From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754881AbbCBXKj (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2015 18:10:39 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45277 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754322AbbCBXKe (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2015 18:10:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:10:33 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Mike Kravetz Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadia Yvette Chambers , Davidlohr Bueso , Aneesh Kumar , Joonsoo Kim Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] hugetlbfs: accept subpool reserved option and setup accordingly Message-Id: <20150302151033.562db79cd3da844392461795@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1425077893-18366-6-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> References: <1425077893-18366-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <1425077893-18366-6-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:58:13 -0800 Mike Kravetz wrote: > Make reserved be an option when mounting a hugetlbfs. New mount option triggers a user documentation update. hugetlbfs isn't well documented, but Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt looks like the place. > reserved > option is only possible if size option is also specified. The code doesn't appear to check for this (maybe it does). Probably it should do so, and warn when it fails.