From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:16:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362075412-779292mh-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGf_=qq=+F4HMEE6P_g_ou7dQ6odu=DaefDsURjq5Yhxz99-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:02:37AM -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > - {
> > - .procname = "hugepages_treat_as_movable",
> > - .data = &hugepages_treat_as_movable,
> > - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> > - .mode = 0644,
> > - .proc_handler = hugetlb_treat_movable_handler,
> > - },
>
> Sorry, no.
>
> This is too aggressive remove. Imagine, a lot of shell script don't
> have any error check.
Sure, it could break usespace applications.
> I suggest to keep this file but change to nop (to output warning is better).
> About 1-2 years after, we can remove this file safely.
OK, so I'll leave it for a while with the comment saying that this
parameter is obsolete and shouldn't be used.
Thanks,
Naoya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-28 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 19:41 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] migrate: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 14:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:53 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:36 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 4:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] migrate: make core migration code aware of hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:22 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:25 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 17:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] migrate: clean up migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] migrate: enable migrate_pages() to migrate hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:40 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 6:12 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 0:31 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:59 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-21 0:06 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] migrate: enable move_pages() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] mbind: enable mbind() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-23 7:05 ` Hillf Danton
2013-02-25 16:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:36 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 16:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 3:55 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:57 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 1:03 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 22:05 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:55 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-28 6:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-28 18:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi [this message]
2013-03-18 15:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:43 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:35 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:49 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-21 12:56 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 23:46 ` Simon Jeons
[not found] ` <20130322081532.GC31457@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2013-04-05 1:14 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-05 9:00 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 9:30 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-07 0:32 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-07 14:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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