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Bron Gondwana 195cf453d2 mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable option 
Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle

A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of
approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written
randomly by the dbclean process.  On 2.6.16 this process took a few
minutes.  With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12
hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes.

Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to
add the highmem back to the total available memory count.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build]
Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
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irq genirq: stackdump after the "Trying to free already-free IRQ" message 2008-01-30 13:33:24 +01:00
power Page allocator: clean up pcp draining functions 2008-02-05 09:44:17 -08:00
time tick-sched: add more debug information 2008-02-01 17:45:14 +01:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: real_parent ppid 2008-01-07 14:55:37 -08:00
audit_tree.c [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
audit.c [AUDIT] ratelimit printk messages audit 2008-02-01 14:25:04 -05:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
auditfilter.c [AUDIT] make audit=0 really stop audit messages 2008-02-01 14:24:33 -05:00
auditsc.c [AUDIT] create context if auditing was ever enabled 2008-02-01 14:24:45 -05:00
backtracetest.c x86: add a simple backtrace test module 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
capability.c Uninline find_pid etc set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
cgroup_debug.c Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
cgroup.c Improve cgroup printks 2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
compat.c Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt 2007-10-18 15:12:41 -07:00
configs.c use simple_read_from_buffer in kernel/ 2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
cpu.c cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
cpuset.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
delayacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
dma.c whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocator 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
exec_domain.c whitespace fixes: execution domains 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
exit.c exec: rework the group exit and fix the race with kill 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
extable.c module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text. 2008-01-29 17:13:18 +11:00
fork.c add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
futex_compat.c futex: Add bitset conditional wait/wakeup functionality 2008-02-01 17:45:14 +01:00
futex.c futex: Add bitset conditional wait/wakeup functionality 2008-02-01 17:45:14 +01:00
hrtimer.c timerfd: new timerfd API 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
itimer.c whitespace fixes: interval timers 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
kallsyms.c module: make module_address_lookup safe 2008-01-29 17:13:23 +11:00
Kconfig.hz sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
kexec.c vmcoreinfo: add the array length of "free_list" for filtering free pages 2008-01-08 16:10:36 -08:00
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c 2008-01-17 15:38:59 -08:00
kprobes.c x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot 2008-01-30 13:32:53 +01:00
ksysfs.c Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put() 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
kthread.c sched: fix, always create kernel threads with normal priority 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
latency.c
latencytop.c sched: latencytop support 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output 2007-10-11 22:11:11 +02:00
lockdep.c softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Makefile kobject: Always build in kernel/ksysfs.o. 2008-02-02 15:14:46 -08:00
marker.c Linux Kernel Markers: fix marker mutex not taken upon module load 2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
module.c x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixup 2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c Add mutex_lock_killable 2007-12-06 17:37:59 -05:00
mutex.h
notifier.c Add kernel/notifier.c 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
nsproxy.c pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace 2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
panic.c debug: add the end-of-trace marker and the module list to 2008-01-30 13:32:50 +01:00
params.c module: fix the module name length in param_sysfs_builtin 2008-01-29 17:13:24 +11:00
pid.c pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched: rt-watchdog: fix .rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY 2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
posix-timers.c timerfd: new timerfd API 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
printk.c debug: turn ignore_loglevel into an early param 2008-01-31 22:45:23 +01:00
profile.c debug: clean up kernel/profile.c 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
ptrace.c Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc 2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
rcuclassic.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupdate.c Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment. 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupreempt_trace.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupreempt.c Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handling 2008-01-25 21:08:25 +01:00
rcutorture.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
relay.c vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need it 2008-02-04 07:55:38 -08:00
resource.c Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM 2007-11-14 18:45:39 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
rtmutex.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling 2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
sched_debug.c sched: keep total / count stats in addition to the max for 2008-01-25 21:08:35 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: let +nice tasks have smaller impact 2008-01-31 22:45:22 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
sched_rt.c sched: fix goto retry in pick_next_task_rt() 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
sched_stats.h sched: clean up kernel/sched_stat.h 2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
sched.c Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc 2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c exec: rework the group exit and fix the race with kill 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
softirq.c time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime 2008-01-30 13:30:04 +01:00
softlockup.c debug: softlockup looping fix 2008-02-02 14:27:45 +11:00
spinlock.c spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
sys_ni.c timerfd: new timerfd API 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
sys.c x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter 2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: Infrastructure for per namespace sysctls 2008-01-28 14:55:17 -08:00
sysctl.c mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable option 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
taskstats.c kernel/taskstats.c: fix bogus nlmsg_free() 2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
test_kprobes.c x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot 2008-01-30 13:32:53 +01:00
time.c timekeeping: update xtime_cache when time(zone) changes 2008-02-01 17:45:13 +01:00
timer.c Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc 2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
tsacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
uid16.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user_namespace.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user.c uids: merge multiple error paths in alloc_uid() into one 2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
utsname.c Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) 2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
wait.c wait: Use TASK_NORMAL 2007-12-06 17:34:36 -05:00
workqueue.c cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00