| commit | b72bdfa73603f2f81fbac651b9ae36807e877752 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | Thu Nov 05 18:50:32 2015 -0800 |
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | Thu Nov 05 19:34:48 2015 -0800 |
| tree | d302a8fb0e69169ef9e0749918ab6f0fd26ac2a9 | |
| parent | c12176d3368b9b36ae484d323d41e94be26f9b65 [diff] |
mm, oom: add comment for why oom_adj exists /proc/pid/oom_adj exists solely to avoid breaking existing userspace binaries that write to the tunable. Add a comment in the only possible location within the kernel tree to describe the situation and motivation for keeping it around. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>