On Tue 14-07-15 14:58:55, David Rientjes wrote: > 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. > > > > Agreed.
In such a case it would be still good to fix the bug fixed by this patch. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
