writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE

The only use of I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE is to detect in __writeback_single_inode() that inode got there because flush worker decided it's time to writeback the dirty inode time stamps (either because we are syncing or because of age). However we can detect this directly in __writeback_single_inode() and there's no need for the strange propagation with I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE flag. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
jaegeuk · Jun 24, 2020 · c20a5c8 · c20a5c8
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4887,7 +4887,7 @@ static void __ext4_update_other_inode_time(struct super_block *sb,
 	    (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)) {
 		struct ext4_inode_info	*ei = EXT4_I(inode);
 
-		inode->i_state &= ~(I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED);
+		inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 
 		spin_lock(&ei->i_raw_lock);

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ static bool inode_dirtied_after(struct inode *inode, unsigned long t)
  */
 static int move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue,
 			       struct list_head *dispatch_queue,
-			       int flags, unsigned long dirtied_before)
+			       unsigned long dirtied_before)
 {
 	LIST_HEAD(tmp);
 	struct list_head *pos, *node;
@@ -1254,8 +1254,6 @@ static int move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue,
 		list_move(&inode->i_io_list, &tmp);
 		moved++;
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-		if (flags & EXPIRE_DIRTY_ATIME)
-			inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED;
 		inode->i_state |= I_SYNC_QUEUED;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		if (sb_is_blkdev_sb(inode->i_sb))
@@ -1303,11 +1301,11 @@ static void queue_io(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct wb_writeback_work *work,
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&wb->list_lock);
 	list_splice_init(&wb->b_more_io, &wb->b_io);
-	moved = move_expired_inodes(&wb->b_dirty, &wb->b_io, 0, dirtied_before);
+	moved = move_expired_inodes(&wb->b_dirty, &wb->b_io, dirtied_before);
 	if (!work->for_sync)
 		time_expire_jif = jiffies - dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ;
 	moved += move_expired_inodes(&wb->b_dirty_time, &wb->b_io,
-				     EXPIRE_DIRTY_ATIME, time_expire_jif);
+				     time_expire_jif);
 	if (moved)
 		wb_io_lists_populated(wb);
 	trace_writeback_queue_io(wb, work, dirtied_before, moved);
@@ -1483,18 +1481,14 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 
 	dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY;
-	if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
-		if ((dirty & I_DIRTY_INODE) ||
-		    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ||
-		    unlikely(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED) ||
-		    unlikely(time_after(jiffies,
-					(inode->dirtied_time_when +
-					 dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ)))) {
-			dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED;
-			trace_writeback_lazytime(inode);
-		}
-	} else
-		inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED;
+	if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) &&
+	    ((dirty & I_DIRTY_INODE) ||
+	     wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync ||
+	     time_after(jiffies, inode->dirtied_time_when +
+			dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ))) {
+		dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME;
+		trace_writeback_lazytime(inode);
+	}
 	inode->i_state &= ~dirty;
 
 	/*

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ xfs_trans_log_inode(
 	 * to log the timestamps, or will clear already cleared fields in the
 	 * worst case.
 	 */
-	if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED)) {
+	if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-		inode->i_state &= ~(I_DIRTY_TIME | I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED);
+		inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	}
 

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2178,7 +2178,6 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
 #define I_DIO_WAKEUP		(1 << __I_DIO_WAKEUP)
 #define I_LINKABLE		(1 << 10)
 #define I_DIRTY_TIME		(1 << 11)
-#define I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED	(1 << 12)
 #define I_WB_SWITCH		(1 << 13)
 #define I_OVL_INUSE		(1 << 14)
 #define I_CREATING		(1 << 15)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 		{I_CLEAR,		"I_CLEAR"},		\
 		{I_SYNC,		"I_SYNC"},		\
 		{I_DIRTY_TIME,		"I_DIRTY_TIME"},	\
-		{I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED,	"I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED"}, \
 		{I_REFERENCED,		"I_REFERENCED"}		\
 	)