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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a794945fd194..029dfad5a235 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -119,6 +119,44 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages);
* We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
* clamping level.
*/
+
+static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+ int node;
+ unsigned long x = 0;
+
+ for_each_online_node(node) {
+ struct zone *z =
+ &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
+
+ x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES)
+ + zone_page_state(z, NR_INACTIVE)
+ + zone_page_state(z, NR_ACTIVE);
+ }
+ /*
+ * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
+ * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only
+ * occur in very strange VM situations but we want to make sure
+ * that this does not occur.
+ */
+ return min(x, total);
+#else
+ return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
+{
+ unsigned long x;
+
+ x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES)
+ + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE)
+ + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE);
+ x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
+ return x + 1; /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
+}
+
static void
get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty,
struct address_space *mapping)
@@ -128,20 +166,12 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty,
int unmapped_ratio;
long background;
long dirty;
- unsigned long available_memory = vm_total_pages;
+ unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
struct task_struct *tsk;
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
- /*
- * We always exclude high memory from our count.
- */
- available_memory -= totalhigh_pages;
-#endif
-
-
unmapped_ratio = 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)) * 100) /
- vm_total_pages;
+ available_memory;
dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2)
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