linux-kernel - Re: + oom-move-constraints-to-enum.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0709211305070.8826@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andrea@...e.de, clameter@....com,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: + oom-move-constraints-to-enum.patch added to -mm tree

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:10:57AM -0700, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > The OOM killer's CONSTRAINT definitions are really more appropriate in an
> > enum, so define them in include/linux/oom.h.
> 
> OK with enum, but this series do not bring user outside of
> mm/oom_kill.c, so why move them to header.
> 

I'm not ruling it out, it may be helpful to pass the enum to 
out_of_memory() when we serialize based on GFP_DMA allocations or memory 
policies.
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