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mm: clarify COMPACTION Kconfig text
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 22:17:05 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:39:35 +0000 (17:39 -0700)
commitef049e2dc300c625792ee16e61a8870c4541596a
tree37b8cea65bfa8d21ab2283bb62d0d6554a002986
parent7856a8721aa1e83fe6ca19a5910d847290adb5dd
mm: clarify COMPACTION Kconfig text

The current wording of the COMPACTION Kconfig help text doesn't
emphasise that disabling COMPACTION might cripple the page allocator
which relies on the compaction quite heavily for high order requests and
an unexpected OOM can happen with the lack of compaction.  Make sure we
are vocal about that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823091726.GK23577@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/Kconfig