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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 8137482abd6..c689b60af00 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void) int dirty_background_ratio = 5; /* + * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory + * for calculating free ratios if vm_highmem_is_dirtyable is true + */ +int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable; + +/* * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage */ int vm_dirty_ratio = 10; @@ -287,7 +293,10 @@ static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE) + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE); - x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); + + if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable) + x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); + return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */ } |