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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 02:39:39 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 02:39:39 -0700 |
commit | 49997d75152b3d23c53b0fa730599f2f74c92c65 (patch) | |
tree | 46e93126170d02cfec9505172e545732c1b69656 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
parent | a0c80b80e0fb48129e4e9d6a9ede914f9ff1850d (diff) | |
parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
drivers/atm/Makefile
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
net/8021q/vlan.c
net/iucv/iucv.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 789b6adbef3..94c6d8988ab 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages); static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions; static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties; -static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void); - /* * couple the period to the dirty_ratio: * @@ -347,7 +345,13 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total) #endif } -static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) +/** + * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used + * + * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used + * by the kernel for direct mappings. + */ +unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) { unsigned long x; @@ -956,6 +960,9 @@ retry: } if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0)) mapping->writeback_index = index; + + if (wbc->range_cont) + wbc->range_start = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages); |