On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:21:58 +0100 Michal Hocko <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sorry but the patch which added swapaccount parameter is not > correct (we have discussed it https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/103). > I didn't get the way how __setup parameters are handled correctly. > The patch bellow fixes that. > > I am CCing stable as well because the patch got into .37 kernel. > > --- > >From 144c2e8aed27d82d48217896ee1f58dbaa7f1f84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:12:41 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] memsw: handle swapaccount kernel parameter correctly > > __setup based kernel command line parameters handled in > obsolete_checksetup provides the parameter value including = (more > precisely everything right after the parameter name) so we have to check > for =0 resp. =1 here. If no value is given then we get an empty string > rather then NULL. This doesn't provide a description of the bug which just got fixed. >From reading the code I think the current behaviour is "swapaccount": works OK "noswapaccount": works OK "swapaccount=0": doesn't do anything "swapaccount=1": doesn't do anything but I might be wrong about that. Please send a changelog update to clarify all this. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
