From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754068AbeDZTqP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:46:15 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:39052 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751933AbeDZTqB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:46:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:45:57 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: James Bottomley , Michal Hocko , David Rientjes , dm-devel@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , linux-mm@kvack.org, edumazet@google.com, Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Miller , Vlastimil Babka Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options Message-ID: <20180426223925-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1524753932.3226.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1524756256.3226.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180426184845-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180426214011-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180426220523-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:36:14PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > People on this list argue "this should be a kernel parameter". How about making it a writeable attribute, so it's easy to turn on/off after boot. Then you can keep it deterministic, userspace can play with the attribute at random if it wants to. -- MST