Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi...

[~andy/linux] / kernel / sysctl.c

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index e3d2c7dd59b9791ad14c8b48e5fb804a38052ac8..ea78fa101ad6a4325209f6bd9b3c350298d1e4e2 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ 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;
 static int minolduid;
@@ -1006,7 +1009,7 @@ 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",