writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions

Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c
index 8ee7e5ec21be..3bf4a9984f4c 100644
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ void percpu_counter_set(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_set);
 
+/**
+ * This function is both preempt and irq safe. The former is due to explicit
+ * preemption disable. The latter is guaranteed by the fact that the slow path
+ * is explicitly protected by an irq-safe spinlock whereas the fast patch uses
+ * this_cpu_add which is irq-safe by definition. Hence there is no need muck
+ * with irq state before calling this one
+ */
 void percpu_counter_add_batch(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount, s32 batch)
 {
 	s64 count;