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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] doc, mm: clarify /proc/<pid>/oom_score value range
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 2:26 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000]
> as described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that
> fact explicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 8e3b5dffcfa8..78a0dec323a3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -1673,6 +1673,9 @@ requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
> 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> +Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is effectively
> +in range [0,2000].
> +

[0, 2000] may be not a proper range, see my reply in another thread.[1]
As this value hasn't been documented before and nobody notices that, I
think there might be no user really care about it before.
So we should discuss the proper range if we really think the user will
care about this value.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CALOAHbAvj-gWZMLef=PuKTfDScwfM8gPPX0evzjoref1bG=zwA@mail.gmail.com/T/#m2332c3e6b7f869383cb74ab3a0f7b6c670b3b23b

> This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for
> any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which
> process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation.
> --
> 2.27.0
>


--
Thanks
Yafang

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