From 51b1bd2ace1595b72956224deda349efa880b693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:19:47 -0700 Subject: oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable /proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be removed. The target date for removal is August 2012. A warning will be printed to the kernel log if a task attempts to use this interface. Future warning will be suppressed until the kernel is rebooted to prevent spamming the kernel log. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 71f0fea1058f..56cee4727b1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -151,6 +151,31 @@ Who: Eric Biederman --------------------------- +What: /proc//oom_adj +When: August 2012 +Why: /proc//oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's + badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel + is out of memory. + + The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of + this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated. The value was + implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness() + function that did not have any precise units of measure. With the + rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the + task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score + exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity. + + A much more powerful interface, /proc//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 + /proc//oom_adj. + + A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this + deprecated interface. After it is printed once, future warnings will be + suppressed until the kernel is rebooted. + +--------------------------- + What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c -- cgit v1.2.3