linux-kernel - [PATCH] numa-balancing: fix confusion in /proc/sys/kernel/numa

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Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:25:19 +0800
From:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<zhongjiang@...wei.com>
CC:	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] numa-balancing: fix confusion in /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing

We can only echo 0 or 1 > "/proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing", usually 1 means
enable and 0 means disable. But when echo 1, it shows the value is 65536, this
is confusion.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3595403..e97a348 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ int sysctl_numa_balancing(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 {
 	struct ctl_table t;
 	int err;
-	int state = numabalancing_enabled;
+	int state = !!numabalancing_enabled;
 
 	if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
-- 
2.0.0


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