On Wed 06-09-17 18:40:43, Roman Gushchin wrote:
[...]
> >From f6e2339926a07500834d86548f3f116af7335d71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:43:44 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, oom: first step towards oom_kill_allocating_task
> deprecation
>
> The oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl which causes the OOM killer
> to simple kill the allocating task is useless. Killing the random
useless is quite strong ;) I would say dubious.
> task is not the best idea.
>
> Nobody likes it, and hopefully nobody uses it.
> We want to completely deprecate it at some point.
>
> To make a first step towards deprecation, let's warn potential
> users about deprecation plans.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov....@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Other than that
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> ---
> kernel/sysctl.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 655686d546cb..9158f1980584 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -220,6 +220,17 @@ static int sysrq_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table,
> int write,
>
> #endif
>
> +static int proc_oom_kill_allocating_tasks(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
> + loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> + pr_warn_once("The oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl will be deprecated.\n"
> + "If you're using it, please, report to "
> + "linux...@kvack.kernel.org.\n");
> +
> + return proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> +}
> +
> static struct ctl_table kern_table[];
> static struct ctl_table vm_table[];
> static struct ctl_table fs_table[];
> @@ -1235,7 +1246,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
> .data = &sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task,
> .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task),
> .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
> + .proc_handler = proc_oom_kill_allocating_tasks,
> },
> {
> .procname = "oom_dump_tasks",
> --
> 2.13.5
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
