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    ksm: sysfs and defaults · 2ffd8679
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    At present KSM is just a waste of space if you don't have CONFIG_SYSFS=y
    to provide the /sys/kernel/mm/ksm files to tune and activate it.
    
    Make KSM depend on SYSFS?  Could do, but it might be better to provide
    some defaults so that KSM works out-of-the-box, ready for testers to
    madvise MADV_MERGEABLE, even without SYSFS.
    
    Though anyone serious is likely to want to retune the numbers to their
    taste once they have experience; and whether these settings ever reach
    2.6.32 can be discussed along the way.
    
    Save 1kB from tiny kernels by #ifdef'ing the SYSFS side of it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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