From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161138AbWJRPJv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:09:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161152AbWJRPJv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:09:51 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:38048 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161138AbWJRPJu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:09:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:48 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOM killer meets userspace headers Message-ID: <20061018150948.GA7371@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061018145305.GA5345@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061018145305.GA5345@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.