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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-14 14:49:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-14 14:49:54 -0700 |
| commit | e18425a0abc8eafa8e98ecffac517bb0c0904f4b (patch) | |
| tree | 5eb743e7201850de19496183554bb34c766948c4 /mm | |
| parent | Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-e18425a0abc8eafa8e98ecffac517bb0c0904f4b.tar.xz linux-dev-e18425a0abc8eafa8e98ecffac517bb0c0904f4b.zip | |
Merge branch 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (228 commits)
ftrace: build fix for ftraced_suspend
ftrace: separate out the function enabled variable
ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
ftrace: use current CPU for function startup
ftrace: start wakeup tracing after setting function tracer
ftrace: check proper config for preempt type
ftrace: trace schedule
ftrace: define function trace nop
ftrace: move sched_switch enable after markers
ftrace: prevent ftrace modifications while being kprobe'd, v2
fix "ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip"
mmiotrace broken in linux-next (8-bit writes only)
ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
kprobes: enable clean usage of get_kprobe
ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
ftrace: build fix with gcc 4.3
namespacecheck: fixes
ftrace: fix "notrace" filtering priority
ftrace: fix printout
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 789b6adbef37..b38f700825fc 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; |