Thread (158 messages) 158 messages, 14 authors, 2008-06-17

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2008-06-01 14:19:45
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Hi!
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Index: linux-2.6/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/Kconfig	2008-05-29 19:41:21.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/mm/Kconfig	2008-05-29 20:13:39.000000000 -0700
@@ -205,3 +205,9 @@ config NR_QUICK
 config VIRT_TO_BUS
 	def_bool y
 	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
+
+config CPU_ALLOC_SIZE
+	int "Size of cpu alloc area"
+	default "30000"
+	help
+	  Sets the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated via cpu_alloc
Missing . at end of line, but more important:

How do you expect user to answer this?!

I mean, can they put 0 there and expect kernel to work? If not, you
should disallow that config. And you shoudl really explain how much
memory is needed... and perhaps mention that size is in bytes?

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