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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:46:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:46:07 -0700
commit094803e0aab3fe75bbf8202a8f4b5280eaade375 (patch)
tree278528ca9245a767fcfcfa97d977bd5714c082fd /mm/page-writeback.c
parent32087d4eeca14b82660dab288b1d659963b954bd (diff)
parentd8805e633e054c816c47cb6e727c81f156d9253d (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)
Quoth Andrew: - Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their butts and review some threaded hugepages patches. - alpha - vfs bits - drivers/misc - a few core kerenl tweaks - printk() features - MAINTAINERS updates - backlight merge - leds merge - various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates * akpm: (127 commits) epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above() lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set() drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0e309cd1b5b..793e9874de5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -305,7 +305,9 @@ static unsigned long task_min_dirty_limit(unsigned long bdi_dirty)
}
/*
- *
+ * bdi_min_ratio keeps the sum of the minimum dirty shares of all
+ * registered backing devices, which, for obvious reasons, can not
+ * exceed 100%.
*/
static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;