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mm: set_page_dirty_balance() vs ->page_mkwrite()

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All the current page_mkwrite() implementations also set the page dirty. Which
results in the set_page_dirty_balance() call to _not_ call balance, because the
page is already found dirty.

This allows us to dirty a _lot_ of pages without ever hitting
balance_dirty_pages().  Not good (tm).

Force a balance call if ->page_mkwrite() was successful.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-08 18:54:37 +02:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3eb215de26
commit a200ee182a
3 changed files with 10 additions and 5 deletions
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include/linux/writeback.h
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@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite);
void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
/* pdflush.c */