On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > + /* > > + * Warn that /proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated, see > > + * Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. > > + */ > > + printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s (%d): /proc/%d/oom_adj is deprecated, " > > + "please use /proc/%d/oom_score_adj instead.\n", > > + current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), > > + task_pid_nr(task), task_pid_nr(task)); > > task->signal->oom_adj = oom_adjust; > > Sorry, we can't accept this. oom_adj is one of most freqently used > tuning knob. putting this one makes a lot of confusion. > We? Who are you representing? The deprecation of this tunable was suggested by Andrew since it is replaced with a more powerful and finer-grained tunable, oom_score_adj. The deprecation date is two years from now which gives plenty of opportunity for users to use the new, well-documented interface. > In addition, this knob is used from some applications (please google > by google code search or something else). that said, an enduser can't > stop the warning. that makes a lot of frustration. NO. > They can report it over the two year period and hopefully get it fixed up, this isn't a BUG(), it's a printk_once(). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>