/* * This file is part of UBIFS. * * Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by * the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for * more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 * Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA * * Authors: Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) * Adrian Hunter */ /* * This file implements UBIFS shrinker which evicts clean znodes from the TNC * tree when Linux VM needs more RAM. * * We do not implement any LRU lists to find oldest znodes to free because it * would add additional overhead to the file system fast paths. So the shrinker * just walks the TNC tree when searching for znodes to free. * * If the root of a TNC sub-tree is clean and old enough, then the children are * also clean and old enough. So the shrinker walks the TNC in level order and * dumps entire sub-trees. * * The age of znodes is just the time-stamp when they were last looked at. * The current shrinker first tries to evict old znodes, then young ones. * * Since the shrinker is global, it has to protect against races with FS * un-mounts, which is done by the 'ubifs_infos_lock' and 'c->umount_mutex'. */ #include "ubifs.h" /* List of all UBIFS file-system instances */ LIST_HEAD(ubifs_infos); /* * We number each shrinker run and record the number on the ubifs_info structure * so that we can easily work out which ubifs_info structures have already been * done by the current run. */ static unsigned int shrinker_run_no; /* Protects 'ubifs_infos' list */ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubifs_infos_lock); /* Global clean znode counter (for all mounted UBIFS instances) */ atomic_long_t ubifs_clean_zn_cnt; /** * shrink_tnc - shrink TNC tree. * @c: UBIFS file-system description object * @nr: number of znodes to free * @age: the age of znodes to free * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1 * * This function traverses TNC tree and frees clean znodes. It does not free * clean znodes which younger then @age. Returns number of freed znodes. */ static int shrink_tnc(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr, int age, int *contention) { int total_freed = 0; struct ubifs_znode *znode, *zprev; int time = get_seconds(); ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&c->umount_mutex)); ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&c->tnc_mutex)); if (!c->zroot.znode || atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) == 0) return 0; /* * Traverse the TNC tree in levelorder manner, so that it is possible * to destroy large sub-trees. Indeed, if a znode is old, then all its * children are older or of the same age. * * Note, we are holding 'c->tnc_mutex', so we do not have to lock the * 'c->space_lock' when _reading_ 'c->clean_zn_cnt', because it is * changed only when the 'c->tnc_mutex' is held. */ zprev = NULL; znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c->zroot.znode, NULL); while (znode && total_freed < nr && atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) > 0) { int freed; /* * If the znode is clean, but it is in the 'c->cnext' list, this * means that this znode has just been written to flash as a * part of commit and was marked clean. They will be removed * from the list at end commit. We cannot change the list, * because it is not protected by any mutex (design decision to * make commit really independent and parallel to main I/O). So * we just skip these znodes. * * Note, the 'clean_zn_cnt' counters are not updated until * after the commit, so the UBIFS shrinker does not report * the znodes which are in the 'c->cnext' list as freeable. * * Also note, if the root of a sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext', * then the whole sub-tree is not in 'c->cnext' as well, so it * is safe to dump whole sub-tree. */ if (znode->cnext) { /* * Very soon these znodes will be removed from the list * and become freeable. */ *contention = 1; } else if (!ubifs_zn_dirty(znode) && abs(time - znode->time) >= age) { if (znode->parent) znode->parent->zbranch[znode->iip].znode = NULL; else c->zroot.znode = NULL; freed = ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree(znode); atomic_long_sub(freed, &ubifs_clean_zn_cnt); atomic_long_sub(freed, &c->clean_zn_cnt); ubifs_assert(atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt) >= 0); total_freed += freed; znode = zprev; } if (unlikely(!c->zroot.znode)) break; zprev = znode; znode = ubifs_tnc_levelorder_next(c->zroot.znode, znode); cond_resched(); } return total_freed; } /** * shrink_tnc_trees - shrink UBIFS TNC trees. * @nr: number of znodes to free * @age: the age of znodes to free * @contention: if any contention, this is set to %1 * * This function walks the list of mounted UBIFS file-systems and frees clean * znodes which are older than @age, until at least @nr znodes are freed. * Returns the number of freed znodes. */ static int shrink_tnc_trees(int nr, int age, int *contention) { struct ubifs_info *c; struct list_head *p; unsigned int run_no; int freed = 0; spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock); do { run_no = ++shrinker_run_no; } while (run_no == 0); /* Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and try to shrink them */ p = ubifs_infos.next; while (p != &ubifs_infos) { c = list_entry(p, struct ubifs_info, infos_list); /* * We move the ones we do to the end of the list, so we stop * when we see one we have already done. */ if (c->shrinker_run_no == run_no) break; if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) { /* Some un-mount is in progress, try next FS */ *contention = 1; p = p->next; continue; } /* * We're holding 'c->umount_mutex', so the file-system won't go * away. */ if (!mutex_trylock(&c->tnc_mutex)) { mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); *contention = 1; p = p->next; continue; } spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); /* * OK, now we have TNC locked, the file-system cannot go away - * it is safe to reap the cache. */ c->shrinker_run_no = run_no; freed += shrink_tnc(c, nr, age, contention); mutex_unlock(&c->tnc_mutex); spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock); /* Get the next list element before we move this one */ p = p->next; /* * Move this one to the end of the list to provide some * fairness. */ list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos); mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); if (freed >= nr) break; } spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); return freed; } /** * kick_a_thread - kick a background thread to start commit. * * This function kicks a background thread to start background commit. Returns * %-1 if a thread was kicked or there is another reason to assume the memory * will soon be freed or become freeable. If there are no dirty znodes, returns * %0. */ static int kick_a_thread(void) { int i; struct ubifs_info *c; /* * Iterate over all mounted UBIFS file-systems and find out if there is * already an ongoing commit operation there. If no, then iterate for * the second time and initiate background commit. */ spin_lock(&ubifs_infos_lock); for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { list_for_each_entry(c, &ubifs_infos, infos_list) { long dirty_zn_cnt; if (!mutex_trylock(&c->umount_mutex)) { /* * Some un-mount is in progress, it will * certainly free memory, so just return. */ spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); return -1; } dirty_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&c->dirty_zn_cnt); if (!dirty_zn_cnt || c->cmt_state == COMMIT_BROKEN || c->ro_mount || c->ro_error) { mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); continue; } if (c->cmt_state != COMMIT_RESTING) { spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); return -1; } if (i == 1) { list_move_tail(&c->infos_list, &ubifs_infos); spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); ubifs_request_bg_commit(c); mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); return -1; } mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); } } spin_unlock(&ubifs_infos_lock); return 0; } int ubifs_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc) { int nr = sc->nr_to_scan; int freed, contention = 0; long clean_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt); if (nr == 0) /* * Due to the way UBIFS updates the clean znode counter it may * temporarily be negative. */ return clean_zn_cnt >= 0 ? clean_zn_cnt : 1; if (!clean_zn_cnt) { /* * No clean znodes, nothing to reap. All we can do in this case * is to kick background threads to start commit, which will * probably make clean znodes which, in turn, will be freeable. * And we return -1 which means will make VM call us again * later. */ dbg_tnc("no clean znodes, kick a thread"); return kick_a_thread(); } freed = shrink_tnc_trees(nr, OLD_ZNODE_AGE, &contention); if (freed >= nr) goto out; dbg_tnc("not enough old znodes, try to free young ones"); freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, YOUNG_ZNODE_AGE, &contention); if (freed >= nr) goto out; dbg_tnc("not enough young znodes, free all"); freed += shrink_tnc_trees(nr - freed, 0, &contention); if (!freed && contention) { dbg_tnc("freed nothing, but contention"); return -1; } out: dbg_tnc("%d znodes were freed, requested %d", freed, nr); return freed; }