linux-kernel - [PATCH] writeback: Account the number of pages written back

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Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:55:48 +0100
From:   "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] writeback: Account the number of pages written back

nr_to_write is a count of pages, so we need to decrease it by the number
of pages in the folio we just wrote, not by 1.  Most callers specify
either LONG_MAX or 1, so are unaffected, but writeback_sb_inodes()
might end up writing 512x as many pages as it asked for.

Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 1d17fb1ec863..d3f42009bb70 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2434,6 +2434,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_folios; i++) {
 			struct folio *folio = fbatch.folios[i];
+			unsigned long nr;
 
 			done_index = folio->index;
 
@@ -2471,6 +2472,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 			trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host));
 			error = writepage(folio, wbc, data);
+			nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
 			if (unlikely(error)) {
 				/*
 				 * Handle errors according to the type of
@@ -2489,8 +2491,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 					error = 0;
 				} else if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
 					ret = error;
-					done_index = folio->index +
-						folio_nr_pages(folio);
+					done_index = folio->index + nr;
 					done = 1;
 					break;
 				}
@@ -2504,7 +2505,8 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 			 * keep going until we have written all the pages
 			 * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
 			 */
-			if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
+			wbc->nr_to_write -= nr;
+			if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
 			    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
 				done = 1;
 				break;
-- 
2.39.2