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| author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2020-08-07 08:25:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 20:33:28 +0200 |
| commit | 0a18e60788d6a39436e8b5e91001b790043fc29c (patch) | |
| tree | 7afd333b77453c7bf2b16cfde59b6eb90a2a77c0 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | mm, page_alloc: skip ->waternark_boost for atomic order-0 allocations (diff) | |
| download | linux-0a18e60788d6a39436e8b5e91001b790043fc29c.tar.xz linux-0a18e60788d6a39436e8b5e91001b790043fc29c.zip | |
mm: remove vm_total_pages
The global variable "vm_total_pages" is a relic from older days. There is
only a single user that reads the variable - build_all_zonelists() - and
the first thing it does is update it.
Use a local variable in build_all_zonelists() instead and remove the
global variable.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619132410.23859-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 28b3e7a67565..4e4ddd67b71e 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2076,13 +2076,11 @@ static int page_writeback_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) * Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits. * * We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory - * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by - * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages. + * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers. * * However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with * all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio" - * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting - * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't + * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory, and as such we can't * get into the old insane situation any more where we had * large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of * non-HIGHMEM memory. |