4 * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
6 * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the
9 * 10Apr2002 akpm@zip.com.au
13 #include <linux/kernel.h>
14 #include <linux/module.h>
15 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
18 #include <linux/swap.h>
19 #include <linux/slab.h>
20 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
21 #include <linux/writeback.h>
22 #include <linux/init.h>
23 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
24 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
25 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
26 #include <linux/mpage.h>
27 #include <linux/rmap.h>
28 #include <linux/percpu.h>
29 #include <linux/notifier.h>
30 #include <linux/smp.h>
31 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
32 #include <linux/cpu.h>
33 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
34 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
35 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
38 * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
39 * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for
40 * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has
41 * been forced to throttle against that inode. Also, the code reevaluates
42 * the dirty each time it has written this many pages.
44 #define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES 1024
47 * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
48 * will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
50 static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
52 static int dirty_exceeded __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; /* Dirty mem may be over limit */
55 * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some
56 * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write.
57 * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably
58 * large amounts of I/O are submitted.
60 static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
62 return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2;
65 /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
68 * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage
70 int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
73 * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage
75 int vm_dirty_ratio = 40;
78 * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies
80 int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ;
83 * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty
85 int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ;
88 * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
93 * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
94 * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
98 EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode);
100 /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */
103 static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
106 * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
109 * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
110 * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
111 * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
112 * performing lots of scanning.
114 * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
116 * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
119 * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
123 get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty,
124 struct address_space *mapping)
126 int background_ratio; /* Percentages */
131 unsigned long available_memory = vm_total_pages;
132 struct task_struct *tsk;
134 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
136 * We always exclude high memory from our count.
138 available_memory -= totalhigh_pages;
142 unmapped_ratio = 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
143 global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)) * 100) /
146 dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
147 if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2)
148 dirty_ratio = unmapped_ratio / 2;
153 background_ratio = dirty_background_ratio;
154 if (background_ratio >= dirty_ratio)
155 background_ratio = dirty_ratio / 2;
157 background = (background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
158 dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
160 if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
161 background += background / 4;
164 *pbackground = background;
169 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
170 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
171 * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
172 * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some
175 static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
178 long background_thresh;
180 unsigned long pages_written = 0;
181 unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages();
183 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
186 struct writeback_control wbc = {
188 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
189 .older_than_this = NULL,
190 .nr_to_write = write_chunk,
194 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, mapping);
195 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
196 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
197 if (nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <=
204 /* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
205 * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
206 * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
207 * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
208 * been flushed to permanent storage.
210 if (nr_reclaimable) {
211 writeback_inodes(&wbc);
212 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh,
213 &dirty_thresh, mapping);
214 nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
215 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
217 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)
220 pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
221 if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
222 break; /* We've done our duty */
224 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
227 if (nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)
228 <= dirty_thresh && dirty_exceeded)
231 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
232 return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */
235 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
236 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
237 * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
239 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
240 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
242 if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
243 (!laptop_mode && (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)))
244 pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
247 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
249 if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
250 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
253 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
258 * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
259 * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
260 * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
262 * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
263 * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
264 * dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
266 * On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
267 * calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
268 * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
269 * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
271 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
272 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
274 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits) = 0;
275 unsigned long ratelimit;
278 ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
283 * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
284 * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
287 p = &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
288 *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
289 if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
292 balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
297 EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
299 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
301 long background_thresh;
304 if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
306 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
307 * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
308 * waiting for IO to complete.
310 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
315 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
318 * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
319 * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
321 dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
323 if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
324 global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
326 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
331 * writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
332 * memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.
334 static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages)
336 long min_pages = _min_pages;
337 struct writeback_control wbc = {
339 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
340 .older_than_this = NULL,
347 long background_thresh;
350 get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
351 if (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
352 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
355 wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
356 wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
357 wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
358 writeback_inodes(&wbc);
359 min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
360 if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
361 /* Wrote less than expected */
362 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
363 if (!wbc.encountered_congestion)
370 * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages. If `nr_pages' is zero, write back
371 * the whole world. Returns 0 if a pdflush thread was dispatched. Returns
372 * -1 if all pdflush threads were busy.
374 int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages)
377 nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
378 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
379 return pdflush_operation(background_writeout, nr_pages);
382 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
383 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
385 static DEFINE_TIMER(wb_timer, wb_timer_fn, 0, 0);
386 static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
389 * Periodic writeback of "old" data.
391 * Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the
392 * dirtying-time in the inode's address_space. So this periodic writeback code
393 * just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are
394 * older than a specific point in time.
396 * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_interval. But if a writeback event
397 * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_interval interval, then leave a
400 * older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write. So we'll only write back
401 * all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings.
403 static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
405 unsigned long oldest_jif;
406 unsigned long start_jif;
407 unsigned long next_jif;
409 struct writeback_control wbc = {
411 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
412 .older_than_this = &oldest_jif,
421 oldest_jif = jiffies - dirty_expire_interval;
423 next_jif = start_jif + dirty_writeback_interval;
424 nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
425 global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
426 (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
427 while (nr_to_write > 0) {
428 wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
429 wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
430 writeback_inodes(&wbc);
431 if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) {
432 if (wbc.encountered_congestion)
433 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
435 break; /* All the old data is written */
437 nr_to_write -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
439 if (time_before(next_jif, jiffies + HZ))
440 next_jif = jiffies + HZ;
441 if (dirty_writeback_interval)
442 mod_timer(&wb_timer, next_jif);
446 * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
448 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
449 struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
451 proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
452 if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
454 jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
456 del_timer(&wb_timer);
461 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
463 if (pdflush_operation(wb_kupdate, 0) < 0)
464 mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + HZ); /* delay 1 second */
467 static void laptop_flush(unsigned long unused)
472 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
474 pdflush_operation(laptop_flush, 0);
478 * We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
479 * of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
480 * then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
482 void laptop_io_completion(void)
484 mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
488 * We're in laptop mode and we've just synced. The sync's writes will have
489 * caused another writeback to be scheduled by laptop_io_completion.
490 * Nothing needs to be written back anymore, so we unschedule the writeback.
492 void laptop_sync_completion(void)
494 del_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
498 * If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
499 * if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
500 * If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
501 * get_writeback_state too often.
503 * Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
504 * dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory
505 * thresholds before writeback cuts in.
507 * But the limit should not be set too high. Because it also controls the
508 * amount of memory which the balance_dirty_pages() caller has to write back.
509 * If this is too large then the caller will block on the IO queue all the
510 * time. So limit it to four megabytes - the balance_dirty_pages() caller
511 * will write six megabyte chunks, max.
514 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
516 ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
517 if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
518 ratelimit_pages = 16;
519 if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
520 ratelimit_pages = (4096 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
524 ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
526 writeback_set_ratelimit();
530 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ratelimit_nb = {
531 .notifier_call = ratelimit_handler,
536 * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
538 * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
539 * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
540 * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
542 * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
543 * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
544 * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
545 * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
546 * get into the old insane situation any more where we had
547 * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
548 * non-HIGHMEM memory.
550 * But we might still want to scale the dirty_ratio by how
551 * much memory the box has..
553 void __init page_writeback_init(void)
555 mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
556 writeback_set_ratelimit();
557 register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
561 * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
562 * @mapping: address space structure to write
563 * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
565 * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
566 * address_space_operation.
568 * If a page is already under I/O, generic_writepages() skips it, even
569 * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
570 * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
571 * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
572 * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
573 * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
574 * existing IO to complete.
576 * Derived from mpage_writepages() - if you fix this you should check that
579 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
580 struct writeback_control *wbc)
582 struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
585 int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
589 pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
593 if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
594 wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
598 writepage = mapping->a_ops->writepage;
600 /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
604 pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
605 if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
606 index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */
609 index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
610 end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
611 if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
616 while (!done && (index <= end) &&
617 (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
619 min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) {
623 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
624 struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
627 * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
628 * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
629 * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
630 * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
635 if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
640 if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
646 if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE)
647 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
649 if (PageWriteback(page) ||
650 !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
655 ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc);
658 set_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags);
660 set_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags);
663 if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE))
665 if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0))
667 if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
668 wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
672 pagevec_release(&pvec);
675 if (!scanned && !done) {
677 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
678 * back to the start of the file
684 if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
685 mapping->writeback_index = index;
689 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
691 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
695 if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
697 wbc->for_writepages = 1;
698 if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
699 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
701 ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
702 wbc->for_writepages = 0;
707 * write_one_page - write out a single page and optionally wait on I/O
708 * @page: the page to write
709 * @wait: if true, wait on writeout
711 * The page must be locked by the caller and will be unlocked upon return.
713 * write_one_page() returns a negative error code if I/O failed.
715 int write_one_page(struct page *page, int wait)
717 struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
719 struct writeback_control wbc = {
720 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
724 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
727 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
729 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
730 page_cache_get(page);
731 ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
732 if (ret == 0 && wait) {
733 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
737 page_cache_release(page);
743 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
746 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers nor write back.
748 int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
750 if (!PageDirty(page))
756 * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
759 * This is also used when a single buffer is being dirtied: we want to set the
760 * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers. This is a "bottom-up"
761 * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
763 * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
764 * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
765 * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
767 * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
768 * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() insode tree_lock.
770 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
772 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
773 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
774 struct address_space *mapping2;
779 write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
780 mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
781 if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
782 BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
783 if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
784 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
785 task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
787 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
788 page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
790 write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
792 /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
793 __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
799 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
802 * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
803 * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
804 * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
806 int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
808 wbc->pages_skipped++;
809 return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
811 EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
814 * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
815 * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
817 int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
819 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
821 if (likely(mapping)) {
822 int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;
825 spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
829 if (!PageDirty(page)) {
830 if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
835 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);
838 * set_page_dirty() is racy if the caller has no reference against
839 * page->mapping->host, and if the page is unlocked. This is because another
840 * CPU could truncate the page off the mapping and then free the mapping.
842 * Usually, the page _is_ locked, or the caller is a user-space process which
843 * holds a reference on the inode by having an open file.
845 * In other cases, the page should be locked before running set_page_dirty().
847 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
851 lock_page_nosync(page);
852 ret = set_page_dirty(page);
856 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
859 * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
860 * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
862 * This is for preparing to put the page under writeout. We leave the page
863 * tagged as dirty in the radix tree so that a concurrent write-for-sync
864 * can discover it via a PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY walk. The ->writepage
865 * implementation will run either set_page_writeback() or set_page_dirty(),
866 * at which stage we bring the page's dirty flag and radix-tree dirty tag
869 * This incoherency between the page's dirty flag and radix-tree tag is
870 * unfortunate, but it only exists while the page is locked.
872 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
874 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
876 if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
878 * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
880 * We use this sequence to make sure that
881 * (a) we account for dirty stats properly
882 * (b) we tell the low-level filesystem to
883 * mark the whole page dirty if it was
884 * dirty in a pagetable. Only to then
885 * (c) clean the page again and return 1 to
886 * cause the writeback.
888 * This way we avoid all nasty races with the
889 * dirty bit in multiple places and clearing
890 * them concurrently from different threads.
892 * Note! Normally the "set_page_dirty(page)"
893 * has no effect on the actual dirty bit - since
894 * that will already usually be set. But we
895 * need the side effects, and it can help us
898 * We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
899 * as a serialization point for all the different
900 * threads doing their things.
902 * FIXME! We still have a race here: if somebody
903 * adds the page back to the page tables in
904 * between the "page_mkclean()" and the "TestClearPageDirty()",
905 * we might have it mapped without the dirty bit set.
907 if (page_mkclean(page))
908 set_page_dirty(page);
909 if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
910 dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
915 return TestClearPageDirty(page);
917 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
919 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
921 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
927 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
928 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
930 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
932 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
933 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
935 ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
940 int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
942 struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
948 write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
949 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
951 radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
953 PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
954 if (!PageDirty(page))
955 radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
957 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
958 write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
960 ret = TestSetPageWriteback(page);
965 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
968 * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marged with the
971 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
976 read_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
977 ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
978 read_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
981 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);