Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into x86/mm

Merge reason: sync up to -rc6 which has changes to mm/ which we are
              going to touch in the commits to follow as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 36d6ea2b634..b9ce574827c 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -112,14 +112,6 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 	if (!file)
 		return -EBADF;
 
-	/*
-	 * Page cache readahead assumes page cache pages are order-0 which
-	 * is not the case for hugetlbfs. Do not give a bad return value
-	 * but ignore the advice.
-	 */
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
-		return 0;
-
 	if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_mem) {
 		/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
 		return 0;
diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c
index f2caf96993f..235ac440c44 100644
--- a/mm/pdflush.c
+++ b/mm/pdflush.c
@@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pdflush_lock);
 int nr_pdflush_threads = 0;
 
 /*
- * The max/min number of pdflush threads. R/W by sysctl at
- * /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max/min
- */
-int nr_pdflush_threads_max __read_mostly = MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
-int nr_pdflush_threads_min __read_mostly = MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
-
-
-/*
  * The time at which the pdflush thread pool last went empty
  */
 static unsigned long last_empty_jifs;
@@ -76,7 +68,7 @@ static unsigned long last_empty_jifs;
  * Thread pool management algorithm:
  * 
  * - The minimum and maximum number of pdflush instances are bound
- *   by nr_pdflush_threads_min and nr_pdflush_threads_max.
+ *   by MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS and MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS.
  * 
  * - If there have been no idle pdflush instances for 1 second, create
  *   a new one.
@@ -142,13 +134,14 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
 		 * To throttle creation, we reset last_empty_jifs.
 		 */
 		if (time_after(jiffies, last_empty_jifs + 1 * HZ)) {
-			if (list_empty(&pdflush_list) &&
-			    nr_pdflush_threads < nr_pdflush_threads_max) {
-				last_empty_jifs = jiffies;
-				nr_pdflush_threads++;
-				spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
-				start_one_pdflush_thread();
-				spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+			if (list_empty(&pdflush_list)) {
+				if (nr_pdflush_threads < MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS) {
+					last_empty_jifs = jiffies;
+					nr_pdflush_threads++;
+					spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+					start_one_pdflush_thread();
+					spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -160,7 +153,7 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
 		 */
 		if (list_empty(&pdflush_list))
 			continue;
-		if (nr_pdflush_threads <= nr_pdflush_threads_min)
+		if (nr_pdflush_threads <= MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS)
 			continue;
 		pdf = list_entry(pdflush_list.prev, struct pdflush_work, list);
 		if (time_after(jiffies, pdf->when_i_went_to_sleep + 1 * HZ)) {
@@ -266,9 +259,9 @@ static int __init pdflush_init(void)
 	 * Pre-set nr_pdflush_threads...  If we fail to create,
 	 * the count will be decremented.
 	 */
-	nr_pdflush_threads = nr_pdflush_threads_min;
+	nr_pdflush_threads = MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < nr_pdflush_threads_min; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS; i++)
 		start_one_pdflush_thread();
 	return 0;
 }