 306        unsigned long *p;
 307
 308        ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
 309        if (dirty_exceeded)
 310                ratelimit = 8;
 311
 312        /*
 313         * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
 314         * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
 315         */
 316        preempt_disable();
 317        p =  &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
 318        *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
 319        if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
 320                *p = 0;
 321                preempt_enable();
 322                balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
 323                return;
 324        }
 325        preempt_enable();
 326}
 327EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
 328
 329void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 330{
 331        long background_thresh;
 332        long dirty_thresh;
 333
 334        if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
 335                /*
 336                 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
 337                 * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
 338                 * waiting for IO to complete.
 339                 */
 340                congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 341                return;
 342        }
 343
 344        for ( ; ; ) {
 345                get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
 346
 347                /*
 348                 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
 349                 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
 350                 */
 351                dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10;      /* wheeee... */
 352
 353                if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
 354                        global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
 355                                break;
 356                congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 357        }
 358}
 359
 360/*
 361 * writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
 362 * memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.
 363 */
 364static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages)
 365{
 366        long min_pages = _min_pages;
 367        struct writeback_control wbc = {
 368                .bdi            = NULL,
 369                .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_NONE,
 370                .older_than_this = NULL,
 371                .nr_to_write    = 0,
 372                .nonblocking    = 1,
 373                .range_cyclic   = 1,
 374        };
 375
 376        for ( ; ; ) {
 377                long background_thresh;
 378                long dirty_thresh;
 379
 380                get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
 381                if (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 382                        global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
 383                                && min_pages <= 0)
 384                        break;
 385                wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
 386                wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
 387                wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
 388                writeback_inodes(&wbc);
 389                min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
 390                if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
 391                        /* Wrote less than expected */
 392                        congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 393                        if (!wbc.encountered_congestion)
 394                                break;
 395                }
 396        }
 397}
 398
 399/*
 400 * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages.  If `nr_pages' is zero, write back
 401 * the whole world.  Returns 0 if a pdflush thread was dispatched.  Returns
 402 * -1 if all pdflush threads were busy.
 403 */
 404int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages)
 405{
 406        if (nr_pages == 0)
 407                nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 408                                global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
 409        return pdflush_operation(background_writeout, nr_pages);
 410}
 411
 412static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
 413static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
 414
 415static DEFINE_TIMER(wb_timer, wb_timer_fn, 0, 0);
 416static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
 417
 418/*
 419 * Periodic writeback of "old" data.
 420 *
 421 * Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the
 422 * dirtying-time in the inode's address_space.  So this periodic writeback code
 423 * just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are
 424 * older than a specific point in time.
 425 *
 426 * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_interval.  But if a writeback event
 427 * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_interval interval, then leave a
 428 * one-second gap.
 429 *
 430 * older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write.  So we'll only write back
 431 * all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings.
 432 */
 433static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
 434{
 435        unsigned long oldest_jif;
 436        unsigned long start_jif;
 437        unsigned long next_jif;
 438        long nr_to_write;
 439        struct writeback_control wbc = {
 440                .bdi            = NULL,
 441                .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_NONE,
 442                .older_than_this = &oldest_jif,
 443                .nr_to_write    = 0,
 444                .nonblocking    = 1,
 445                .for_kupdate    = 1,
 446                .range_cyclic   = 1,
 447        };
 448
 449        sync_supers();
 450
 451        oldest_jif = jiffies - dirty_expire_interval;
 452        start_jif = jiffies;
 453        next_jif = start_jif + dirty_writeback_interval;
 454        nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 455                        global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
 456                        (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
 457        while (nr_to_write > 0) {
 458                wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
 459                wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
 460                writeback_inodes(&wbc);
 461                if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) {
 462                        if (wbc.encountered_congestion)
 463                                congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 464                        else
 465                                break;  /* All the old data is written */
 466                }
 467                nr_to_write -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
 468        }
 469        if (time_before(next_jif, jiffies + HZ))
 470                next_jif = jiffies + HZ;
 471        if (dirty_writeback_interval)
 472                mod_timer(&wb_timer, next_jif);
 473}
 474
 475/*
 476 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
 477 */
 478int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
 479                struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 480{
 481        proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
 482        if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
 483                mod_timer(&wb_timer,
 484                        jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
 485                } else {
 486                del_timer(&wb_timer);
 487        }
 488        return 0;
 489}
 490
 491static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
 492{
 493        if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate, 0) < 0)
 494                mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + HZ); /* delay 1 second */
 495}
 496
 497static void laptop_flush(unsigned long unused)
 498{
 499        sys_sync();
 500}
 501
 502static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
 503{
 504        pdflush_operation(laptop_flush, 0);
 505}
 506
 507/*
 508 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
 509 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now.  If the flush is already scheduled
 510 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
 511 */
 512void laptop_io_completion(void)
 513{
 514        mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
 515}
 516
 517/*
 518 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
 519 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
 520 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
 521 */
 522void laptop_sync_completion(void)
 523{
 524        del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
 525}
 526
 527/*
 528 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
 529 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
 530 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
 531 * get_writeback_state too often.
 532 *
 533 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
 534 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
 535 * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
 536 *
 537 * But the limit should not be set too high.  Because it also controls the
 538 * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
 539 * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
 540 * time.  So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
 541 * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
 542 */
 543
 544void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
 545{
 546        ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
 547        if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
 548                ratelimit_pages = 16;
 549        if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
 550                ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
 551}
 552
 553static int __cpuinit
 554ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
 555{
 556        writeback_set_ratelimit();
 557        return NOTIFY_DONE;
 558}
 559
 560static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
 561        .notifier_call  = ratelimit_handler,
 562        .next           = NULL,
 563};
 564
 565/*
 566 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
 567 *
 568 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
 569 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
 570 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
 571 *
 572 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
 573 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
 574 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
 575 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
 576 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
 577 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
 578 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
 579 *
 580 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
 581 * much memory the box has..
 582 */
 583void __init page_writeback_init(void)
 584{
 585        mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
 586        writeback_set_ratelimit();
 587        register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
 588}
 589
 590/**
 591 * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
 592 * @mapping: address space structure to write
 593 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
 594 * @writepage: function called for each page
 595 * @data: data passed to writepage function
 596 *
 597 * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
 598 * if it's dirty.  This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
 599 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync().  fsync()
 600 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
 601 * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
 602 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
 603 * existing IO to complete.
 604 */
 605int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 606                      struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
 607                      void *data)
 608{
 609        struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 610        int ret = 0;
 611        int done = 0;
 612        struct pagevec pvec;
 613        int nr_pages;
 614        pgoff_t index;
 615        pgoff_t end;            /* Inclusive */
 616        int scanned = 0;
 617        int range_whole = 0;
 618
 619        if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
 620                wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
 621                return 0;
 622        }
 623
 624        pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 625        if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
 626                index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */
 627                end = -1;
 628        } else {
 629                index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 630                end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 631                if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
 632                        range_whole = 1;
 633                scanned = 1;
 634        }
 635retry:
 636        while (!done && (index <= end) &&
 637               (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
 638                                              PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
 639                                              min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) {
 640                unsigned i;
 641
 642                scanned = 1;
 643                for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 644                        struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
 645
 646                        /*
 647                         * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
 648                         * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
 649                         * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
 650                         * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
 651                         * mapping
 652                         */
 653                        lock_page(page);
 654
 655                        if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
 656                                unlock_page(page);
 657                                continue;
 658                        }
 659
 660                        if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
 661                                done = 1;
 662                                unlock_page(page);
 663                                continue;
 664                        }
 665
 666                        if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
 667                                wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 668
 669                        if (PageWriteback(page) ||
 670                            !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
 671                                unlock_page(page);
 672                                continue;
 673                        }
 674
 675                        ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
 676
 677                        if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) {
 678                                unlock_page(page);
 679                                ret = 0;
 680                        }
 681                        if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0))
 682                                done = 1;
 683                        if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
 684                                wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
 685                                done = 1;
 686                        }
 687                }
 688                pagevec_release(&pvec);
 689                cond_resched();
 690        }
 691        if (!scanned && !done) {
 692                /*
 693                 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
 694                 * back to the start of the file
 695                 */
 696                scanned = 1;
 697                index = 0;
 698                goto retry;
 699        }
 700        if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
 701                mapping->writeback_index = index;
 702        return ret;
 703}
 704EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
 705
 706/*
 707 * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
 708 * function and set the mapping flags on error
 709 */
 710static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
 711                       void *data)
 712{
 713        struct address_space *mapping = data;
 714        int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
 715        mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
 716        return ret;
 717}
 718
 719/**
 720 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
 721 * @mapping: address space structure to write
 722 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
 723 *
 724 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
 725 * address_space_operation.
 726 */
 727int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 728                       struct writeback_control *wbc)
 729{
 730        /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
 731        if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
 732                return 0;
 733
 734        return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
 735}
 736
 737EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
 738
 739int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 740{
 741        int ret;
 742
 743        if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
 744                return 0;
 745        wbc->for_writepages = 1;
 746        if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
 747                ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
 748        else
 749                ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
 750        wbc->for_writepages = 0;
 751        return ret;
 752}
 753
 754/**
 755 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
 756 * @page: the page to write
 757 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
 758 *
 759 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
 760 *
 761 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
 762 */
 763int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
 764{
 765        struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
 766        int ret = 0;
 767        struct writeback_control wbc = {
 768                .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
 769                .nr_to_write = 1,
 770        };
 771
 772        BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 773
 774        if (wait)
 775                wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 776
 777        if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
 778                page_cache_get(page);
 779                ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
 780                if (ret == 0 && wait) {
 781                        wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 782                        if (PageError(page))
 783                                ret = -EIO;
 784                }
 785                page_cache_release(page);
 786        } else {
 787                unlock_page(page);
 788        }
 789        return ret;
 790}
 791EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
 792
 793/*
 794 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
 795 */
 796int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
 797{
 798        if (!PageDirty(page))
 799                SetPageDirty(page);
 800        return 0;
 801}
 802
 803/*
 804 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers.  Just tag the page as dirty in
 805 * its radix tree.
 806 *
 807 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
 808 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers.  This is a "bottom-up"
 809 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
 810 *
 811 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
 812 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
 813 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
 814 *
 815 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
 816 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() insode tree_lock.
 817 */
 818int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
 819{
 820        if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
 821                struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 822                struct address_space *mapping2;
 823
 824                if (!mapping)
 825                        return 1;
 826
 827                write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 828                mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
 829                if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
 830                        BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
 831                        if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
 832                                __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 833                                task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
 834                        }
 835                        radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
 836                                page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
 837                }
 838                write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 839                if (mapping->host) {
 840                        /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
 841                        __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
 842                }
 843                return 1;
 844        }
 845        return 0;
 846}
 847EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
 848
 849/*
 850 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
 851 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
 852 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
 853 */
 854int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
 855{
 856        wbc->pages_skipped++;
 857        return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
 858}
 859EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
 860
 861/*
 862 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
 863 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
 864 */
 865int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
 866{
 867        struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 868
 869        if (likely(mapping)) {
 870                int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
 871#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 872                if (!spd)
 873                        spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
 874#endif
 875                return (*spd)(page);
 876        }
 877        if (!PageDirty(page)) {
 878                if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
 879                        return 1;
 880        }
 881        return 0;
 882}
 883EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
 884
 885/*
 886 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
 887 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked.  This is because another
 888 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
 889 *
 890 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
 891 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
 892 *
 893 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
 894 */
 895int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
 896{
 897        int ret;
 898
 899        lock_page_nosync(page);
 900        ret = set_page_dirty(page);
 901        unlock_page(page);
 902        return ret;
 903}
 904EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
 905
 906/*
 907 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
 908 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
 909 *
 910 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout.  We leave the page
 911 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
 912 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.  The ->writepage
 913 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
 914 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
 915 * back into sync.
 916 *
 917 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
 918 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
 919 */
 920int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
 921{
 922        struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 923
 924        if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
 925                /*
 926                 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
 927                 *
 928                 * We use this sequence to make sure that
 929                 *  (a) we account for dirty stats properly
 930                 *  (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
 931                 *      mark the whole page dirty if it was
 932                 *      dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
 933                 *  (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
 934                 *      cause the writeback.
 935                 *
 936                 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
 937                 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
 938                 * them concurrently from different threads.
 939                 *
 940                 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
 941                 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
 942                 * that will already usually be set. But we
 943                 * need the side effects, and it can help us
 944                 * avoid races.
 945                 *
 946                 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
 947                 * as a serialization point for all the different
 948                 * threads doing their things.
 949                 *
 950                 * FIXME! We still have a race here: if somebody
 951                 * adds the page back to the page tables in
 952                 * between the "page_mkclean()" and the "TestClearPageDirty()",
 953                 * we might have it mapped without the dirty bit set.
 954                 */
 955                if (page_mkclean(page))
 956                        set_page_dirty(page);
 957                if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
 958                        dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 959                        return 1;
 960                }
 961                return 0;
 962        }
 963        return TestClearPageDirty(page);
 964}
 965EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
 966
 967int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 968{
 969        struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 970        int ret;
 971
 972        if (mapping) {
 973                unsigned long flags;
 974
 975                write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
 976                ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
 977                if (ret)
 978                        radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
 979                                                page_index(page),
 980                                                PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
 981                write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
 982        } else {
 983                ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
 984        }
 985        return ret;
 986}
 987
 988int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 989{
 990        struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 991        int ret;
 992
 993        if (mapping) {
 994                unsigned long flags;
 995
 996                write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
 997                ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
 998                if (!ret)
 999                        radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1000                                                page_index(page),
1001                                                PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1002                if (!PageDirty(page))
1003                        radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1004                                                page_index(page),
1005                                                PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1006                write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1007        } else {
1008                ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1009        }
1010        return ret;
1011
1012}
1013EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
1014
1015/*
1016 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marged with the
1017 * passed tag.
1018 */
1019int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
1020{
1021        unsigned long flags;
1022        int ret;
1023
1024        read_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1025        ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
1026        read_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1027        return ret;
1028}
1029EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);
1030
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