linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:14:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi
 dirty thresholds

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:34:37 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:35:20AM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:06:59 +0800
> > Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(),
> > > so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background
> > > threshold (which is the normal state for most systems).
> > > 
> > 
> > mm/page-writeback.c: In function 'balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr':
> > mm/page-writeback.c:466: warning: 'dirty_exceeded' may be used uninitialized in this function
> > 
> > This was a real bug.
> 
> Thanks! But how do you catch this? There are no warnings in my compile test.

Basic `make allmodconfig'.  But I use a range of different compiler
versions.  Different versions of gcc detect different stuff.  This was 4.1.0
or 4.0.2, I forget which.


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