Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: thp: Add per-mm_struct flag to control THP

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/11, Alex Thorlton wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 04:53:37PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > I simply can't understand, this all looks like overkill. Can't you simply add
> >
> > 	#idfef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > 	case GET:
> > 		error = test_bit(MMF_THP_DISABLE);
> > 		break;
> > 	case PUT:
> > 		if (arg2)
> > 			set_bit();
> > 		else
> > 			clear_bit();
> > 		break;
> > 	#endif
> >
> > into sys_prctl() ?	
>
> That's probably a better solution.  I wasn't sure whether or not it was
> better to have two functions to handle this, or to have one function
> handle both.  If you think it's better to just handle both with one,
> that's easy enough to change.

Personally I think sys_prctl() can handle this itself, without a helper.
But of course I won't argue, this is up to you.

My only point is, the kernel is already huge ;) Imho it makes sense to
try to lessen the code size, when the logic is simple.

Oleg.

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