Re: [PATCH 2/2][BUGFIX] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"

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From: David Rientjes

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][BUGFIX] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"

Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 3:27 am

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

quoted text> oom_adj is not only used for kernel knob, but also used for
> application interface.
> Then, adding new knob is no good reason to deprecate it.
> 
> Also, after former patch, oom_score_adj can't be used for setting
> OOM_DISABLE. We need "echo -17 > /proc/<pid>/oom_adj" thing.
> 
> This reverts commit 51b1bd2ace1595b72956224deda349efa880b693.

Since I nacked the parent patch of this, I implicitly nack this one as 
well since oom_score_adj shouldn't be going anywhere.  The way to disable 
oom killing for a task via the new interface, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is 
by OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN as specified in the documentation.
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[PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalization fr ..., KOSAKI Motohiro, (Wed Aug 25, 2:42 am)

[PATCH 2/2][BUGFIX] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable", KOSAKI Motohiro, (Wed Aug 25, 2:42 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Aug 25, 3:25 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/2][BUGFIX] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tun ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Aug 25, 3:27 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Wed Aug 25, 5:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Aug 25, 5:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Wed Aug 25, 6:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Wed Aug 25, 6:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Aug 25, 7:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Wed Aug 25, 8:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Aug 25, 8:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., KOSAKI Motohiro, (Sun Aug 29, 7:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][BUGFIX] oom: remove totalpage normalizatio ..., David Rientjes, (Wed Sep 1, 3:06 pm)