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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-02-28 20:13:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-01 14:53:38 -0800
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[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside. But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout. So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some memory, then return. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0655d5fe73e8..db023e2ff385 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
}
}
- throttle_vm_writeout();
+ throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress);
return nr_reclaimed;