Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754399Ab2KMBKa (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:10:30 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:56030 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754015Ab2KMBK3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:10:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <545706980.41498.1352739027798.JavaMail.mail@webmail19> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:10:07 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: CRPolDe77re9r_3Qb5U5RSUCzq0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE To: David Rientjes Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Davidlohr Bueso , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 25 On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:41 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > This is > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/unassigned-bugs/2010-December/016850.html > from almost two years ago. The tunable had been on the feature removal > schedule for two years and would have emitted a warning if you had run on > any kernel during that time. KDE 4.6.1 and later from two years ago work > fine. Doesn't matter. If something breaks real users, it needs to get reverted (or worked around). The feature-removal.txt file was a joke, and was used as an excuse for exactly the above kind of bad behavior. It got removed for good reasons. The work-around might be as simple as creating an oom_adj file that simply doesn't do anything. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/