Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/core

Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 3b05c2b088d2..3cb1849f5989 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ static int __maybe_unused one = 1;
 static int __maybe_unused two = 2;
 static unsigned long one_ul = 1;
 static int one_hundred = 100;
-static int one_thousand = 1000;
+
+/* this is needed for the proc_doulongvec_minmax of vm_dirty_bytes */
+static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
 
 /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */
 static int maxolduid = 65535;
@@ -1025,7 +1027,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                 .mode           = 0644,
                 .proc_handler   = &dirty_bytes_handler,
                 .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
-                .extra1         = &one_ul,
+                .extra1         = &dirty_bytes_min,
         },
         {
                 .procname       = "dirty_writeback_centisecs",
@@ -1050,28 +1052,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                 .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
         },
         {
-                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
-                .procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads_min",
-                .data           = &nr_pdflush_threads_min,
-                .maxlen         = sizeof nr_pdflush_threads_min,
-                .mode           = 0644 /* read-write */,
-                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
-                .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
-                .extra1         = &one,
-                .extra2         = &nr_pdflush_threads_max,
-        },
-        {
-                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
-                .procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads_max",
-                .data           = &nr_pdflush_threads_max,
-                .maxlen         = sizeof nr_pdflush_threads_max,
-                .mode           = 0644 /* read-write */,
-                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
-                .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
-                .extra1         = &nr_pdflush_threads_min,
-                .extra2         = &one_thousand,
-        },
-        {
                 .ctl_name       = VM_SWAPPINESS,
                 .procname       = "swappiness",
                 .data           = &vm_swappiness,