From edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:30:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages

Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.  Avoids OOM
by surprise.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 1c87430b7a2..b9f4c6f1be8 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -244,6 +244,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
 		pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
 }
 
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+		if (mapping)
+			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
-- 
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