linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix oom

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Date:   Tue, 8 May 2018 13:49:16 +0100
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     <kernel-team@...com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix oom_kill event handling

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:04:02PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Commit e27be240df53 ("mm: memcg: make sure memory.events is
> uptodate when waking pollers") converted most of memcg event
> counters to per-memcg atomics, which made them less confusing
> for a user. The "oom_kill" counter remained untouched, so now
> it behaves differently than other counters (including "oom").
> This adds nothing but confusion.

Please, ignore this one. Version 2 is properly rebased on top
of the mm tree.

Thanks!