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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2009-01-06 22:39:29 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 23:59:02 (GMT)
commit364aeb2849789b51bf4b9af2ddd02fee7285c54e (patch)
tree4a24ea43a2a76ae744571f3c7b5022aa1107599e /include
parent58a01a45721bf7bd3a41a86248c3cb02a6b0c501 (diff)
downloadlinux-364aeb2849789b51bf4b9af2ddd02fee7285c54e.tar.xz
mm: change dirty limit type specifiers to unsigned long
The background dirty and dirty limits are better defined with type specifiers of unsigned long since negative writeback thresholds are not possible. These values, as returned by get_dirty_limits(), are normally compared with ZVC values to determine whether writeback shall commence or be throttled. Such page counts cannot be negative, so declaring the page limits as signed is unnecessary. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index e585657..259e9ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ struct file;
int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
-void get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
- struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
+void get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
+ unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
void page_writeback_init(void);
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,