Openwrt/target/linux/brcm2708/patches-4.4/0003-vmstat-Workaround-for-issue-where-dirty-page-count-g.patch
Felix Fietkau 4224b52c3a brcm2708: add linux 4.4 support
- random-bcm2708 and spi-bcm2708 have been removed.
- sound-soc-bcm2708-i2s has been upstreamed as sound-soc-bcm2835-i2s.

Let's keep linux 4.1 for a while, since linux 4.4 appears to have some issues
with multicast traffic on RPi ethernet:
https://gist.github.com/Noltari/5b1cfdecce5ed4bc08fd

Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>

SVN-Revision: 48266
2016-01-17 10:42:23 +00:00

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From 3ea06ff9ba42a29f37b46ced2fb90ff9e06da445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: popcornmix <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:42:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 003/127] vmstat: Workaround for issue where dirty page count
goes negative
See:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/617
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg72236.html
---
include/linux/vmstat.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -219,7 +219,11 @@ static inline void __inc_zone_state(stru
static inline void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
{
atomic_long_dec(&zone->vm_stat[item]);
+ if (item == NR_FILE_DIRTY && unlikely(atomic_long_read(&zone->vm_stat[item]) < 0))
+ atomic_long_set(&zone->vm_stat[item], 0);
atomic_long_dec(&vm_stat[item]);
+ if (item == NR_FILE_DIRTY && unlikely(atomic_long_read(&vm_stat[item]) < 0))
+ atomic_long_set(&vm_stat[item], 0);
}
static inline void __inc_zone_page_state(struct page *page,