Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/12] mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Wed Oct 07 2020 - 04:45:15 EST


On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Dave Hansen wrote:

> But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also
> got changed. That's not OK because the bit values are documented to
> mean one specific thing and users surely rely on them meaning that one
> thing and not changing from kernel to kernel. The end result is that
> if someone had a script that did:

Exactly right. Sorry must have missed to review that patch.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>