From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753235AbcEMPLo (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2016 11:11:44 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:41358 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751407AbcEMPLn (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2016 11:11:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 16:11:04 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Mason Cc: Michal Hocko , Sebastian Frias , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode Message-ID: <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <5735EBBC.6050705@free.fr> References: <5731CC6E.3080807@laposte.net> <20160513080458.GF20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <573593EE.6010502@free.fr> <5735A3DE.9030100@laposte.net> <20160513120042.GK20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735CAE5.5010104@laposte.net> <20160513145101.GS20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735EBBC.6050705@free.fr> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-redhat-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 > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override > the default via Kconfig. > > +choice > + prompt "Overcommit Mode" > + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS > + depends on EXPERT Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets silly. Alan