linux-hardened/mm
Mel Gorman b45972265f mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account
Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:29 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue 2013-04-01 19:08:06 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() 2013-01-29 19:32:59 -08:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache: clean up cleancache_enabled 2013-04-30 17:04:01 -07:00
compaction.c mm: add & use zone_end_pfn() and zone_spans_pfn() 2013-02-23 17:50:20 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker 2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
filemap_xip.c lift sb_start_write() out of ->write() 2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
fremap.c Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs" 2013-03-28 17:45:51 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
hugetlb.c Main features: 2013-07-03 10:31:38 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages 2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
ksm.c ksm: fix m68k build: only NUMA needs pfn_to_nid 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c mm: madvise: complete input validation before taking lock 2013-04-29 15:54:37 -07:00
Makefile memcg: add memory.pressure_level events 2013-04-29 15:54:38 -07:00
memblock.c memblock: fix missing comment of memblock_insert_region() 2013-04-29 15:54:38 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm, memcg: don't take task_lock in task_in_mem_cgroup 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
memory-failure.c HWPOISON: check dirty flag to match against clean page 2013-04-29 15:54:28 -07:00
memory.c mm: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix printk format warnings 2013-05-24 16:22:52 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: fix sp_node_init() argument ordering 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
mempool.c mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node() 2012-06-25 11:53:47 +02:00
migrate.c mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
mincore.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
mlock.c Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs" 2013-03-28 17:45:51 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: init: report on last-nid information stored in page->flags 2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
mmap.c mm: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
mmu_context.c mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: mmu_notifier: re-fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU 2013-05-24 16:22:51 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: rename page struct field helpers 2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve() 2013-04-29 15:54:39 -07:00
nommu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while memcg oom happening 2013-02-23 17:50:08 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: make snapshotting pages for stable writes a per-bio operation 2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc: don't re-init pageset in zone_pcp_update() 2013-07-03 16:07:27 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcontrol: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY 2012-12-12 17:38:32 -08:00
page_io.c mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: fix zone_watermark_ok_safe() accounting of isolated pages 2013-01-04 16:11:46 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas 2013-05-24 16:22:53 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument 2012-12-02 06:23:04 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte 2012-12-11 14:28:34 +00:00
process_vm_access.c Fix: compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() misuse in aio, readv, writev, and security keys 2013-03-12 11:05:45 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length 2013-05-21 23:17:23 -04:00
rmap.c rmap: recompute pgoff for unmapping huge page 2013-04-29 15:54:28 -07:00
shmem.c vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules 2013-07-03 16:23:27 +04:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-05-07 08:42:20 -07:00
slab.h slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node 2013-02-01 12:32:09 +02:00
slab_common.c slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN 2013-06-13 10:01:58 +03:00
slob.c mm: rename page struct field helpers 2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-05-07 08:42:20 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes 2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
sparse.c mm, hotplug: avoid compiling memory hotremove functions when disabled 2013-04-29 15:54:37 -07:00
swap.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion 2013-06-12 16:29:45 -07:00
swapfile.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
truncate.c mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle non page aligned ranges 2013-05-27 23:32:35 -04:00
util.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: add vfree comment 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
vmpressure.c memcg: add memory.pressure_level events 2013-04-29 15:54:38 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account 2013-07-03 16:07:29 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat: add note on safety of drain_zonestat 2013-04-29 15:54:38 -07:00