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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOM killer meets userspace headers
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018150948.GA7371@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061018145305.GA5345@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:53:05PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Despite mm.h is not being exported header, it does contain one thing
> which is part of userspace ABI -- value disabling OOM killer. So,
> a) export mm.h to userspace
> b) got OOM_DISABLE disable define out of __KERNEL__ prison.
> c) turn bound values suitable for /proc/$PID/oom_adj into defines and export
>    them too.
> d) put some headers into __KERNEL__ prison. It'd bizarre to include mm.h and
>    get capability stuff.

NACK, mm.h is far too big for that.  Just create a tiny oom.h for those
values.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 14:53 Alexey Dobriyan
2006-10-18 15:05 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 18:46   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-10-18 19:12     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 19:24       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-10-18 19:34         ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 15:08 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-18 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-10-18 18:21   ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Dobriyan

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