From 7d70e15480c0450d2bfafaad338a32e884fc215e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:37:43 -0500 Subject: writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth() global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to INITIALIZE_JIFFIES. This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on 32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit. This isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines, especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role - protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior. Fix it. Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 45e187b2d971..b4fd980a93eb 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh, unsigned long now) { static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock); - static unsigned long update_time; + static unsigned long update_time = INITIAL_JIFFIES; /* * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From c72efb658f7c8b27ca3d0efb5cfd5ded9fcac89e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:18:48 -0400 Subject: writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty") introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing. bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the basis for bandwidth calculation. While unlikely, since the above patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and underflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result. Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating delta. AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported. The risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Greg Thelen Fixes: 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- mm/page-writeback.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index b4fd980a93eb..644bcb665773 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -857,8 +857,11 @@ static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed) * write_bandwidth = --------------------------------------------------- * period + * + * @written may have decreased due to account_page_redirty(). + * Avoid underflowing @bw calculation. */ - bw = written - bdi->written_stamp; + bw = written - min(written, bdi->written_stamp); bw *= HZ; if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) { do_div(bw, elapsed); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b