From: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
To: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:33:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110223153330.GF2810@mgebm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6419C0.8080804@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Petr Holasek wrote:
> When user insert negative value into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages it
> will result
> in the setting a random number of HugePages in system (can be easily showed
> at /proc/meminfo output). This patch fixes the wrong behavior so that the
> negative input will result in nr_hugepages value unchanged.
>
> v2: same fix was also done in hugetlb_overcommit_handler function
> as suggested by reviewers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 20:17 [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages Petr Holasek
2011-02-22 20:17 ` Petr Holasek
2011-02-22 20:32 ` David Rientjes
2011-02-22 20:32 ` David Rientjes
2011-02-23 9:01 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 9:01 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 15:33 ` Eric B Munson [this message]
2011-02-24 8:16 ` Anton Arapov
2011-02-24 8:16 ` Anton Arapov
2011-02-24 17:02 ` Petr Holasek
2011-02-24 17:02 ` Petr Holasek
2011-02-24 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-25 17:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-25 17:30 ` Mel Gorman
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