user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/backing-dev.h, branch v5.15.73

init: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info early

2022-06-22T12:22:02Z

[ Upstream commit 4bca7e80b6455772b4bf3f536dcbc19aac424d6a ] noop_backing_dev_info is used by superblocks of various pseudofilesystems such as kdevtmpfs. After commit 10e14073107d ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error") this broke because __mark_inode_dirty() started to access more fields from noop_backing_dev_info and this led to crashes inside locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() called from __mark_inode_dirty(). Fix the problem by initializing noop_backing_dev_info before the filesystems get mounted. Fixes: 10e14073107d ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error") Reported-and-tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose Reported-and-tested-by: Alexandru Elisei Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-03T17:08:28Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "173 patches. Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap, bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock, oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (173 commits) mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated() selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test mm: KSM: fix data type selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test selftests: vm: add KSM merge test mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease mm: introduce process_mrelease system call memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node() mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY ...

writeback: reliably update bandwidth estimation

2021-09-03T16:58:10Z

Currently we trigger writeback bandwidth estimation from balance_dirty_pages() and from wb_writeback(). However neither of these need to trigger when the system is relatively idle and writeback is triggered e.g. from fsync(2). Make sure writeback estimates happen reliably by triggering them from do_writepages(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Michael Stapelberg Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: remove the bd_bdi in struct block_device

2021-08-09T17:53:26Z

Just retrieve the bdi from the disk. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809141744.1203023-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: replace BDI_CAP_NO_{WRITEBACK,ACCT_DIRTY} with a single flag

2020-09-24T19:43:39Z

Replace the two negative flags that are always used together with a single positive flag that indicates the writeback capability instead of two related non-capabilities. Also remove the pointless wrappers to just check the flag. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: invert BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB

2020-09-24T19:43:39Z

Replace BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB with a positive BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT to make the checks more obvious. Also remove the pointless bdi_cap_account_writeback wrapper that just obsfucates the check. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: replace BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES with a queue and a sb flag

2020-09-24T19:43:39Z

The BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES is one of the few bits of information in the backing_dev_info shared between the block drivers and the writeback code. To help untangling the dependency replace it with a queue flag and a superblock flag derived from it. This also helps with the case of e.g. a file system requiring stable writes due to its own checksumming, but not forcing it on other users of the block device like the swap code. One downside is that we an't support the stable_pages_required bdi attribute in sysfs anymore. It is replaced with a queue attribute which also is writable for easier testing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: remove BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO

2020-09-24T19:43:39Z

BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO is only checked in the swap code, and used to decided if ->rw_page can be used on a block device. Just check up for the method instead. The only complication is that zram needs a second set of block_device_operations as it can switch between modes that actually support ->rw_page and those who don't. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: remove BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK

2020-09-24T19:43:39Z

Just checking SB_I_CGROUPWB for cgroup writeback support is enough. Either the file system allocates its own bdi (e.g. btrfs), in which case it is known to support cgroup writeback, or the bdi comes from the block layer, which always supports cgroup writeback. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: remove bdi->congested_fn

2020-07-08T23:20:46Z

Except for pktdvd, the only places setting congested bits are file systems that allocate their own backing_dev_info structures. And pktdvd is a deprecated driver that isn't useful in stack setup either. So remove the dead congested_fn stacking infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Song Liu Acked-by: David Sterba [axboe: fixup unused variables in bcache/request.c] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe