[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside. But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout. So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some memory, then return. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
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int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages);
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void laptop_io_completion(void);
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void laptop_sync_completion(void);
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void throttle_vm_writeout(void);
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void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
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/* These are exported to sysctl. */
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extern int dirty_background_ratio;
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