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Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related values as variables

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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:26:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Feb 2016 21:41:44 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > @@ -660,6 +660,18 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	khugepaged_pages_to_scan = HPAGE_PMD_NR * 8;
> > +	khugepaged_max_ptes_none = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1;
> 
> I don't understand this change.  We change the initialization from
> at-compile-time to at-run-time, but nothing useful appears to have been
> done.

It's preparation patch. HPAGE_PMD_NR is going to be based on variable on
Power soon. Compile-time is not an option.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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[PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related values as variables "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-09 17:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related  values as variables "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-09 20:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related values as variables "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-10 03:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related  values as variables Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-09 22:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related  values as variables "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-10 00:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related values as variables "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-10 03:40 +0100

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