Re: [PATCH -mm] proc: don't take ->siglock for /proc/pid/oom_adj

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> ->siglock is no longer needed to access task->signal, change
> oom_adjust_read() and oom_adjust_write() to read/write oom_adj
> lockless.
> 
> Yes, this means that "echo 2 >oom_adj" and "echo 1 >oom_adj"
> can race and the second write can win, but I hope this is OK.
> 

Ok, but could you base this on -mm at 
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ since an additional tunable has 
been added (oom_score_adj), which does the same thing?
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