| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:50:52 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27.lkml@...il.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Martin Pirker <lkml.collector@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>, mjg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc5 inconsistent lock state
On 07/17/2010 01:04 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is from:
>
> commit 31373d09da5b7fe21fe6f781e92bd534a3495f00
> Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue Apr 6 14:25:14 2010 +0200
>
> laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device
>
> One of the features of laptop-mode is that it forces a writeout of dirty
> pages if something else triggers a physical read or write from a device.
> The current implementation flushes pages on all devices, rather than only
> the one that triggered the flush. This patch alters the behaviour so that
> only the recently accessed block device is flushed, preventing other
> disks being spun up for no terribly good reason.
>
> One way to fix it might be to change all the places that call
> spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock); to spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); but I'm not
> sure that's the right way.
>
> I don't think Matthew Garrett has a bugzilla account?
I posted a patch for this the other day, but I just now notice
that it was a private list of CC addresses.
Can anyone try this completed untested patch?
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 5ab3ac2..a108b8e 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q)
*/
blk_sync_queue(q);
- del_timer_sync(&q->backing_dev_info.laptop_mode_wb_timer);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&q->backing_dev_info.laptop_mode_work);
mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, q);
mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
@@ -515,8 +515,9 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
return NULL;
}
- setup_timer(&q->backing_dev_info.laptop_mode_wb_timer,
- laptop_mode_timer_fn, (unsigned long) q);
+
+ INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&q->backing_dev_info.laptop_mode_work,
+ laptop_mode_work_fn);
init_timer(&q->unplug_timer);
setup_timer(&q->timeout, blk_rq_timed_out_timer, (unsigned long) q);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->timeout_list);
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index e536f3a..d51acff 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
struct device *dev;
- struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer;
+ struct delayed_work laptop_mode_work;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
struct dentry *debug_dir;
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index c24eca7..936ef5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ static inline void inode_sync_wait(struct inode *inode)
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
-void laptop_mode_sync(struct work_struct *work);
-void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data);
+void laptop_mode_work_fn(struct work_struct *);
#else
static inline void laptop_sync_completion(void) { }
#endif
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3d2111a..9978e8e 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -698,18 +698,20 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
-void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
+void laptop_mode_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
- struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+ bdi = container_of(work, struct backing_dev_info, laptop_mode_work.work);
+
/*
* We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
* threshold
*/
- if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
- bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages);
+ if (bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi))
+ bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_pages);
}
/*
@@ -717,9 +719,12 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
* of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
* then push it back - the user is still using the disk.
*/
-void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info)
+void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- mod_timer(&info->laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
+ if (work_pending(&bdi->laptop_mode_work.work))
+ mod_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_work.timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
+ else
+ schedule_delayed_work(&bdi->laptop_mode_work, laptop_mode);
}
/*
@@ -734,7 +739,7 @@ void laptop_sync_completion(void)
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
- del_timer(&bdi->laptop_mode_wb_timer);
+ __cancel_delayed_work(&bdi->laptop_mode_work);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
--
Jens Axboe
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists