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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>,
	Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>,
	Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 20:24:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516172452.GA2106@avx2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190516094234.9116-1-oleksandr@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:

> * to mark all the eligible VMAs as mergeable, use:
> 
>    # echo merge > /proc/<pid>/madvise
> 
> * to unmerge all the VMAs, use:
> 
>    # echo unmerge > /proc/<pid>/madvise

Please make a real system call (or abuse prctl(2) passing target's pid).

Your example automerge daemon could just call it and not bother with /proc.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16  9:42 [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16  9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] proc: introduce madvise placeholder Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16  9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise_merge() helper Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16  9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise_unmerge() helper Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16  9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote merge Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 10:00   ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 14:20     ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 14:43       ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 16:09         ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 16:06       ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 16:29     ` Aaron Tomlin
2019-05-16  9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] mm/ksm, proc: add remote madvise documentation Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 10:44 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise Michal Hocko
2019-05-16 14:21   ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 17:24 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]

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