The patch titled oom: remove references to old badness() function has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function.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: remove references to old badness() function From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj | 2 +- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 2 +- include/linux/oom.h | 4 ---- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function +++ a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspac A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or - decrease the badness() score linearly. This interface will replace + decrease the badness score linearly. This interface will replace /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function +++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspac A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or - decrease the badness() score linearly. This interface will replace + decrease the badness score linearly. This interface will replace /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this diff -puN include/linux/oom.h~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function include/linux/oom.h --- a/include/linux/oom.h~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function +++ a/include/linux/oom.h @@ -64,10 +64,6 @@ static inline void oom_killer_enable(voi oom_killer_disabled = false; } -/* The badness from the OOM killer */ -extern unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem, - const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long uptime); - extern struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p); /* sysctls */ diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ /* * If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill, - * the one with the highest badness() score is sacrificed for its + * the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its * parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while * still freeing memory. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch mm-page_cgroupc-simplify-code-by-using-section_align_up-and-section_align_down-macros.patch oom-remove-references-to-old-badness-function.patch cpusets-randomize-node-rotor-used-in-cpuset_mem_spread_node.patch cpusets-randomize-node-rotor-used-in-cpuset_mem_spread_node-fix-2.patch cpusets-randomize-node-rotor-used-in-cpuset_mem_spread_node-cpusets-initialize-spread-rotor-lazily.patch cpusets-randomize-node-rotor-used-in-cpuset_mem_spread_node-cpusets-initialize-spread-rotor-lazily-fix.patch proc-pid-fdinfo-add-cloexec-information.patch proc-pid-fdinfo-add-cloexec-information-fix.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