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SubjectRe: [RFC] mm: show message when updating min_free_kbytes in thp
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:46:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 05-01-14 08:35:01, Han Pingtian wrote:
> [...]
> > From f4d085a880dfae7638b33c242554efb0afc0852b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:10:49 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: show message when raising min_free_kbytes in THP
> >
> > min_free_kbytes may be raised during THP's initialization. Sometimes,
> > this will change the value being set by user. Showing message will
> > clarify this confusion.
>
> I do not have anything against informing about changing value
> set by user but this will inform also when the default value is
> updated. Is this what you want? Don't you want to check against
> user_min_free_kbytes? (0 if not set by user)
>
But looks like the user can set min_free_kbytes to 0 by

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

and even set it to -1 the same way. So I think we need to restrict the
value of min_free_kbytes > 0 first?

> Btw. Do we want to restore the original value when khugepaged is
> disabled?
>



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