From: Andrew Morton Cc: Chandra Seetharaman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 ++-- mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/writeback.h~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy include/linux/writeback.h --- a/include/linux/writeback.h~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy +++ a/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, 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 writeback_set_ratelimit(void); /* pdflush.c */ extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -169,7 +170,6 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi unsigned long start_pfn; struct zone *zone; int need_zonelists_rebuild = 0; - extern void set_ratelimit(void); /* * This doesn't need a lock to do pfn_to_page(). @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi if (need_zonelists_rebuild) build_all_zonelists(); vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages(); - set_ratelimit(); + writeback_set_ratelimit(); return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE */ diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~call-mm-page-writebackcset_ratelimit-when-new-pages-tidy +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ void laptop_sync_completion(void) * will write six megabyte chunks, max. */ -void set_ratelimit(void) +void writeback_set_ratelimit(void) { ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32); if (ratelimit_pages < 16) @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ void set_ratelimit(void) static int __cpuinit ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v) { - set_ratelimit(); + writeback_set_ratelimit(); return 0; } @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) vm_dirty_ratio = 1; } mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval); - set_ratelimit(); + writeback_set_ratelimit(); register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); } _