From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
jweiner@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in bdi_dirty_limits
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:49:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BFF995.5020602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140711081656.15654.19946.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
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On 07/11/2014 04:18 AM, Maxim Patlasov wrote:
> Under memory pressure, it is possible for dirty_thresh, calculated
> by global_dirty_limits() in balance_dirty_pages(), to equal zero.
> Then, if strictlimit is true, bdi_dirty_limits() tries to resolve
> the proportion:
>
> bdi_bg_thresh : bdi_thresh = background_thresh : dirty_thresh
>
> by dividing by zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-11 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-11 8:18 [PATCH] mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in bdi_dirty_limits Maxim Patlasov
2014-07-11 14:49 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-07-11 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2014-07-14 8:06 ` Maxim Patlasov
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