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Message-ID: <20071030133125.3458420c@cuia.boston.redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:31:25 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
drepper@...hat.com
Subject: Re: OOM notifications
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:55:25 +0100
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
> Hmm, that's right, but still the kernel->userspace interface could be via
> netlink (which is much more flexible than signals etc.) and then in userspace
> we could implement also some simple interface (UNIX socket?) for server like
> apps...
I think we all agree that it should not be a Unix signal, if only
because glibc cannot manipulate memory pools from signal handlers :)
The low memory message (for lack of a better word) needs to get to
userspace over a file descriptor, which the process can select() or
poll() on from its main loop.
Whether that is a device node, a sysfs file, a netlink socket or
something else ... I don't particularly care :)
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