From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:56:33 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time In-Reply-To: <6599ad830803070040i5e54f5f3u9b4c753ac5a87771@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20080306185952.23290.49571.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <47D0C76D.8050207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <6599ad830803070040i5e54f5f3u9b4c753ac5a87771@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul Menage Cc: Balbir Singh , Andrew Morton , Pavel Emelianov , Hugh Dickins , Sudhir Kumar , YAMAMOTO Takashi , lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, taka@valinux.co.jp, linux-mm@kvack.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki List-ID: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Paul Menage wrote: > > Since the command line is logically delimited by spaces, you can > > accidently disable a subsystem if its name appears in any of your kernel > > options following your cgroup_disable= option. > > I think that you're confusing this with things like the very early > memory init setup parameters, which do operate on the raw commandline. > > By the time anything is passed to a __setup() function, it's already > been split into separate strings at space boundaries. > Ok, so the cgroup_disable= parameter should be a list of subsystem names delimited by anything other than a space that the user wants disabled. That makes more sense, thanks. -- 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