We (Linux Kernel Performance project) found a regression introduced
by commit:
f7fec032aa ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree
The commit causes about 20% performance decrease in fio random write
test. Profiler shows that rb_next() uses a lot of CPU time. The call
stack is:
rb_next
ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
ext4_map_blocks
_ext4_get_block
ext4_get_block_write
__blockdev_direct_IO
ext4_direct_IO
generic_file_direct_write
__generic_file_aio_write
ext4_file_write
aio_rw_vect_retry
aio_run_iocb
do_io_submit
sys_io_submit
system_call_fastpath
io_submit
td_io_getevents
io_u_queued_complete
thread_main
main
__libc_start_main
The cause is that ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() doesn't have an
upper bound, it keeps searching until a delayed extent is found.
When there are a lots of non-delayed entries in the extent state
tree, ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() may uses a lot of CPU time.
Reported-by: LKP project <lkp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"This is the main drm pull request for 3.10.
Wierd bits:
- OMAP drm changes required OMAP dss changes, in drivers/video, so I
took them in here.
- one more fbcon fix for font handover
- VT switch avoidance in pm code
- scatterlist helpers for gpu drivers - have acks from akpm
Highlights:
- qxl kms driver - driver for the spice qxl virtual GPU
Nouveau:
- fermi/kepler VRAM compression
- GK110/nvf0 modesetting support.
Tegra:
- host1x core merged with 2D engine support
i915:
- vt switchless resume
- more valleyview support
- vblank fixes
- modesetting pipe config rework
radeon:
- UVD engine support
- SI chip tiling support
- GPU registers initialisation from golden values.
exynos:
- device tree changes
- fimc block support
Otherwise:
- bunches of fixes all over the place."
* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (513 commits)
qxl: update to new idr interfaces.
drm/nouveau: fix build with nv50->nvc0
drm/radeon: fix handling of v6 power tables
drm/radeon: clarify family checks in pm table parsing
drm/radeon: consolidate UVD clock programming
drm/radeon: fix UPLL_REF_DIV_MASK definition
radeon: add bo tracking debugfs
drm/radeon: add new richland pci ids
drm/radeon: add some new SI PCI ids
drm/radeon: fix scratch reg handling for UVD fence
drm/radeon: allocate SA bo in the requested domain
drm/radeon: fix possible segfault when parsing pm tables
drm/radeon: fix endian bugs in atom_allocate_fb_scratch()
OMAPDSS: TFP410: return EPROBE_DEFER if the i2c adapter not found
OMAPDSS: VENC: Add error handling for venc_probe_pdata
OMAPDSS: HDMI: Add error handling for hdmi_probe_pdata
OMAPDSS: RFBI: Add error handling for rfbi_probe_pdata
OMAPDSS: DSI: Add error handling for dsi_probe_pdata
OMAPDSS: SDI: Add error handling for sdi_probe_pdata
OMAPDSS: DPI: Add error handling for dpi_probe_pdata
...
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Mostly performance and bug fixes, plus some cleanups. The one new
feature this merge window is a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which
allows installation of a hidden inode designed for boot loaders."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (50 commits)
ext4: fix type-widening bug in inode table readahead code
ext4: add check for inodes_count overflow in new resize ioctl
ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems
jbd2: trace when lock_buffer in do_get_write_access takes a long time
ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags
buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags
ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META
ext4: fix readdir error in case inline_data+^dir_index.
ext4: fix readdir error in the case of inline_data+dir_index
jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset
ext4: mext_insert_extents should update extent block checksum
ext4: move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction
ext4: reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support
jbd2: reduce journal_head size
ext4: clear buffer_uninit flag when submitting IO
ext4: use io_end for multiple bios
ext4: make ext4_bio_write_page() use BH_Async_Write flags
ext4: Use kstrtoul() instead of parse_strtoul()
ext4: defragmentation code cleanup
...
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work
for the full-dynticks work:
- Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take
advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on
numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960
- RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570
- Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods
rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp()
rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp
rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers
rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events
rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp()
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end
rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration
rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits
rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs
rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown.
rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages
rcu: Documentation update
rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident
rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation
rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field
...
Merge second batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- some printk updates
- a new "SRAM" driver.
- MAINTAINERS updates
- the backlight driver queue
- checkpatch updates
- a few init/ changes
- a huge number of drivers/rtc changes
- fatfs updates
- some lib/idr.c work
- some renaming of the random driver interfaces
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (285 commits)
net: rename random32 to prandom
net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop
net/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
scsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
uwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mmc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
drbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call
uuid: use prandom_bytes()
raid6test: use prandom_bytes()
sctp: convert sctp_assoc_set_id() to use idr_alloc_cyclic()
...
Commit 7ff9554bb5 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length
record buffer") removed start and end parameters from
call_console_drivers, but those parameters still exist in
include/trace/events/printk.h.
Without start and end parameters handling, printk tracing became more
simple as: trace_console(text, len);
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge first batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- A couple of kthread changes
- A few minor audit patches
- A number of fbdev patches. Florian remains AWOL so I'm picking up
some of these.
- A few kbuild things
- ocfs2 updates
- Almost all of the MM queue
(And in the meantime, I already have the second big batch from Andrew
pending in my mailbox ;^)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (149 commits)
memcg: take reference before releasing rcu_read_lock
mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory
mmKconfig: add an option to disable bounce
mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve()
mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early()
fs/buffer.c: remove unnecessary init operation after allocating buffer_head.
numa, cpu hotplug: change links of CPU and node when changing node number by onlining CPU
mm: fix memory_hotplug.c printk format warning
mm: swap: mark swap pages writeback before queueing for direct IO
swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file
mm, memcg: give exiting processes access to memory reserves
thp: fix huge zero page logic for page with pfn == 0
memcg: avoid accessing memcg after releasing reference
fs: fix fsync() error reporting
memblock: fix missing comment of memblock_insert_region()
mm: Remove unused parameter of pages_correctly_reserved()
firmware, memmap: fix firmware_map_entry leak
mm/vmstat: add note on safety of drain_zonestat
mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim
mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting
...
Pull regmap updates from Mark Brown:
"In user visible terms just a couple of enhancements here, though there
was a moderate amount of refactoring required in order to support the
register cache sync performance improvements.
- Support for block and asynchronous I/O during register cache
syncing; this provides a use case dependant performance
improvement.
- Additional debugfs information on the memory consuption and
register set"
* tag 'regmap-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: (23 commits)
regmap: don't corrupt work buffer in _regmap_raw_write()
regmap: cache: Fix format specifier in dev_dbg
regmap: cache: Make regcache_sync_block_raw static
regmap: cache: Write consecutive registers in a single block write
regmap: cache: Split raw and non-raw syncs
regmap: cache: Factor out block sync
regmap: cache: Factor out reg_present support from rbtree cache
regmap: cache: Use raw I/O to sync rbtrees if we can
regmap: core: Provide regmap_can_raw_write() operation
regmap: cache: Provide a get address of value operation
regmap: Cut down on the average # of nodes in the rbtree cache
regmap: core: Make raw write available to regcache
regmap: core: Warn on invalid operation combinations
regmap: irq: Clarify error message when we fail to request primary IRQ
regmap: rbtree Expose total memory consumption in the rbtree debugfs entry
regmap: debugfs: Add a registers `range' file
regmap: debugfs: Simplify calculation of `c->max_reg'
regmap: cache: Store caches in native register format where possible
regmap: core: Split out in place value parsing
regmap: cache: Use regcache_get_value() to check if we updated
...
Use the events API to trace filemap loading and unloading of file pieces
into the page cache.
This patch aims at tracing the eviction reload cycle of executable and
shared libraries pages in a memory constrained environment.
The typical usage is to spot a specific device and inode (for example
/lib/libc.so) to see the eviction cycles, and find out if frequently
used code is rather spread across many pages (bad) or coallesced (good).
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
The current irq_comm.c file contains pieces of code that are generic
across different irqchip implementations, as well as code that is
fully IOAPIC specific.
Split the generic bits out into irqchip.c.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Add tracepoints for tracing the garbage collector
threads in f2fs with status of collection & type.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Jaegeuk: modify slightly to show information]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
add tracepoints for tracing the truncate operations
like truncate node/data blocks, f2fs_truncate etc.
Tracepoints are added at entry and exit of operation
to trace the success & failure of operation.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Jaegeuk: combine and modify the tracepoint structures]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add tracepoints in f2fs for tracing the syncing
operations like filesystem sync, file sync enter/exit.
It will helf to trace the code under debugging scenarios.
Also add tracepoints for tracing the various inode operations
like building inode, eviction of inode, link/unlike of
inodes.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Jaegeuk: combine and modify the tracepoint structures]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add host1x, the driver for host1x and its client unit 2D. The Tegra
host1x module is the DMA engine for register access to Tegra's
graphics- and multimedia-related modules. The modules served by
host1x are referred to as clients. host1x includes some other
functionality, such as synchronization.
Signed-off-by: Arto Merilainen <amerilainen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Terje Bergstrom <tbergstrom@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Tested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Tested-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
While investigating interactivity problems it was clear that processes
sometimes stall for long periods of times if an attempt is made to
lock a buffer which is undergoing writeback. It would stall in
a trace looking something like
[<ffffffff811a39de>] __lock_buffer+0x2e/0x30
[<ffffffff8123a60f>] do_get_write_access+0x43f/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8123a7cb>] jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffff81220f79>] __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x39/0x80
[<ffffffff811f3198>] ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x78/0xa0
[<ffffffff811f3209>] ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x49/0x220
[<ffffffff811f57d1>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff8119ac3e>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x4e/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8118b9b9>] update_time+0x79/0xc0
[<ffffffff8118ba98>] file_update_time+0x98/0x100
[<ffffffff81110ffc>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x17c/0x3b0
[<ffffffff811112aa>] generic_file_aio_write+0x7a/0xf0
[<ffffffff811ea853>] ext4_file_write+0x83/0xd0
[<ffffffff81172b23>] do_sync_write+0xa3/0xe0
[<ffffffff811731ae>] vfs_write+0xae/0x180
[<ffffffff8117361d>] sys_write+0x4d/0x90
[<ffffffff8159d62d>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This reverts commit 3a366e614d.
Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.
Jens says:
"It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).
The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
queueing up a revert and pull request."
Reported-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Requested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The smpboot threads rely on the park/unpark mechanism which binds per
cpu threads on a particular core. Though the functionality is racy:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
unpark(T) wake_up_process(T)
clear(SHOULD_PARK) T runs
leave parkme() due to !SHOULD_PARK
bind_to(CPU2) BUG_ON(wrong CPU)
We cannot let the tasks move themself to the target CPU as one of
those tasks is actually the migration thread itself, which requires
that it starts running on the target cpu right away.
The solution to this problem is to prevent wakeups in park mode which
are not from unpark(). That way we can guarantee that the association
of the task to the target cpu is working correctly.
Add a new task state (TASK_PARKED) which prevents other wakeups and
use this state explicitly for the unpark wakeup.
Peter noticed: Also, since the task state is visible to userspace and
all the parked tasks are still in the PID space, its a good hint in ps
and friends that these tasks aren't really there for the moment.
The migration thread has another related issue.
CPU0 CPU1
Bring up CPU2
create_thread(T)
park(T)
wait_for_completion()
parkme()
complete()
sched_set_stop_task()
schedule(TASK_PARKED)
The sched_set_stop_task() call is issued while the task is on the
runqueue of CPU1 and that confuses the hell out of the stop_task class
on that cpu. So we need the same synchronizaion before
sched_set_stop_task().
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhillf@gmail.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304091635430.21884@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The only difference between how we handle data=ordered and
data=writeback is a single call to ext4_jbd2_file_inode(). Eliminate
code duplication by factoring out redundant the code paths.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Tejun writes:
-----
This is the pull request for the earlier patchset[1] with the same
name. It's only three patches (the first one was committed to
workqueue tree) but the merge strategy is a bit involved due to the
dependencies.
* Because the conversion needs features from wq/for-3.10,
block/for-3.10/core is based on rc3, and wq/for-3.10 has conflicts
with rc3, I pulled mainline (rc5) into wq/for-3.10 to prevent those
workqueue conflicts from flaring up in block tree.
* Resolving the issue that Jan and Dave raised about debugging
requires arch-wide changes. The patchset is being worked on[2] but
it'll have to go through -mm after these changes show up in -next,
and not included in this pull request.
The three commits are located in the following git branch.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git writeback-workqueue
Pulling it into block/for-3.10/core produces a conflict in
drivers/md/raid5.c between the following two commits.
e3620a3ad5 ("MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available")
2f6db2a707 ("raid5: use bio_reset()")
The conflict is trivial - one removes an "if ()" conditional while the
other removes "rbi->bi_next = NULL" right above it. We just need to
remove both. The merged branch is available at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git block-test-merge
so that you can use it for verification. The test merge commit has
proper merge description.
While these changes are a bit of pain to route, they make code simpler
and even have, while minute, measureable performance gain[3] even on a
workload which isn't particularly favorable to showing the benefits of
this conversion.
----
Fixed up the conflict.
Conflicts:
drivers/md/raid5.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Writeback implements its own worker pool - each bdi can be associated
with a worker thread which is created and destroyed dynamically. The
worker thread for the default bdi is always present and serves as the
"forker" thread which forks off worker threads for other bdis.
there's no reason for writeback to implement its own worker pool when
using unbound workqueue instead is much simpler and more efficient.
This patch replaces custom worker pool implementation in writeback
with an unbound workqueue.
The conversion isn't too complicated but the followings are worth
mentioning.
* bdi_writeback->last_active, task and wakeup_timer are removed.
delayed_work ->dwork is added instead. Explicit timer handling is
no longer necessary. Everything works by either queueing / modding
/ flushing / canceling the delayed_work item.
* bdi_writeback_thread() becomes bdi_writeback_workfn() which runs off
bdi_writeback->dwork. On each execution, it processes
bdi->work_list and reschedules itself if there are more things to
do.
The function also handles low-mem condition, which used to be
handled by the forker thread. If the function is running off a
rescuer thread, it only writes out limited number of pages so that
the rescuer can serve other bdis too. This preserves the flusher
creation failure behavior of the forker thread.
* INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->bdi_list) is used to tell
bdi_writeback_workfn() about on-going bdi unregistration so that it
always drains work_list even if it's running off the rescuer. Note
that the original code was broken in this regard. Under memory
pressure, a bdi could finish unregistration with non-empty
work_list.
* The default bdi is no longer special. It now is treated the same as
any other bdi and bdi_cap_flush_forker() is removed.
* BDI_pending is no longer used. Removed.
* Some tracepoints become non-applicable. The following TPs are
removed - writeback_nothread, writeback_wake_thread,
writeback_wake_forker_thread, writeback_thread_start,
writeback_thread_stop.
Everything, including devices coming and going away and rescuer
operation under simulated memory pressure, seems to work fine in my
test setup.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Dyntick-idle CPUs need to be able to pre-announce their need for grace
periods. This can be done using something similar to the mechanism used
by no-CB CPUs to announce their need for grace periods. This commit
moves in this direction by renaming the no-CBs grace-period event tracing
to suit the new future-grace-period needs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
In order to let triggers enable or disable events, we need a 'soft'
method for doing so. For example, if a function probe is added that
lets a user enable or disable events when a function is called, that
change must be done without taking locks or a mutex, and definitely
it can't sleep. But the full enabling of a tracepoint is expensive.
By adding a 'SOFT_DISABLE' flag, and converting the flags to be updated
without the protection of a mutex (using set/clear_bit()), this soft
disable flag can be used to allow critical sections to enable or disable
events from being traced (after the event has been placed into "SOFT_MODE").
Some caveats though: The comm recorder (to map pids with a comm) can not
be soft disabled (yet). If you disable an event with with a "soft"
disable and wait a while before reading the trace, the comm cache may be
replaced and you'll get a bunch of <...> for comms in the trace.
Reading the "enable" file for an event that is disabled will now give
you "0*" where the '*' denotes that the tracepoint is still active but
the event itself is "disabled".
[ fixed _BIT used in & operation : thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.
This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258746.2060304@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()).
The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use.
In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this
allows different events to be recorded into different buffers.
Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).
By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trace when we start and complete async writes, and when we start and
finish blocking for their completion. This is useful for performance
analysis of the resulting I/O patterns.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Various bug fixes for ext4. The most important is a fix for the new
extent cache's slab shrinker which can cause significant, user-visible
pauses when the system is under memory pressure."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: enable quotas before orphan cleanup
ext4: don't allow quota mount options when quota feature enabled
ext4: fix a warning from sparse check for ext4_dir_llseek
ext4: convert number of blocks to clusters properly
ext4: fix possible memory leak in ext4_remount()
jbd2: fix ERR_PTR dereference in jbd2__journal_start
ext4: use percpu counter for extent cache count
ext4: optimize ext4_es_shrink()
When the system is under memory pressure, ext4_es_srhink() will get
called very often. So optimize returning the number of items in the
file system's extent status cache by keeping a per-filesystem count,
instead of calculating it each time by scanning all of the inodes in
the extent status cache.
Also rename the slab used for the extent status cache to be
"ext4_extent_status" so it's obviousl the slab in question is created
by ext4.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:
- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.
- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.
- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"
Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").
* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
...
Pull ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
"The one new feature added in this patch series is the ability to use
the "punch hole" functionality for inodes that are not using extent
maps.
In the bug fix category, we fixed some races in the AIO and fstrim
code, and some potential NULL pointer dereferences and memory leaks in
error handling code paths.
In the optimization category, we fixed a performance regression in the
jbd2 layer introduced by commit d9b01934d5 ("jbd: fix fsync() tid
wraparound bug", introduced in v3.0) which shows up in the AIM7
benchmark. We also further optimized jbd2 by minimize the amount of
time that transaction handles are held active.
This patch series also features some additional enhancement of the
extent status tree, which is now used to cache extent information in a
more efficient/compact form than what we use on-disk."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (65 commits)
ext4: fix free clusters calculation in bigalloc filesystem
ext4: no need to remove extent if len is 0 in ext4_es_remove_extent()
ext4: fix xattr block allocation/release with bigalloc
ext4: reclaim extents from extent status tree
ext4: adjust some functions for reclaiming extents from extent status tree
ext4: remove single extent cache
ext4: lookup block mapping in extent status tree
ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree
ext4: let ext4_ext_map_blocks return EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN flag
ext4: rename and improbe ext4_es_find_extent()
ext4: add physical block and status member into extent status tree
ext4: refine extent status tree
ext4: use ERR_PTR() abstraction for ext4_append()
ext4: refactor code to read directory blocks into ext4_read_dirblock()
ext4: add debugging context for warning in ext4_da_update_reserve_space()
ext4: use KERN_WARNING for warning messages
jbd2: use module parameters instead of debugfs for jbd_debug
ext4: use module parameters instead of debugfs for mballoc_debug
ext4: start handle at the last possible moment when creating inodes
ext4: fix the number of credits needed for acl ops with inline data
...
