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authorDavid Rientjes2015-11-06 03:50:32 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2015-11-06 04:34:48 +0100
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parentmemcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures. (diff)
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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>
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