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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2009-03-31 15:23:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700
commit704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f (patch)
tree218bea088f0b286981221e44d5247dab98020d30 /include/linux
parent6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 (diff)
mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838 On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange way from the user's point of view: # echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs # cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 499 So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported back. TICK_NSEC = 999848 ACTHZ = 256039 Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 7300ecdc480..93445477f86 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ extern int dirty_background_ratio;
extern unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
extern unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
-extern int dirty_writeback_interval;
-extern int dirty_expire_interval;
+extern unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval;
+extern unsigned int dirty_expire_interval;
extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
extern int block_dump;
extern int laptop_mode;