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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 4b4e29115de6..3ce079e4ed65 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -278,7 +278,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
unsigned long nr_pages;
nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
- nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve);
+ /*
+ * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
+ * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
+ * clean pages in order to balance the zones.
+ */
+ nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages);
nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
@@ -332,7 +337,12 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
unsigned long x;
x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES);
- x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve);
+ /*
+ * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
+ * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
+ * clean pages in order to balance the zones.
+ */
+ x -= min(x, totalreserve_pages);
x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
@@ -1944,6 +1954,12 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
break;
+ /* Try safe version */
+ else if (unlikely(global_page_state_snapshot(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
+ global_page_state_snapshot(NR_WRITEBACK) <=
+ dirty_thresh))
+ break;
+
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
/*
@@ -1978,11 +1994,11 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
* We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
* threshold
*/
- if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
+ if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(q->backing_dev_info))
return;
rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info.wb_list, bdi_node)
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info->wb_list, bdi_node)
if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb))
wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true,
WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);