On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote: > This changelog has deteriorated :( We should provide sufficient info so > that people will be able to determine whether this patch will fix a > problem they or their customers are observing. And so that people who > maintain -stable and its derivatives can decide whether to backport it. > > I went back and stole some text from the v1 patch. Please review the > result. The changelog would be even better if it were to describe the > new behaviour under the problematic workloads. > The new changelog looks fine with the exception of the mention of sshd which typically sets itself to be disabled from oom killing altogether. > We don't think -stable needs this? > Nobody has reported it in over three years as causing an issue, probably because people typically have enough memory that oom kills don't come from a ton of small processes allocating memory that can't be reclaimed, there's usually at least one large process to kill. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>