From b16d3d5a5219d01e9be5e586e5d50fbf1ca955ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: compaction: use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory, they are willing for that process to stall. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed