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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] oom: Do not invoke oom notifiers on sysrq+f
On Tue 14-07-15 14:58:55, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray
> > zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to
> > prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might abuse this
> > interface to implement OOM killer policies.
> >
> > Anyway, I think it would be preferable to kill it altogether rather than
> > play with its placing. It will always be a questionable API.
> >
>
> Agreed.

In such a case it would be still good to fix the bug fixed by this
patch.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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