Re: [PATCHv9 11/36] mm: temporally mark THP broken

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On 07/20/2015 04:20 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Up to this point we tried to keep patchset bisectable, but next patches
> are going to change how core of THP refcounting work.
> 
> It would be beneficial to split the change into several patches and make
> it more reviewable. Unfortunately, I don't see how we can achieve that
> while keeping THP working.
> 
> Let's hide THP under CONFIG_BROKEN for now and bring it back when new
> refcounting get established.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index e79de2bd12cd..c973f416cbe5 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
>  
>  config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
> -	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && BROKEN
>  	select COMPACTION
>  	help
>  	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
> 


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