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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-08-08 15:22:00 -0600
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-12-18 14:20:23 +0800
commit2f800fbd777b792de54187088df19a7df0251254 (patch)
tree2dc813b41da42d647468dafcf49a0b9e673df8b5
parentd3bc1fef9389e409a772ea174a5e41a6f93d9b7b (diff)
writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty
De-account the accumulative dirty counters on page redirty. Page redirties (very common in ext4) will introduce mismatch between counters (a) and (b) a) NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied b) NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN This will introduce systematic errors in balanced_rate and result in dirty page position errors (ie. the dirty pages are no longer balanced around the global/bdi setpoints). Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c19
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 05eaf5e3aad..b30419cd425 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
+void account_page_redirty(struct page *page);
+
/* pdflush.c */
extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
read-only. */
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 5d1ef5d8613..96b3e7aa705 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1825,6 +1825,24 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
/*
+ * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters
+ * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written
+ * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to
+ * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position
+ * control.
+ */
+void account_page_redirty(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+ if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+ current->nr_dirtied--;
+ dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
+ dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty);
+
+/*
* When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
* page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
* redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
@@ -1832,6 +1850,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
{
wbc->pages_skipped++;
+ account_page_redirty(page);
return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);