Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:10:34 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages |
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:17:04 +0100 Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> wrote:
> When user insert negative value into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages it will > result > in the setting a random number of HugePages in system
Is this true? afacit the kernel will allocate as many pages as it can and will then set /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages to reflect the result. That's not random.
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