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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][BUGFIX] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> oom_adj is not only used for kernel knob, but also used for
> application interface.
> Then, adding new knob is no good reason to deprecate it.
> 
> Also, after former patch, oom_score_adj can't be used for setting
> OOM_DISABLE. We need "echo -17 > /proc/<pid>/oom_adj" thing.
> 
> This reverts commit 51b1bd2ace1595b72956224deda349efa880b693.

Since I nacked the parent patch of this, I implicitly nack this one as 
well since oom_score_adj shouldn't be going anywhere.  The way to disable 
oom killing for a task via the new interface, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is 
by OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN as specified in the documentation.
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