On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:10:34 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:17:04 +0100 > Petr Holasek <pholasek@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > Is this true? afacit the kernel will allocate as many pages as it can > and will then set /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages to reflect the result. > That's not random. > Assuming the above to be correct, I altered the changelog thusly: : When the user inserts a negative value into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages it : will cause the kernel to allocate as many hugepages as possible and to : then update /proc/meminfo to reflect this. : : This changes the behavior so that the negative input will result in : nr_hugepages value being unchanged. and given that, I don't really see why we should change the existing behaviour. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>