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Sonny Rao c8b74c2f66 mm: fix calculation of dirtyable memory 
The system uses global_dirtyable_memory() to calculate number of
dirtyable pages/pages that can be allocated to the page cache.  A bug
causes an underflow thus making the page count look like a big unsigned
number.  This in turn confuses the dirty writeback throttling to
aggressively write back pages as they become dirty (usually 1 page at a
time).  This generally only affects systems with highmem because the
underflowed count gets subtracted from the global count of dirtyable
memory.

The problem was introduced with v3.2-4896-gab8fabd

Fix is to ensure we don't get an underflowed total of either highmem or
global dirtyable memory.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 17:40:18 -08:00
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backing-dev.c
Revert "bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads"
2012-12-17 11:29:09 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c
mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
bootmem.c
mm/bootmem.c: remove unused wrapper function reserve_bootmem_generic()
2012-12-12 17:38:35 -08:00
bounce.c
bounce: allow use of bounce pool via config option
2012-07-18 16:40:35 -04:00
cleancache.c
->encode_fh() API change
2012-05-29 23:28:33 -04:00
compaction.c
compaction: fix build error in CMA && !COMPACTION
2012-12-20 17:40:18 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c
dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker
2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
fadvise.c
switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
failslab.c
switch debugfs to umode_t
2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c
mm: move all mmu notifier invocations to be done outside the PT lock
2012-10-09 16:22:58 +09:00
filemap.c
readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection
2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
fremap.c
remap_file_pages: correctly handle the case of a NULL vm_ops pointer
2012-10-19 13:37:57 -07:00
frontswap.c
frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capable
2012-09-21 10:38:12 -04:00
highmem.c
Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for
2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c
mm: fix kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474!
2012-12-16 19:02:38 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hugetlb.c
mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c
memcg: rename config variables
2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c
atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
interval_tree.c
mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option
2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig
memory-hotplug: document and enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
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kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc
2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c
mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
ksm.c
ksm: make rmap walks more scalable
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
maccess.c
mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c
mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers
2012-10-09 16:22:18 +09:00
Makefile
mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
memblock.c
x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned
2012-10-24 11:52:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c
slab: propagate tunable values
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c
mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
memory-failure.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
memory.c
mm: use kbasename()
2012-12-17 17:15:17 -08:00
mempolicy.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
mempool.c
mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node()
2012-06-25 11:53:47 +02:00
migrate.c
mm,numa: fix update_mmu_cache_pmd call
2012-12-17 19:37:03 -08:00
mincore.c
mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode
2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c
mm, thp: fix mlock statistics
2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
mm_init.c
mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat()
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c
mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance
2012-10-25 14:37:53 -07:00
mmzone.c
memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops
2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
mprotect.c
mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
msync.c
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nobootmem.c
mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone
2012-12-12 17:38:34 -08:00
nommu.c
mm: export a function to get vm committed memory
2012-11-15 15:41:22 -08:00
oom_kill.c
mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler
2012-12-12 17:38:34 -08:00
page_alloc.c
mm: allocate kernel pages to the right memcg
2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
page_cgroup.c
memcontrol: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY
2012-12-12 17:38:32 -08:00
page_io.c
mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages
2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
page_isolation.c
memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when offlining pages
2012-12-11 17:22:22 -08:00
page-writeback.c
mm: fix calculation of dirtyable memory
2012-12-20 17:40:18 -08:00
pagewalk.c
thp: change split_huge_page_pmd() interface
2012-12-12 17:38:31 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c
mm: fix kernel-doc warnings
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c
mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument
2012-12-02 06:23:04 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c
mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte
2012-12-11 14:28:34 +00:00
process_vm_access.c
aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
quicklist.c
mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h>
2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c
switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
rmap.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
shmem.c
lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
slab_common.c
slab: propagate tunable values
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slab.c
memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
slab.h
slab: propagate tunable values
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slob.c
sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slub.c
slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h>
2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c
memory-hotplug, mm/sparse.c: clear the memory to store struct page
2012-12-11 17:22:23 -08:00
swap_state.c
mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages
2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swap.c
mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable
2012-10-09 16:22:55 +09:00
swapfile.c
mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin
2012-12-11 17:22:27 -08:00
truncate.c
mm: use clear_page_mlock() in page_remove_rmap()
2012-10-09 16:22:56 +09:00
util.c
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
2012-10-28 19:29:19 +01:00
vmalloc.c
mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead of NUMA_BUILD
2012-12-11 17:22:22 -08:00
vmscan.c
mm: do not sleep in balance_pgdat if there's no i/o congestion
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
vmstat.c
Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00