Re: Fwd: About the Android Low Memory Killer

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:53 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 03:24:37PM +0100, Viacheslav Kovalevskyi wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Apologies for the complete nuby question, I want to help with porting
> > Android LMK (drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c) from the
> > staging to the master. Where I can find more information about the
> > current challenges that need to be solved before porting it to the
> > master?
>
> If you don't have experience with the mm core, I STRONGLY suggest that
> you not worry about this as the issues involved are tricky and people
> keep arguing about them.
>
> See the lwn.net writeup last week for details about why this isn't
> merged into the mainline kernel yet, and why it's probably not going to
> happen anytime soon (hint, missing infrastructure in the mm core).
>
> sorry,
> greg k-h

Thank you Greg for the response, it's always nice to receive the
response from the famous people =)

Could you recommend a good source (book?) about the MM core in Linux?

PS: at the moment i'm investigating Mail thread on the lwn
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