Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Apr 2020 17:36:02 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/28] mm: only allow page table mappings for built-in zsmalloc |
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:15:19AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > config ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING > > > > bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" > > > > - depends on ZSMALLOC > > > > + depends on ZSMALLOC=y > > > > > > It's a bool so this shouldn't matter... not needed. > > > > My mm/Kconfig has: > > > > config ZSMALLOC > > tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" > > depends on MMU > > > > which I think means it can be modular, no? > > Randy means that ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING is a bool, so I think hch's patch > is wrong ... if ZSMALLOC is 'm' then ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING would become > 'n' instead of 'y'.
In Linus' tree you can select PGTABLE_MAPPING=y with ZSMALLOC=m, and that fits my understanding of the kbuild language. With this patch I can't anymore.
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