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To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The proposal also aims at much richer interface to define the
> oom behavior.

Oh yeah, I'm not defending any of that prctl() nonsense.

Just saying that from a math / control theory point of view, the current
thing is a abhorrent failure.