From: Toshiyuki Okajima Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 05:56:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22ef37eed673587ac984965dc88ba94c68873291;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate() wb_kupdate() function has a bug on linux-2.6.30-rc5. This bug causes generic_sync_sb_inodes() to start to write inodes back much earlier than our expectations because it miscalculates oldest_jif in wb_kupdate(). This bug was introduced in 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f ('mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"'). Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 30351f0063ac..bb553c3e955d 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes; /* * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks */ -unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ +unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */ /* * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty */ -unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ +unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */ /* * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings. @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) sync_supers(); - oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval); + oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10); start_jif = jiffies; next_jif = start_jif + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10); nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +