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

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> It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change
> the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override
> the default via Kconfig.
> 
> +choice
> +	prompt "Overcommit Mode"
> +	default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
> +	depends on EXPERT

Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value
set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like
sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf

We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets
silly.

Alan

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