The patch titled Subject: writeback: fix initial dirty limit has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Subject: writeback: fix initial dirty limit The initial value of global_wb_domain.dirty_limit set by writeback_set_ratelimit() is zeroed out by the memset in wb_domain_init(). Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2063,10 +2063,10 @@ static struct notifier_block ratelimit_n */ void __init page_writeback_init(void) { + BUG_ON(wb_domain_init(&global_wb_domain, GFP_KERNEL)); + writeback_set_ratelimit(); register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); - - BUG_ON(wb_domain_init(&global_wb_domain, GFP_KERNEL)); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxx are writeback-fix-initial-dirty-limit.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html