Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:01:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/9] kstaled: minimalistic implementation. | From | Michel Lespinasse <> |
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 17:49 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote: >> +static int kstaled(void *dummy) >> +{ >> + while (1) { > >> + } >> + >> + BUG(); >> + return 0; /* NOT REACHED */ >> +} > > So if you build with this junk (as I presume distro's will), there is no > way to disable it?
There will be a thread, and it'll block in wait_event_interruptible() until a positive value is written into /sys/kernel/mm/kstaled/scan_seconds
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