From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:47:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411404460.28679.12.camel@linux-t7sj.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140922161109.GA25027@thin>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-22 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 16:11 [PATCH] mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise Josh Triplett
2014-09-22 16:47 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2014-09-22 17:03 ` Josh Triplett
2014-09-25 17:21 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-25 18:27 ` josh
2014-09-25 18:32 ` [PATCHv2] " josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA
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