From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E646B00DF for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id x12so327626wgg.8 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id dd1si7982757wib.18.2014.02.25.04.33.44 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:33:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530C8D84.2050505@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:08 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ksm: Expose configuration via sysctl References: <1393284484-27637-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1393284484-27637-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Alexander Graf , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Hugh Dickins , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli On 02/24/2014 06:28 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > Configuration of tunables and Linux virtual memory settings has traditionally > happened via sysctl. Thanks to that there are well established ways to make > sysctl configuration bits persistent (sysctl.conf). > > KSM introduced a sysfs based configuration path which is not covered by user > space persistent configuration frameworks. > > In order to make life easy for sysadmins, this patch adds all access to all > KSM tunables via sysctl as well. That way sysctl.conf works for KSM as well, > giving us a streamlined way to make KSM configuration persistent. > > Reported-by: Sasche Peilicke > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org