linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Add config option to support oom

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1302271417000.7155@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:18:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Add config option
 to support oom_adj values

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, John Stultz wrote:

> From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
> 
> The conversion to use oom_score_adj instead of the deprecated oom_adj
> values breaks existing user-space code. Add a config option to convert
> oom_adj values written to oom_score_adj values if they appear to be
> valid oom_adj values.
> 

Umm, writes to /proc/pid/oom_adj already are converted to the 
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj scale linearly.  Heavy NACK to this patch since 
oom_adj is completely deprecated.