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? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>