[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>
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 1c87430..b9f4c6f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -244,6 +244,16 @@
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