linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] compaction: don't depend on HUGETLB

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Message-ID: <AANLkTik6QKuoGmYBsP8goZSCWDoWxd0hwnMvSAEeNa_k@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:51:42 +0100
From:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compaction: don't depend on HUGETLB_PAGE

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 03:48:03PM +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>> Hello Andrea,
>> this commit:
>>
>> commit 5d6892407cab23d4bf2f6de065ca351a53849323
>> Author: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
>> Date:   Thu Jan 13 15:47:07 2011 -0800
>>
>>     thp: select CONFIG_COMPACTION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled
>>
>> causes this warning during the configuration process:
>>
>> warning: (TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) selects COMPACTION which has unmet
>> direct dependencies (EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU)
>>
>> This happens because 'select' does not enable the dependencies of its
>> target, so when I selected THP it also enabled COMPATION but I don't
>> have HUGETLBFS (=HUGETLB_PAGE) enabled.
>> Making THP select HUGETLB_PAGE fixes the warning but I'm not 100% sure
>> that's correct (does it work without HUGETLBFS?).
>
> Mel, what's your take about this issue?
>
> Luca does the below fix all your .config problems?

Yes, no more warnings; I haven't tested the kernel though.

Luca

> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 3ad483b..e9c0c61 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
>  config COMPACTION
>        bool "Allow for memory compaction"
>        select MIGRATION
> -       depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU
> +       depends on MMU
>        help
>          Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
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