Re: Fwd: About the Android Low Memory Killer

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Viacheslav Kovalevskyi wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I have no recommendations for something like that, other than the
code itself.  Good luck!

greg k-h
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