kernel-ark/mm
Michael Rubin 79da826aee writeback: report dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat
The kernel already exposes the user desired thresholds in /proc/sys/vm
with dirty_background_ratio and background_ratio.  But the kernel may
alter the number requested without giving the user any indication that is
the case.

Knowing the actual ratios the kernel is honoring can help app developers
understand how their buffered IO will be sent to the disk.

        $ grep threshold /proc/vmstat
        nr_dirty_threshold 409111
        nr_dirty_background_threshold 818223

Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
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backing-dev.c bdi: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info properly 2010-09-22 09:48:47 +02:00
bootmem.c x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_ 2010-08-27 11:13:47 -07:00
bounce.c bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: handle active and inactive fairly in too_many_isolated 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
fremap.c Avoid pgoff overflow in remap_file_pages 2010-09-25 09:34:58 -07:00
highmem.c mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage 2010-08-05 09:22:24 -05:00
hugetlb.c Encode huge page size for VM_FAULT_HWPOISON errors 2010-10-08 09:32:46 +02:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepage 2010-08-11 09:23:11 +02:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-10-22 17:31:36 -07:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment 2010-08-08 21:57:23 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: fix bad user data when swapping 2010-10-04 11:09:53 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too 2010-10-02 10:26:05 +03:00
memblock.c memblock: Annotate memblock functions with __init_memblock 2010-10-11 16:00:52 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix thresholds with use_hierarchy == 1 2010-10-07 13:31:21 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: unify is_removable and offline detection code 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
memory.c Merge branch 'hwpoison-hugepages' into hwpoison 2010-10-22 17:40:48 +02:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
mincore.c mincore: do nested page table walks 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c mm: Move vma_stack_continue into mm.h 2010-09-09 09:05:06 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmap: call unlink_anon_vmas() in __split_vma() in case of error 2010-09-22 17:22:40 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
mprotect.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c mm: make the vma list be doubly linked 2010-08-21 08:49:21 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mm 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
page_alloc.c memory hotplug: unify is_removable and offline detection code 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
page_cgroup.c kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup() 2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstat 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-10-26 10:13:10 -07:00
shmem.c shmem: put_super must percpu_counter_destroy 2010-08-17 18:33:11 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-22 10:08:52 -07:00
slob.c slob: fix gfp flags for order-0 page allocations 2010-10-02 10:24:28 +03:00
slub.c SLUB: Fix memory hotplug with !NUMA 2010-10-06 21:16:42 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c x86: Use memblock to replace early_res 2010-08-27 11:12:29 -07:00
sparse.c sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too 2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules 2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier 2010-10-19 09:13:04 +02:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
util.c export __get_user_pages_fast() function 2010-10-24 10:51:24 +02:00
vmalloc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-10-22 17:31:36 -07:00
vmscan.c vmscan: prevent background aging of anon page in no swap system 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
vmstat.c writeback: report dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00