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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-03-31 15:23:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700 |
| commit | 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f (patch) | |
| tree | 218bea088f0b286981221e44d5247dab98020d30 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f.tar.gz lwn-704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f.zip | |
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 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 6aa92b03c747..30351f0063ac 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -92,14 +92,14 @@ int vm_dirty_ratio = 20; unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes; /* - * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies + * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks */ -int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ; +unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ /* - * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty + * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty */ -int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ; +unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ /* * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings. @@ -770,9 +770,9 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) sync_supers(); - oldest_jif = jiffies - dirty_expire_interval; + oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval); start_jif = jiffies; - next_jif = start_jif + dirty_writeback_interval; + next_jif = start_jif + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10); nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused); @@ -801,9 +801,10 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { - proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos); + proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos); if (dirty_writeback_interval) - mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval); + mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10)); else del_timer(&wb_timer); return 0; @@ -905,7 +906,8 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) { int shift; - mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval); + mod_timer(&wb_timer, + jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10)); writeback_set_ratelimit(); register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); |