xref: /linux-6.15/mm/page-writeback.c (revision b413d48a)
1 /*
2  * mm/page-writeback.c
3  *
4  * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
5  * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
6  *
7  * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
8  * address_space level.
9  *
10  * 10Apr2002	Andrew Morton
11  *		Initial version
12  */
13 
14 #include <linux/kernel.h>
15 #include <linux/export.h>
16 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
17 #include <linux/fs.h>
18 #include <linux/mm.h>
19 #include <linux/swap.h>
20 #include <linux/slab.h>
21 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
22 #include <linux/writeback.h>
23 #include <linux/init.h>
24 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
25 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
26 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
27 #include <linux/mpage.h>
28 #include <linux/rmap.h>
29 #include <linux/percpu.h>
30 #include <linux/notifier.h>
31 #include <linux/smp.h>
32 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
33 #include <linux/cpu.h>
34 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
35 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* __set_page_dirty_buffers */
36 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
37 #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
38 
39 /*
40  * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
41  */
42 #define MAX_PAUSE		max(HZ/5, 1)
43 
44 /*
45  * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
46  */
47 #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL	max(HZ/5, 1)
48 
49 #define RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT	10
50 
51 /*
52  * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
53  * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
54  */
55 static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
56 
57 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
58 
59 /*
60  * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
61  */
62 int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
63 
64 /*
65  * dirty_background_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
66  * dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
67  */
68 unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
69 
70 /*
71  * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
72  * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true
73  */
74 int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
75 
76 /*
77  * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
78  */
79 int vm_dirty_ratio = 20;
80 
81 /*
82  * vm_dirty_bytes starts at 0 (disabled) so that it is a function of
83  * vm_dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable memory
84  */
85 unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
86 
87 /*
88  * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks
89  */
90 unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */
91 
92 /*
93  * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty
94  */
95 unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */
96 
97 /*
98  * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
99  */
100 int block_dump;
101 
102 /*
103  * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
104  * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
105  */
106 int laptop_mode;
107 
108 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
109 
110 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
111 
112 unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
113 
114 /*
115  * Scale the writeback cache size proportional to the relative writeout speeds.
116  *
117  * We do this by keeping a floating proportion between BDIs, based on page
118  * writeback completions [end_page_writeback()]. Those devices that write out
119  * pages fastest will get the larger share, while the slower will get a smaller
120  * share.
121  *
122  * We use page writeout completions because we are interested in getting rid of
123  * dirty pages. Having them written out is the primary goal.
124  *
125  * We introduce a concept of time, a period over which we measure these events,
126  * because demand can/will vary over time. The length of this period itself is
127  * measured in page writeback completions.
128  *
129  */
130 static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
131 
132 /*
133  * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
134  * thresholds.
135  *
136  * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
137  * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
138  * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
139  * performing lots of scanning.
140  *
141  * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
142  *
143  * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
144  * excessive.
145  *
146  * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
147  * clamping level.
148  */
149 static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
150 {
151 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
152 	int node;
153 	unsigned long x = 0;
154 
155 	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
156 		struct zone *z =
157 			&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
158 
159 		x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
160 		     zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
161 	}
162 	/*
163 	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
164 	 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
165 	 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
166 	 * that this does not occur.
167 	 */
168 	return min(x, total);
169 #else
170 	return 0;
171 #endif
172 }
173 
174 /**
175  * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
176  *
177  * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
178  * by the kernel for direct mappings.
179  */
180 static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
181 {
182 	unsigned long x;
183 
184 	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
185 
186 	if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
187 		x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
188 
189 	return x + 1;	/* Ensure that we never return 0 */
190 }
191 
192 /*
193  * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
194  *
195  *   period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
196  */
197 static int calc_period_shift(void)
198 {
199 	unsigned long dirty_total;
200 
201 	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
202 		dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
203 	else
204 		dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) /
205 				100;
206 	return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
207 }
208 
209 /*
210  * update the period when the dirty threshold changes.
211  */
212 static void update_completion_period(void)
213 {
214 	int shift = calc_period_shift();
215 	prop_change_shift(&vm_completions, shift);
216 
217 	writeback_set_ratelimit();
218 }
219 
220 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
221 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
222 		loff_t *ppos)
223 {
224 	int ret;
225 
226 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
227 	if (ret == 0 && write)
228 		dirty_background_bytes = 0;
229 	return ret;
230 }
231 
232 int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
233 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
234 		loff_t *ppos)
235 {
236 	int ret;
237 
238 	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
239 	if (ret == 0 && write)
240 		dirty_background_ratio = 0;
241 	return ret;
242 }
243 
244 int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
245 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
246 		loff_t *ppos)
247 {
248 	int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
249 	int ret;
250 
251 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
252 	if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
253 		update_completion_period();
254 		vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
255 	}
256 	return ret;
257 }
258 
259 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
260 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
261 		loff_t *ppos)
262 {
263 	unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
264 	int ret;
265 
266 	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
267 	if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) {
268 		update_completion_period();
269 		vm_dirty_ratio = 0;
270 	}
271 	return ret;
272 }
273 
274 /*
275  * Increment the BDI's writeout completion count and the global writeout
276  * completion count. Called from test_clear_page_writeback().
277  */
278 static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
279 {
280 	__inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITTEN);
281 	__prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
282 			      bdi->max_prop_frac);
283 }
284 
285 void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
286 {
287 	unsigned long flags;
288 
289 	local_irq_save(flags);
290 	__bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
291 	local_irq_restore(flags);
292 }
293 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);
294 
295 /*
296  * Obtain an accurate fraction of the BDI's portion.
297  */
298 static void bdi_writeout_fraction(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
299 		long *numerator, long *denominator)
300 {
301 	prop_fraction_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions,
302 				numerator, denominator);
303 }
304 
305 /*
306  * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
307  * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
308  * exceed 100%.
309  */
310 static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
311 
312 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
313 {
314 	int ret = 0;
315 
316 	spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
317 	if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
318 		ret = -EINVAL;
319 	} else {
320 		min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
321 		if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
322 			bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
323 			bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
324 		} else {
325 			ret = -EINVAL;
326 		}
327 	}
328 	spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
329 
330 	return ret;
331 }
332 
333 int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
334 {
335 	int ret = 0;
336 
337 	if (max_ratio > 100)
338 		return -EINVAL;
339 
340 	spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
341 	if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) {
342 		ret = -EINVAL;
343 	} else {
344 		bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio;
345 		bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100;
346 	}
347 	spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);
348 
349 	return ret;
350 }
351 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
352 
353 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
354 					   unsigned long bg_thresh)
355 {
356 	return (thresh + bg_thresh) / 2;
357 }
358 
359 static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
360 {
361 	return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
362 }
363 
364 /*
365  * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
366  *
367  * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
368  * - vm.dirty_background_ratio  or  vm.dirty_background_bytes
369  * - vm.dirty_ratio             or  vm.dirty_bytes
370  * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
371  * real-time tasks.
372  */
373 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
374 {
375 	unsigned long background;
376 	unsigned long dirty;
377 	unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
378 	struct task_struct *tsk;
379 
380 	if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
381 		available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
382 
383 	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
384 		dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
385 	else
386 		dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
387 
388 	if (dirty_background_bytes)
389 		background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
390 	else
391 		background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
392 
393 	if (background >= dirty)
394 		background = dirty / 2;
395 	tsk = current;
396 	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
397 		background += background / 4;
398 		dirty += dirty / 4;
399 	}
400 	*pbackground = background;
401 	*pdirty = dirty;
402 	trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
403 }
404 
405 /**
406  * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
407  * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
408  * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
409  *
410  * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
411  * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
412  *
413  * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
414  * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
415  * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
416  * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
417  * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
418  * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
419  *
420  * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
421  * - starving fast devices
422  * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
423  *
424  * The bdi's share of dirty limit will be adapting to its throughput and
425  * bounded by the bdi->min_ratio and/or bdi->max_ratio parameters, if set.
426  */
427 unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
428 {
429 	u64 bdi_dirty;
430 	long numerator, denominator;
431 
432 	/*
433 	 * Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
434 	 */
435 	bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
436 
437 	bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
438 	bdi_dirty *= numerator;
439 	do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
440 
441 	bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
442 	if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100)
443 		bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100;
444 
445 	return bdi_dirty;
446 }
447 
448 /*
449  * Dirty position control.
450  *
451  * (o) global/bdi setpoints
452  *
453  * We want the dirty pages be balanced around the global/bdi setpoints.
454  * When the number of dirty pages is higher/lower than the setpoint, the
455  * dirty position control ratio (and hence task dirty ratelimit) will be
456  * decreased/increased to bring the dirty pages back to the setpoint.
457  *
458  *     pos_ratio = 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
459  *
460  *     if (dirty < setpoint) scale up   pos_ratio
461  *     if (dirty > setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
462  *
463  *     if (bdi_dirty < bdi_setpoint) scale up   pos_ratio
464  *     if (bdi_dirty > bdi_setpoint) scale down pos_ratio
465  *
466  *     task_ratelimit = dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT
467  *
468  * (o) global control line
469  *
470  *     ^ pos_ratio
471  *     |
472  *     |            |<===== global dirty control scope ======>|
473  * 2.0 .............*
474  *     |            .*
475  *     |            . *
476  *     |            .   *
477  *     |            .     *
478  *     |            .        *
479  *     |            .            *
480  * 1.0 ................................*
481  *     |            .                  .     *
482  *     |            .                  .          *
483  *     |            .                  .              *
484  *     |            .                  .                 *
485  *     |            .                  .                    *
486  *   0 +------------.------------------.----------------------*------------->
487  *           freerun^          setpoint^                 limit^   dirty pages
488  *
489  * (o) bdi control line
490  *
491  *     ^ pos_ratio
492  *     |
493  *     |            *
494  *     |              *
495  *     |                *
496  *     |                  *
497  *     |                    * |<=========== span ============>|
498  * 1.0 .......................*
499  *     |                      . *
500  *     |                      .   *
501  *     |                      .     *
502  *     |                      .       *
503  *     |                      .         *
504  *     |                      .           *
505  *     |                      .             *
506  *     |                      .               *
507  *     |                      .                 *
508  *     |                      .                   *
509  *     |                      .                     *
510  * 1/4 ...............................................* * * * * * * * * * * *
511  *     |                      .                         .
512  *     |                      .                           .
513  *     |                      .                             .
514  *   0 +----------------------.-------------------------------.------------->
515  *                bdi_setpoint^                    x_intercept^
516  *
517  * The bdi control line won't drop below pos_ratio=1/4, so that bdi_dirty can
518  * be smoothly throttled down to normal if it starts high in situations like
519  * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
520  *   card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
521  * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
522  */
523 static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
524 					unsigned long thresh,
525 					unsigned long bg_thresh,
526 					unsigned long dirty,
527 					unsigned long bdi_thresh,
528 					unsigned long bdi_dirty)
529 {
530 	unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
531 	unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
532 	unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
533 	unsigned long x_intercept;
534 	unsigned long setpoint;		/* dirty pages' target balance point */
535 	unsigned long bdi_setpoint;
536 	unsigned long span;
537 	long long pos_ratio;		/* for scaling up/down the rate limit */
538 	long x;
539 
540 	if (unlikely(dirty >= limit))
541 		return 0;
542 
543 	/*
544 	 * global setpoint
545 	 *
546 	 *                           setpoint - dirty 3
547 	 *        f(dirty) := 1.0 + (----------------)
548 	 *                           limit - setpoint
549 	 *
550 	 * it's a 3rd order polynomial that subjects to
551 	 *
552 	 * (1) f(freerun)  = 2.0 => rampup dirty_ratelimit reasonably fast
553 	 * (2) f(setpoint) = 1.0 => the balance point
554 	 * (3) f(limit)    = 0   => the hard limit
555 	 * (4) df/dx      <= 0	 => negative feedback control
556 	 * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
557 	 *     => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
558 	 */
559 	setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
560 	x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
561 		    limit - setpoint + 1);
562 	pos_ratio = x;
563 	pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
564 	pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
565 	pos_ratio += 1 << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
566 
567 	/*
568 	 * We have computed basic pos_ratio above based on global situation. If
569 	 * the bdi is over/under its share of dirty pages, we want to scale
570 	 * pos_ratio further down/up. That is done by the following mechanism.
571 	 */
572 
573 	/*
574 	 * bdi setpoint
575 	 *
576 	 *        f(bdi_dirty) := 1.0 + k * (bdi_dirty - bdi_setpoint)
577 	 *
578 	 *                        x_intercept - bdi_dirty
579 	 *                     := --------------------------
580 	 *                        x_intercept - bdi_setpoint
581 	 *
582 	 * The main bdi control line is a linear function that subjects to
583 	 *
584 	 * (1) f(bdi_setpoint) = 1.0
585 	 * (2) k = - 1 / (8 * write_bw)  (in single bdi case)
586 	 *     or equally: x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
587 	 *
588 	 * For single bdi case, the dirty pages are observed to fluctuate
589 	 * regularly within range
590 	 *        [bdi_setpoint - write_bw/2, bdi_setpoint + write_bw/2]
591 	 * for various filesystems, where (2) can yield in a reasonable 12.5%
592 	 * fluctuation range for pos_ratio.
593 	 *
594 	 * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
595 	 * own size, so move the slope over accordingly and choose a slope that
596 	 * yields 100% pos_ratio fluctuation on suddenly doubled bdi_thresh.
597 	 */
598 	if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
599 		bdi_thresh = thresh;
600 	/*
601 	 * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
602 	 * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
603 	 * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
604 	 * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
605 	 * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
606 	 */
607 	bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
608 	/*
609 	 * scale global setpoint to bdi's:
610 	 *	bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
611 	 */
612 	x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
613 	bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
614 	/*
615 	 * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
616 	 * (thresh - bdi_thresh ~= 0) and transit to bdi_thresh in JBOD case.
617 	 *
618 	 *        bdi_thresh                    thresh - bdi_thresh
619 	 * span = ---------- * (8 * write_bw) + ------------------- * bdi_thresh
620 	 *          thresh                            thresh
621 	 */
622 	span = (thresh - bdi_thresh + 8 * write_bw) * (u64)x >> 16;
623 	x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
624 
625 	if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
626 		pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
627 				    x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
628 	} else
629 		pos_ratio /= 4;
630 
631 	/*
632 	 * bdi reserve area, safeguard against dirty pool underrun and disk idle
633 	 * It may push the desired control point of global dirty pages higher
634 	 * than setpoint.
635 	 */
636 	x_intercept = bdi_thresh / 2;
637 	if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept) {
638 		if (bdi_dirty > x_intercept / 8)
639 			pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * x_intercept, bdi_dirty);
640 		else
641 			pos_ratio *= 8;
642 	}
643 
644 	return pos_ratio;
645 }
646 
647 static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
648 				       unsigned long elapsed,
649 				       unsigned long written)
650 {
651 	const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
652 	unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
653 	unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
654 	u64 bw;
655 
656 	/*
657 	 * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
658 	 *
659 	 *                   bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
660 	 * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
661 	 *                                          period
662 	 */
663 	bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
664 	bw *= HZ;
665 	if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
666 		do_div(bw, elapsed);
667 		avg = bw;
668 		goto out;
669 	}
670 	bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
671 	bw >>= ilog2(period);
672 
673 	/*
674 	 * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
675 	 */
676 	if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
677 		avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
678 
679 	if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
680 		avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
681 
682 out:
683 	bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
684 	bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
685 }
686 
687 /*
688  * The global dirtyable memory and dirty threshold could be suddenly knocked
689  * down by a large amount (eg. on the startup of KVM in a swapless system).
690  * This may throw the system into deep dirty exceeded state and throttle
691  * heavy/light dirtiers alike. To retain good responsiveness, maintain
692  * global_dirty_limit for tracking slowly down to the knocked down dirty
693  * threshold.
694  */
695 static void update_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long dirty)
696 {
697 	unsigned long limit = global_dirty_limit;
698 
699 	/*
700 	 * Follow up in one step.
701 	 */
702 	if (limit < thresh) {
703 		limit = thresh;
704 		goto update;
705 	}
706 
707 	/*
708 	 * Follow down slowly. Use the higher one as the target, because thresh
709 	 * may drop below dirty. This is exactly the reason to introduce
710 	 * global_dirty_limit which is guaranteed to lie above the dirty pages.
711 	 */
712 	thresh = max(thresh, dirty);
713 	if (limit > thresh) {
714 		limit -= (limit - thresh) >> 5;
715 		goto update;
716 	}
717 	return;
718 update:
719 	global_dirty_limit = limit;
720 }
721 
722 static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
723 				    unsigned long dirty,
724 				    unsigned long now)
725 {
726 	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
727 	static unsigned long update_time;
728 
729 	/*
730 	 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
731 	 */
732 	if (time_before(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
733 		return;
734 
735 	spin_lock(&dirty_lock);
736 	if (time_after_eq(now, update_time + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)) {
737 		update_dirty_limit(thresh, dirty);
738 		update_time = now;
739 	}
740 	spin_unlock(&dirty_lock);
741 }
742 
743 /*
744  * Maintain bdi->dirty_ratelimit, the base dirty throttle rate.
745  *
746  * Normal bdi tasks will be curbed at or below it in long term.
747  * Obviously it should be around (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks.
748  */
749 static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
750 				       unsigned long thresh,
751 				       unsigned long bg_thresh,
752 				       unsigned long dirty,
753 				       unsigned long bdi_thresh,
754 				       unsigned long bdi_dirty,
755 				       unsigned long dirtied,
756 				       unsigned long elapsed)
757 {
758 	unsigned long freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh);
759 	unsigned long limit = hard_dirty_limit(thresh);
760 	unsigned long setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
761 	unsigned long write_bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
762 	unsigned long dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
763 	unsigned long dirty_rate;
764 	unsigned long task_ratelimit;
765 	unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
766 	unsigned long pos_ratio;
767 	unsigned long step;
768 	unsigned long x;
769 
770 	/*
771 	 * The dirty rate will match the writeout rate in long term, except
772 	 * when dirty pages are truncated by userspace or re-dirtied by FS.
773 	 */
774 	dirty_rate = (dirtied - bdi->dirtied_stamp) * HZ / elapsed;
775 
776 	pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
777 				       bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
778 	/*
779 	 * task_ratelimit reflects each dd's dirty rate for the past 200ms.
780 	 */
781 	task_ratelimit = (u64)dirty_ratelimit *
782 					pos_ratio >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
783 	task_ratelimit++; /* it helps rampup dirty_ratelimit from tiny values */
784 
785 	/*
786 	 * A linear estimation of the "balanced" throttle rate. The theory is,
787 	 * if there are N dd tasks, each throttled at task_ratelimit, the bdi's
788 	 * dirty_rate will be measured to be (N * task_ratelimit). So the below
789 	 * formula will yield the balanced rate limit (write_bw / N).
790 	 *
791 	 * Note that the expanded form is not a pure rate feedback:
792 	 *	rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate)		     (1)
793 	 * but also takes pos_ratio into account:
794 	 *	rate_(i+1) = rate_(i) * (write_bw / dirty_rate) * pos_ratio  (2)
795 	 *
796 	 * (1) is not realistic because pos_ratio also takes part in balancing
797 	 * the dirty rate.  Consider the state
798 	 *	pos_ratio = 0.5						     (3)
799 	 *	rate = 2 * (write_bw / N)				     (4)
800 	 * If (1) is used, it will stuck in that state! Because each dd will
801 	 * be throttled at
802 	 *	task_ratelimit = pos_ratio * rate = (write_bw / N)	     (5)
803 	 * yielding
804 	 *	dirty_rate = N * task_ratelimit = write_bw		     (6)
805 	 * put (6) into (1) we get
806 	 *	rate_(i+1) = rate_(i)					     (7)
807 	 *
808 	 * So we end up using (2) to always keep
809 	 *	rate_(i+1) ~= (write_bw / N)				     (8)
810 	 * regardless of the value of pos_ratio. As long as (8) is satisfied,
811 	 * pos_ratio is able to drive itself to 1.0, which is not only where
812 	 * the dirty count meet the setpoint, but also where the slope of
813 	 * pos_ratio is most flat and hence task_ratelimit is least fluctuated.
814 	 */
815 	balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw,
816 					   dirty_rate | 1);
817 
818 	/*
819 	 * We could safely do this and return immediately:
820 	 *
821 	 *	bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
822 	 *
823 	 * However to get a more stable dirty_ratelimit, the below elaborated
824 	 * code makes use of task_ratelimit to filter out sigular points and
825 	 * limit the step size.
826 	 *
827 	 * The below code essentially only uses the relative value of
828 	 *
829 	 *	task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit
830 	 *	= (pos_ratio - 1) * dirty_ratelimit
831 	 *
832 	 * which reflects the direction and size of dirty position error.
833 	 */
834 
835 	/*
836 	 * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
837 	 * task_ratelimit is on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, too.
838 	 * For example, when
839 	 * - dirty_ratelimit > balanced_dirty_ratelimit
840 	 * - dirty_ratelimit > task_ratelimit (dirty pages are above setpoint)
841 	 * lowering dirty_ratelimit will help meet both the position and rate
842 	 * control targets. Otherwise, don't update dirty_ratelimit if it will
843 	 * only help meet the rate target. After all, what the users ultimately
844 	 * feel and care are stable dirty rate and small position error.
845 	 *
846 	 * |task_ratelimit - dirty_ratelimit| is used to limit the step size
847 	 * and filter out the sigular points of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. Which
848 	 * keeps jumping around randomly and can even leap far away at times
849 	 * due to the small 200ms estimation period of dirty_rate (we want to
850 	 * keep that period small to reduce time lags).
851 	 */
852 	step = 0;
853 	if (dirty < setpoint) {
854 		x = min(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
855 			 min(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
856 		if (dirty_ratelimit < x)
857 			step = x - dirty_ratelimit;
858 	} else {
859 		x = max(bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit,
860 			 max(balanced_dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit));
861 		if (dirty_ratelimit > x)
862 			step = dirty_ratelimit - x;
863 	}
864 
865 	/*
866 	 * Don't pursue 100% rate matching. It's impossible since the balanced
867 	 * rate itself is constantly fluctuating. So decrease the track speed
868 	 * when it gets close to the target. Helps eliminate pointless tremors.
869 	 */
870 	step >>= dirty_ratelimit / (2 * step + 1);
871 	/*
872 	 * Limit the tracking speed to avoid overshooting.
873 	 */
874 	step = (step + 7) / 8;
875 
876 	if (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit)
877 		dirty_ratelimit += step;
878 	else
879 		dirty_ratelimit -= step;
880 
881 	bdi->dirty_ratelimit = max(dirty_ratelimit, 1UL);
882 	bdi->balanced_dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
883 
884 	trace_bdi_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, dirty_rate, task_ratelimit);
885 }
886 
887 void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
888 			    unsigned long thresh,
889 			    unsigned long bg_thresh,
890 			    unsigned long dirty,
891 			    unsigned long bdi_thresh,
892 			    unsigned long bdi_dirty,
893 			    unsigned long start_time)
894 {
895 	unsigned long now = jiffies;
896 	unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
897 	unsigned long dirtied;
898 	unsigned long written;
899 
900 	/*
901 	 * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
902 	 */
903 	if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
904 		return;
905 
906 	dirtied = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_DIRTIED]);
907 	written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
908 
909 	/*
910 	 * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
911 	 * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
912 	 */
913 	if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
914 		goto snapshot;
915 
916 	if (thresh) {
917 		global_update_bandwidth(thresh, dirty, now);
918 		bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
919 					   bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
920 					   dirtied, elapsed);
921 	}
922 	bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
923 
924 snapshot:
925 	bdi->dirtied_stamp = dirtied;
926 	bdi->written_stamp = written;
927 	bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
928 }
929 
930 static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
931 				 unsigned long thresh,
932 				 unsigned long bg_thresh,
933 				 unsigned long dirty,
934 				 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
935 				 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
936 				 unsigned long start_time)
937 {
938 	if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
939 		return;
940 	spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
941 	__bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
942 			       bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time);
943 	spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
944 }
945 
946 /*
947  * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
948  * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
949  *
950  * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
951  * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
952  * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
953  */
954 static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
955 					 unsigned long thresh)
956 {
957 	if (thresh > dirty)
958 		return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
959 
960 	return 1;
961 }
962 
963 static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
964 				   unsigned long bdi_dirty)
965 {
966 	unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
967 	unsigned long hi = ilog2(bw);
968 	unsigned long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit);
969 	unsigned long t;
970 
971 	/* target for 20ms max pause on 1-dd case */
972 	t = HZ / 50;
973 
974 	/*
975 	 * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU
976 	 * overheads.
977 	 *
978 	 * (N * 20ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks.
979 	 */
980 	if (hi > lo)
981 		t += (hi - lo) * (20 * HZ) / 1024;
982 
983 	/*
984 	 * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
985 	 * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go
986 	 * idle.
987 	 *
988 	 * 8 serves as the safety ratio.
989 	 */
990 	t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
991 
992 	/*
993 	 * The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
994 	 * Apply a minimal value of 4 to get a non-zero max_pause/4.
995 	 */
996 	return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
997 }
998 
999 /*
1000  * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
1001  * data.  It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
1002  * the caller to wait once crossing the (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2.
1003  * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
1004  * perform some writeout.
1005  */
1006 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1007 				unsigned long pages_dirtied)
1008 {
1009 	unsigned long nr_reclaimable;	/* = file_dirty + unstable_nfs */
1010 	unsigned long bdi_reclaimable;
1011 	unsigned long nr_dirty;  /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
1012 	unsigned long bdi_dirty;
1013 	unsigned long freerun;
1014 	unsigned long background_thresh;
1015 	unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1016 	unsigned long bdi_thresh;
1017 	long pause = 0;
1018 	long uninitialized_var(max_pause);
1019 	bool dirty_exceeded = false;
1020 	unsigned long task_ratelimit;
1021 	unsigned long uninitialized_var(dirty_ratelimit);
1022 	unsigned long pos_ratio;
1023 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1024 	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
1025 
1026 	for (;;) {
1027 		/*
1028 		 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
1029 		 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
1030 		 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
1031 		 * been flushed to permanent storage.
1032 		 */
1033 		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1034 					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
1035 		nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
1036 
1037 		global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1038 
1039 		/*
1040 		 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
1041 		 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
1042 		 * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
1043 		 */
1044 		freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh,
1045 						background_thresh);
1046 		if (nr_dirty <= freerun)
1047 			break;
1048 
1049 		if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi)))
1050 			bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1051 
1052 		/*
1053 		 * bdi_thresh is not treated as some limiting factor as
1054 		 * dirty_thresh, due to reasons
1055 		 * - in JBOD setup, bdi_thresh can fluctuate a lot
1056 		 * - in a system with HDD and USB key, the USB key may somehow
1057 		 *   go into state (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh) either because
1058 		 *   bdi_dirty starts high, or because bdi_thresh drops low.
1059 		 *   In this case we don't want to hard throttle the USB key
1060 		 *   dirtiers for 100 seconds until bdi_dirty drops under
1061 		 *   bdi_thresh. Instead the auxiliary bdi control line in
1062 		 *   bdi_position_ratio() will let the dirtier task progress
1063 		 *   at some rate <= (write_bw / 2) for bringing down bdi_dirty.
1064 		 */
1065 		bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
1066 
1067 		/*
1068 		 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
1069 		 * to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
1070 		 * the threshold is low.
1071 		 *
1072 		 * Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
1073 		 * reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
1074 		 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
1075 		 * deltas.
1076 		 */
1077 		if (bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
1078 			bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1079 			bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
1080 				    bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1081 		} else {
1082 			bdi_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1083 			bdi_dirty = bdi_reclaimable +
1084 				    bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1085 		}
1086 
1087 		dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
1088 				  (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
1089 		if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1090 			bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
1091 
1092 		bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh,
1093 				     nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
1094 				     start_time);
1095 
1096 		max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty);
1097 
1098 		dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
1099 		pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
1100 					       background_thresh, nr_dirty,
1101 					       bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty);
1102 		task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio) >>
1103 							RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
1104 		if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) {
1105 			pause = max_pause;
1106 			goto pause;
1107 		}
1108 		pause = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
1109 		if (unlikely(pause <= 0)) {
1110 			trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1111 						  dirty_thresh,
1112 						  background_thresh,
1113 						  nr_dirty,
1114 						  bdi_thresh,
1115 						  bdi_dirty,
1116 						  dirty_ratelimit,
1117 						  task_ratelimit,
1118 						  pages_dirtied,
1119 						  pause,
1120 						  start_time);
1121 			pause = 1; /* avoid resetting nr_dirtied_pause below */
1122 			break;
1123 		}
1124 		pause = min(pause, max_pause);
1125 
1126 pause:
1127 		trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
1128 					  dirty_thresh,
1129 					  background_thresh,
1130 					  nr_dirty,
1131 					  bdi_thresh,
1132 					  bdi_dirty,
1133 					  dirty_ratelimit,
1134 					  task_ratelimit,
1135 					  pages_dirtied,
1136 					  pause,
1137 					  start_time);
1138 		__set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
1139 		io_schedule_timeout(pause);
1140 
1141 		/*
1142 		 * This is typically equal to (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh) and can
1143 		 * also keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control.
1144 		 */
1145 		if (task_ratelimit)
1146 			break;
1147 
1148 		/*
1149 		 * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
1150 		 * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
1151 		 * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
1152 		 *
1153 		 * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
1154 		 * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
1155 		 * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors.  So use
1156 		 * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
1157 		 */
1158 		if (bdi_dirty <= bdi_stat_error(bdi))
1159 			break;
1160 
1161 		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1162 			break;
1163 	}
1164 
1165 	if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1166 		bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
1167 
1168 	current->nr_dirtied = 0;
1169 	if (pause == 0) { /* in freerun area */
1170 		current->nr_dirtied_pause =
1171 				dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh);
1172 	} else if (pause <= max_pause / 4 &&
1173 		   pages_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause) {
1174 		current->nr_dirtied_pause = clamp_val(
1175 					dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1176 					pages_dirtied + pages_dirtied / 8,
1177 					pages_dirtied * 4);
1178 	} else if (pause >= max_pause) {
1179 		current->nr_dirtied_pause = 1 | clamp_val(
1180 					dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ,
1181 					pages_dirtied / 4,
1182 					pages_dirtied - pages_dirtied / 8);
1183 	}
1184 
1185 	if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
1186 		return;
1187 
1188 	/*
1189 	 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
1190 	 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
1191 	 * to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
1192 	 *
1193 	 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
1194 	 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
1195 	 */
1196 	if (laptop_mode)
1197 		return;
1198 
1199 	if (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)
1200 		bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
1201 }
1202 
1203 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
1204 {
1205 	if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
1206 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1207 
1208 		if (mapping)
1209 			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
1210 	}
1211 }
1212 
1213 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
1214 
1215 /**
1216  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
1217  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
1218  * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
1219  *
1220  * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
1221  * which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
1222  * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
1223  *
1224  * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
1225  * calling it too often (ratelimiting).  But once we're over the dirty memory
1226  * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
1227  * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
1228  */
1229 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
1230 					unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
1231 {
1232 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1233 	int ratelimit;
1234 	int *p;
1235 
1236 	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
1237 		return;
1238 
1239 	ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause;
1240 	if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
1241 		ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
1242 
1243 	current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
1244 
1245 	preempt_disable();
1246 	/*
1247 	 * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without
1248 	 * calling into balance_dirty_pages(), which can happen when there are
1249 	 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
1250 	 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
1251 	 */
1252 	p =  &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
1253 	if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1254 		*p = 0;
1255 	else {
1256 		*p += nr_pages_dirtied;
1257 		if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
1258 			*p = 0;
1259 			ratelimit = 0;
1260 		}
1261 	}
1262 	preempt_enable();
1263 
1264 	if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
1265 		balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
1266 }
1267 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
1268 
1269 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
1270 {
1271 	unsigned long background_thresh;
1272 	unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1273 
1274         for ( ; ; ) {
1275 		global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1276 
1277                 /*
1278                  * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
1279                  * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
1280                  */
1281                 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10;      /* wheeee... */
1282 
1283                 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
1284 			global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
1285                         	break;
1286                 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1287 
1288 		/*
1289 		 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
1290 		 * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
1291 		 * waiting for IO to complete.
1292 		 */
1293 		if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
1294 			break;
1295         }
1296 }
1297 
1298 /*
1299  * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
1300  */
1301 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
1302 	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
1303 {
1304 	proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
1305 	bdi_arm_supers_timer();
1306 	return 0;
1307 }
1308 
1309 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1310 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
1311 {
1312 	struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
1313 	int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
1314 		global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
1315 
1316 	/*
1317 	 * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
1318 	 * threshold
1319 	 */
1320 	if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
1321 		bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages,
1322 					WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
1323 }
1324 
1325 /*
1326  * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
1327  * of all dirty data a few seconds from now.  If the flush is already scheduled
1328  * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
1329  */
1330 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
1331 {
1332 	mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
1333 }
1334 
1335 /*
1336  * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
1337  * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
1338  * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
1339  */
1340 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
1341 {
1342 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
1343 
1344 	rcu_read_lock();
1345 
1346 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
1347 		del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
1348 
1349 	rcu_read_unlock();
1350 }
1351 #endif
1352 
1353 /*
1354  * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
1355  * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
1356  * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
1357  * get_writeback_state too often.
1358  *
1359  * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
1360  * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
1361  * thresholds.
1362  */
1363 
1364 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
1365 {
1366 	unsigned long background_thresh;
1367 	unsigned long dirty_thresh;
1368 	global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
1369 	ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
1370 	if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
1371 		ratelimit_pages = 16;
1372 }
1373 
1374 static int __cpuinit
1375 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
1376 {
1377 	writeback_set_ratelimit();
1378 	return NOTIFY_DONE;
1379 }
1380 
1381 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
1382 	.notifier_call	= ratelimit_handler,
1383 	.next		= NULL,
1384 };
1385 
1386 /*
1387  * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
1388  *
1389  * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
1390  * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
1391  * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
1392  *
1393  * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
1394  * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
1395  * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
1396  * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
1397  * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
1398  * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
1399  * non-HIGHMEM memory.
1400  *
1401  * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
1402  * much memory the box has..
1403  */
1404 void __init page_writeback_init(void)
1405 {
1406 	int shift;
1407 
1408 	writeback_set_ratelimit();
1409 	register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
1410 
1411 	shift = calc_period_shift();
1412 	prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
1413 }
1414 
1415 /**
1416  * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
1417  * @mapping: address space structure to write
1418  * @start: starting page index
1419  * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
1420  *
1421  * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
1422  * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
1423  * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
1424  * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback.  This mechanism is
1425  * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
1426  * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
1427  * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
1428  */
1429 /*
1430  * We tag pages in batches of WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH to reduce tree_lock latency.
1431  */
1432 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
1433 			     pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
1434 {
1435 #define WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH 4096
1436 	unsigned long tagged;
1437 
1438 	do {
1439 		spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1440 		tagged = radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(&mapping->page_tree,
1441 				&start, end, WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH,
1442 				PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
1443 		spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1444 		WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
1445 		cond_resched();
1446 		/* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
1447 	} while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
1448 }
1449 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
1450 
1451 /**
1452  * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
1453  * @mapping: address space structure to write
1454  * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1455  * @writepage: function called for each page
1456  * @data: data passed to writepage function
1457  *
1458  * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
1459  * if it's dirty.  This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
1460  * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync().  fsync()
1461  * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
1462  * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
1463  * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
1464  * existing IO to complete.
1465  *
1466  * To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag
1467  * pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then start
1468  * writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do
1469  * not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
1470  * tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
1471  * by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
1472  */
1473 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
1474 		      struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
1475 		      void *data)
1476 {
1477 	int ret = 0;
1478 	int done = 0;
1479 	struct pagevec pvec;
1480 	int nr_pages;
1481 	pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index);
1482 	pgoff_t index;
1483 	pgoff_t end;		/* Inclusive */
1484 	pgoff_t done_index;
1485 	int cycled;
1486 	int range_whole = 0;
1487 	int tag;
1488 
1489 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
1490 	if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
1491 		writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
1492 		index = writeback_index;
1493 		if (index == 0)
1494 			cycled = 1;
1495 		else
1496 			cycled = 0;
1497 		end = -1;
1498 	} else {
1499 		index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1500 		end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
1501 		if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
1502 			range_whole = 1;
1503 		cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
1504 	}
1505 	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
1506 		tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
1507 	else
1508 		tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
1509 retry:
1510 	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
1511 		tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
1512 	done_index = index;
1513 	while (!done && (index <= end)) {
1514 		int i;
1515 
1516 		nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag,
1517 			      min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
1518 		if (nr_pages == 0)
1519 			break;
1520 
1521 		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
1522 			struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
1523 
1524 			/*
1525 			 * At this point, the page may be truncated or
1526 			 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or
1527 			 * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
1528 			 * mapping. However, page->index will not change
1529 			 * because we have a reference on the page.
1530 			 */
1531 			if (page->index > end) {
1532 				/*
1533 				 * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because
1534 				 * end == -1 in that case.
1535 				 */
1536 				done = 1;
1537 				break;
1538 			}
1539 
1540 			done_index = page->index;
1541 
1542 			lock_page(page);
1543 
1544 			/*
1545 			 * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it
1546 			 * then, even for data integrity operations: the page
1547 			 * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no
1548 			 * real expectation of this data interity operation
1549 			 * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same
1550 			 * pagecache address.
1551 			 */
1552 			if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
1553 continue_unlock:
1554 				unlock_page(page);
1555 				continue;
1556 			}
1557 
1558 			if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1559 				/* someone wrote it for us */
1560 				goto continue_unlock;
1561 			}
1562 
1563 			if (PageWriteback(page)) {
1564 				if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
1565 					wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1566 				else
1567 					goto continue_unlock;
1568 			}
1569 
1570 			BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
1571 			if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
1572 				goto continue_unlock;
1573 
1574 			trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, mapping->backing_dev_info);
1575 			ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
1576 			if (unlikely(ret)) {
1577 				if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
1578 					unlock_page(page);
1579 					ret = 0;
1580 				} else {
1581 					/*
1582 					 * done_index is set past this page,
1583 					 * so media errors will not choke
1584 					 * background writeout for the entire
1585 					 * file. This has consequences for
1586 					 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
1587 					 * not be suitable for data integrity
1588 					 * writeout).
1589 					 */
1590 					done_index = page->index + 1;
1591 					done = 1;
1592 					break;
1593 				}
1594 			}
1595 
1596 			/*
1597 			 * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
1598 			 * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
1599 			 * keep going until we have written all the pages
1600 			 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
1601 			 */
1602 			if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
1603 			    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
1604 				done = 1;
1605 				break;
1606 			}
1607 		}
1608 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
1609 		cond_resched();
1610 	}
1611 	if (!cycled && !done) {
1612 		/*
1613 		 * range_cyclic:
1614 		 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
1615 		 * back to the start of the file
1616 		 */
1617 		cycled = 1;
1618 		index = 0;
1619 		end = writeback_index - 1;
1620 		goto retry;
1621 	}
1622 	if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
1623 		mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
1624 
1625 	return ret;
1626 }
1627 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
1628 
1629 /*
1630  * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
1631  * function and set the mapping flags on error
1632  */
1633 static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
1634 		       void *data)
1635 {
1636 	struct address_space *mapping = data;
1637 	int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
1638 	mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
1639 	return ret;
1640 }
1641 
1642 /**
1643  * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
1644  * @mapping: address space structure to write
1645  * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
1646  *
1647  * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
1648  * address_space_operation.
1649  */
1650 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
1651 		       struct writeback_control *wbc)
1652 {
1653 	struct blk_plug plug;
1654 	int ret;
1655 
1656 	/* deal with chardevs and other special file */
1657 	if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
1658 		return 0;
1659 
1660 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
1661 	ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
1662 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1663 	return ret;
1664 }
1665 
1666 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
1667 
1668 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
1669 {
1670 	int ret;
1671 
1672 	if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
1673 		return 0;
1674 	if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
1675 		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
1676 	else
1677 		ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
1678 	return ret;
1679 }
1680 
1681 /**
1682  * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
1683  * @page: the page to write
1684  * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
1685  *
1686  * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
1687  *
1688  * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
1689  */
1690 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
1691 {
1692 	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
1693 	int ret = 0;
1694 	struct writeback_control wbc = {
1695 		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
1696 		.nr_to_write = 1,
1697 	};
1698 
1699 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1700 
1701 	if (wait)
1702 		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1703 
1704 	if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
1705 		page_cache_get(page);
1706 		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
1707 		if (ret == 0 && wait) {
1708 			wait_on_page_writeback(page);
1709 			if (PageError(page))
1710 				ret = -EIO;
1711 		}
1712 		page_cache_release(page);
1713 	} else {
1714 		unlock_page(page);
1715 	}
1716 	return ret;
1717 }
1718 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
1719 
1720 /*
1721  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
1722  */
1723 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
1724 {
1725 	if (!PageDirty(page))
1726 		return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
1727 	return 0;
1728 }
1729 
1730 /*
1731  * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
1732  * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
1733  */
1734 void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
1735 {
1736 	if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1737 		__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1738 		__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
1739 		__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1740 		__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
1741 		task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
1742 	}
1743 }
1744 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
1745 
1746 /*
1747  * Helper function for set_page_writeback family.
1748  * NOTE: Unlike account_page_dirtied this does not rely on being atomic
1749  * wrt interrupts.
1750  */
1751 void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1752 {
1753 	inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1754 }
1755 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
1756 
1757 /*
1758  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers.  Just tag the page as dirty in
1759  * its radix tree.
1760  *
1761  * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
1762  * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers.  This is a "bottom-up"
1763  * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
1764  *
1765  * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
1766  * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
1767  * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
1768  *
1769  * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
1770  * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
1771  */
1772 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
1773 {
1774 	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
1775 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1776 		struct address_space *mapping2;
1777 
1778 		if (!mapping)
1779 			return 1;
1780 
1781 		spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1782 		mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
1783 		if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
1784 			BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
1785 			WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
1786 			account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
1787 			radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1788 				page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1789 		}
1790 		spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
1791 		if (mapping->host) {
1792 			/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
1793 			__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
1794 		}
1795 		return 1;
1796 	}
1797 	return 0;
1798 }
1799 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
1800 
1801 /*
1802  * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
1803  * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
1804  * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
1805  */
1806 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
1807 {
1808 	wbc->pages_skipped++;
1809 	return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
1810 }
1811 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
1812 
1813 /*
1814  * Dirty a page.
1815  *
1816  * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
1817  * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
1818  * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
1819  * but should be better not to.
1820  *
1821  * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
1822  * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
1823  */
1824 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
1825 {
1826 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1827 
1828 	if (likely(mapping)) {
1829 		int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
1830 		/*
1831 		 * readahead/lru_deactivate_page could remain
1832 		 * PG_readahead/PG_reclaim due to race with end_page_writeback
1833 		 * About readahead, if the page is written, the flags would be
1834 		 * reset. So no problem.
1835 		 * About lru_deactivate_page, if the page is redirty, the flag
1836 		 * will be reset. So no problem. but if the page is used by readahead
1837 		 * it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
1838 		 * process. But it's a trivial problem.
1839 		 */
1840 		ClearPageReclaim(page);
1841 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
1842 		if (!spd)
1843 			spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
1844 #endif
1845 		return (*spd)(page);
1846 	}
1847 	if (!PageDirty(page)) {
1848 		if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
1849 			return 1;
1850 	}
1851 	return 0;
1852 }
1853 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
1854 
1855 /*
1856  * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
1857  * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked.  This is because another
1858  * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
1859  *
1860  * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
1861  * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
1862  *
1863  * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
1864  */
1865 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
1866 {
1867 	int ret;
1868 
1869 	lock_page(page);
1870 	ret = set_page_dirty(page);
1871 	unlock_page(page);
1872 	return ret;
1873 }
1874 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
1875 
1876 /*
1877  * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
1878  * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
1879  *
1880  * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout.  We leave the page
1881  * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
1882  * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk.  The ->writepage
1883  * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
1884  * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
1885  * back into sync.
1886  *
1887  * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
1888  * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
1889  */
1890 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
1891 {
1892 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1893 
1894 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
1895 
1896 	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
1897 		/*
1898 		 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
1899 		 *
1900 		 * We use this sequence to make sure that
1901 		 *  (a) we account for dirty stats properly
1902 		 *  (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
1903 		 *      mark the whole page dirty if it was
1904 		 *      dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
1905 		 *  (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
1906 		 *      cause the writeback.
1907 		 *
1908 		 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
1909 		 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
1910 		 * them concurrently from different threads.
1911 		 *
1912 		 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
1913 		 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
1914 		 * that will already usually be set. But we
1915 		 * need the side effects, and it can help us
1916 		 * avoid races.
1917 		 *
1918 		 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
1919 		 * as a serialization point for all the different
1920 		 * threads doing their things.
1921 		 */
1922 		if (page_mkclean(page))
1923 			set_page_dirty(page);
1924 		/*
1925 		 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
1926 		 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
1927 		 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
1928 		 * page lock at some point after installing their
1929 		 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
1930 		 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
1931 		 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
1932 		 * for more comments.
1933 		 */
1934 		if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
1935 			dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
1936 			dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
1937 					BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
1938 			return 1;
1939 		}
1940 		return 0;
1941 	}
1942 	return TestClearPageDirty(page);
1943 }
1944 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
1945 
1946 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1947 {
1948 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1949 	int ret;
1950 
1951 	if (mapping) {
1952 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1953 		unsigned long flags;
1954 
1955 		spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1956 		ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1957 		if (ret) {
1958 			radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1959 						page_index(page),
1960 						PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1961 			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
1962 				__dec_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1963 				__bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
1964 			}
1965 		}
1966 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1967 	} else {
1968 		ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
1969 	}
1970 	if (ret) {
1971 		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
1972 		inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
1973 	}
1974 	return ret;
1975 }
1976 
1977 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
1978 {
1979 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
1980 	int ret;
1981 
1982 	if (mapping) {
1983 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
1984 		unsigned long flags;
1985 
1986 		spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
1987 		ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
1988 		if (!ret) {
1989 			radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
1990 						page_index(page),
1991 						PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
1992 			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
1993 				__inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
1994 		}
1995 		if (!PageDirty(page))
1996 			radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
1997 						page_index(page),
1998 						PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
1999 		radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
2000 				     page_index(page),
2001 				     PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE);
2002 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
2003 	} else {
2004 		ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
2005 	}
2006 	if (!ret)
2007 		account_page_writeback(page);
2008 	return ret;
2009 
2010 }
2011 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
2012 
2013 /*
2014  * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
2015  * passed tag.
2016  */
2017 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
2018 {
2019 	return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
2020 }
2021 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);
2022