Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

Andrew Morton
2011-02-24T22:11:24Z

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:17:04 +0100
Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> wrote:

> When user insert negative value into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages it will
> result
> in the setting a random number of HugePages in system

Is this true? afacit the kernel will allocate as many pages as it can
and will then set /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages to reflect the result.
That's not random.