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blk-wbt: Fix detection of dirty-throttled tasks 

commit f814bdda77 upstream.

The detection of dirty-throttled tasks in blk-wbt has been subtly broken
since its beginning in 2016. Namely if we are doing cgroup writeback and
the throttled task is not in the root cgroup, balance_dirty_pages() will
set dirty_sleep for the non-root bdi_writeback structure. However
blk-wbt checks dirty_sleep only in the root cgroup bdi_writeback
structure. Thus detection of recently throttled tasks is not working in
this case (we noticed this when we switched to cgroup v2 and suddently
writeback was slow).

Since blk-wbt has no easy way to get to proper bdi_writeback and
furthermore its intention has always been to work on the whole device
rather than on individual cgroups, just move the dirty_sleep timestamp
from bdi_writeback to backing_dev_info. That fixes the checking for
recently throttled task and saves memory for everybody as a bonus.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b57d74aff9 ("writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123175826.21452-1-jack@suse.cz
[axboe: fixup indentation errors]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Jan Kara 2024-01-23 18:58:26 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 496273439b
commit 601b5540c1
4 changed files with 9 additions and 6 deletions
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block/blk-wbt.c
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@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ static void wb_timestamp(struct rq_wb *rwb, unsigned long *var)
*/
static bool wb_recent_wait(struct rq_wb *rwb)
{
struct bdi_writeback *wb = &rwb->rqos.disk->bdi->wb;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = rwb->rqos.disk->bdi;
return time_before(jiffies, wb->dirty_sleep + HZ);
return time_before(jiffies, bdi->last_bdp_sleep + HZ);
}
static inline struct rq_wait *get_rq_wait(struct rq_wb *rwb,

7
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
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@ -141,8 +141,6 @@ struct bdi_writeback {
struct delayed_work dwork; /* work item used for writeback */
struct delayed_work bw_dwork; /* work item used for bandwidth estimate */
unsigned long dirty_sleep; /* last wait */
struct list_head bdi_node; /* anchored at bdi->wb_list */
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
@ -179,6 +177,11 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
* any dirty wbs, which is depended upon by bdi_has_dirty().
*/
atomic_long_t tot_write_bandwidth;
/*
* Jiffies when last process was dirty throttled on this bdi. Used by
* blk-wbt.
*/
unsigned long last_bdp_sleep;
struct bdi_writeback wb; /* the root writeback info for this bdi */
struct list_head wb_list; /* list of all wbs */

2
mm/backing-dev.c
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@ -436,7 +436,6 @@ static int wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->work_list);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->dwork, wb_workfn);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->bw_dwork, wb_update_bandwidth_workfn);
wb->dirty_sleep = jiffies;
err = fprop_local_init_percpu(&wb->completions, gfp);
if (err)
@ -921,6 +920,7 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->bdi_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->wb_list);
init_waitqueue_head(&bdi->wb_waitq);
bdi->last_bdp_sleep = jiffies;
return cgwb_bdi_init(bdi);
}

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mm/page-writeback.c
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@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ pause:
break;
}
__set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
wb->dirty_sleep = now;
bdi->last_bdp_sleep = jiffies;
io_schedule_timeout(pause);
current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause;