Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753136AbaBYMds (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22603 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120AbaBYMdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:47 -0500 Message-ID: <530C8D84.2050505@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:08 -0500 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Graf , linux-mm@kvack.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Hugh Dickins , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] ksm: Expose configuration via sysctl References: <1393284484-27637-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1393284484-27637-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/24/2014 06:28 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > Configuration of tunables and Linux virtual memory settings has traditionally > happened via sysctl. Thanks to that there are well established ways to make > sysctl configuration bits persistent (sysctl.conf). > > KSM introduced a sysfs based configuration path which is not covered by user > space persistent configuration frameworks. > > In order to make life easy for sysadmins, this patch adds all access to all > KSM tunables via sysctl as well. That way sysctl.conf works for KSM as well, > giving us a streamlined way to make KSM configuration persistent. > > Reported-by: Sasche Peilicke > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/