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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 93 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 8 |
4 files changed, 95 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index e907052eeadb..32a8bbd7a9ad 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ struct wb_writeback_work { struct completion *done; /* set if the caller waits */ }; +/* + * If an inode is constantly having its pages dirtied, but then the + * updates stop dirtytime_expire_interval seconds in the past, it's + * possible for the worst case time between when an inode has its + * timestamps updated and when they finally get written out to be two + * dirtytime_expire_intervals. We set the default to 12 hours (in + * seconds), which means most of the time inodes will have their + * timestamps written to disk after 12 hours, but in the worst case a + * few inodes might not their timestamps updated for 24 hours. + */ +unsigned int dirtytime_expire_interval = 12 * 60 * 60; + /** * writeback_in_progress - determine whether there is writeback in progress * @bdi: the device's backing_dev_info structure. @@ -275,8 +287,8 @@ static int move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue, if ((flags & EXPIRE_DIRTY_ATIME) == 0) older_than_this = work->older_than_this; - else if ((work->reason == WB_REASON_SYNC) == 0) { - expire_time = jiffies - (HZ * 86400); + else if (!work->for_sync) { + expire_time = jiffies - (dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ); older_than_this = &expire_time; } while (!list_empty(delaying_queue)) { @@ -458,6 +470,7 @@ static void requeue_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb, */ redirty_tail(inode, wb); } else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) { + inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &wb->b_dirty_time); } else { /* The inode is clean. Remove from writeback lists. */ @@ -505,12 +518,17 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY; - if (((dirty & (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) && - (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)) || - (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED)) { - dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED; - trace_writeback_lazytime(inode); - } + if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) { + if ((dirty & (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) || + unlikely(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED) || + unlikely(time_after(jiffies, + (inode->dirtied_time_when + + dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ)))) { + dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED; + trace_writeback_lazytime(inode); + } + } else + inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED; inode->i_state &= ~dirty; /* @@ -1131,6 +1149,56 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason) rcu_read_unlock(); } +/* + * Wake up bdi's periodically to make sure dirtytime inodes gets + * written back periodically. We deliberately do *not* check the + * b_dirtytime list in wb_has_dirty_io(), since this would cause the + * kernel to be constantly waking up once there are any dirtytime + * inodes on the system. So instead we define a separate delayed work + * function which gets called much more rarely. (By default, only + * once every 12 hours.) + * + * If there is any other write activity going on in the file system, + * this function won't be necessary. But if the only thing that has + * happened on the file system is a dirtytime inode caused by an atime + * update, we need this infrastructure below to make sure that inode + * eventually gets pushed out to disk. + */ +static void wakeup_dirtytime_writeback(struct work_struct *w); +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(dirtytime_work, wakeup_dirtytime_writeback); + +static void wakeup_dirtytime_writeback(struct work_struct *w) +{ + struct backing_dev_info *bdi; + + rcu_read_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) { + if (list_empty(&bdi->wb.b_dirty_time)) + continue; + bdi_wakeup_thread(bdi); + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work, dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ); +} + +static int __init start_dirtytime_writeback(void) +{ + schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work, dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ); + return 0; +} +__initcall(start_dirtytime_writeback); + +int dirtytime_interval_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + int ret; + + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + if (ret == 0 && write) + mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dirtytime_work, 0); + return ret; +} + static noinline void block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode) { if (inode->i_ino || strcmp(inode->i_sb->s_id, "bdev")) { @@ -1269,8 +1337,13 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) } inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; - list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, dirtytime ? - &bdi->wb.b_dirty_time : &bdi->wb.b_dirty); + if (dirtytime) + inode->dirtied_time_when = jiffies; + if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_INODE | I_DIRTY_PAGES)) + list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &bdi->wb.b_dirty); + else + list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, + &bdi->wb.b_dirty_time); spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock); trace_writeback_dirty_inode_enqueue(inode); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b4d71b5e1ff2..f4131e8ead74 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ struct inode { struct mutex i_mutex; unsigned long dirtied_when; /* jiffies of first dirtying */ + unsigned long dirtied_time_when; struct hlist_node i_hash; struct list_head i_wb_list; /* backing dev IO list */ diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 00048339c23e..b2dd371ec0ca 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ extern int vm_dirty_ratio; extern unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes; extern unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval; extern unsigned int dirty_expire_interval; +extern unsigned int dirtytime_expire_interval; extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable; extern int block_dump; extern int laptop_mode; @@ -146,6 +147,8 @@ extern int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, extern int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); +int dirtytime_interval_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); struct ctl_table; int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 88ea2d6e0031..ce410bb9f2e1 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1228,6 +1228,14 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .extra1 = &zero, }, { + .procname = "dirtytime_expire_seconds", + .data = &dirtytime_expire_interval, + .maxlen = sizeof(dirty_expire_interval), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = dirtytime_interval_handler, + .extra1 = &zero, + }, + { .procname = "nr_pdflush_threads", .mode = 0444 /* read-only */, .proc_handler = pdflush_proc_obsolete, |