From 75f7ad8e043d9383337d917584297f7737154bbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Szabo Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:34:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages. Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/695182 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warning] Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++ kernel/sysctl.c | 1 - mm/huge_memory.c | 1 - mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 1d4122b..437da0c 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1393,6 +1393,9 @@ extern void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void); extern void zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone); extern void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone); +/* page_alloc.c */ +extern int min_free_kbytes; + /* nommu.c */ extern atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated; extern int nommu_shrink_inode_mappings(struct inode *, size_t, size_t); diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 467d8b9..95e9e55 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ extern char core_pattern[]; extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit; #endif extern int pid_max; -extern int min_free_kbytes; extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; extern int sysctl_drop_caches; extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction; diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index b1cc659..c63a21d 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ static int set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void) struct zone *zone; int nr_zones = 0; unsigned long recommended_min; - extern int min_free_kbytes; if (!khugepaged_enabled()) return 0; diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 7300c9d..cdc377c 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable) x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); + /* Subtract min_free_kbytes */ + x -= min_t(unsigned long, x, min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)); + return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */ } -- 2.7.4