From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

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>
---

 include/linux/writeback.h |    1 +
 mm/memory.c               |    5 +++--
 mm/page-writeback.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/writeback.h~mm-balance-dirty-pages include/linux/writeback.h
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h~mm-balance-dirty-pages
+++ a/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode,
 			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);
 
 /* pdflush.c */
 extern int nr_pdflush_threads;	/* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-balance-dirty-pages mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-balance-dirty-pages
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1571,7 +1572,7 @@ gotten:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -2218,7 +2219,7 @@ retry:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-balance-dirty-pages mm/page-writeback.c
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-balance-dirty-pages
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -246,6 +246,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
 		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
_