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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index d3bafe4ff32b..e23a9e704536 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -337,12 +337,13 @@ struct zone { unsigned long nr_reserved_highatomic; /* - * We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be freeable - * or/and it will be released eventually, so to avoid totally wasting several - * GB of ram we must reserve some of the lower zone memory (otherwise we risk - * to run OOM on the lower zones despite there's tons of freeable ram - * on the higher zones). This array is recalculated at runtime if the - * sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl changes. + * We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be + * freeable or/and it will be released eventually, so to avoid totally + * wasting several GB of ram we must reserve some of the lower zone + * memory (otherwise we risk to run OOM on the lower zones despite + * there being tons of freeable ram on the higher zones). This array is + * recalculated at runtime if the sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl + * changes. */ long lowmem_reserve[MAX_NR_ZONES]; |