mm: page_alloc: generalize the dirty balance reserve

The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is
merely memory not available to userspace allocations.  There is nothing
writeback-specific about it.  Generalize the name so that it's reusable
outside of that context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner 2016-01-14 15:20:15 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c20cd45eb0
commit a8d0143730
4 changed files with 18 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ static inline void workingset_node_shadows_dec(struct radix_tree_node *node)
/* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */
extern unsigned long totalram_pages;
extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
extern unsigned long dirty_balance_reserve;
extern unsigned long nr_free_buffer_pages(void);
extern unsigned long nr_free_pagecache_pages(void);