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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm -v4 02/21] mm, THP, swap: Make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depends on CONFIG_SWAP
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On 07/09/2018 06:19 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> writes:
>
>>> config THP_SWAP
>>> def_bool y
>>> - depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
>>> + depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP
>>> help
>>
>> This seems like a bug-fix. Is there a reason this didn't cause problems
>> up to now?
> Yes. The original code has some problem in theory, but not in practice
> because all code enclosed by
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
> #endif
>
> are in swapfile.c. But that will be not true in this patchset.

That's great info for the changelog.

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