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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:55:50 +0900 (JST)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>,
        Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, pageexec@...email.hu,
        Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"

oom_adj is not only used for kernel knob, but also used for
application interface.
Then, adding new knob is no good reason to deprecate it.

Also, after former patch, oom_score_adj can't be used for setting
OOM_DISABLE. We need "echo -17 > /proc/<pid>/oom_adj" thing.

This reverts commit 51b1bd2ace1595b72956224deda349efa880b693.
---
 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   25 -------------------------
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt         |    3 ---
 fs/proc/base.c                             |    8 --------
 include/linux/oom.h                        |    3 ---
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 842aa9d..aff4d11 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -151,31 +151,6 @@ Who:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj
-When:	August 2012
-Why:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's
-	badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel
-	is out of memory.
-
-	The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of
-	this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated.  The value was
-	implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness()
-	function that did not have any precise units of measure.  With the
-	rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the
-	task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score
-	exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity.
-
-	A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was
-	introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or
-	decrease the badness() score linearly.  This interface will replace
-	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj.
-
-	A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this
-	deprecated interface.  After it is printed once, future warnings will be
-	suppressed until the kernel is rebooted.
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
 When:	August 2006
 Files:	arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a6aca87..cf1295c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1285,9 +1285,6 @@ scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj.
 Writing to /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj or /proc/<pid>/oom_adj will change the
 other with its scaled value.
 
-NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see
-Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
-
 Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first
 generation children with seperate address spaces instead, if possible.  This
 avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 90ba487..55a16f2 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1046,14 +1046,6 @@ static ssize_t oom_adjust_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		return -EACCES;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Warn that /proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated, see
-	 * Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
-	 */
-	printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s (%d): /proc/%d/oom_adj is deprecated, "
-			"please use /proc/%d/oom_score_adj instead.\n",
-			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
-			task_pid_nr(task), task_pid_nr(task));
 	task->signal->oom_adj = oom_adjust;
 
 	unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 21006dc..394f2e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 #define __INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H
 
 /*
- * /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated, see
- * Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
- *
  * /proc/<pid>/oom_adj set to -17 protects from the oom-killer
  */
 #define OOM_DISABLE (-17)
-- 
1.6.5.2



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