Re: [PATCH v4] mm: introduce validity check on vm dirtiness settings

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On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:38:21 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And existing scripts which do not do this will cease to work correctly,
> > no?
> >
> 
> The existing scritpts won't work correctly. That's also what I have
> worried before.
> 
> But under this condition, there's a error message generated by "sysctl
> -w" to tell them the first setting was failure.
> This error message may be a reminder to them that there are some
> connections between background and direct limit, and should not set
> arbitrary.
> May that's better. I'm not sure.

Maybe we can leave the logic as-is and simply print a warning when an
illogical state exists.

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