2 * This file is part of UBIFS.
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19 * Authors: Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
24 * This file implements UBIFS shrinker which evicts clean znodes from the TNC
25 * tree when Linux VM needs more RAM.
27 * We do not implement any LRU lists to find oldest znodes to free because it
28 * would add additional overhead to the file system fast paths. So the shrinker
29 * just walks the TNC tree when searching for znodes to free.
31 * If the root of a TNC sub-tree is clean and old enough, then the children are
32 * also clean and old enough. So the shrinker walks the TNC in level order and
33 * dumps entire sub-trees.
35 * The age of znodes is just the time-stamp when they were last looked at.
36 * The current shrinker first tries to evict old znodes, then young ones.
38 * Since the shrinker is global, it has to protect against races with FS
39 * un-mounts, which is done by the 'ubifs_infos_lock' and 'c->umount_mutex'.
44 /* List of all UBIFS file-system instances */
45 LIST_HEAD(ubifs_infos);
48 * We number each shrinker run and record the number on the ubifs_info structure
49 * so that we can easily work out which ubifs_info structures have already been
50 * done by the current run.
52 static unsigned int shrinker_run_no;
54 /* Protects 'ubifs_infos' list */
55 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubifs_infos_lock);
57 /* Global clean znode counter (for all mounted UBIFS instances) */
58 atomic_long_t ubifs_clean_zn_cnt;
61 * shrink_tnc - shrink TNC tree.
62 * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
63 * @nr: number of znodes to free
64 * @age: the age of znodes to free
65 * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1
67 * This function traverses TNC tree and frees clean znodes. It does not free
68 * clean znodes which younger then @age. Returns number of freed znodes.
70 static int shrink_tnc(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr, int age, int *contention)
73 struct ubifs_znode *znode, *zprev;
74 int time = get_seconds();
76 ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&c->umount_mutex));
77 ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&c->tnc_mutex));
79 if (!c->zroot.znode || atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) == 0)
83 * Traverse the TNC tree in levelorder manner, so that it is possible
84 * to destroy large sub-trees. Indeed, if a znode is old, then all its
85 * children are older or of the same age.
87 * Note, we are holding 'c->tnc_mutex', so we do not have to lock the
88 * 'c->space_lock' when _reading_ 'c->clean_zn_cnt', because it is
89 * changed only when the 'c->tnc_mutex' is held.
92 znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c->zroot.znode, NULL);
93 while (znode && total_freed < nr &&
94 atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) > 0) {
98 * If the znode is clean, but it is in the 'c->cnext' list, this
99 * means that this znode has just been written to flash as a
100 * part of commit and was marked clean. They will be removed
101 * from the list at end commit. We cannot change the list,
102 * because it is not protected by any mutex (design decision to
103 * make commit really independent and parallel to main I/O). So
104 * we just skip these znodes.
106 * Note, the 'clean_zn_cnt' counters are not updated until
107 * after the commit, so the UBIFS shrinker does not report
108 * the znodes which are in the 'c->cnext' list as freeable.
110 * Also note, if the root of a sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext',
111 * then the whole sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext' as well, so it
112 * is safe to dump whole sub-tree.
117 * Very soon these znodes will be removed from the list
118 * and become freeable.
121 } else if (!ubifs_zn_dirty(znode) &&
122 abs(time - znode->time) >= age) {
124 znode->parent->zbranch[znode->iip].znode = NULL;
126 c->zroot.znode = NULL;
128 freed = ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree(znode);
129 atomic_long_sub(freed, &ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
130 atomic_long_sub(freed, &c->clean_zn_cnt);
131 ubifs_assert(atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) >= 0);
132 total_freed += freed;
136 if (unlikely(!c->zroot.znode))
140 znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c->zroot.znode, znode);
148 * shrink_tnc_trees - shrink UBIFS TNC trees.
149 * @nr: number of znodes to free
150 * @age: the age of znodes to free
151 * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1
153 * This function walks the list of mounted UBIFS file-systems and frees clean
154 * znodes which are older than @age, until at least @nr znodes are freed.
155 * Returns the number of freed znodes.
157 static int shrink_tnc_trees(int nr, int age, int *contention)
159 struct ubifs_info *c;
164 spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
166 run_no = ++shrinker_run_no;
167 } while (run_no == 0);
168 /* Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and try to shrink them */
169 p = ubifs_infos.next;
170 while (p != &ubifs_infos) {
171 c = list_entry(p, struct ubifs_info, infos_list);
173 * We move the ones we do to the end of the list, so we stop
174 * when we see one we have already done.
176 if (c->shrinker_run_no == run_no)
178 if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) {
179 /* Some un-mount is in progress, try next FS */
185 * We're holding 'c->umount_mutex', so the file-system won't go
188 if (!mutex_trylock(&c->tnc_mutex)) {
189 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
194 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
196 * OK, now we have TNC locked, the file-system cannot go away -
197 * it is safe to reap the cache.
199 c->shrinker_run_no = run_no;
200 freed += shrink_tnc(c, nr, age, contention);
201 mutex_unlock(&c->tnc_mutex);
202 spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
203 /* Get the next list element before we move this one */
206 * Move this one to the end of the list to provide some
209 list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos);
210 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
214 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
219 * kick_a_thread - kick a background thread to start commit.
221 * This function kicks a background thread to start background commit. Returns
222 * %-1 if a thread was kicked or there is another reason to assume the memory
223 * will soon be freed or become freeable. If there are no dirty znodes, returns
226 static int kick_a_thread(void)
229 struct ubifs_info *c;
232 * Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and find out if there is
233 * already an ongoing commit operation there. If no, then iterate for
234 * the second time and initiate background commit.
236 spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
237 for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
238 list_for_each_entry(c, &ubifs_infos, infos_list) {
241 if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) {
243 * Some un-mount is in progress, it will
244 * certainly free memory, so just return.
246 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
250 dirty_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&c->dirty_zn_cnt);
252 if (!dirty_zn_cnt || c->cmt_state == COMMIT_BROKEN ||
254 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
258 if (c->cmt_state != COMMIT_RESTING) {
259 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
260 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
265 list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos);
266 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
268 ubifs_request_bg_commit(c);
269 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
272 mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
275 spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock);
280 int ubifs_shrinker(int nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
282 int freed, contention = 0;
283 long clean_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
290 * No clean znodes, nothing to reap. All we can do in this case
291 * is to kick background threads to start commit, which will
292 * probably make clean znodes which, in turn, will be freeable.
293 * And we return -1 which means will make VM call us again
296 dbg_tnc("no clean znodes, kick a thread");
297 return kick_a_thread();
300 freed = shrink_tnc_trees(nr, OLD_ZNODE_AGE, &contention);
304 dbg_tnc("not enough old znodes, try to free young ones");
305 freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, YOUNG_ZNODE_AGE, &contention);
309 dbg_tnc("not enough young znodes, free all");
310 freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, 0, &contention);
312 if (!freed && contention) {
313 dbg_tnc("freed nothing, but contention");
318 dbg_tnc("%d znodes were freed, requested %d", freed, nr);