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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 51 |
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index da21d63f70e2..b8c9610c2313 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -364,7 +364,14 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty); unsigned long wb_calc_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long thresh); void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb); + +/* Invoke balance dirty pages in async mode. */ +#define BDP_ASYNC 0x0001 + void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping); +int balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned int flags); + bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb); typedef int (*writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 90b1998c16a1..d0d466a5c804 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1554,8 +1554,8 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to * perform some writeout. */ -static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, - unsigned long pages_dirtied) +static int balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, + unsigned long pages_dirtied, unsigned int flags) { struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc_stor = { GDTC_INIT(wb) }; struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc_stor = { MDTC_INIT(wb, &gdtc_stor) }; @@ -1575,6 +1575,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi; bool strictlimit = bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT; unsigned long start_time = jiffies; + int ret = 0; for (;;) { unsigned long now = jiffies; @@ -1803,6 +1804,10 @@ pause: period, pause, start_time); + if (flags & BDP_ASYNC) { + ret = -EAGAIN; + break; + } __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); wb->dirty_sleep = now; io_schedule_timeout(pause); @@ -1834,6 +1839,7 @@ pause: if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) break; } + return ret; } static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); @@ -1855,27 +1861,34 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; /** - * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state - * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied + * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags - Balance dirty memory state. + * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied. + * @flags: BDP flags. * * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. * - * Once we're over the dirty memory limit we decrease the ratelimiting - * by a lot, to prevent individual processes from overshooting the limit - * by (ratelimit_pages) each. + * See balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() for details. + * + * Return: If @flags contains BDP_ASYNC, it may return -EAGAIN to + * indicate that memory is out of balance and the caller must wait + * for I/O to complete. Otherwise, it will return 0 to indicate + * that either memory was already in balance, or it was able to sleep + * until the amount of dirty memory returned to balance. */ -void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) +int balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned int flags) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); struct bdi_writeback *wb = NULL; int ratelimit; + int ret = 0; int *p; if (!(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK)) - return; + return ret; if (inode_cgwb_enabled(inode)) wb = wb_get_create_current(bdi, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -1915,9 +1928,27 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) preempt_enable(); if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) - balance_dirty_pages(wb, current->nr_dirtied); + ret = balance_dirty_pages(wb, current->nr_dirtied, flags); wb_put(wb); + return ret; +} + +/** + * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state. + * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied. + * + * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page + * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's + * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed. + * + * Once we're over the dirty memory limit we decrease the ratelimiting + * by a lot, to prevent individual processes from overshooting the limit + * by (ratelimit_pages) each. + */ +void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags(mapping, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); |