Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains work adressing lockups reported by users when a systemd
  unit reading lots of files from a filesystem mounted with the lazytime
  mount option exits.

  With the lazytime mount option enabled we can be switching many dirty
  inodes on cgroup exit to the parent cgroup. The numbers observed in
  practice when systemd slice of a large cron job exits can easily reach
  hundreds of thousands or millions.

  The logic in inode_do_switch_wbs() which sorts the inode into
  appropriate place in b_dirty list of the target wb however has linear
  complexity in the number of dirty inodes thus overall time complexity
  of switching all the inodes is quadratic leading to workers being
  pegged for hours consuming 100% of the CPU and switching inodes to the
  parent wb.

  Simple reproducer of the issue:

      FILES=10000
      # Filesystem mounted with lazytime mount option
      MNT=/mnt/
      echo "Creating files and switching timestamps"
      for (( j = 0; j < 50; j ++ )); do
          mkdir $MNT/dir$j
          for (( i = 0; i < $FILES; i++ )); do
              echo "foo" >$MNT/dir$j/file$i
          done
          touch -a -t 202501010000 $MNT/dir$j/file*
      done
      wait
      echo "Syncing and flushing"
      sync
      echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

      echo "Reading all files from a cgroup"
      mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/mycg1 || exit
      echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/mycg1/cgroup.procs || exit
      for (( j = 0; j < 50; j ++ )); do
          cat /mnt/dir$j/file* >/dev/null &
      done
      wait
      echo "Switching wbs"
      # Now rmdir the cgroup after the script exits

  This can be solved by:

   - Avoiding contention on the wb->list_lock when switching inodes by
     running a single work item per wb and managing a queue of items
     switching to the wb

   - Allowing rescheduling when switching inodes over to a different
     cgroup to avoid softlockups

   - Maintaining the b_dirty list ordering instead of sorting it"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  writeback: Add tracepoint to track pending inode switches
  writeback: Avoid excessively long inode switching times
  writeback: Avoid softlockup when switching many inodes
  writeback: Avoid contention on wb->list_lock when switching inodes

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