writeback: set worker desc to identify writeback workers in task dumps

Writeback has been recently converted to use workqueue instead of its
private thread pool implementation.  One negative side effect of this
conversion is that there's no easy to tell which backing device a
writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, be it
sysrq-t, BUG, WARN or whatever, which, according to our writeback
brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted
file systems on a lot of different devices.

This patch restores that information using the new worker description
facility.  bdi_writeback_workfn() calls set_work_desc() to identify
which bdi it's working on.  The description is printed out together with
the worqueue name and worker function as in the following example dump.

 WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0()
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 28, comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 empty empty/S3992
 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16)
  ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8
  ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0
  ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [<ffffffff81200144>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0
  [<ffffffff810b4c87>] process_one_work+0x1d7/0x660
  [<ffffffff810b5c72>] worker_thread+0x122/0x380
  [<ffffffff810bdfea>] kthread+0xea/0xf0
  [<ffffffff81c6cedc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 21f46fb3a10193a966c18879c5bea794fd9a494e..798d4458a4d3a5798a7b04858d82a5f031849bab 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data)
        struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
        long pages_written;
 
+       set_worker_desc("flush-%s", dev_name(bdi->dev));
        current->flags |= PF_SWAPWRITE;
        set_freezable();
        wb->last_active = jiffies;