Re: [PATCH] mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vmtable

From: Lee Schermerhorn
Date: Thu Apr 09 2009 - 10:04:49 EST


On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:42 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Subject: mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vm table
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Apr 09 11:38:45 CEST 2009
>
> vm knobs should go in the vm table. Probably too late for randomize_va_space
> though.

I was surprised to see "scan_unevictable_pages" in the kernel table.
This must be the result of a merge glitch. I originally put this at the
end of the vm table. Just went back and looked at some older patches to
be sure. E.g.,

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=121321022603288&w=4

It had been moved to the kernel table by the time the unevictable lru
was merged upstream:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=122453486931267&w=4

Anyway...

>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>

> ---
> kernel/sysctl.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sysctl.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -914,16 +914,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
> .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
> },
> #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
> - {
> - .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
> - .procname = "scan_unevictable_pages",
> - .data = &scan_unevictable_pages,
> - .maxlen = sizeof(scan_unevictable_pages),
> - .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = &scan_unevictable_handler,
> - },
> -#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK
> {
> .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
> @@ -1324,6 +1314,16 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
> .extra2 = &one,
> },
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
> + {
> + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
> + .procname = "scan_unevictable_pages",
> + .data = &scan_unevictable_pages,
> + .maxlen = sizeof(scan_unevictable_pages),
> + .mode = 0644,
> + .proc_handler = &scan_unevictable_handler,
> + },
> +#endif
> /*
> * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
> * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
>

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