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

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Message-Id: <5CB5F808-ECA8-4A4E-B942-7D69522E3FA4@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:06:50 -0700
From:   William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, 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 Nov 27, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks, yes, that is what I was getting at.