linux-kernel - Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:10:07 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...os.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage
 of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:41 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> This is
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/unassigned-bugs/2010-December/016850.html
> from almost two years ago.  The tunable had been on the feature removal
> schedule for two years and would have emitted a warning if you had run on
> any kernel during that time.  KDE 4.6.1 and later from two years ago work
> fine.

Doesn't matter. If something breaks real users, it needs to get
reverted (or worked around).

The feature-removal.txt file was a joke, and was used as an excuse for
exactly the above kind of bad behavior. It got removed for good
reasons.

The work-around might be as simple as creating an oom_adj file that
simply doesn't do anything.

               Linus
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