user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/backing-dev.h, branch v4.0

Merge branch 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2015-02-18T00:12:34Z

Pull lazytime mount option support from Al Viro: "Lazytime stuff from tytso" * 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: ext4: add optimization for the lazytime mount option vfs: add find_inode_nowait() function vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

2015-02-05T07:45:00Z

Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode. This mode causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the in-memory version of the inode. The on-disk times will only get updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or (c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory. This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call. For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces writes to the inode table. The repeated 4k writes to a single block will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk drives. Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example). Google-Bug-Id: 18297052 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: remove default_backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:05:38Z

Now that default_backing_dev_info is not used for writeback purposes we can git rid of it easily: - instead of using it's name for tracing unregistered bdi we just use "unknown" - btrfs and ceph can just assign the default read ahead window themselves like several other filesystems already do. - we can assign noop_backing_dev_info as the default one in alloc_super. All filesystems already either assigned their own or noop_backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:03:04Z

Now that we got rid of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block device special case. Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of mapping->backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support

2015-01-20T21:02:58Z

Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated to it's original purpose. Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for the mtd_inodefs filesystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Brian Norris Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED

2015-01-20T21:02:56Z

This bdi flag isn't too useful - we can determine that a vma is backed by either swap or shmem trivially in the caller. This also allows removing the backing_dev_info instaces for swap and shmem in favor of noop_backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: reimplement bdev_inode_switch_bdi()

2014-09-08T16:00:43Z

A block_device may be attached to different gendisks and thus different bdis over time. bdev_inode_switch_bdi() is used to switch the associated bdi. The function assumes that the inode could be dirty and transfers it between bdis if so. This is a bit nasty in that it reaches into bdi internals. This patch reimplements the function so that it writes out the inode if dirty. This is a lot simpler and can be implemented without exposing bdi internals. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: remove unused stuff

2014-09-08T16:00:36Z

Two flags and one bdi_writeback field are no longer used. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: avoid oops on device removal

2014-04-03T23:20:49Z

After commit 839a8e8660b6 ("writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue") when device is removed while we are writing to it we crash in bdi_writeback_workfn() -> set_worker_desc() because bdi->dev is NULL. This can happen because even though bdi_unregister() cancels all pending flushing work, nothing really prevents new ones from being queued from balance_dirty_pages() or other places. Fix the problem by clearing BDI_registered bit in bdi_unregister() and checking it before scheduling of any flushing work. Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977 Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Derek Basehore Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: test bdi_init failure

2013-11-08T15:59:44Z

There were two places where return value from bdi_init was not tested. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe