Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:

> * to mark all the eligible VMAs as mergeable, use:
> 
>    # echo merge > /proc/<pid>/madvise
> 
> * to unmerge all the VMAs, use:
> 
>    # echo unmerge > /proc/<pid>/madvise

Please make a real system call (or abuse prctl(2) passing target's pid).

Your example automerge daemon could just call it and not bother with /proc.