Re: [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addressesregistrations.

[Alan Cox]

> the max number of ksm pages that can be allocated at any given time so
> to avoid OOM conditions, like the swap-compress logic that limits the
> swapdevice size to less than ram.

Are those pages accounted for in the vm_overcommit logic, as if you
allocate a big chunk of memory as KSM will do you need the worst case
vm_overcommit behaviour preserved and that means keeping the stats
correct.

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