From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/thp: Use conventional format for boolean attributes
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:28:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104131224430.7052@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110413121925.55493041.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's a bit naughty to change the existing interface in 2.6.38.x but the time
> window is small and few people will be affected and they were nuts to be
> using 2.6.38.0 anyway ;)
>
> I suppose we could support both the old and new formats for a while,
> then retire the old format but I doubt if it's worth it.
>
> Isn't there some user documentation which needs to be updated to
> reflect this change? If not, why not? :)
>
Indeed there is, in Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt -- only for
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag, though, we lack
documentation of debug_cow.
Ben, do you have time to update the patch? It sounds like this is 2.6.39
material.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 5:45 Ben Hutchings
2011-04-13 19:04 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-13 19:28 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2011-04-13 19:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-04-14 4:48 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-14 14:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-04-14 16:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-14 19:09 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-14 19:50 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
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