On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 09:02:49PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> Add a new interface in path /proc/sys/vm/mirrorable. When set to 1, it means
> we should allocate mirrored memory for both user and kernel processes.

As Dave and Kamezawa-san commented, documentation is not enough, so please
add a section in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for this new tuning parameter.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

> 
> Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxi...@huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
>  kernel/sysctl.c        | 9 +++++++++
>  mm/page_alloc.c        | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index f82e3ae..20888dd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct mirror_info {
>  };
>  
>  extern struct mirror_info mirror_info;
> +extern int sysctl_mirrorable;
>  #  define is_migrate_mirror(migratetype) unlikely((migratetype) == 
> MIGRATE_MIRROR)
>  #else
>  #  define is_migrate_mirror(migratetype) false
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 2082b1a..dc2625e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -1514,6 +1514,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
>               .extra2         = &one,
>       },
>  #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_MIRROR
> +     {
> +             .procname       = "mirrorable",
> +             .data           = &sysctl_mirrorable,
> +             .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_mirrorable),
> +             .mode           = 0644,
> +             .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> +     },
> +#endif
>       {
>               .procname       = "user_reserve_kbytes",
>               .data           = &sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes,
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 249a8f6..63b90ca 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ int user_min_free_kbytes = -1;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_MIRROR
>  struct mirror_info mirror_info;
> +int sysctl_mirrorable = 0;
>  #endif
>  
>  static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
> 
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