On 01/09/2017 11:04 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 01/06/2017 11:20 PM, David Rientjes wrote: >> I'd leave it to Andrew to decide whether sysfs files should accept >> multiple modes or not. If you are to propose a patch to do so, I'd >> encourage you to do the same cleanup of triple_flag_store() that I did and >> make the gfp mask construction more straight-forward. If you'd like to >> suggest a different name for "background", I'd be happy to change that if >> it's more descriptive. > > Suggestion is above. I however think your cleanup isn't really needed, > we can simply keep the existing 3 internal flags, and "madvise+defer" > would enable two of them, like in my patch. Nothing says that internally > each option should correspond to exactly one flag.
Forgot to add that if/when you repost this, please CC linux-api and summarize what else was considered in the changelog. Thanks.
