Commit edc79b2a authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages

Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.  Avoids OOM
by surprise.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent d08b3851
......@@ -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
......
......@@ -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;
......
......@@ -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
......
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