writeback: fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb

In the commit dcc25ae76eb7 ("writeback: move global_dirty_limit into
wb_domain") of the cgroup writeback backpressure propagation

writeback: fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb

In the commit dcc25ae76eb7 ("writeback: move global_dirty_limit into
wb_domain") of the cgroup writeback backpressure propagation patchset,
Tejun made some adaptations to trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgroup
writeback. However, this adaptation was incomplete and Tejun missed
further adaptation in the subsequent patches.

In the cgroup writeback scenario, if sdtc in balance_dirty_pages() is
assigned to mdtc, then upon entering trace_balance_dirty_pages(),
__entry->limit should be assigned based on the dirty_limit of the
corresponding memcg's wb_domain, rather than global_wb_domain.

To address this issue and simplify the implementation, introduce a 'limit'
field in struct dirty_throttle_control to store the hard_limit value
computed in wb_position_ratio() by calling hard_dirty_limit(). This field
will then be used in trace_balance_dirty_pages() to assign the value to
__entry->limit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: dcc25ae76eb7 ("writeback: move global_dirty_limit into wb_domain")
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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writeback: rename variables in trace_balance_dirty_pages()

Rename bdi_setpoint and bdi_dirty in the tracepoint to wb_setpoint and
wb_dirty, respectively. These changes were omitted by Tejun in the c

writeback: rename variables in trace_balance_dirty_pages()

Rename bdi_setpoint and bdi_dirty in the tracepoint to wb_setpoint and
wb_dirty, respectively. These changes were omitted by Tejun in the cgroup
writeback patchset.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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writeback: let trace_balance_dirty_pages() take struct dtc as parameter

Patch series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb", v2.

In my experiment, I found that the output of tra

writeback: let trace_balance_dirty_pages() take struct dtc as parameter

Patch series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb", v2.

In my experiment, I found that the output of trace_balance_dirty_pages()
in the cgroup writeback scenario was strange because
trace_balance_dirty_pages() always uses global_wb_domain.dirty_limit for
related calculations instead of the dirty_limit of the corresponding
memcg's wb_domain.

The basic idea of the fix is to store the hard dirty limit value computed
in wb_position_ratio() into struct dirty_throttle_control and use it for
calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages().


This patch (of 3):

Currently, trace_balance_dirty_pages() already has 12 parameters. In the
patch #3, I initially attempted to introduce an additional parameter.
However, in include/linux/trace_events.h, bpf_trace_run12() only supports
up to 12 parameters and bpf_trace_run13() does not exist.

To reduce the number of parameters in trace_balance_dirty_pages(), we can
make it accept a pointer to struct dirty_throttle_control as a parameter.
To achieve this, we need to move the definition of struct
dirty_throttle_control from mm/page-writeback.c to
include/linux/writeback.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Tang Yizhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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writeback: Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition

Currently, the show_inode_state() macro only prints
part of the state of inode->i_state. Let’s improve it
to display more of its state.

Sig

writeback: Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition

Currently, the show_inode_state() macro only prints
part of the state of inode->i_state. Let’s improve it
to display more of its state.

Signed-off-by: Julian Sun <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template

When commit 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for
wait_on_page_writeback()") repurposed the writeback_

writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template

When commit 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for
wait_on_page_writeback()") repurposed the writeback_dirty_page trace event
as a template to create its new wait_on_page_writeback trace event, it
ended up opening a window to NULL pointer dereference crashes due to the
(infrequent) occurrence of a race where an access to a page in the
swap-cache happens concurrently with the moment this page is being written
to disk and the tracepoint is enabled:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 800000010ec0a067 P4D 800000010ec0a067 PUD 102353067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1320 Comm: shmem-worker Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5+ #13
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-1.fc37 03/01/2023
RIP: 0010:trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0
Code: 4d 85 e4 74 5c 49 8b 3c 24 e8 06 98 ee ff 48 89 c7 e8 9e 8b ee ff ba 20 00 00 00 48 89 ef 48 89 c6 e8 fe d4 1a 00 49 8b 04 24 <48> 8b 40 40 48 89 43 28 49 8b 45 20 48 89 e7 48 89 43 30 e8 a2 4d
RSP: 0000:ffffaad580b6fb60 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff90e38035c01c RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff90e38035c044
RBP: ffff90e38035c024 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: ffff90e38035c02e R11: 0000000000000020 R12: ffff90e380bac000
R13: ffffe3a7456d9200 R14: 0000000000001b81 R15: ffffe3a7456d9200
FS: 00007f2e4e8a15c0(0000) GS:ffff90e3fbc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 00000001150c6003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x20/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x76/0x170
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x84/0x110
? exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0
folio_wait_writeback+0x6b/0x80
shmem_swapin_folio+0x24a/0x500
? filemap_get_entry+0xe3/0x140
shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x36e/0x7c0
? find_busiest_group+0x43/0x1a0
shmem_fault+0x76/0x2a0
? __update_load_avg_cfs_rq+0x281/0x2f0
__do_fault+0x33/0x130
do_read_fault+0x118/0x160
do_pte_missing+0x1ed/0x2a0
__handle_mm_fault+0x566/0x630
handle_mm_fault+0x91/0x210
do_user_addr_fault+0x22c/0x740
exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150
asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

This problem arises from the fact that the repurposed writeback_dirty_page
trace event code was written assuming that every pointer to mapping
(struct address_space) would come from a file-mapped page-cache object,
thus mapping->host would always be populated, and that was a valid case
before commit 19343b5bdd16. The swap-cache address space
(swapper_spaces), however, doesn't populate its ->host (struct inode)
pointer, thus leading to the crashes in the corner-case aforementioned.

commit 19343b5bdd16 ended up breaking the assignment of __entry->name and
__entry->ino for the wait_on_page_writeback tracepoint -- both dependent
on mapping->host carrying a pointer to a valid inode. The assignment of
__entry->name was fixed by commit 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in
wb_workfn when a device disappears"), and this commit fixes the remaining
case, for __entry->ino.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()")
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Yafang Shao <[email protected]>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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remove congestion tracking framework

This framework is no longer used - so discard it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: NeilBro

remove congestion tracking framework

This framework is no longer used - so discard it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Valente <[email protected]>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

Patch series "Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/", v5.

This series that removes all calls to congestion_wait in mm/

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

Patch series "Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/", v5.

This series that removes all calls to congestion_wait in mm/ and deletes
wait_iff_congested. It's not a clever implementation but
congestion_wait has been broken for a long time [1].

Even if congestion throttling worked, it was never a great idea. While
excessive dirty/writeback pages at the tail of the LRU is one
possibility that reclaim may be slow, there is also the problem of too
many pages being isolated and reclaim failing for other reasons
(elevated references, too many pages isolated, excessive LRU contention
etc).

This series replaces the "congestion" throttling with 3 different types.

- If there are too many dirty/writeback pages, sleep until a timeout or
enough pages get cleaned

- If too many pages are isolated, sleep until enough isolated pages are
either reclaimed or put back on the LRU

- If no progress is being made, direct reclaim tasks sleep until
another task makes progress with acceptable efficiency.

This was initially tested with a mix of workloads that used to trigger
corner cases that no longer work. A new test case was created called
"stutterp" (pagereclaim-stutterp-noreaders in mmtests) using a freshly
created XFS filesystem. Note that it may be necessary to increase the
timeout of ssh if executing remotely as ssh itself can get throttled and
the connection may timeout.

stutterp varies the number of "worker" processes from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4
to check the impact as the number of direct reclaimers increase. It has
four types of worker.

- One "anon latency" worker creates small mappings with mmap() and
times how long it takes to fault the mapping reading it 4K at a time

- X file writers which is fio randomly writing X files where the total
size of the files add up to the allowed dirty_ratio. fio is allowed
to run for a warmup period to allow some file-backed pages to
accumulate. The duration of the warmup is based on the best-case
linear write speed of the storage.

- Y file readers which is fio randomly reading small files

- Z anon memory hogs which continually map (100-dirty_ratio)% of memory

- Total estimated WSS = (100+dirty_ration) percentage of memory

X+Y+Z+1 == NR_WORKERS varying from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4

The intent is to maximise the total WSS with a mix of file and anon
memory where some anonymous memory must be swapped and there is a high
likelihood of dirty/writeback pages reaching the end of the LRU.

The test can be configured to have no background readers to stress
dirty/writeback pages. The results below are based on having zero
readers.

The short summary of the results is that the series works and stalls
until some event occurs but the timeouts may need adjustment.

The test results are not broken down by patch as the series should be
treated as one block that replaces a broken throttling mechanism with a
working one.

Finally, three machines were tested but I'm reporting the worst set of
results. The other two machines had much better latencies for example.

First the results of the "anon latency" latency

stutterp
5.15.0-rc1 5.15.0-rc1
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
Amean mmap-4 31.4003 ( 0.00%) 2661.0198 (-8374.52%)
Amean mmap-7 38.1641 ( 0.00%) 149.2891 (-291.18%)
Amean mmap-12 60.0981 ( 0.00%) 187.8105 (-212.51%)
Amean mmap-21 161.2699 ( 0.00%) 213.9107 ( -32.64%)
Amean mmap-30 174.5589 ( 0.00%) 377.7548 (-116.41%)
Amean mmap-48 8106.8160 ( 0.00%) 1070.5616 ( 86.79%)
Stddev mmap-4 41.3455 ( 0.00%) 27573.9676 (-66591.66%)
Stddev mmap-7 53.5556 ( 0.00%) 4608.5860 (-8505.23%)
Stddev mmap-12 171.3897 ( 0.00%) 5559.4542 (-3143.75%)
Stddev mmap-21 1506.6752 ( 0.00%) 5746.2507 (-281.39%)
Stddev mmap-30 557.5806 ( 0.00%) 7678.1624 (-1277.05%)
Stddev mmap-48 61681.5718 ( 0.00%) 14507.2830 ( 76.48%)
Max-90 mmap-4 31.4243 ( 0.00%) 83.1457 (-164.59%)
Max-90 mmap-7 41.0410 ( 0.00%) 41.0720 ( -0.08%)
Max-90 mmap-12 66.5255 ( 0.00%) 53.9073 ( 18.97%)
Max-90 mmap-21 146.7479 ( 0.00%) 105.9540 ( 27.80%)
Max-90 mmap-30 193.9513 ( 0.00%) 64.3067 ( 66.84%)
Max-90 mmap-48 277.9137 ( 0.00%) 591.0594 (-112.68%)
Max mmap-4 1913.8009 ( 0.00%) 299623.9695 (-15555.96%)
Max mmap-7 2423.9665 ( 0.00%) 204453.1708 (-8334.65%)
Max mmap-12 6845.6573 ( 0.00%) 221090.3366 (-3129.64%)
Max mmap-21 56278.6508 ( 0.00%) 213877.3496 (-280.03%)
Max mmap-30 19716.2990 ( 0.00%) 216287.6229 (-997.00%)
Max mmap-48 477923.9400 ( 0.00%) 245414.8238 ( 48.65%)

For most thread counts, the time to mmap() is unfortunately increased.
In earlier versions of the series, this was lower but a large number of
throttling events were reaching their timeout increasing the amount of
inefficient scanning of the LRU. There is no prioritisation of reclaim
tasks making progress based on each tasks rate of page allocation versus
progress of reclaim. The variance is also impacted for high worker
counts but in all cases, the differences in latency are not
statistically significant due to very large maximum outliers. Max-90
shows that 90% of the stalls are comparable but the Max results show the
massive outliers which are increased to to stalling.

It is expected that this will be very machine dependant. Due to the
test design, reclaim is difficult so allocations stall and there are
variances depending on whether THPs can be allocated or not. The amount
of memory will affect exactly how bad the corner cases are and how often
they trigger. The warmup period calculation is not ideal as it's based
on linear writes where as fio is randomly writing multiple files from
multiple tasks so the start state of the test is variable. For example,
these are the latencies on a single-socket machine that had more memory

Amean mmap-4 42.2287 ( 0.00%) 49.6838 * -17.65%*
Amean mmap-7 216.4326 ( 0.00%) 47.4451 * 78.08%*
Amean mmap-12 2412.0588 ( 0.00%) 51.7497 ( 97.85%)
Amean mmap-21 5546.2548 ( 0.00%) 51.8862 ( 99.06%)
Amean mmap-30 1085.3121 ( 0.00%) 72.1004 ( 93.36%)

The overall system CPU usage and elapsed time is as follows

5.15.0-rc3 5.15.0-rc3
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
Duration User 6989.03 983.42
Duration System 7308.12 799.68
Duration Elapsed 2277.67 2092.98

The patches reduce system CPU usage by 89% as the vanilla kernel is rarely
stalling.

The high-level /proc/vmstats show

5.15.0-rc1 5.15.0-rc1
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r2
Ops Direct pages scanned 1056608451.00 503594991.00
Ops Kswapd pages scanned 109795048.00 147289810.00
Ops Kswapd pages reclaimed 63269243.00 31036005.00
Ops Direct pages reclaimed 10803973.00 6328887.00
Ops Kswapd efficiency % 57.62 21.07
Ops Kswapd velocity 48204.98 57572.86
Ops Direct efficiency % 1.02 1.26
Ops Direct velocity 463898.83 196845.97

Kswapd scanned less pages but the detailed pattern is different. The
vanilla kernel scans slowly over time where as the patches exhibits
burst patterns of scan activity. Direct reclaim scanning is reduced by
52% due to stalling.

The pattern for stealing pages is also slightly different. Both kernels
exhibit spikes but the vanilla kernel when reclaiming shows pages being
reclaimed over a period of time where as the patches tend to reclaim in
spikes. The difference is that vanilla is not throttling and instead
scanning constantly finding some pages over time where as the patched
kernel throttles and reclaims in spikes.

Ops Percentage direct scans 90.59 77.37

For direct reclaim, vanilla scanned 90.59% of pages where as with the
patches, 77.37% were direct reclaim due to throttling

Ops Page writes by reclaim 2613590.00 1687131.00

Page writes from reclaim context are reduced.

Ops Page writes anon 2932752.00 1917048.00

And there is less swapping.

Ops Page reclaim immediate 996248528.00 107664764.00

The number of pages encountered at the tail of the LRU tagged for
immediate reclaim but still dirty/writeback is reduced by 89%.

Ops Slabs scanned 164284.00 153608.00

Slab scan activity is similar.

ftrace was used to gather stall activity

Vanilla
-------
1 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=16000
2 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=12000
8 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=8000
29 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=4000
82394 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=0

The fast majority of wait_iff_congested calls do not stall at all. What
is likely happening is that cond_resched() reschedules the task for a
short period when the BDI is not registering congestion (which it never
will in this test setup).

1 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=120000
2 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=132000
4 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=112000
380 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=108000
778 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=104000

congestion_wait if called always exceeds the timeout as there is no
trigger to wake it up.

Bottom line: Vanilla will throttle but it's not effective.

Patch series
------------

Kswapd throttle activity was always due to scanning pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU

1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
4 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
94 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
112 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority of events did not stall or stalled for a short period.
Roughly 16% of stalls reached the timeout before expiry. For direct
reclaim, the number of times stalled for each reason were

6624 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
93246 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
96934 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The most common reason to stall was due to excessive pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU followed by a failure to make
forward. A relatively small number were due to too many pages isolated
from the LRU by parallel threads

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, the breakdown of delays was

9 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
12 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
83 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
6520 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED

Most did not stall at all. A small number reached the timeout.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS, the breakdown of stalls were all over
the map

1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=324000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=332000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=348000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=360000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=228000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=260000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=340000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=364000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=372000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=428000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=460000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=464000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=244000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=252000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=272000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=188000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=268000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=328000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=380000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=392000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=432000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=204000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=220000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=412000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=436000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
6 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=488000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=212000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=300000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=316000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=472000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=248000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=356000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=456000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=124000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=376000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=484000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=172000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=420000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=452000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
11 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=256000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=112000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=116000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=144000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=152000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=264000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=384000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=424000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=492000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=184000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=444000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=308000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=440000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=476000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
16 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=140000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=232000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=240000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=280000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
18 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=404000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=148000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=216000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=468000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
21 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=448000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=168000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=296000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=132000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=352000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
26 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=180000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
27 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=284000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
28 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=164000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
29 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=136000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=200000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=400000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
31 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=196000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
32 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=156000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
33 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=224000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=128000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=176000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=368000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=496000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
37 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=312000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
38 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=304000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
40 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=288000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
43 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=408000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
55 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=416000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
56 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
58 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=120000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
59 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=208000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
61 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=192000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=480000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
79 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=320000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
88 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=160000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=292000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
94 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
118 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
119 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
126 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=108000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
146 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
159 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
178 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
183 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
237 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
266 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
313 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
347 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
470 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
559 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
964 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2001 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=104000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2447 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7888 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
22727 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
51305 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=500000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS

The full timeout is often hit but a large number also do not stall at
all. The remainder slept a little allowing other reclaim tasks to make
progress.

While this timeout could be further increased, it could also negatively
impact worst-case behaviour when there is no prioritisation of what task
should make progress.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, the breakdown was

1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
2 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
3 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
7 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
12 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
16 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
24 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
28 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
32 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
42 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
77 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
99 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
137 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
190 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
339 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
518 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
852 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
3359 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
7147 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
83962 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority hit the timeout in direct reclaim context although a
sizable number did not stall at all. This is very different to kswapd
where only a tiny percentage of stalls due to writeback reached the
timeout.

Bottom line, the throttling appears to work and the wakeup events may
limit worst case stalls. There might be some grounds for adjusting
timeouts but it's likely futile as the worst-case scenarios depend on
the workload, memory size and the speed of the storage. A better
approach to improve the series further would be to prioritise tasks
based on their rate of allocation with the caveat that it may be very
expensive to track.

This patch (of 5):

Page reclaim throttles on wait_iff_congested under the following
conditions:

- kswapd is encountering pages under writeback and marked for immediate
reclaim implying that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
pages can be cleaned.

- Direct reclaim will stall if all dirty pages are backed by congested
inodes.

wait_iff_congested is almost completely broken with few exceptions.
This patch adds a new node-based workqueue and tracks the number of
throttled tasks and pages written back since throttling started. If
enough pages belonging to the node are written back then the throttled
tasks will wake early. If not, the throttled tasks sleeps until the
timeout expires.

[[email protected]: Uninterruptible sleep and simpler wakeups]
[[email protected]: Avoid race when reclaim starts]
[[email protected]: vmstat irq-safe api, clarifications]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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mm/writeback: Convert tracing writeback_page_template to folios

Rename writeback_dirty_page() to writeback_dirty_folio() and
wait_on_page_writeback() to folio_wait_writeback().

Signed-off-by: Matth

mm/writeback: Convert tracing writeback_page_template to folios

Rename writeback_dirty_page() to writeback_dirty_folio() and
wait_on_page_writeback() to folio_wait_writeback().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>

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mm/memcg: Convert mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() to folio

The page was only being used for the memcg and to gather trace
information, so this is a simple conversion. The only caller of
m

mm/memcg: Convert mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() to folio

The page was only being used for the memcg and to gather trace
information, so this is a simple conversion. The only caller of
mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() will be converted to folios in a later
patch, so doing this now makes that patch simpler.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>

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trace: replace WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH with a string

Now WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH is displayed as a number, maybe a
string is better.

v2: replace some space with tab.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/

trace: replace WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH with a string

Now WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH is displayed as a number, maybe a
string is better.

v2: replace some space with tab.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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mm: memcontrol: Use helpers to read page's memcg data

Patch series "mm: allow mapping accounted kernel pages to userspace", v6.

Currently a non-slab kernel page which has been charged to a memory c

mm: memcontrol: Use helpers to read page's memcg data

Patch series "mm: allow mapping accounted kernel pages to userspace", v6.

Currently a non-slab kernel page which has been charged to a memory cgroup
can't be mapped to userspace. The underlying reason is simple: PageKmemcg
flag is defined as a page type (like buddy, offline, etc), so it takes a
bit from a page->mapped counter. Pages with a type set can't be mapped to
userspace.

But in general the kmemcg flag has nothing to do with mapping to
userspace. It only means that the page has been accounted by the page
allocator, so it has to be properly uncharged on release.

Some bpf maps are mapping the vmalloc-based memory to userspace, and their
memory can't be accounted because of this implementation detail.

This patchset removes this limitation by moving the PageKmemcg flag into
one of the free bits of the page->mem_cgroup pointer. Also it formalizes
accesses to the page->mem_cgroup and page->obj_cgroups using new helpers,
adds several checks and removes a couple of obsolete functions. As the
result the code became more robust with fewer open-coded bit tricks.

This patch (of 4):

Currently there are many open-coded reads of the page->mem_cgroup pointer,
as well as a couple of read helpers, which are barely used.

It creates an obstacle on a way to reuse some bits of the pointer for
storing additional bits of information. In fact, we already do this for
slab pages, where the last bit indicates that a pointer has an attached
vector of objcg pointers instead of a regular memcg pointer.

This commits uses 2 existing helpers and introduces a new helper to
converts all read sides to calls of these helpers:
struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg(struct page *page);
struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_rcu(struct page *page);
struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page);

page_memcg_check() is intended to be used in cases when the page can be a
slab page and have a memcg pointer pointing at objcg vector. It does
check the lowest bit, and if set, returns NULL. page_memcg() contains a
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() check for the page not being a slab page.

To make sure nobody uses a direct access, struct page's
mem_cgroup/obj_cgroups is converted to unsigned long memcg_data.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

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trace: fix potenial dangerous pointer

The bdi_dev_name() returns a char [64], and
the __entry->name is a char [32].

It maybe dangerous to TP_printk("%s", __entry->name)
after the strncpy().

CC: st

trace: fix potenial dangerous pointer

The bdi_dev_name() returns a char [64], and
the __entry->name is a char [32].

It maybe dangerous to TP_printk("%s", __entry->name)
after the strncpy().

CC: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124165205.GA23937@rlk
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

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writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE

The only use of I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE is to detect in
__writeback_single_inode() that inode got there because flush worker
decided it's time to writeback the dirty

writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE

The only use of I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE is to detect in
__writeback_single_inode() that inode got there because flush worker
decided it's time to writeback the dirty inode time stamps (either
because we are syncing or because of age). However we can detect this
directly in __writeback_single_inode() and there's no need for the
strange propagation with I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE flag.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

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writeback: Fix sync livelock due to b_dirty_time processing

When we are processing writeback for sync(2), move_expired_inodes()
didn't set any inode expiry value (older_than_this). This can result i

writeback: Fix sync livelock due to b_dirty_time processing

When we are processing writeback for sync(2), move_expired_inodes()
didn't set any inode expiry value (older_than_this). This can result in
writeback never completing if there's steady stream of inodes added to
b_dirty_time list as writeback rechecks dirty lists after each writeback
round whether there's more work to be done. Fix the problem by using
sync(2) start time is inode expiry value when processing b_dirty_time
list similarly as for ordinarily dirtied inodes. This requires some
refactoring of older_than_this handling which simplifies the code
noticeably as a bonus.

Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
CC: [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

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mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead

After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be

mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead

After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.

These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count. This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g. releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT). However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.

So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.

A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).

Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput. With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.

Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero. static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.

[[email protected]: re-layout comment]
[[email protected]: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> [mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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buffer: remove useless comment and WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM, reason.

free_more_memory func has been completely removed in commit bc48f001de12
("buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() i

buffer: remove useless comment and WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM, reason.

free_more_memory func has been completely removed in commit bc48f001de12
("buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow()")

So comment and `WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM` reason about free_more_memory
are no longer needed.

Fixes: bc48f001de12 ("buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow()")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears

Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and
bdi_writeback structures. In this world, things are fairly
straightforward;

memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears

Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and
bdi_writeback structures. In this world, things are fairly
straightforward; the first thing bdi_unregister() does is to shutdown
the bdi_writeback structure (or wb), and part of that writeback ensures
that no other work queued against the wb, and that the wb is fully
drained.

With memcg, however, there is a one-to-many relationship between the bdi
and bdi_writeback structures; that is, there are multiple wb objects
which can all point to a single bdi. There is a refcount which prevents
the bdi object from being released (and hence, unregistered). So in
theory, the bdi_unregister() *should* only get called once its refcount
goes to zero (bdi_put will drop the refcount, and when it is zero,
release_bdi gets called, which calls bdi_unregister).

Unfortunately, del_gendisk() in block/gen_hd.c never got the memo about
the Brave New memcg World, and calls bdi_unregister directly. It does
this without informing the file system, or the memcg code, or anything
else. This causes the root wb associated with the bdi to be
unregistered, but none of the memcg-specific wb's are shutdown. So when
one of these wb's are woken up to do delayed work, they try to
dereference their wb->bdi->dev to fetch the device name, but
unfortunately bdi->dev is now NULL, thanks to the bdi_unregister()
called by del_gendisk(). As a result, *boom*.

Fortunately, it looks like the rest of the writeback path is perfectly
happy with bdi->dev and bdi->owner being NULL, so the simplest fix is to
create a bdi_dev_name() function which can handle bdi->dev being NULL.
This also allows us to bulletproof the writeback tracepoints to prevent
them from dereferencing a NULL pointer and crashing the kernel if one is
tracing with memcg's enabled, and an iSCSI device dies or a USB storage
stick is pulled.

The most common way of triggering this will be hotremoval of a device
while writeback with memcg enabled is going on. It was triggering
several times a day in a heavily loaded production environment.

Google Bug Id: 145475544

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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writeback: fix -Wformat compilation warnings

The commit f05499a06fb4 ("writeback: use ino_t for inodes in
tracepoints") introduced a lot of GCC compilation warnings on s390,

In file included from .

writeback: fix -Wformat compilation warnings

The commit f05499a06fb4 ("writeback: use ino_t for inodes in
tracepoints") introduced a lot of GCC compilation warnings on s390,

In file included from ./include/trace/define_trace.h:102,
from ./include/trace/events/writeback.h:904,
from fs/fs-writeback.c:82:
./include/trace/events/writeback.h: In function
'trace_raw_output_writeback_page_template':
./include/trace/events/writeback.h:76:12: warning: format '%lu' expects
argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
{aka 'unsigned int'} [-Wformat=]
TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu index=%lu",
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/trace/trace_events.h:360:22: note: in definition of macro
'DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS'
trace_seq_printf(s, print); \
^~~~~
./include/trace/events/writeback.h:76:2: note: in expansion of macro
'TP_printk'
TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu index=%lu",
^~~~~~~~~

Fix them by adding necessary casts where ino_t could be either "unsigned
int" or "unsigned long".

Fixes: f05499a06fb4 ("writeback: use ino_t for inodes in tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>

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kernfs: convert kernfs_node->id from union kernfs_node_id to u64

kernfs_node->id is currently a union kernfs_node_id which represents
either a 32bit (ino, gen) pair or u64 value. I can't see much v

kernfs: convert kernfs_node->id from union kernfs_node_id to u64

kernfs_node->id is currently a union kernfs_node_id which represents
either a 32bit (ino, gen) pair or u64 value. I can't see much value
in the usage of the union - all that's needed is a 64bit ID which the
current code is already limited to. Using a union makes the code
unnecessarily complicated and prevents using 64bit ino without adding
practical benefits.

This patch drops union kernfs_node_id and makes kernfs_node->id a u64.
ino is stored in the lower 32bits and gen upper. Accessors -
kernfs[_id]_ino() and kernfs[_id]_gen() - are added to retrieve the
ino and gen. This simplifies ID handling less cumbersome and will
allow using 64bit inos on supported archs.

This patch doesn't make any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

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writeback: use ino_t for inodes in tracepoints

Writeback TPs currently use mix of 32 and 64bits for inos. This isn't
currently broken because only cgroup inos are using 32bits and they're
limited t

writeback: use ino_t for inodes in tracepoints

Writeback TPs currently use mix of 32 and 64bits for inos. This isn't
currently broken because only cgroup inos are using 32bits and they're
limited to 32bits. cgroup inos will make use of 64bits. Let's
uniformly use ino_t.

While at it, switch the default cgroup ino value used when cgroup is
disabled to 1 instead of -1U as root cgroup always uses ino 1.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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include/trace/events/writeback.h: fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings

There are many of those warnings.

In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h:15,
from ./arch/power

include/trace/events/writeback.h: fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings

There are many of those warnings.

In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h:15,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/current.h:13,
from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
from ./include/asm-generic/preempt.h:5,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/preempt.h:1,
from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78,
from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
from fs/fs-writeback.c:19:
In function 'strncpy',
inlined from 'perf_trace_writeback_page_template' at
./include/trace/events/writeback.h:56:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified
bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix it by using the new strscpy_pad() which was introduced in "lib/string:
Add strscpy_pad() function" and will always be NUL-terminated instead of
strncpy(). Also, change strlcpy() to use strscpy_pad() in this file for
consistency.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 455b2864686d ("writeback: Initial tracing support")
Fixes: 028c2dd184c0 ("writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages")
Fixes: e84d0a4f8e39 ("writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io")
Fixes: b48c104d2211 ("writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit")
Fixes: cc1676d917f3 ("writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()")
Fixes: 9fb0a7da0c52 ("writeback: add more tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Nitin Gote <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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writeback: don't access page->mapping directly in track_foreign_dirty TP

page->mapping may encode different values in it and page_mapping()
should always be used to access the mapping pointer.
track

writeback: don't access page->mapping directly in track_foreign_dirty TP

page->mapping may encode different values in it and page_mapping()
should always be used to access the mapping pointer.
track_foreign_dirty tracepoint was incorrectly accessing page->mapping
directly. Use page_mapping() instead. Also, add NULL checks while at
it.

Fixes: 3a8e9ac89e6a ("writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks")
Reported-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks

cgroup foreign inode handling has quite a bit of heuristics and
internal states which sometimes makes it difficult to understand
what's going

writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks

cgroup foreign inode handling has quite a bit of heuristics and
internal states which sometimes makes it difficult to understand
what's going on. Add tracepoints to improve visibility.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()

Recently there have been some hung tasks on our server due to
wait_on_page_writeback(), and we want to know the details of this
P

mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()

Recently there have been some hung tasks on our server due to
wait_on_page_writeback(), and we want to know the details of this
PG_writeback, i.e. this page is writing back to which device. But it is
not so convenient to get the details.

I think it would be better to introduce a tracepoint for diagnosing the
writeback details.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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