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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -0800 |
| commit | d0f209f68f80f9a152799760c230019e7f270b2a (patch) | |
| tree | 83e4a6b2e15f50738572b31cfadb5fc0db17d2b7 /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 62b61f611eb5e20f7e9f8619bfd03bdfe8af6348 (diff) | |
ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages
Now that ksm pages are swappable, and the known holes plugged, remove
mention of unswappable kernel pages from KSM documentation and comments.
Remove the totalram_pages/4 initialization of max_kernel_pages. In fact,
remove max_kernel_pages altogether - we can reinstate it if removal turns
out to break someone's script; but if we later want to limit KSM's memory
usage, limiting the stable nodes would not be an effective approach.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index d4b5fff6ea0..2310984591e 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ config KSM Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas of an application's address space that an app has advised may be mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces - the many instances by a single resident page with that content, so + the many instances by a single page with that content, so saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive |