The patch titled
writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix.patch
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Subject: writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> + * Provide a global safety margin of ~1%, or up to 32MB for a 20GB box.
> + */
> + dirty -= min(dirty / 128, 32768ULL >> (PAGE_SHIFT-10));
/home/wfg/cc/linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c: In function `bdi_dirty_limit':
/home/wfg/cc/linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c:464:133: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
Sorry, here is the fixed version.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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~writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix mm/page-writeback.c
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct bac
/*
* Provide a global safety margin of ~1%, or up to 32MB for a 20GB box.
*/
- dirty -= min(dirty / 128, 32768ULL >> (PAGE_SHIFT-10));
+ dirty -= min(dirty / 128, 32768UL >> (PAGE_SHIFT-10));
/*
* Calculate this BDI's share of the dirty ratio.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
writeback-integrated-background-writeback-work.patch
writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback.patch
writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works.patch
writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update.patch
writeback-avoid-livelocking-wb_sync_all-writeback.patch
writeback-avoid-livelocking-wb_sync_all-writeback-update.patch
writeback-check-skipped-pages-on-wb_sync_all.patch
writeback-check-skipped-pages-on-wb_sync_all-update.patch
writeback-check-skipped-pages-on-wb_sync_all-update-fix.patch
writeback-io-less-balance_dirty_pages.patch
writeback-consolidate-variable-names-in-balance_dirty_pages.patch
writeback-per-task-rate-limit-on-balance_dirty_pages.patch
writeback-per-task-rate-limit-on-balance_dirty_pages-fix.patch
writeback-prevent-duplicate-balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited-calls.patch
writeback-account-per-bdi-accumulated-written-pages.patch
writeback-bdi-write-bandwidth-estimation.patch
writeback-bdi-write-bandwidth-estimation-fix.patch
writeback-show-bdi-write-bandwidth-in-debugfs.patch
writeback-quit-throttling-when-bdi-dirty-pages-dropped-low.patch
writeback-reduce-per-bdi-dirty-threshold-ramp-up-time.patch
writeback-make-reasonable-gap-between-the-dirty-background-thresholds.patch
writeback-scale-down-max-throttle-bandwidth-on-concurrent-dirtiers.patch
writeback-add-trace-event-for-balance_dirty_pages.patch
writeback-make-nr_to_write-a-per-file-limit.patch
writeback-make-nr_to_write-a-per-file-limit-fix.patch
writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi.patch
writeback-enabling-gate-for-light-dirtied-bdi-fix.patch
writeback-safety-margin-for-bdi-stat-error.patch
mm-page-writebackc-fix-__set_page_dirty_no_writeback-return-value.patch
mm-find_get_pages_contig-fixlet.patch
mm-smaps-export-mlock-information.patch
memcg-add-page_cgroup-flags-for-dirty-page-tracking.patch
memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces.patch
memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces-fix.patch
memcg-create-extensible-page-stat-update-routines.patch
memcg-add-lock-to-synchronize-page-accounting-and-migration.patch
memcg-use-zalloc-rather-than-mallocmemset.patch
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