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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2006-09-25 23:30:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700
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[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them. Avoids OOM by surprise. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 1c87430b7a25..b9f4c6f1be86 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -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