[PATCH V2 1/2] mm: move FAULT_AROUND_ORDER to arch/

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 10 18:29:29 EST 2014


On Wednesday 09 April 2014 09:18 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 01:20 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> This still misses out on Ben's objection that its impossible to get this
>> right at compile time for many kernels, since they can boot and run on
>> many different subarchs.
> 
> Completely agree.  The Kconfig-time stuff should probably just be a knob
> to turn it off completely, if anything.
> 

ok. Here is my thought. So to address Ben's concern, it would be better
to have this as a variable with a default value (and the platform can
override ride it). And a mm/Kconfig to disable it?
Kindly let me know whether this will work.

Thanks for review comments.
With regards
Maddy



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