linux-kernel - [patch] mm, oom: add comment for why oom

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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:32:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Hongjie Fang (方洪杰) 
	<Hongjie.Fang@...eadtrum.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] mm, oom: add comment for why oom_adj exists

/proc/pid/oom_adj exists solely to avoid breaking existing userspace 
binaries that write to the tunable.

Add a comment in the only possible location within the kernel tree to 
describe the situation and motivation for keeping it around.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1032,6 +1032,16 @@ static ssize_t oom_adj_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
 	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, buffer, len);
 }
 
+/*
+ * /proc/pid/oom_adj exists solely for backwards compatibility with previous
+ * kernels.  The effective policy is defined by oom_score_adj, which has a
+ * different scale: oom_adj grew exponentially and oom_score_adj grows linearly.
+ * Values written to oom_adj are simply mapped linearly to oom_score_adj.
+ * Processes that become oom disabled via oom_adj will still be oom disabled
+ * with this implementation.
+ *
+ * oom_adj cannot be removed since existing userspace binaries use it.
+ */
 static ssize_t oom_adj_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 			     size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
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