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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-14 16:11:52 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-14 16:11:52 +0200
commit5806b81ac1c0c52665b91723fd4146a4f86e386b (patch)
tree24ea8763bf308ce1407c1de91dc8de4d2655e1c1 /mm
parentd14c8a680ccfdeb5e7b9be4d61162c2b373bd1e8 (diff)
parent6712e299b7dc78aa4971b85e803435ee6d49a9dd (diff)
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Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c arch/x86/lib/Makefile include/asm-x86/irqflags.h kernel/Makefile kernel/sched.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 789b6adbef37..b38f700825fc 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions;
static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
-static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void);
-
/*
* couple the period to the dirty_ratio:
*
@@ -347,7 +345,13 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
#endif
}
-static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
+/**
+ * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used
+ *
+ * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used
+ * by the kernel for direct mappings.
+ */
+unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
{
unsigned long x;
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