The patch titled oom: move sysctl declarations to oom.h has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oom: move sysctl declarations to oom.h From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> The three oom killer sysctl variables (sysctl_panic_on_oom, sysctl_oom_forkbomb_thres, and sysctl_oom_kill_quick) are better declared in include/linux/oom.h rather than kernel/sysctl.c. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/oom.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/oom.h~oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh include/linux/oom.h --- a/include/linux/oom.h~oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh +++ a/include/linux/oom.h @@ -61,5 +61,11 @@ static inline void oom_killer_enable(voi { oom_killer_disabled = false; } + +/* sysctls */ +extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; +extern int sysctl_oom_forkbomb_thres; +extern int sysctl_oom_kill_quick; + #endif /* __KERNEL__*/ #endif /* _INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H */ diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ #include <linux/slow-work.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <linux/kprobes.h> +#include <linux/oom.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> @@ -81,9 +82,6 @@ /* External variables not in a header file. */ extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; -extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; -extern int sysctl_oom_kill_quick; -extern int sysctl_oom_forkbomb_thres; extern int max_threads; extern int core_uses_pid; extern int suid_dumpable; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-code.patch oom-filter-tasks-not-sharing-the-same-cpuset.patch oom-sacrifice-child-with-highest-badness-score-for-parent.patch oom-select-task-from-tasklist-for-mempolicy-ooms.patch oom-remove-special-handling-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-badness-heuristic-rewrite.patch oom-deprecate-oom_adj-tunable.patch oom-replace-sysctls-with-quick-mode.patch oom-avoid-oom-killer-for-lowmem-allocations.patch oom-remove-unnecessary-code-and-cleanup.patch oom-default-to-killing-current-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-avoid-race-for-oom-killed-tasks-detaching-mm-prior-to-exit.patch mempolicy-remove-case-mpol_interleave-from-policy_zonelist.patch mempolicy-remove-redundant-check.patch mempolicy-dont-call-mpol_set_nodemask-when-no_context.patch mempolicy-lose-unnecessary-loop-variable-in-mpol_parse_str.patch mempolicy-rename-policy_types-and-cleanup-initialization.patch mempolicy-factor-mpol_shared_policy_init-return-paths.patch mempolicy-document-cpuset-interaction-with-tmpfs-mpol-mount-option.patch mm-default-to-node-zonelist-ordering-when-nodes-have-only-lowmem.patch oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter.patch memcg-oom-wakeup-filter-update.patch memcg-oom-notifier.patch memcg-oom-notifier-update.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status.patch memcg-oom-kill-disable-and-oom-status-update.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html