From: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@lycos.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dave@gnu.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:50:27 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545706980.41498.1352739027798.JavaMail.mail@webmail19> (raw)
Hello,
If I remember correctly kernel developers promised not to break user APIs in the Linux kernel
however in Linux 3.7 a /proc/<PID>/oom_adj file has been totally removed which makes KDE 3.5.x
(and I suppose TDE) unusable as they depend on this file and simply refuse to start in its absence.
Also, udev in CentOS/RHEL/Scientific and other old Linux'es depend on this file (which is not critical
but not pleasant anyway).
I'm not a hacker/programmer to edit and recompile udev/KDE/TDE sources so I'd be glad if
this file was restored.
If the interface behind this file was totally removed and there's no way you can bring it back,
can I politely ask to export a dummy oom_adj file which allows the same mode of access yet
the kernel does nothing in return.
--
Thank you,
Artem
next reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 16:50 Artem S. Tashkinov [this message]
2012-11-12 21:41 ` OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE David Rientjes
2012-11-13 1:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-13 1:18 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-13 1:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-13 1:53 ` [patch for-3.7] mm, oom: reintroduce /proc/pid/oom_adj David Rientjes
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