Patch "writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     writeback-rework-wb__stat-family-of-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3e8f399da490e6ac20a3cfd6aa404c9aa961a9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:37:51 -0700
Subject: writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions

From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

commit 3e8f399da490e6ac20a3cfd6aa404c9aa961a9a2 upstream.

Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/fs-writeback.c           |    8 ++++----
 include/linux/backing-dev.h |   24 ++----------------------
 lib/percpu_counter.c        |    7 +++++++
 mm/page-writeback.c         |   10 +++++-----
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs_work_fn(str
 		struct page *page = radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(slot,
 							&mapping->tree_lock);
 		if (likely(page) && PageDirty(page)) {
-			__dec_wb_stat(old_wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
-			__inc_wb_stat(new_wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
+			dec_wb_stat(old_wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
+			inc_wb_stat(new_wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -391,8 +391,8 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs_work_fn(str
 							&mapping->tree_lock);
 		if (likely(page)) {
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageWriteback(page));
-			__dec_wb_stat(old_wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
-			__inc_wb_stat(new_wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
+			dec_wb_stat(old_wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
+			inc_wb_stat(new_wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
 		}
 	}
 
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -69,34 +69,14 @@ static inline void __add_wb_stat(struct
 	percpu_counter_add_batch(&wb->stat[item], amount, WB_STAT_BATCH);
 }
 
-static inline void __inc_wb_stat(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
-				 enum wb_stat_item item)
-{
-	__add_wb_stat(wb, item, 1);
-}
-
 static inline void inc_wb_stat(struct bdi_writeback *wb, enum wb_stat_item item)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	__inc_wb_stat(wb, item);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
-}
-
-static inline void __dec_wb_stat(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
-				 enum wb_stat_item item)
-{
-	__add_wb_stat(wb, item, -1);
+	__add_wb_stat(wb, item, 1);
 }
 
 static inline void dec_wb_stat(struct bdi_writeback *wb, enum wb_stat_item item)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	__dec_wb_stat(wb, item);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	__add_wb_stat(wb, item, -1);
 }
 
 static inline s64 wb_stat(struct bdi_writeback *wb, enum wb_stat_item item)
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ void percpu_counter_set(struct percpu_co
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_set);
 
+/**
+ * This function is both preempt and irq safe. The former is due to explicit
+ * preemption disable. The latter is guaranteed by the fact that the slow path
+ * is explicitly protected by an irq-safe spinlock whereas the fast patch uses
+ * this_cpu_add which is irq-safe by definition. Hence there is no need muck
+ * with irq state before calling this one
+ */
 void percpu_counter_add_batch(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount, s32 batch)
 {
 	s64 count;
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static inline void __wb_writeout_inc(str
 {
 	struct wb_domain *cgdom;
 
-	__inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITTEN);
+	inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITTEN);
 	wb_domain_writeout_inc(&global_wb_domain, &wb->completions,
 			       wb->bdi->max_prop_frac);
 
@@ -2437,8 +2437,8 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *p
 		__inc_node_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 		__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
 		__inc_node_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
-		__inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
-		__inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED);
+		inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
+		inc_wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED);
 		task_io_account_write(PAGE_SIZE);
 		current->nr_dirtied++;
 		this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits);
@@ -2745,7 +2745,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct pag
 			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi)) {
 				struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_to_wb(inode);
 
-				__dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
+				dec_wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK);
 				__wb_writeout_inc(wb);
 			}
 		}
@@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct pag
 						page_index(page),
 						PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
 			if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
-				__inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode), WB_WRITEBACK);
+				inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode), WB_WRITEBACK);
 
 			/*
 			 * We can come through here when swapping anonymous


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nborisov@suse.com are

queue-4.12/percpu_counter-rename-__percpu_counter_add-to-percpu_counter_add_batch.patch
queue-4.12/writeback-rework-wb__stat-family-of-functions.patch