writeback: remove nr_pages_dirtied arg from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()

There is no reason to pass the nr_pages_dirtied argument, because
nr_pages_dirtied value from the caller is unused in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr().

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <vtrivedi018@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 830893b2b3c7..6f4271224493 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 }
 
 /*
- * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
+ * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited()
  * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
  *
  * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
@@ -1436,9 +1436,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0;
 
 /**
- * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
+ * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state
  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
- * @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
  *
  * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
  * which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
@@ -1449,8 +1448,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0;
  * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
  * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
  */
-void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
-                                        unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
+void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
         struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
         int ratelimit;
@@ -1484,6 +1482,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
          */
         p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks);
         if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) {
+                unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied;
                 nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied);
                 *p -= nr_pages_dirtied;
                 current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied;
@@ -1493,7 +1492,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
         if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
                 balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited);
 
 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {