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_oom_dump_tasks, sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task, and sysctl_panic_on_oom) are better declared in include/linux/oom.h rather than kernel/sysctl.c. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/oom.h | 5 +++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 6 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 @@ -44,5 +44,10 @@ static inline void oom_killer_enable(voi { oom_killer_disabled = false; } + +/* sysctls */ +extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; +extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; +extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; #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 @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <linux/kprobes.h> #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h> +#include <linux/oom.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> @@ -87,9 +88,6 @@ /* 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_allocating_task; -extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; extern int max_threads; extern int core_uses_pid; extern int suid_dumpable; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are avr32-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch oom-check-pf_kthread-instead-of-mm-to-skip-kthreads.patch oom-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives.patch oom-dump_tasks-use-find_lock_task_mm-too.patch oom-pf_exiting-check-should-take-mm-into-account.patch oom-give-current-access-to-memory-reserves-if-it-has-been-killed.patch oom-avoid-sending-exiting-tasks-a-sigkill.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-enable-oom-tasklist-dump-by-default.patch oom-avoid-oom-killer-for-lowmem-allocations.patch oom-extract-panic-helper-function.patch oom-remove-special-handling-for-pagefault-ooms.patch oom-move-sysctl-declarations-to-oomh.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