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On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:

> > > Just drop the events may be best. Then we know if someone is using it.
> >
> > I would be worried that a lack of events might be surprising and a
> > potential userspace wouldn't know that something has changed.
>
> It would be great to land with some decision here.

Drop the events. These are internal kernel structures and supporting
notifiers to userspace is a bit unusual.