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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 830893b2b3c7..0713bfbf0954 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -201,6 +201,18 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total) zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve; } /* + * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory + * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below + * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation + * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes + * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more + * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never + * underflows. + */ + if ((long)x < 0) + x = 0; + + /* * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure @@ -222,8 +234,8 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) { unsigned long x; - x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages() - - dirty_balance_reserve; + x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages(); + x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable) x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); @@ -290,9 +302,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone) * highmem zone can hold its share of dirty pages, so we don't * care about vm_highmem_is_dirtyable here. */ - return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) + - zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) - - zone->dirty_balance_reserve; + unsigned long nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) + + zone_reclaimable_pages(zone); + + /* don't allow this to underflow */ + nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); + return nr_pages; } /** @@ -1069,7 +1084,7 @@ static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, } /* - * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() + * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling. * * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive @@ -1436,9 +1451,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; /** - * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state + * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied - * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied * * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's @@ -1449,8 +1463,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each. */ -void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, - unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied) +void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) { struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; int ratelimit; @@ -1484,6 +1497,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, */ p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks); if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) { + unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied; nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied); *p -= nr_pages_dirtied; current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied; @@ -1493,7 +1507,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) { |