Re: [RFC] mm: show message when updating min_free_kbytes in thp

[Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:46:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 05-01-14 08:35:01, Han Pingtian wrote:
> [...]
> > From f4d085a880dfae7638b33c242554efb0afc0852b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:10:49 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: show message when raising min_free_kbytes in THP
> > 
> > min_free_kbytes may be raised during THP's initialization. Sometimes,
> > this will change the value being set by user. Showing message will
> > clarify this confusion.
> 
> I do not have anything against informing about changing value
> set by user but this will inform also when the default value is
> updated. Is this what you want? Don't you want to check against
> user_min_free_kbytes? (0 if not set by user)
> 

To use user_min_free_kbytes in mm/huge_memory.c, we need a 

    extern int user_min_free_kbytes;

in somewhere? Where should we put it? I guess it is mm/internal.h,
right?

Thanks.

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