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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt7
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c5
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index b920423f88cb..5025ff9307e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -158,10 +158,6 @@ Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any
value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be
retained.
-Note: the value of dirty_bytes also must be set greater than
-dirty_background_bytes or the amount of memory corresponding to
-dirty_background_ratio.
-
==============================================================
dirty_expire_centisecs
@@ -181,9 +177,6 @@ generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data.
The total available memory is not equal to total system memory.
-Note: dirty_ratio must be set greater than dirty_background_ratio or
-ratio corresponding to dirty_background_bytes.
-
==============================================================
dirty_writeback_centisecs
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e7095030aa1f..586f31261c83 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -433,11 +433,8 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc)
else
bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE;
- if (unlikely(bg_thresh >= thresh)) {
- pr_warn("vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit.\n");
+ if (bg_thresh >= thresh)
bg_thresh = thresh / 2;
- }
-
tsk = current;
if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
bg_thresh += bg_thresh / 4 + global_wb_domain.dirty_limit / 32;