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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytes
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Andrea Righi wrote:

> Avoid to set less than two pages for vm_dirty_byte: this is necessary to avoid
> potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits().
>

Where exactly is the divide by 0 in get_dirty_limits()?

Is this because we forced the background threshold to be half of the dirty
threshold when its setting is greater?


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