mm: compaction: optimize compact_memory to comply with the admin-guide
For the /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory file, the admin-guide states: When 1 is written to the file, all zones are compacted such that free memory is available in contiguous blocks where possible. This can be important for example in the allocation of huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required But it was not strictly followed, writing any value would cause all zones to be compacted. It has been slightly optimized to comply with the admin-guide. Enforce the 1 on the unlikely chance that the sysctl handler is ever extended to do something different. Commit ef498438 ("mm/compaction: remove unused variable sysctl_compact_memory") has also been optimized a bit here, as the declaration in the external header file has been eliminated, and sysctl_compact_memory also needs to be verified. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add __read_mostly, per Mel] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_DFF54DB2A60F3333F97D3F6B5441519B050A@qq.comSigned-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: William Lam <william.lam@bytedance.com> Cc: Pintu Kumar <pintu@codeaurora.org> Cc: Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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