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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Michael Wolf <mjwolf@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] kstaled: minimalistic implementation.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:26:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317205574.20318.1.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689Gtv2B1j6Z5wTk1ysne+XVV8VfU+9jepY1RV4r=B7V_Zw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 01:01 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 17:49 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> >> +static int kstaled(void *dummy)
> >> +{
> >> +       while (1) {
> >
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +       BUG();
> >> +       return 0;       /* NOT REACHED */
> >> +}
> >
> > So if you build with this junk (as I presume distro's will), there is no
> > way to disable it?
> 
> There will be a thread, and it'll block in wait_event_interruptible()
> until a positive value is written into
> /sys/kernel/mm/kstaled/scan_seconds

And here I though people wanted less pointless kernel threads..

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28  0:48 [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  0:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] page_referenced: replace vm_flags parameter with struct page_referenced_info Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  6:28   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 2/9] kstaled: documentation and config option Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  6:53   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 23:48     ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29  5:40       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 3/9] kstaled: page_referenced_kstaled() and supporting infrastructure Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  7:18   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-29  0:09     ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 4/9] kstaled: minimalistic implementation Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  7:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-28  8:01     ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 10:26       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-28  8:00   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20  9:17   ` Zhu Yanhai
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 5/9] kstaled: skip non-RAM regions Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  8:03   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] kstaled: rate limit pages scanned per second Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  8:13   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  8:19     ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  8:59       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-14  1:25         ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-10-14  4:54           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 7/9] kstaled: add histogram sampling functionality Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  8:22   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] kstaled: add incrementally updating stale page count Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28  0:49 ` [PATCH 9/9] kstaled: export PG_stale in /proc/kpageflags Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29 16:43 ` [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation Eric B Munson
2011-09-29 20:25   ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29 21:18     ` Eric B Munson
2011-09-30 18:19       ` Eric B Munson
2011-09-30 21:16         ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-30 21:40           ` Eric B Munson
2011-10-03 15:06           ` Eric B Munson

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