On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:07:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > CONFIG_MEMCG might be currently enabled also for !MMU architectures > which was probably an omission because Balbir had this on the TODO > list section (https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/16/59) > " > Only when CONFIG_MMU is enabled, is the virtual address space control > enabled. Should we do this for nommu cases as well? My suspicion is > that we don't have to. > " > I do not see any traces for !MMU requests after then. The code compiles > with !MMU but I haven't heard about anybody using it in the real life > so it is not clear to me whether it works and it is usable at all > considering how !MMU configuration is restricted. > > Let's make CONFIG_MEMCG depend on CONFIG_MMU to make our support > explicit and also to get rid of few ifdefs in the code base. > > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Sorry about the misunderstanding, I actually acked Chen's patch. As I said, there is nothing inherent in memcg that would prevent using it on NOMMU systems except for this charges-follow-tasks feature, so I'd rather fix the compiler warning than adding this dependency. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
