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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:51:56 +0100 From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> To: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mm/debug_pagealloc: enable it by default On 01/25/2016 08:38 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Content preview: On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:22:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > A default mode would be ok for me as it makes things obvious. Will send > > > a patch. > > The messaging around changing a default like this was really > poor. > When we do behaviour changes like this, we typically rename the CONFIG > option > to make it obvious that things aren't as they used to be. [...] > > Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- > -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP > -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% > [score: 0.0000] > X-ZLA-Header: unknown; 0 > X-ZLA-DetailInfo: BA=6.00004114; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; UDB=6.00294159; UTC=2016-01-25 19:38:24 > x-cbid: 16012519-0041-0000-0000-0000074865D5 > X-IBM-ISS-SpamDetectors: Score=0.40962; FLB=0; FLI=0; BY=0; FL=0; FP=0; FZ=0; > HX=0; KW=0; PH=0; RB=0; SC=0.40962; ST=0; TS=0; UL=0; ISC= > X-IBM-ISS-DetailInfo: BY=3.00004831; HX=3.00000240; KW=3.00000007; > PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000137; SDB=6.00650474; UDB=6.00294159; UTC=2016-01-25 > 19:38:24 > X-TM-AS-MML: disable > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:22:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > A default mode would be ok for me as it makes things obvious. Will send > > > a patch. > > > > The messaging around changing a default like this was really poor. > > When we do behaviour changes like this, we typically rename the CONFIG option > > to make it obvious that things aren't as they used to be. > > Looking at this closer, shouldn't the original diff to make this runtime > have also changed the x86 implementation details in arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c ? > Even when we don't boot with the enable flag, we're doing the "split 2M page into 4Ks" > thing. It looks like a s/debug_pagealloc/debug_pagealloc_enabled()/ might > do the right thing maybe ? I have some patches ready, that fix the identity mapping for s390 and x86. sparc is hard to do as it allocates the TSB very early. Will send around what I have soon.
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