Re: [PATCH] trace: Set oom_score_adj to maximum for ring bufferallocating process

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 17:44 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote:

> That said, I am open to changing it if Steven and you think using
> oom_killer_disabled is a better solution.

My biggest concern is that we are setting policy in the kernel. If you
are concerned about this, why not just have the process that is going to
increase the size of the ring buffer adjust its own oom policy
with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj ? Only a privilege process can increase
the size of the ring buffer so it's not like we are worried about any
normal user task upping the ring buffer to kill other processes.

-- Steve


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