On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:12:25 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Changelog: > - devided into oom tracepoint and task tracepoint. > - task tracepoint traces fork/rename > - oom tracepoint traces modification to oom_score_adj. > > dropped acks because of total design changes. > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH] tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj. > > oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer. One of problem > is that it's inherited at fork(). When a daemon set oom_score_adj and > make children, it's hard to know where the value is set. This sounds like a really thin justification for patching the kernel. "Help! I don't know what my code is doing!". Alternatives would include grepping your source code for "oom_score_adj", or running "strace -f"! I suspect you did have a good reason for making this change, but it wasn't explained very well? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>