Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode

Michal Hocko
2016-05-13T08:05:34Z

On Tue 10-05-16 13:56:30, Sebastian Frias wrote:
[...]
> NOTE: I understand that the overcommit mode can be changed dynamically thru
> sysctl, but on embedded systems, where we know in advance that overcommit
> will be disabled, there's no reason to postpone such setting.

To be honest I am not particularly happy about yet another config
option. At least not without a strong reason (the one above doesn't
sound that way). The config space is really large already.
So why a later initialization matters at all? Early userspace shouldn't
consume too much address space to blow up later, no?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs