Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: remove use_zero_page sysfs knob

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> > use_zero_page is currently a simple thp flag, meaning it rejects writes 
> > where val != !!val, so perhaps it would be best to overload it with 
> > additional options?  I can imagine 0x2 defining persistent allocation so 
> > that the hzp is not freed when the refcount goes to 0 and 0x4 defining if 
> > the hzp should be per node.  Implementing persistent allocation fixes our 
> > concern with it, so I'd like to start there.  Comments?
> 
> Why not a separate files?
> 

That works as well.  I'll write a patch for persistent allocation first to 
address our most immediate need.