From 75f7ad8e043d9383337d917584297f7737154bbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Szabo Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:34:42 -0800 Subject: page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages. Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/695182 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warning] Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 7300c9d5e1d9..cdc377c456c0 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable) x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x); + /* Subtract min_free_kbytes */ + x -= min_t(unsigned long, x, min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)); + return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */ } -- cgit v1.2.3