Re: [PATCH 1/1] Docs/mm/allocation-profiling: describe sysctrl limitations in debug mode

From: Suren Baghdasaryan

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 13:30:28 EST


On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:05:25 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 09:45:57PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > > + warnings produces by allocations made while profiling is disabled and freed
> > >
> > > "produced"
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> > Thanks! I'll wait for a day and if there are no other objections, I
> > will post a fixed version.
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> Assuming Matthiew's good finding will be fixed,
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> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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> Fwiw, the typo is also on the .../sysctl/vm.rst part.

Correct, I'll fix in both places.

> And from the finding, I
> was wondering if it is better to put the description only one of two documents
> rather than having the duplication, and further if the 'Usage:' part of
> allocation-profiling.rst is better to be moved to
> 'Documentation/admin-guide/mm/'. But I ended up thinking those are too trivial
> and small things.

Yes, I didn't want to complicate reader's life by adding a reference
for a couple of sentences.

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> Thanks,
> SJ