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SubjectRe: [-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v8)
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:09:57 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:35:44 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 1. Add mm->owner change callbacks using cgroups
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> +config MM_OWNER
> >> + bool "Enable ownership of mm structure"
> >> + help
> >> + This option enables mm_struct's to have an owner. The advantage
> >> + of this approach is that it allows for several independent memory
> >> + based cgroup controllers to co-exist independently without too
> >> + much space overhead
> >> +
> >> + This feature adds fork/exit overhead. So enable this only if
> >> + you need resource controllers
> >
> > Do we really want to offer this option to people? It's rather a low-level
> > thing and it's likely to cause more confusion than it's worth. Remember
> > that most kernels get to our users via kernel vendors - to what will they
> > be setting this config option?
> >
>
> I suspect that this kernel option will not be explicitly set it. This option
> will be selected by other config options (memory controller, swap namespace,
> revoke*)

I believe that the way to do this is to not give the option a `help'
section. Tht makes it a Kconfig-internal-only thing.



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