linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP

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Message-ID: <283f38d9-1142-60b6-0b84-7129b7f9781e@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:50:24 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc

On 11/27/18 3:50 PM, William Kucharski wrote:
> 
> I was just double checking that this was meant to be more of a check done
> before code elsewhere performs additional checks and does the actual THP
> mapping, not an all-encompassing go/no go check for THP mapping.

Yes, the code doing the actual mapping is still checking also alignment etc.