Merge branch 'akpm' (aka "Andrew's patch-bomb")

Andrew elucidates:
 - First installmeant of MM.  We have a HUGE number of MM patches this
   time.  It's crazy.
 - MAINTAINERS updates
 - backlight updates
 - leds
 - checkpatch updates
 - misc ELF stuff
 - rtc updates
 - reiserfs
 - procfs
 - some misc other bits

* akpm: (124 commits)
  user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces
  workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name
  procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options
  procfs: parse mount options
  procfs: introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory
  procfs: make proc_get_link to use dentry instead of inode
  signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked
  sparc: make SA_NOMASK a synonym of SA_NODEFER
  reiserfs: don't lock root inode searching
  reiserfs: don't lock journal_init()
  reiserfs: delay reiserfs lock until journal initialization
  reiserfs: delete comments referring to the BKL
  drivers/rtc/interface.c: fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range
  drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: add DT support for RTC inside twl4030/twl6030
  drivers/rtc/: remove redundant spi driver bus initialization
  drivers/rtc/rtc-jz4740.c: make jz4740_rtc_driver static
  drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: make mc13xxx_rtc_idtable static
  rtc: convert drivers/rtc/* to use module_platform_driver()
  drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: convert to devm_kzalloc()
  drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: remove unused period IRQ handler
  ...

1 files changed, 186 insertions, 104 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 8616ef3025a4..5cdd4f2b0c9d 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -130,6 +130,191 @@ unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
 static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
 
 /*
+ * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
+ * thresholds.
+ *
+ * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
+ * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
+ * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
+ * performing lots of scanning.
+ *
+ * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
+ *
+ * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
+ * excessive.
+ *
+ * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
+ * clamping level.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
+ * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
+ * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
+ * lowmem and the ability to uphold the zone's watermarks without
+ * requiring writeback.
+ *
+ * This number of dirtyable pages is the base value of which the
+ * user-configurable dirty ratio is the effictive number of pages that
+ * are allowed to be actually dirtied.  Per individual zone, or
+ * globally by using the sum of dirtyable pages over all zones.
+ *
+ * Because the user is allowed to specify the dirty limit globally as
+ * absolute number of bytes, calculating the per-zone dirty limit can
+ * require translating the configured limit into a percentage of
+ * global dirtyable memory first.
+ */
+
+static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+	int node;
+	unsigned long x = 0;
+
+	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
+		struct zone *z =
+			&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
+
+		x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+		     zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
+	 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
+	 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
+	 * that this does not occur.
+	 */
+	return min(x, total);
+#else
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * global_dirtyable_memory - number of globally dirtyable pages
+ *
+ * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
+ * page cache.  This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
+ */
+unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
+{
+	unsigned long x;
+
+	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages() -
+	    dirty_balance_reserve;
+
+	if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
+		x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
+
+	return x + 1;	/* Ensure that we never return 0 */
+}
+
+/*
+ * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
+ *
+ * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
+ * - vm.dirty_background_ratio  or  vm.dirty_background_bytes
+ * - vm.dirty_ratio             or  vm.dirty_bytes
+ * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
+ * real-time tasks.
+ */
+void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
+{
+	unsigned long background;
+	unsigned long dirty;
+	unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
+	struct task_struct *tsk;
+
+	if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
+		available_memory = global_dirtyable_memory();
+
+	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
+		dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
+	else
+		dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+
+	if (dirty_background_bytes)
+		background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
+	else
+		background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+
+	if (background >= dirty)
+		background = dirty / 2;
+	tsk = current;
+	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
+		background += background / 4;
+		dirty += dirty / 4;
+	}
+	*pbackground = background;
+	*pdirty = dirty;
+	trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
+}
+
+/**
+ * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
+ * @zone: the zone
+ *
+ * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
+ * page cache.  This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
+ */
+static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	/*
+	 * The effective global number of dirtyable pages may exclude
+	 * highmem as a big-picture measure to keep the ratio between
+	 * dirty memory and lowmem reasonable.
+	 *
+	 * But this function is purely about the individual zone and a
+	 * highmem zone can hold its share of dirty pages, so we don't
+	 * care about vm_highmem_is_dirtyable here.
+	 */
+	return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+	       zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) -
+	       zone->dirty_balance_reserve;
+}
+
+/**
+ * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
+ * @zone: the zone
+ *
+ * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
+ * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
+ */
+static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone);
+	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+	unsigned long dirty;
+
+	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
+		dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) *
+			zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
+	else
+		dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100;
+
+	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk))
+		dirty += dirty / 4;
+
+	return dirty;
+}
+
+/**
+ * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
+ * @zone: the zone to check
+ *
+ * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
+ * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
+ */
+bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone);
+
+	return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+	       zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
+	       zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit;
+}
+
+/*
  * couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
  *
  *   period/2 ~ roundup_pow_of_two(dirty limit)
@@ -141,7 +326,7 @@ static int calc_period_shift(void)
 	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
 		dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
 	else
-		dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) /
+		dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * global_dirtyable_memory()) /
 				100;
 	return 2 + ilog2(dirty_total - 1);
 }
@@ -196,7 +381,6 @@ int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-
 int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 		loff_t *ppos)
@@ -291,67 +475,6 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
 
-/*
- * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
- * thresholds.
- *
- * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
- * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
- * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
- * performing lots of scanning.
- *
- * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
- *
- * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
- * excessive.
- *
- * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
- * clamping level.
- */
-
-static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	int node;
-	unsigned long x = 0;
-
-	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
-		struct zone *z =
-			&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
-
-		x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
-		     zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
-	}
-	/*
-	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
-	 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
-	 * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
-	 * that this does not occur.
-	 */
-	return min(x, total);
-#else
-	return 0;
-#endif
-}
-
-/**
- * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
- *
- * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
- * by the kernel for direct mappings.
- */
-unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
-{
-	unsigned long x;
-
-	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
-
-	if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
-		x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
-
-	return x + 1;	/* Ensure that we never return 0 */
-}
-
 static unsigned long dirty_freerun_ceiling(unsigned long thresh,
 					   unsigned long bg_thresh)
 {
@@ -363,47 +486,6 @@ static unsigned long hard_dirty_limit(unsigned long thresh)
 	return max(thresh, global_dirty_limit);
 }
 
-/*
- * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
- *
- * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
- * - vm.dirty_background_ratio  or  vm.dirty_background_bytes
- * - vm.dirty_ratio             or  vm.dirty_bytes
- * The dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and
- * real-time tasks.
- */
-void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
-{
-	unsigned long background;
-	unsigned long dirty;
-	unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
-	struct task_struct *tsk;
-
-	if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
-		available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
-
-	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
-		dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
-	else
-		dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
-
-	if (dirty_background_bytes)
-		background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
-	else
-		background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
-
-	if (background >= dirty)
-		background = dirty / 2;
-	tsk = current;
-	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
-		background += background / 4;
-		dirty += dirty / 4;
-	}
-	*pbackground = background;
-	*pdirty = dirty;
-	trace_global_dirty_state(background, dirty);
-}
-
 /**
  * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
  * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query