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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000 |
| commit | fcdcc79628a1919bde9acf239e364f65bab6327c (patch) | |
| tree | 5499be387cf3028c90ac083b1cf866ebed7bf7e0 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 7a8d44bc89e5cddcd5c0704a11a90484d36ba6ba (diff) | |
| parent | a0a90718f18264dc904d34a580f332006f5561e9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'topic/acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-pxa2xx
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 2c90357c34ea..6fe7d15bd1f7 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * mm/page-writeback.c * * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com> + * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra * * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the * address_space level. @@ -278,7 +278,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone) unsigned long nr_pages; nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); - nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); @@ -332,7 +337,12 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) unsigned long x; x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES); - x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + x -= min(x, totalreserve_pages); x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE); x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE); @@ -1542,7 +1552,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, for (;;) { unsigned long now = jiffies; unsigned long dirty, thresh, bg_thresh; - unsigned long m_dirty, m_thresh, m_bg_thresh; + unsigned long m_dirty = 0; /* stop bogus uninit warnings */ + unsigned long m_thresh = 0; + unsigned long m_bg_thresh = 0; /* * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked |