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From: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] ksm: provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:24:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F48C8B.4020707@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EA3FF5.1050709@codeaurora.org>

Hi Hugh,

>>> + unsigned long enable;
>>> + int err;
>>> +
>>> + err = kstrtoul(buf, 10,&enable);
>>> + if (err< 0)
>>> + return err;
>>> + if (enable>= 1)
>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>
>> I haven't studied the patch itself, I'm still worrying about the concept.
>> But this caught my eye just before hitting Send: I don't think we need
>> a tunable which only accepts the value 0 ;)
>
> Okay. I can correct this to accept any non-zero value. Is that okay ?

I missed that to reply earlier. This was suggested by Andrew. And I 
think that is okay as displaying any non-zero value to user via this 
knob may not be completely right.

>
>>
>>> + use_deferrable_timer = enable;
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-31  7:59 [PATCH v3 1/2] timer: provide an api for deferrable timeout Chintan Pandya
2014-07-31  7:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] ksm: provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread Chintan Pandya
2014-08-11 12:18   ` Hugh Dickins
2014-08-12 16:25     ` Chintan Pandya
2014-08-20 11:54       ` Chintan Pandya [this message]
2014-08-04  9:26 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] timer: provide an api for deferrable timeout Chintan Pandya
2014-08-04 10:44   ` Peter Zijlstra

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