The patch titled Subject: mm: print the correct method to disable automatic numa migration has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-print-the-correct-method-to-disable-automatic-numa-migration.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: print the correct method to disable automatic numa migration When the "default y" CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED is enabled, the message it prints refers to a sysctl to disable it again. But that sysctl doesn't exist. Document the correct (highly obscure method) through debugfs. This should be also in Documentation/* but isn't. Also fix the checkpatch problems. BTW I think the "default y" is highly dubious for such a experimential feature. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-print-the-correct-method-to-disable-automatic-numa-migration mm/mempolicy.c --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-print-the-correct-method-to-disable-automatic-numa-migration +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2530,8 +2530,8 @@ static void __init check_numabalancing_e numabalancing_default = true; if (nr_node_ids > 1 && !numabalancing_override) { - printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling automatic NUMA balancing. " - "Configure with numa_balancing= or sysctl"); + pr_info("Enabling automatic NUMA balancing.\n"); + pr_info("Change with numa_balancing= or echo -NUMA >/sys/kernel/debug/sched_features\n"); set_numabalancing_state(numabalancing_default); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch mm-print-the-correct-method-to-disable-automatic-numa-migration.patch lockdep-introduce-lock_acquire_exclusive-shared-helper-macros.patch lglock-update-lockdep-annotations-to-report-recursive-local-locks.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html