page_writeback: revive cancel_dirty_page() in a restricted form

htejun · axboe · commit 11f81becca04 · 2015-06-02T08:33:33.000-06:00
cancel_dirty_page() had some issues and b9ea251 ("page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page()") replaced it with account_page_cleaned() which makes the caller responsible for clearing the dirty bit; unfortunately, the planned changes for cgroup writeback support requires synchronization between dirty bit manipulation and stat updates. While we can open-code such synchronization in each account_page_cleaned() callsite, that's gonna be unnecessarily awkward and verbose. This patch revives cancel_dirty_page() but in a more restricted form. All it does is TestClearPageDirty() followed by account_page_cleaned() invocation if the page was dirty. This helper covers all account_page_cleaned() usages except for __delete_from_page_cache() which is a special case anyway and left alone. As this leaves no module user for account_page_cleaned(), EXPORT_SYMBOL() is dropped from it. This patch just revives cancel_dirty_page() as a trivial wrapper to replace equivalent usages and doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h
@@ -55,9 +55,7 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 	if (PagePrivate(page))
 		page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
 
-	if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
-		account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
-
+	cancel_dirty_page(page);
 	ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
 	ll_delete_from_page_cache(page);
 }
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3232,8 +3232,8 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
 	 * to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the
 	 * dirty bit from being lost.
 	 */
-	if (ret && TestClearPageDirty(page))
-		account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
+	if (ret)
+		cancel_dirty_page(page);
 	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 out:
 	if (buffers_to_free) {
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1215,6 +1215,7 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
 void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
+void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page);
 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page);
 
 int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2112,12 +2112,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
 
 /*
  * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback.
- *
- * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page
- * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However,
- * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned
- * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through
- * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
  */
 void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
 {
@@ -2127,7 +2121,6 @@ void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
 		task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
 	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_cleaned);
 
 /*
  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers.  Just tag the page as dirty in
@@ -2265,6 +2258,26 @@ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
 
+/*
+ * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it does NOT
+ * actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be around. It also
+ * leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync activity will still find it on
+ * the dirty lists, and in particular, clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still
+ * look at the dirty bits in the VM.
+ *
+ * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page is truncated,
+ * and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, fs/buffer.c does
+ * this when it notices that somebody has cleaned out all the buffers on a
+ * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is
+ * horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
+ */
+void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
+		account_page_cleaned(page, page_mapping(page));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page);
+
 /*
  * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
  * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 	 * the VM has canceled the dirty bit (eg ext3 journaling).
 	 * Hence dirty accounting check is placed after invalidation.
 	 */
-	if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
-		account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
-
+	cancel_dirty_page(page);
 	ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
 	delete_from_page_cache(page);
 	return 0;
