Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 02/21] mm, THP, swap: Make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depends on CONFIG_SWAP

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On 07/09/2018 06:19 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>>>  config THP_SWAP
>>>  	def_bool y
>>> -	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
>>> +	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP
>>>  	help
>>
>> This seems like a bug-fix.  Is there a reason this didn't cause problems
>> up to now?
> Yes.  The original code has some problem in theory, but not in practice
> because all code enclosed by
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
> #endif
> 
> are in swapfile.c.  But that will be not true in this patchset.

That's great info for the changelog.




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