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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 945559fb63d2..893d7677579e 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ int vm_dirty_ratio = 40;
* The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in centiseconds
* (hundredths of a second)
*/
-int dirty_writeback_centisecs = 5 * 100;
+int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ;
/*
* The longest number of centiseconds for which data is allowed to remain dirty
*/
-int dirty_expire_centisecs = 30 * 100;
+int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ;
/*
* Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings.
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ int dirty_expire_centisecs = 30 * 100;
int block_dump;
/*
- * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode".
+ * Flag that puts the machine in "laptop mode". Doubles as a timeout in jiffies:
+ * a full sync is triggered after this time elapses without any disk activity.
*/
int laptop_mode;
@@ -255,8 +256,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
}
/**
- * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state
+ * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
* @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
+ * @nr_pages: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
*
* Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
* which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
@@ -267,10 +269,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
* limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
* from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
*/
-void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
+void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
+ unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
{
- static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, ratelimits) = 0;
- long ratelimit;
+ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits) = 0;
+ unsigned long ratelimit;
+ unsigned long *p;
ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
if (dirty_exceeded)
@@ -280,15 +284,18 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
* Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
* tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
*/
- if (get_cpu_var(ratelimits)++ >= ratelimit) {
- __get_cpu_var(ratelimits) = 0;
- put_cpu_var(ratelimits);
+ preempt_disable();
+ p = &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
+ *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
+ if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
+ *p = 0;
+ preempt_enable();
balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
return;
}
- put_cpu_var(ratelimits);
+ preempt_enable();
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
{
@@ -380,8 +387,8 @@ static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
* just walks the superblock inode list, writing back any inodes which are
* older than a specific point in time.
*
- * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_centisecs. But if a writeback event
- * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_centisecs interval, then leave a
+ * Try to run once per dirty_writeback_interval. But if a writeback event
+ * takes longer than a dirty_writeback_interval interval, then leave a
* one-second gap.
*
* older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write. So we'll only write back
@@ -406,9 +413,9 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
sync_supers();
get_writeback_state(&wbs);
- oldest_jif = jiffies - (dirty_expire_centisecs * HZ) / 100;
+ oldest_jif = jiffies - dirty_expire_interval;
start_jif = jiffies;
- next_jif = start_jif + (dirty_writeback_centisecs * HZ) / 100;
+ next_jif = start_jif + dirty_writeback_interval;
nr_to_write = wbs.nr_dirty + wbs.nr_unstable +
(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
while (nr_to_write > 0) {
@@ -425,7 +432,7 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
}
if (time_before(next_jif, jiffies + HZ))
next_jif = jiffies + HZ;
- if (dirty_writeback_centisecs)
+ if (dirty_writeback_interval)
mod_timer(&wb_timer, next_jif);
}
@@ -435,11 +442,11 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
- proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
- if (dirty_writeback_centisecs) {
+ proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
+ if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
mod_timer(&wb_timer,
- jiffies + (dirty_writeback_centisecs * HZ) / 100);
- } else {
+ jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
+ } else {
del_timer(&wb_timer);
}
return 0;
@@ -468,7 +475,7 @@ static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
*/
void laptop_io_completion(void)
{
- mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode * HZ);
+ mod_timer(&laptop_mode_wb_timer, jiffies + laptop_mode);
}
/*
@@ -544,7 +551,7 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void)
if (vm_dirty_ratio <= 0)
vm_dirty_ratio = 1;
}
- mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + (dirty_writeback_centisecs * HZ) / 100);
+ mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
set_ratelimit();
register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
}
@@ -621,8 +628,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
*/
int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
struct address_space *mapping2;
@@ -644,8 +649,9 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
I_DIRTY_PAGES);
}
}
+ return 1;
}
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
@@ -675,8 +681,10 @@ int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
return (*spd)(page);
return __set_page_dirty_buffers(page);
}
- if (!PageDirty(page))
- SetPageDirty(page);
+ if (!PageDirty(page)) {
+ if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
+ return 1;
+ }
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);