linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] oom: remove totalpage normalization from oom

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikyxAZBp63FxY26_MS6afDZO59r2FNoWF9W-GmT@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, pageexec@...email.hu,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] oom: remove totalpage normalization from oom_badness()

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>
>> > Current oom_score_adj is completely broken because It is strongly bound
>> > google usecase and ignore other all.
>> >
>>
>> We've talked about this issue three times already.  The last two times
>> you've sent a revert patch, you failed to followup on the threads:
>>
>>       http://marc.info/?t=128272938200002
>>       http://marc.info/?t=128324705200002
>>
>> And now you've gone above Andrew, who is the maintainer of this code, and
>> straight to Linus.  Between that and your failure to respond to my answers
>> to your questions, I'm really stunned at how unprofessional you've handled
>> this.
>
> Selfish must die. you failed to persuade to me. and I havgen't get anyone's objection.
> Then, I don't care your ugly whining.

I haven't followed the discussion at all so I hope you don't mind me
jumping in. Are there some real-world bug reports where OOM rewrite is
to blame? Why haven't those been fixed?

                        Pekka
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