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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-14 14:49:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-14 14:49:54 -0700
commite18425a0abc8eafa8e98ecffac517bb0c0904f4b (patch)
tree5eb743e7201850de19496183554bb34c766948c4 /mm
parentd1794f2c5b5817eb79ccc5e00701ca748d1b073a (diff)
parent5806b81ac1c0c52665b91723fd4146a4f86e386b (diff)
downloadlinux-e18425a0abc8eafa8e98ecffac517bb0c0904f4b.tar.gz
Merge branch 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (228 commits)
  ftrace: build fix for ftraced_suspend
  ftrace: separate out the function enabled variable
  ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
  ftrace: use current CPU for function startup
  ftrace: start wakeup tracing after setting function tracer
  ftrace: check proper config for preempt type
  ftrace: trace schedule
  ftrace: define function trace nop
  ftrace: move sched_switch enable after markers
  ftrace: prevent ftrace modifications while being kprobe'd, v2
  fix "ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip"
  mmiotrace broken in linux-next (8-bit writes only)
  ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
  ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
  kprobes: enable clean usage of get_kprobe
  ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
  ftrace: build fix with gcc 4.3
  namespacecheck: fixes
  ftrace: fix "notrace" filtering priority
  ftrace: fix printout
  ...
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;