Sending to Linus too then.
> > +extern void page_writeback_init(void);
>
> But please don't put declarations of external functions into .c. It is
> always the wrong thing to do, even though others have done it...
>
> writeback.h is a fine place for this declaration.
Allright, I did that first, but then I saw the other declarations, and
wanted to follow the style. Revised patch below.
-- Anders Gustafsson - andersg@0x63.nu - http://0x63.nu/You can import this changeset into BK by piping this whole message to: '| bk receive [path to repository]' or apply the patch as usual.
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ChangeSet@1.1102, 2003-03-12 10:01:46+01:00, andersg@0x63.nu Explicitly call page_writeback_init because it must be called before populate_ rootfs()
include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + init/main.c | 3 +++ mm/page-writeback.c | 4 +--- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -Nru a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h --- a/include/linux/writeback.h Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ extern int dirty_expire_centisecs; +void page_writeback_init(void); void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping); void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping); int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0); diff -Nru a/init/main.c b/init/main.c --- a/init/main.c Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 +++ b/init/main.c Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/profile.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <asm/bugs.h> @@ -429,6 +430,8 @@ vfs_caches_init(num_physpages); radix_tree_init(); signals_init(); + /* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */ + page_writeback_init(); populate_rootfs(); #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS proc_root_init(); diff -Nru a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c Wed Mar 12 10:09:13 2003 @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ * dirty memory thresholds: allowing too much dirty highmem pins an excessive * number of buffer_heads. */ -static int __init page_writeback_init(void) +void __init page_writeback_init(void) { long buffer_pages = nr_free_buffer_pages(); long correction; @@ -392,9 +392,7 @@ add_timer(&wb_timer); set_ratelimit(); register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); - return 0; } -module_init(page_writeback_init); int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) {
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