This bio pool guarantees reclaiming progress for anonymous pages.
All avaliable bio in fs_bio_set may be borrowed by writeback which may
never ends, because disk too slow or broken. I have seen this situation in
real life in system where was a lot of bio requests to a loop device which
laying on top of special fuse-based filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
---
mm/page_io.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 78eee32..699f85e 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
#include <linux/frontswap.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+static struct bio_set *swap_bio_set;
+
static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
struct page *page, bio_end_io_t end_io)
{
struct bio *bio;
- bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, 1);
+ bio = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_flags, 1, swap_bio_set);
if (bio) {
bio->bi_sector = map_swap_page(page, &bio->bi_bdev);
bio->bi_sector <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
@@ -290,3 +292,12 @@ int swap_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
return __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(page);
}
}
+
+static int __init swap_bio_init(void)
+{
+ swap_bio_set = bioset_create(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, 0);
+ if (!swap_bio_set)
+ panic("can't allocate swap_bio_set\n");
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(swap_bio_init);
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