On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray > zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to > prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might abuse this > interface to implement OOM killer policies. > > Anyway, I think it would be preferable to kill it altogether rather than > play with its placing. It will always be a questionable API. >
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