Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/10] fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU and !PROC_PAGE_MONITORbuild

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:02:23 +0900
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > >  config UNEVICTABLE_LRU
> > >  	bool "Add LRU list to track non-evictable pages"
> > >  	default y
> > > +	select PAGE_WALKER
> > 
> > So what do we do?  Make UNEVICTABLE_LRU depend on CONFIG_MMU?  That
> > would be even worse than what we have now.
> 
> I'm not sure about what do we do. but I'd prefer "depends on MMU".
> because current munlock implementation need pagewalker.
> So, munlock rewriting have high risk rather than change depend on.
> 
> Rik, What do you think?

I suspect that systems without an MMU will not run into
page replacement scalability issues, so making the
UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option depend on MMU should be
ok.

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