From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mmotm] mm: introduce oom_adj_child
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:47:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6599ad830907271747v578fb78cna2d43856f8fba7c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907271739230.29815@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, David Rientjes<rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Paul Menage wrote:
>
>> > Ok, we can allow oom_adj_child to be less than oom_adj for
>> > CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
>>
>> Sounds fine to me, since you already need CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to set
>> oom_adj anyway. But actually, shouldn't you just be requiring
>> CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to set oom_adj_child at all?
>>
>
> Tasks can elevate their own oom_adj value without that capability.
OK, I see that changed since 2.6.18.
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 21:50 David Rientjes
2009-07-27 23:48 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-28 0:10 ` David Rientjes
2009-07-28 0:30 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-28 0:45 ` David Rientjes
2009-07-28 0:47 ` Paul Menage [this message]
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