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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2006-09-25 23:30:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700 |
| commit | edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f (patch) | |
| tree | c1120bebede9660ab00f9439aa7a84ab9434ac38 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | d08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f.tar.gz lwn-edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index fa941b169071..dd7d7fc5ed60 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; |