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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2006-09-25 23:30:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700
commitedc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f (patch)
treec1120bebede9660ab00f9439aa7a84ab9434ac38
parentd08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them. Avoids OOM by surprise. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c5
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c10
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 0422036af4e..56a23a0e7f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
/* pdflush.c */
extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index fa941b16907..dd7d7fc5ed6 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1571,7 +1572,7 @@ gotten:
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
if (dirty_page) {
- set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+ set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
put_page(dirty_page);
}
return ret;
@@ -2218,7 +2219,7 @@ retry:
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
if (dirty_page) {
- set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+ set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
put_page(dirty_page);
}
return ret;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 1c87430b7a2..b9f4c6f1be8 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -244,6 +244,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
}
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
+{
+ if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
+ struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+ if (mapping)
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
* @mapping: address_space which was dirtied