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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-10 11:43:00 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-10 11:43:00 +0200
commitbac0c9103b31c3dd83ad9d731dd9834e2ba75e4f (patch)
tree702dd6a7ce06d224d594c2293af546b11ac9f51b /mm
parent6329d3021bcfa9038621e6e917d98929421d8ec8 (diff)
parent98a05ed4bd7774f533ab185fe0bf2fdc58292d7c (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into auto-ftrace-next
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 789b6adbef37..b38f700825fc 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
-static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void);
-
/*
* couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
*
@@ -347,7 +345,13 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
#endif
}
-static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
+/**
+ * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
+ *
+ * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
+ * by the kernel for direct mappings.
+ */
+unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
{
unsigned long x;