The patch titled mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches-fix.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches fix From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> You'll also need the following since vm_dirty_bytes is declared as an unsigned long. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches-fix mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches-fix +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - int old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; + unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; int ret; ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches.patch mm-fix-dirty_bytes-dirty_background_bytes-sysctls-on-64bit-arches-fix.patch oom_kill-dont-call-for-int_sqrt0.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.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