mm: revert "page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory"
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:20:49 +0000 (14:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:57:23 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
commit72457c0a05ed06f978d3a8a7c9d5ad527db88b4c
tree649869a49b7eb64b90b0e6e74ca43f3cd1b01983
parent81c0a2bb515fd4daae8cab64352877480792b515
mm: revert "page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory"

This reverts commit 75f7ad8e043d.  It was the result of a problem
observed with a 3.2 kernel and merged in 3.9, while the issue had been
resolved upstream in 3.3 (commit ab8fabd46f81: "mm: exclude reserved
pages from dirtyable memory").

The "reserved pages" are a superset of min_free_kbytes, thus this change
is redundant and confusing.  Revert it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page-writeback.c