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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:41:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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 Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:

> > Explain how this can possibly be consistent if your system includes two
> > processes, one writing oom_adj values and one writing oom_score_adj
> > values, and the kernel has this new option enabled?
> 
> These values are all written by the same process. If you want to
> improve this, the lowmemorykiller will need a separate score_adj
> parameter so that it knows for sure which type of value it receives.
> You changed the meaning of /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj.
> This patch restores the old behavior as long as the values you write
> are within the range oom_adj, while still supporting the new behavior
> you added in the likely case that one of the values are out of range
> for oom_adj.
> 

Then remove the config option entirely and add a new score_adj file that 
gets mapped from writes to adj.  No reason to tie the kernel config to a 
particular userspace implementation (even though it's been like this for 
over a year).  Nack to this patch.