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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:23:15 +0900 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:23:15 +0900 |
| commit | 9e2d8656f5e8aa214e66b462680cf86b210b74a8 (patch) | |
| tree | f67d62e896cedf75599ea45f9ecf9999c6ad24cd /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | 1ea4f4f8405cc1ceec23f2d261bc3775785e6712 (diff) | |
| parent | 9e695d2ecc8451cc2c1603d60b5c8e7f5581923a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
"A few misc things and very nearly all of the MM tree. A tremendous
amount of stuff (again), including a significant rbtree library
rework."
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (160 commits)
sparc64: Support transparent huge pages.
mm: thp: Use more portable PMD clearing sequenece in zap_huge_pmd().
mm: Add and use update_mmu_cache_pmd() in transparent huge page code.
sparc64: Document PGD and PMD layout.
sparc64: Eliminate PTE table memory wastage.
sparc64: Halve the size of PTE tables
sparc64: Only support 4MB huge pages and 8KB base pages.
memory-hotplug: suppress "Trying to free nonexistent resource <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY>" warning
mm: memcg: clean up mm_match_cgroup() signature
mm: document PageHuge somewhat
mm: use %pK for /proc/vmallocinfo
mm, thp: fix mlock statistics
mm, thp: fix mapped pages avoiding unevictable list on mlock
memory-hotplug: update memory block's state and notify userspace
memory-hotplug: preparation to notify memory block's state at memory hot remove
mm: avoid section mismatch warning for memblock_type_name
make GFP_NOTRACK definition unconditional
cma: decrease cc.nr_migratepages after reclaiming pagelist
CMA: migrate mlocked pages
kpageflags: fix wrong KPF_THP on non-huge compound pages
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj deleted file mode 100644 index 9a3cb88ade4..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj -When: August 2012 -Why: /proc/<pid>/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/<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 - /proc/<pid>/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. |