From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com (mail-pd0-f175.google.com [209.85.192.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8C26B0036 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id v10so3626550pde.20 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homiemail-a8.g.dreamhost.com (homie.mail.dreamhost.com. [208.97.132.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id hb5si16405075pbb.186.2014.09.22.09.47.42 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1411404460.28679.12.camel@linux-t7sj.site> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:47:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20140922161109.GA25027@thin> References: <20140922161109.GA25027@thin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Josh Triplett Cc: Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 09:11 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Many embedded systems will not need these syscalls, and omitting them > saves space. Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS > (default y) to support compiling them out. general question: if a user chooses CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS=n (or any config option related to tinyfication) and breaks the system/workload... will that be acceptable for a kernel pov? In other words, what's the degree of responsibility the user will have when choosing such builds? Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org