On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:11:13 -0700
Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:44:46 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > > @@ -2248,36 +2257,18 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool
> > > > obey_mempolicy,
> > > > void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t
> > > > *ppos)
> > > > {
> > > > struct hstate *h = &default_hstate;
> > > > - unsigned long tmp;
> > > > + unsigned long tmp = h->max_huge_pages;
> > > > int ret;
> > > >
> > > > - if (!hugepages_supported())
> > > > - return -ENOTSUPP;
> > >
> > > Shouldn't you add this check to __nr_hugepages_store_common()? Otherwise
> > > looks good to me.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, I think you're right but I don't think __nr_hugepages_store_common()
> > is the right place: if we have a legitimate hstate for the sysfs tunables
> > then we should support hugepages. I think this should be kept in
> > hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common().
>
> This?
Yes.
>
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-generalize-writes-to-nr_hugepages-fix
> +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2260,6 +2260,9 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common
> unsigned long tmp = h->max_huge_pages;
> int ret;
>
> + if (!hugepages_supported())
> + return -ENOTSUPP;
> +
> table->data = &tmp;
> table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long);
> ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
> _
>
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