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Greg Kroah-Hartman
2d146b924e backing-dev: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

And as the return value does not matter at all, no need to save the
dentry in struct backing_dev_info, so delete it.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-03 15:49:07 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
457c899653 treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
Tejun Heo
7fc5854f8c writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches
sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership
switches and fail to writeback some inodes.  For example, if an inode
switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new
wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode
might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which
already has.

This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb
switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is
guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to
escape syncing.

v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init.  Spotted by Jiufei.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <xuejiufei@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-01-22 14:39:38 -07:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
59b57717ff blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finished
Currently, blkcg destruction relies on a sequence of events:
  1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called and blkgs
     release their reference to the blkcg. This immediately destroys
     the cgwbs (writeback).
  2. With blkgs giving up their reference, the blkcg ref count should
     become zero and eventually call blkcg_css_free() which finally
     frees the blkcg.

Jiufei Xue reported that there is a race between blkcg_bio_issue_check()
and cgroup_rmdir(). To remedy this, blkg destruction becomes contingent
on the completion of all writeback associated with the blkcg. A count of
the number of cgwbs is maintained and once that goes to zero, blkg
destruction can follow. This should prevent premature blkg destruction
related to writeback.

The new process for blkcg cleanup is as follows:
  1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called which offlines
     writeback. Blkg destruction is delayed on the cgwb_refcnt count to
     avoid punting potentially large amounts of outstanding writeback
     to root while maintaining any ongoing policies. Here, the base
     cgwb_refcnt is put back.
  2. When the cgwb_refcnt becomes zero, blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is called
     and handles destruction of blkgs. This is where the css reference
     held by each blkg is released.
  3. Once the blkcg ref count goes to zero, blkcg_css_free() is called.
     This finally frees the blkg.

It seems in the past blk-throttle didn't do the most understandable
things with taking data from a blkg while associating with current. So,
the simplification and unification of what blk-throttle is doing caused
this.

Fixes: 08e18eab0c ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-31 14:48:56 -06:00
Anna-Maria Gleixner
060288a732 bdi: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock()
The irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock handles irqsave/restore when
taking/releasing the spin lock.  With this variant the call of
local_irq_save/restore is no longer required.

[bigeasy@linutronix.de: s@atomic_dec_and_lock@refcount_dec_and_lock@g]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-22 10:52:46 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
e58dd0de5e bdi: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_t
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
when the variable is used as a reference counter.  This permits avoiding
accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-22 10:52:46 -07:00
Jan Kara
3ee7e8697d bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()
syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to
wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was
WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that
unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects.

The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus
drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of
wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop
iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already
passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown()
from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although
wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are
also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with
cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues:

CPU1                            CPU2
                                cgwb_bdi_unregister()
                                  cgwb_kill(*slot);

cgwb_release()
  queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work);
cgwb_release_workfn()
                                  wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...)
                                  spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock);
  wb_shutdown(wb);
  ...
  kfree_rcu(wb, rcu);
                                  wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free

We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from
cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. That
way we also no longer need synchronization using WB_shutting_down as the
mutex provides it for CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK case and without
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK wb_shutdown() can be called only once from
bdi_unregister().

Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+4a7438e774b21ddd8eca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-22 12:08:07 -06:00
Wang Long
9ccc361716 memcg: writeback: use memcg->cgwb_list directly
mem_cgroup_cgwb_list is a very simple wrapper and it will never be used
outside of code under CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK.  so use memcg->cgwb_list
directly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524406173-212182-1-git-send-email-wanglong19@meituan.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
Tejun Heo
f183464684 bdi: Move cgroup bdi_writeback to a dedicated low concurrency workqueue
From 0aa2e9b921d6db71150633ff290199554f0842a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:29:00 -0700

cgwb_release() punts the actual release to cgwb_release_workfn() on
system_wq.  Depending on the number of cgroups or block devices, there
can be a lot of cgwb_release_workfn() in flight at the same time.

We're periodically seeing close to 256 kworkers getting stuck with the
following stack trace and overtime the entire system gets stuck.

  [<ffffffff810ee40c>] _synchronize_rcu_expedited.constprop.72+0x2fc/0x330
  [<ffffffff810ee634>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x24/0x30
  [<ffffffff811ccf23>] bdi_unregister+0x53/0x290
  [<ffffffff811cd1e9>] release_bdi+0x89/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811cd645>] wb_exit+0x85/0xa0
  [<ffffffff811cdc84>] cgwb_release_workfn+0x54/0xb0
  [<ffffffff810a68d0>] process_one_work+0x150/0x410
  [<ffffffff810a71fd>] worker_thread+0x6d/0x520
  [<ffffffff810ad3dc>] kthread+0x12c/0x160
  [<ffffffff81969019>] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The events leading to the lockup are...

1. A lot of cgwb_release_workfn() is queued at the same time and all
   system_wq kworkers are assigned to execute them.

2. They all end up calling synchronize_rcu_expedited().  One of them
   wins and tries to perform the expedited synchronization.

3. However, that invovles queueing rcu_exp_work to system_wq and
   waiting for it.  Because #1 is holding all available kworkers on
   system_wq, rcu_exp_work can't be executed.  cgwb_release_workfn()
   is waiting for synchronize_rcu_expedited() which in turn is waiting
   for cgwb_release_workfn() to free up some of the kworkers.

We shouldn't be scheduling hundreds of cgwb_release_workfn() at the
same time.  There's nothing to be gained from that.  This patch
updates cgwb release path to use a dedicated percpu workqueue with
@max_active of 1.

While this resolves the problem at hand, it might be a good idea to
isolate rcu_exp_work to its own workqueue too as it can be used from
various paths and is prone to this sort of indirect A-A deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-23 15:28:50 -06:00
Tetsuo Handa
f53823c181 bdi: Fix use after free bug in debugfs_remove()
syzbot is reporting use after free bug in debugfs_remove() [1].

This is because fault injection made memory allocation for
debugfs_create_file() from bdi_debug_register() from bdi_register_va()
fail and continued with setting WB_registered. But when debugfs_remove()
is called from debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) from bdi_debug_unregister()
 from bdi_unregister() from release_bdi() because WB_registered was set
by bdi_register_va(), IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == false despite
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) was already called from bdi_register_va().

Fix this by making IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == true.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=5ab4efd91a96dcea9b68104f159adf4af2a6dfc1

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+049cb4ae097049dac137@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: 97f0769793 ("bdi: convert bdi_debug_register to int")
Cc: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-03 09:36:24 -06:00
Tetsuo Handa
8236b0ae31 bdi: wake up concurrent wb_shutdown() callers.
syzbot is reporting hung tasks at wait_on_bit(WB_shutting_down) in
wb_shutdown() [1]. This seems to be because commit 5318ce7d46 ("bdi:
Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()") forgot to call
wake_up_bit(WB_shutting_down) after clear_bit(WB_shutting_down).

Introduce a helper function clear_and_wake_up_bit() and use it, in order
to avoid similar errors in future.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=b297474817af98d5796bc544e1bb806fc3da0e5e

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+c0cf869505e03bdf1a24@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: 5318ce7d46 ("bdi: Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()")
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-03 09:25:47 -06:00
Andrey Ryabinin
e3c1ac586c mm/vmscan: don't mess with pgdat->flags in memcg reclaim
memcg reclaim may alter pgdat->flags based on the state of LRU lists in
cgroup and its children.  PGDAT_WRITEBACK may force kswapd to sleep
congested_wait(), PGDAT_DIRTY may force kswapd to writeback filesystem
pages.  But the worst here is PGDAT_CONGESTED, since it may force all
direct reclaims to stall in wait_iff_congested().  Note that only kswapd
have powers to clear any of these bits.  This might just never happen if
cgroup limits configured that way.  So all direct reclaims will stall as
long as we have some congested bdi in the system.

Leave all pgdat->flags manipulations to kswapd.  kswapd scans the whole
pgdat, only kswapd can clear pgdat->flags once node is balanced, thus
it's reasonable to leave all decisions about node state to kswapd.

Why only kswapd? Why not allow to global direct reclaim change these
flags? It is because currently only kswapd can clear these flags.  I'm
less worried about the case when PGDAT_CONGESTED falsely not set, and
more worried about the case when it falsely set.  If direct reclaimer
sets PGDAT_CONGESTED, do we have guarantee that after the congestion
problem is sorted out, kswapd will be woken up and clear the flag? It
seems like there is no such guarantee.  E.g.  direct reclaimers may
eventually balance pgdat and kswapd simply won't wake up (see
wakeup_kswapd()).

Moving pgdat->flags manipulation to kswapd, means that cgroup2 recalim
now loses its congestion throttling mechanism.  Add per-cgroup
congestion state and throttle cgroup2 reclaimers if memcg is in
congestion state.

Currently there is no need in per-cgroup PGDAT_WRITEBACK and PGDAT_DIRTY
bits since they alter only kswapd behavior.

The problem could be easily demonstrated by creating heavy congestion in
one cgroup:

    echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
    mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/congester
    echo 512M > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/memory.max
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/cgroup.procs
    /* generate a lot of diry data on slow HDD */
    while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done &
    ....
    while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done &

and some job in another cgroup:

    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/victim
    echo 128M > /sys/fs/cgroup/victim/memory.max

    # time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null
    real    10m15.054s
    user    0m0.487s
    sys     1m8.505s

According to the tracepoint in wait_iff_congested(), the 'cat' spent 50%
of the time sleeping there.

With the patch, cat don't waste time anymore:

    # time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null
    real    5m32.911s
    user    0m0.411s
    sys     0m56.664s

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: congestion state should be per-node]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406135215.10057-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
[ayabinin@virtuozzo.com: make congestion state per-cgroup-per-node instead of just per-cgroup[
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406180254.8970-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323152029.11084-5-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11 10:28:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3b54765cca Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - the v9fs maintainers have been missing for a long time. I've taken
   over v9fs patch slinging.

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (116 commits)
  mm,oom_reaper: check for MMF_OOM_SKIP before complaining
  mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP
  mm/memblock.c: cast constant ULLONG_MAX to phys_addr_t
  headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h
  include/linux/mmdebug.h: make VM_WARN* non-rvals
  mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated
  mm: change return type to vm_fault_t
  mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes
  mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
  kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm
  mm: make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless
  mm/swap_state.c: make bool enable_vma_readahead and swap_vma_readahead() static
  block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated
  mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions
  mm/swap.c: remove @cold parameter description for release_pages()
  mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area
  zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size()
  zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size()
  mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache
  fs/direct-io.c: minor cleanups in do_blockdev_direct_IO
  ...
2018-04-06 14:19:26 -07:00
Andy Shevchenko
5ad3509364 mm: reuse DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro
...instead of open coding file operations followed by custom ->open()
callbacks per each attribute.

[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: add tags, fix compilation issue]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180217144253.58604-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214154644.54505-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 21:36:25 -07:00
Jiufei Xue
025aecd8bd writeback: remove dead code in wb_blkcg/memcg_offline
Signed-off-by: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-02-28 12:23:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe
6d0e4827b7 Revert "bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_register"
This reverts commit a0747a859e.

It breaks some booting for some users, and more than a week
into this, there's still no good fix. Revert this commit
for now until a solution has been found.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-12-21 10:01:30 -07:00
weiping zhang
a0747a859e bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_register
In order to make error handle more cleaner we call bdi_debug_register
before set state to WB_registered, that we can avoid call bdi_unregister
in release_bdi().

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-19 11:02:13 -07:00
weiping zhang
97f0769793 bdi: convert bdi_debug_register to int
Convert bdi_debug_register to int and then do error handle for it.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-19 11:02:13 -07:00
Jens Axboe
775d3a35dc backing-dev: kill unused pdflush_proc_obsolete()
After commit b35bd0d9f8, pdflush_proc_obsolete() is no longer
used. Kill the function and declaration.

Reported-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-06 08:15:15 -06:00
Christophe JAILLET
0b045bd1c1 mm/backing-dev.c: fix an error handling path in 'cgwb_create()'
If the 'kmalloc' fails, we must go through the existing error handling
path.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Fixes: 52ebea749a ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-09-11 14:16:44 -06:00
Jan Kara
7c4cc30024 bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]()
Drop 'parent' argument of bdi_register() and bdi_register_va().  It is
always NULL.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
Jan Kara
2e82b84c01 block: Remove unused functions
Now that all backing_dev_info structure are allocated separately, we can
drop some unused functions.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
Jan Kara
62bf42adc4 bdi: Export bdi_alloc_node() and bdi_put()
MTD will want to call bdi_alloc_node() and bdi_put() directly. Export
these functions.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
Jan Kara
5af110b2fb block: Unregister bdi on last reference drop
Most users will want to unregister bdi when dropping last reference to a
bdi. Only a few users (like block devices) want to play more complex
tricks with bdi registration and unregistration. So unregister bdi when
the last reference to bdi is dropped and just make sure we don't
unregister the bdi the second time if it is already unregistered.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
Jan Kara
baf7a616d5 bdi: Provide bdi_register_va() and bdi_alloc()
Add function that registers bdi and takes va_list instead of variable
number of arguments.

Add bdi_alloc() as simple wrapper for NUMA-unaware users allocating BDI.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
Jan Kara
b1c51afc00 bdi: Rename cgwb_bdi_destroy() to cgwb_bdi_unregister()
Rename cgwb_bdi_destroy() to cgwb_bdi_unregister() as it gets called
from bdi_unregister() which is not necessarily called from bdi_destroy()
and thus the name is somewhat misleading.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:31 -06:00
Jan Kara
4514451e79 bdi: Do not wait for cgwbs release in bdi_unregister()
Currently we wait for all cgwbs to get released in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
(called from bdi_unregister()). That is however unnecessary now when
cgwb->bdi is a proper refcounted reference (thus bdi cannot get
released before all cgwbs are released) and when cgwb_bdi_destroy()
shuts down writeback directly.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:30 -06:00
Jan Kara
5318ce7d46 bdi: Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
Currently we waited for all cgwbs to get freed in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
which also means that writeback has been shutdown on them. Since this
wait is going away, directly shutdown writeback on cgwbs from
cgwb_bdi_destroy() to avoid live writeback structures after
bdi_unregister() has finished. To make that safe with concurrent
shutdown from cgwb_release_workfn(), we also have to make sure
wb_shutdown() returns only after the bdi_writeback structure is really
shutdown.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:28 -06:00
Jan Kara
e8cb72b322 bdi: Unify bdi->wb_list handling for root wb_writeback
Currently root wb_writeback structure is added to bdi->wb_list in
bdi_init() and never removed. That is different from all other
wb_writeback structures which get added to the list when created and
removed from it before wb_shutdown().

So move list addition of root bdi_writeback to bdi_register() and list
removal of all wb_writeback structures to wb_shutdown(). That way a
wb_writeback structure is on bdi->wb_list if and only if it can handle
writeback and it will make it easier for us to handle shutdown of all
wb_writeback structures in bdi_unregister().

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:27 -06:00
Jan Kara
810df54a64 bdi: Make wb->bdi a proper reference
Make wb->bdi a proper refcounted reference to bdi for all bdi_writeback
structures except for the one embedded inside struct backing_dev_info.
That will allow us to simplify bdi unregistration.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:25 -06:00
Jan Kara
b7d680d7bf bdi: Mark congested->bdi as internal
congested->bdi pointer is used only to be able to remove congested
structure from bdi->cgwb_congested_tree on structure release. Moreover
the pointer can become NULL when we unregister the bdi. Rename the field
to __bdi and add a comment to make it more explicit this is internal
stuff of memcg writeback code and people should not use the field as
such use will be likely race prone.

We do not bother with converting congested->bdi to a proper refcounted
reference. It will be slightly ugly to special-case bdi->wb.congested to
avoid effectively a cyclic reference of bdi to itself and the reference
gets cleared from bdi_unregister() making it impossible to reference
a freed bdi.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22 20:11:24 -06:00
Jan Kara
df23de5561 bdi: Fix use-after-free in wb_congested_put()
bdi_writeback_congested structures get created for each blkcg and bdi
regardless whether bdi is registered or not. When they are created in
unregistered bdi and the request queue (and thus bdi) is then destroyed
while blkg still holds reference to bdi_writeback_congested structure,
this structure will be referencing freed bdi and last wb_congested_put()
will try to remove the structure from already freed bdi.

With commit 165a5e22fa "block: Move bdi_unregister() to
del_gendisk()", SCSI started to destroy bdis without calling
bdi_unregister() first (previously it was calling bdi_unregister() even
for unregistered bdis) and thus the code detaching
bdi_writeback_congested in cgwb_bdi_destroy() was not triggered and we
started hitting this use-after-free bug. It is enough to boot a KVM
instance with virtio-scsi device to trigger this behavior.

Fix the problem by detaching bdi_writeback_congested structures in
bdi_exit() instead of bdi_unregister(). This is also more logical as
they can get attached to bdi regardless whether it ever got registered
or not.

Fixes: 165a5e22fa
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-08 10:55:17 -07:00
Jan Kara
b6f8fec444 block: Allow bdi re-registration
SCSI can call device_add_disk() several times for one request queue when
a device in unbound and bound, creating new gendisk each time. This will
lead to bdi being repeatedly registered and unregistered. This was not a
big problem until commit 165a5e22fa "block: Move bdi_unregister() to
del_gendisk()" since bdi was only registered repeatedly (bdi_register()
handles repeated calls fine, only we ended up leaking reference to
gendisk due to overwriting bdi->owner) but unregistered only in
blk_cleanup_queue() which didn't get called repeatedly. After
165a5e22fa we were doing correct bdi_register() - bdi_unregister()
cycles however bdi_unregister() is not prepared for it. So make sure
bdi_unregister() cleans up bdi in such a way that it is prepared for
a possible following bdi_register() call.

An easy way to provoke this behavior is to enable
CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE and use scsi_debug driver to create a
scsi disk which immediately hangs without this fix.

Fixes: 165a5e22fa
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-08 10:55:17 -07:00
Geliang Tang
bc71226b06 mm/backing-dev.c: use rb_entry()
To make the code clearer, use rb_entry() instead of container_of() to
deal with rbtree.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/671275de093d93ddc7c6f77ddc0d357149691a39.1484306840.git.geliangtang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
Tejun Heo
5f478e4ea5 block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()
When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, bdi has single bdi_writeback_congested
at bdi->wb_congested.  cgwb_bdi_init() allocates it with kzalloc() and
doesn't do further initialization.  This usually works fine as the
reference count gets bumped to 1 by wb_init() and the put from
wb_exit() releases it.

However, when wb_init() fails, it puts the wb base ref automatically
freeing the wb and the explicit kfree() in cgwb_bdi_init() error path
ends up trying to free the same pointer the second time causing a
double-free.

Fix it by explicitly initilizing the refcnt to 1 and putting the base
ref from cgwb_bdi_destroy().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Fixes: a13f35e871 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08 13:52:01 -07:00
Jan Kara
d03f6cdc1f block: Dynamically allocate and refcount backing_dev_info
Instead of storing backing_dev_info inside struct request_queue,
allocate it dynamically, reference count it, and free it when the last
reference is dropped. Currently only request_queue holds the reference
but in the following patch we add other users referencing
backing_dev_info.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02 08:20:50 -07:00
Jens Axboe
b57d74aff9 writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()
Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
to increase the priority of writes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2016-11-08 08:28:55 -07:00
Dan Williams
df08c32ce3 block: fix bdi vs gendisk lifetime mismatch
The name for a bdi of a gendisk is derived from the gendisk's devt.
However, since the gendisk is destroyed before the bdi it leaves a
window where a new gendisk could dynamically reuse the same devt while a
bdi with the same name is still live.  Arrange for the bdi to hold a
reference against its "owner" disk device while it is registered.
Otherwise we can hit sysfs duplicate name collisions like the following:

 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2078 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80
 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/259:1'

 Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8, BIOS P79 05/06/2015
  0000000000000286 0000000002c04ad5 ffff88006f24f970 ffffffff8134caec
  ffff88006f24f9c0 0000000000000000 ffff88006f24f9b0 ffffffff8108c351
  0000001f0000000c ffff88105d236000 ffff88105d1031e0 ffff8800357427f8
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8134caec>] dump_stack+0x63/0x87
  [<ffffffff8108c351>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0
  [<ffffffff8108c3cf>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
  [<ffffffff812a0d34>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80
  [<ffffffff812a0e1e>] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x7e/0x90
  [<ffffffff8134faaa>] kobject_add_internal+0xaa/0x320
  [<ffffffff81358d4e>] ? vsnprintf+0x34e/0x4d0
  [<ffffffff8134ff55>] kobject_add+0x75/0xd0
  [<ffffffff816e66b2>] ? mutex_lock+0x12/0x2f
  [<ffffffff8148b0a5>] device_add+0x125/0x610
  [<ffffffff8148b788>] device_create_groups_vargs+0xd8/0x100
  [<ffffffff8148b7cc>] device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20
  [<ffffffff811b775c>] bdi_register+0x8c/0x180
  [<ffffffff811b7877>] bdi_register_dev+0x27/0x30
  [<ffffffff813317f5>] add_disk+0x175/0x4a0

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Fixed up missing 0 return in bdi_register_owner().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-04 14:19:16 -06:00
Mel Gorman
599d0c954f mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.

Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.

Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
later but is easier to review.

In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions

1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem

   When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
   list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
   highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
   keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
   arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
   could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.

   That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
   highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.

2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails

   This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
   memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
Michal Hocko
ede3771373 mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pages
wait_iff_congested has been used to throttle allocator before it retried
another round of direct reclaim to allow the writeback to make some
progress and prevent reclaim from looping over dirty/writeback pages
without making any progress.

We used to do congestion_wait before commit 0e093d9976 ("writeback: do
not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if
significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone")
but that led to undesirable stalls and sleeping for the full timeout
even when the BDI wasn't congested.  Hence wait_iff_congested was used
instead.

But it seems that even wait_iff_congested doesn't work as expected.  We
might have a small file LRU list with all pages dirty/writeback and yet
the bdi is not congested so this is just a cond_resched in the end and
can end up triggering pre mature OOM.

This patch replaces the unconditional wait_iff_congested by
congestion_wait which is executed only if we _know_ that the last round
of direct reclaim didn't make any progress and dirty+writeback pages are
more than a half of the reclaimable pages on the zone which might be
usable for our target allocation.  This shouldn't reintroduce stalls
fixed by 0e093d9976 because congestion_wait is called only when we are
getting hopeless when sleeping is a better choice than OOM with many
pages under IO.

We have to preserve logic introduced by commit 373ccbe592 ("mm,
vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any
progress") into the __alloc_pages_slowpath now that wait_iff_congested
is not used anymore.  As the only remaining user of wait_iff_congested
is shrink_inactive_list we can remove the WQ specific short sleep from
wait_iff_congested because the sleep is needed to be done only once in
the allocation retry cycle.

[mhocko@suse.com: high_zoneidx->ac_classzone_idx to evaluate memory reserves properly]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Kaixu Xia
c877ef8ae7 writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition
The right variable definition should be wb_congested_state that
include WB_async_congested and WB_sync_congested. So fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-31 12:26:25 -06:00
Joe Perches
1170532bb4 mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>
Most of the mm subsystem uses pr_<level> so make it consistent.

Miscellanea:

 - Realign arguments
 - Add missing newline to format
 - kmemleak-test.c has a "kmemleak: " prefix added to the
   "Kmemleak testing" logging message via pr_fmt

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>	[percpu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Rasmus Villemoes
078c6c3a5e mm/backing-dev.c: fix error path in wb_init()
We need to use post-decrement to get percpu_counter_destroy() called on
&wb->stat[0].  Moreover, the pre-decremebt would cause infinite
out-of-bounds accesses if the setup code failed at i==0.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-11 18:35:48 -08:00
Tetsuo Handa
564e81a57f mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progress
Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01"
testcase from LTP triggers OOM.  Guessing from a result that there is a
kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0
Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not
up-to-date for some reason.

According to commit 373ccbe592 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to
discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force
the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used
schedule_timeout(1).  We missed that schedule_timeout() in state
TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything.

Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the
kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat
is up-to-date.

Fixes: 373ccbe592 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-05 18:10:40 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
7d828602e5 mm: memcontrol: export root_mem_cgroup
A later patch will need this symbol in files other than memcontrol.c, so
export it now and replace mem_cgroup_root_css at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
Michal Hocko
373ccbe592 mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress
Tetsuo Handa has reported that the system might basically livelock in
OOM condition without triggering the OOM killer.

The issue is caused by internal dependency of the direct reclaim on
vmstat counter updates (via zone_reclaimable) which are performed from
the workqueue context.  If all the current workers get assigned to an
allocation request, though, they will be looping inside the allocator
trying to reclaim memory but zone_reclaimable can see stalled numbers so
it will consider a zone reclaimable even though it has been scanned way
too much.  WQ concurrency logic will not consider this situation as a
congested workqueue because it relies that worker would have to sleep in
such a situation.  This also means that it doesn't try to spawn new
workers or invoke the rescuer thread if the one is assigned to the
queue.

In order to fix this issue we need to do two things.  First we have to
let wq concurrency code know that we are in trouble so we have to do a
short sleep.  In order to prevent from issues handled by 0e093d9976
("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no
congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in
the current zone") we limit the sleep only to worker threads which are
the ones of the interest anyway.

The second thing to do is to create a dedicated workqueue for vmstat and
mark it WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to note it participates in the reclaim and to
have a spare worker thread for it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
d0164adc89 mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Tejun Heo
e27c5b9d23 writeback: remove broken rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() usage in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
a20135ffbc ("writeback: don't drain bdi_writeback_congested on bdi
destruction") added rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() which is
used to remove all entries; however, according to Cody, the iterator
isn't safe against operations which may rebalance the tree.  Fix it by
switching to repeatedly removing rb_first() until empty.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Fixes: a20135ffbc ("writeback: don't drain bdi_writeback_congested on bdi destruction")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443997973-1700-1-git-send-email-dev@codyps.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-21 08:17:29 -06:00
Tejun Heo
b02176f30c block: don't release bdi while request_queue has live references
bdi's are initialized in two steps, bdi_init() and bdi_register(), but
destroyed in a single step by bdi_destroy() which, for a bdi embedded
in a request_queue, is called during blk_cleanup_queue() which makes
the queue invisible and starts the draining of remaining usages.

A request_queue's user can access the congestion state of the embedded
bdi as long as it holds a reference to the queue.  As such, it may
access the congested state of a queue which finished
blk_cleanup_queue() but hasn't reached blk_release_queue() yet.
Because the congested state was embedded in backing_dev_info which in
turn is embedded in request_queue, accessing the congested state after
bdi_destroy() was called was fine.  The bdi was destroyed but the
memory region for the congested state remained accessible till the
queue got released.

a13f35e871 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in
bdi_writeback") changed the situation.  Now, the root congested state
which is expected to be pinned while request_queue remains accessible
is separately reference counted and the base ref is put during
bdi_destroy().  This means that the root congested state may go away
prematurely while the queue is between bdi_dstroy() and
blk_cleanup_queue(), which was detected by Andrey's KASAN tests.

The root cause of this problem is that bdi doesn't distinguish the two
steps of destruction, unregistration and release, and now the root
congested state actually requires a separate release step.  To fix the
issue, this patch separates out bdi_unregister() and bdi_exit() from
bdi_destroy().  bdi_unregister() is called from blk_cleanup_queue()
and bdi_exit() from blk_release_queue().  bdi_destroy() is now just a
simple wrapper calling the two steps back-to-back.

While at it, the prototype of bdi_destroy() is moved right below
bdi_setup_and_register() so that the counterpart operations are
located together.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: a13f35e871 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAAeHK+zUJ74Zn17=rOyxacHU18SgCfC6bsYW=6kCY5GXJBwGfQ@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-15 09:53:28 -06:00
Tejun Heo
b817525a4a writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying ones
bdi_for_each_wb() is used in several places to wake up or issue
writeback work items to all wb's (bdi_writeback's) on a given bdi.
The iteration is performed by walking bdi->cgwb_tree; however, the
tree only indexes wb's which are currently active.

For example, when a memcg gets associated with a different blkcg, the
old wb is removed from the tree so that the new one can be indexed.
The old wb starts dying from then on but will linger till all its
inodes are drained.  As these dying wb's may still host dirty inodes,
writeback operations which affect all wb's must include them.
bdi_for_each_wb() skipping dying wb's led to sync(2) missing and
failing to sync the inodes belonging to those wb's.

This patch adds a RCU protected @bdi->wb_list which lists all wb's
beloinging to that bdi.  wb's are added on creation and removed on
release rather than on the start of destruction.  bdi_for_each_wb()
usages are replaced with list_for_each[_continue]_rcu() iterations
over @bdi->wb_list and bdi_for_each_wb() and its helpers are removed.

v2: Updated as per Jan.  last_wb ref leak in bdi_split_work_to_wbs()
    fixed and unnecessary list head severing in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
    removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Fixes: ebe41ab0c7 ("writeback: implement bdi_for_each_wb()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443012552.19983.209.camel@gmail.com
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-12 10:31:12 -06:00