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

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:17:04PM +0100, Petr Holasek 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 (can be easily showed
> at /proc/meminfo output). This patch fixes the wrong behavior so that the
> negative input will result in nr_hugepages value unchanged.
>
> v2: same fix was also done in hugetlb_overcommit_handler function
>     as suggested by reviewers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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