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Linus asks 'why "raid6" twice?'. No reason.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (24 commits)
md: clean up do_md_stop
md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.
md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex
md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync
md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures.
md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.
md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps.
md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.
md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs.
md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.
md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.
md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.
md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.
md/raid5: export is_congested test
raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue
md: add support for raising dm events.
md: export various start/stop interfaces
md: split out md_rdev_init
md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN
md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk
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Conflicts:
drivers/md/Makefile
lib/raid6/unroll.pl
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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We'll want to use these in btrfs too.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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There is only one error exit from do_md_stop, so make that more
explicit and discard the 'err' variable.
Also drop the 'revalidate' variable by moving the unlock calls around.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Move the deletion of sysfs attributes from reconfig_mutex to
open_mutex didn't really help as a process can try to take
open_mutex while holding reconfig_mutex, so the same deadlock can
happen, just requiring one more process to be involved in the chain.
I looks like I cannot easily use locking to wait for the sysfs
deletion to complete, so don't.
The only things that we cannot do while the deletions are still
pending is other things which can change the sysfs namespace: run,
takeover, stop. Each of these can fail with -EBUSY.
So set a flag while doing a sysfs deletion, and fail run, takeover,
stop if that flag is set.
This is suitable for 2.6.35.x
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Commit b821eaa5 "md: remove ->changed and related code" moved
revalidate_disk() under open_mutex, and lockdep noticed.
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.32-mdadm-locking #1
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mdadm/3640 is trying to acquire lock:
(&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811acecb>] revalidate_disk+0x5b/0x90
but task is already holding lock:
(&mddev->open_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa055e07a>] do_md_stop+0x4a/0x4d0 [md_mod]
which lock already depends on the new lock.
It is suitable for 2.6.35.x
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Przemyslaw Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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If the 'bio_split' path in raid10-read is used while
resync/recovery is happening it is possible to deadlock.
Fix this be elevating ->nr_waiting for the duration of both
parts of the split request.
This fixes a bug that has been present since 2.6.22
but has only started manifesting recently for unknown reasons.
It is suitable for and -stable since then.
Reported-by: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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dm makes this distinction between ->ctr and ->resume, so we need to
too.
Also get the new bitmap_load to clear out the bitmap first, as this is
most consistent with the dm suspend/resume approach
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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This allows md/raid5 to fully work as a dm target.
Normally md uses a 'filemap' which contains a list of pages of bits
each of which may be written separately.
dm-log uses and all-or-nothing approach to writing the log, so
when using a dm-log, ->filemap is NULL and the flags normally stored
in filemap_attr are stored in ->logattrs instead.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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A bitmap is stored as one page per 2048 bits.
If none of the bits are set, the page is not allocated.
When bitmap_get_counter finds that a page isn't allocate,
it just reports that one bit work of space isn't flagged,
rather than reporting that 2048 bits worth of space are
unflagged.
This can cause searches for flagged bits (e.g. bitmap_close_sync)
to do more work than is really necessary.
So change bitmap_get_counter (when creating) to report a number of
blocks that more accurately reports the range of the device for which
no counter currently exists.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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1/ use md_unplug in bitmap.c as we will soon be using bitmaps under
arrays with no queue attached.
2/ Don't bother plugging the queue when we set a bit in the bitmap.
The reason for this was to encourage as many bits as possible to
get set before we unplug and write stuff out.
However every personality already plugs the queue after
bitmap_startwrite either directly (raid1/raid10) or be setting
STRIPE_BIT_DELAY which causes the queue to be plugged later
(raid5).
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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For dm-raid45 we will want to use bitmaps in dm-targets which don't
have entries in sysfs, so cope with the mddev not living in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Fixes some whitespace problems
Fixed some checkpatch.pl complaints.
Replaced kmalloc ... memset(0), with kzalloc
Fixed an unlikely memory leak on an error path.
Reformatted a number of 'if/else' sets, sometimes
replacing goto with an else clause.
Removed some old comments and commented-out code.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Also remove remaining accesses to ->queue and ->gendisk when ->queue
is NULL (As it is in a DM target).
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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If an array doesn't have a 'queue' then md_do_sync cannot
unplug it.
In that case it will have a 'plugger', so make that available
to the mddev, and use it to unplug the array if needed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer
and 'struct request_queue'. However when we plug raid5 under dm there
is no request queue so we cannot use that.
So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use
it for raid5.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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the dm module will need this for dm-raid45.
Also only access ->queue->backing_dev_info->congested_fn
if ->queue actually exists. It won't in a dm target.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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dm-raid456 does not provide a 'queue' for raid5 to use,
so we must make raid5 stop depending on the queue.
First: read_ahead
dm handles read-ahead adjustment fully in userspace, so
simply don't do any readahead adjustments if there is
no queue.
Also re-arrange code slightly so all the accesses to ->queue are
together.
Finally, move the blk_queue_merge_bvec function into the 'if' as
the ->split_io setting in dm-raid456 has the same effect.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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dm uses scheduled work to raise events to user-space.
So allow md device to have work_structs and schedule them on an error.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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export entry points for starting and stopping md arrays.
This will be used by a module to make md/raid5 work under
dm.
Also stop calling md_stop_writes from md_stop, as that won't
work well with dm - it will want to call the two separately.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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This functionality will be needed separately in a subsequent patch, so
split it into it's own exported function.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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When MD_CHANGE_CLEAN is set we might block in md_write_start.
So we should only set it when fairly sure that something will clear
it.
There are two places where it is set so as to encourage a metadata
update to record the progress of resync/recovery. This should only
be done if the internal metadata update mechanisms are in use, which
can be tested by by inspecting '->persistent'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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gendisk
We will shortly allow md devices with no gendisk (they are attached to
a dm-target instead). That will cause mdname() to return 'mdX'.
There is one place where mdname really needs to be unique: when
creating the name for a slab cache.
So in that case, if there is no gendisk, you the address of the mddev
formatted in HEX to provide a unique name.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Separate the actual 'change' code from the sysfs interface
so that it can eventually be called internally.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not
visible. So allow md to not connect to sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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As pointed out by Jiri Slaby: when I resolved the the 32-bit x85 system
call entry tables for prlimit (due to the conflict with fanotify), I
forgot to add the numbering in comments that we do for every fifth entry.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in linux/i2c.h:
Warning(include/linux/i2c.h:176): No description found for parameter 'alert'
Warning(include/linux/i2c.h:259): No description found for parameter 'of_node'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix kernel-doc warning, add @timer description:
Warning(kernel/timer.c:335): No description found for parameter 'timer'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'make htmldocs' produces errors due to missing a supporting media
file, so add 'xmldoclinks' to the htmldocs dependencies so that the
needed supporting file will be present.
Documentation/DocBook/media.xml:4: warning: failed to load external entity "Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl"
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'make htmldocs' has a fatal error when processing libata.xml, as seen
below. The string "Example patterns:" (or any string with "example.*:"
in it AFAIK) causes some part of the doc generation tool chain to try to
produce an <informalexample> block without a beginning <para>, but
there is an ending </para> generated, which throws things out of kilter.
I don't even know where (what program) this is happening in.
I searched in docproc and xmlto and in some XML stylesheets without
finding anything. If anyone can give me pointers about this, please do.
Until this is fixed, let's just spell "Example" as "Sample"
and match up the double quotation marks while there.
Documentation/DocBook/libata.xml:6575: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: programlisting line 6573 and para
</para><para>
^
Documentation/DocBook/libata.xml:6580: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: para line 6575 and programlisting
</programlisting></informalexample>
^
unable to parse Documentation/DocBook/libata.xml
make[2]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/libata.html] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's currently possible to bypass xattr namespace access rules by
prefixing valid xattr names with "os2.", since the os2 namespace stores
extended attributes in a legacy format with no prefix.
This patch adds checking to deny access to any valid namespace prefix
following "os2.".
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
block: update request stacking methods to support discards
block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
writeback: cleanup bdi_register
writeback: add new tracepoints
writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
writeback: move last_active to bdi
writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
writeback: simplify bdi code a little
writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
...
Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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These form the basis of the basic WRITE etc primitives, so we
need them to be always visible. Otherwise we see errors like:
mm/filemap.c:2164: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/read_write.c:362: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/splice.c:1108: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/aio.c:1496: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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- If function called without barrier option retvalue is incorrect
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Propagate REQ_DISCARD in cmd_flags when cloning a discard request.
Skip blk_rq_check_limits's existing checks for discard requests because
discard limits will have already been checked in blkdev_issue_discard.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Stephen reports:
After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:
usr/include/linux/fs.h:11: included file 'linux/blk_types.h' is not exported
Caused by commit 9d3dbbcd9a84518ff5e32ffe671d06a48cf84fd9 ("bio, fs:
separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms of
BIO_RW_* flags").
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Fix a bug where a lock is _bh nested within another _bh lock,
but forgets to use the _bh variant for unlock.
Further more, it's not necessary to test _bh locks, the inner lock
can just use spin_lock(). So fix up the bug by making that change.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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It was a now abandoned attempt to throttle resync bandwidth
based on the delay it causes on the bulk data socket.
It has no userbase yet, and has been disabled by
9173465ccb51c09cc3102a10af93e9f469a0af6f already.
This removes the now unused code.
The basic feature, namely using up "idle" bandwith
of network and disk IO subsystem, with minimal impact
to application IO, is being reimplemented differently.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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This patch makes sure we first initialize everything and set the BDI_registered
flag, and only after this we add the bdi to 'bdi_list'. Current code adds the
bdi to the list too early, and as a result I the
WARN(!test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state)
in bdi forker is triggered. Also, it is in general good practice to make things
visible only when they are fully initialized.
Also, this patch does few micro clean-ups:
1. Removes the 'exit' label which does not do anything, just returns. This
allows to get rid of few braces and 'ret' variable and make the code smaller.
2. If 'kthread_run()' fails, remove the error code it returns, not hard-coded
'-ENOMEM'. Theoretically, some day 'kthread_run()' can return something
else. Also, in case of failure it is not necessary to set 'bdi->wb.task' to
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Add 2 new trace points to the periodic write-back wake up case, just like we do
in the 'bdi_queue_work()' function. Namely, introduce:
1. trace_writeback_wake_thread(bdi)
2. trace_writeback_wake_forker_thread(bdi)
The first event is triggered every time we wake up a bdi thread to start
periodic background write-out. The second event is triggered only when the bdi
thread does not exist and should be created by the forker thread.
This patch was suggested by Dave Chinner and Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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The 'setup_timer()' function also calls 'init_timer()', so the extra
'init_timer()' call is not needed. Indeed, 'setup_timer()' is basically
'init_timer()' plus callback function and data pointers initialization.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Whe the first inode for a bdi is marked dirty, we wake up the bdi thread which
should take care of the periodic background write-out. However, the write-out
will actually start only 'dirty_writeback_interval' centisecs later, so we can
delay the wake-up.
This change was requested by Nick Piggin who pointed out that if we delay the
wake-up, we weed out 2 unnecessary contex switches, which matters because
'__mark_inode_dirty()' is a hot-path function.
This patch introduces a new function - 'bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed()', which
sets up a timer to wake-up the bdi thread and returns. So the wake-up is
delayed.
We also delete the timer in bdi threads just before writing-back. And
synchronously delete it when unregistering bdi. At the unregister point the bdi
does not have any users, so no one can arm it again.
Since now we take 'bdi->wb_lock' in the timer, which can execute in softirq
context, we have to use 'spin_lock_bh()' for 'bdi->wb_lock'. This patch makes
this change as well.
This patch also moves the 'bdi_wb_init()' function down in the file to avoid
forward-declaration of 'bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Finally, we can get rid of unnecessary wake-ups in bdi threads, which are very
bad for battery-driven devices.
There are two types of activities bdi threads do:
1. process bdi works from the 'bdi->work_list'
2. periodic write-back
So there are 2 sources of wake-up events for bdi threads:
1. 'bdi_queue_work()' - submits bdi works
2. '__mark_inode_dirty()' - adds dirty I/O to bdi's
The former already has bdi wake-up code. The latter does not, and this patch
adds it.
'__mark_inode_dirty()' is hot-path function, but this patch adds another
'spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock)' there. However, it is taken only in rare cases when
the bdi has no dirty inodes. So adding this spinlock should be fine and should
not affect performance.
This patch makes sure bdi threads and the forker thread do not wake-up if there
is nothing to do. The forker thread will nevertheless wake up at least every
5 min. to check whether it has to kill a bdi thread. This can also be optimized,
but is not worth it.
This patch also tidies up the warning about unregistered bid, and turns it from
an ugly crocodile to a simple 'WARN()' statement.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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