Hi!
> the core of this patch series.
> add /dev/mem_notify device for notification low memory to user process.
>
> <usage examle>
>
> fd = open("/dev/mem_notify", O_RDONLY);
> if (fd < 0) {
> exit(1);
> }
> pollfds.fd = fd;
> pollfds.events = POLLIN;
> pollfds.revents = 0;
> err = poll(&pollfds, 1, -1); // wake up at low memory
>
> ...
> </usage example>
Nice, this is really needed for openmoko, zaurus, etc....
But this changelog needs to go into Documentation/...
...and /dev/mem_notify is really a bad name. /dev/memory_low?
/dev/oom?
Pavel
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