From 272bb3d8759448b2017aee149d226d7bf2d2bbb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Walker Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:32:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Staging: android: lowmemorykiller: delete the decription file MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Move the lowmemorykiller.txt into the actual source file which is really the correct place for it, and delete lowmemorykiller.txt. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg Cc: Brian Swetland Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | 16 ---------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c index fb066a3e17fe..f13c6fc76c44 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c @@ -1,4 +1,20 @@ /* drivers/misc/lowmemorykiller.c + * + * The lowmemorykiller driver lets user-space specify a set of memory thresholds + * where processes with a range of oom_adj values will get killed. Specify the + * minimum oom_adj values in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and the + * number of free pages in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree. Both + * files take a comma separated list of numbers in ascending order. + * + * For example, write "0,8" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and + * "1024,4096" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree to kill processes + * with a oom_adj value of 8 or higher when the free memory drops below 4096 pages + * and kill processes with a oom_adj value of 0 or higher when the free memory + * drops below 1024 pages. + * + * The driver considers memory used for caches to be free, but if a large + * percentage of the cached memory is locked this can be very inaccurate + * and processes may not get killed until the normal oom killer is triggered. * * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Google, Inc. * diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bd5c0c028968..000000000000 --- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -The lowmemorykiller driver lets user-space specify a set of memory thresholds -where processes with a range of oom_adj values will get killed. Specify the -minimum oom_adj values in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and the -number of free pages in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree. Both -files take a comma separated list of numbers in ascending order. - -For example, write "0,8" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and -"1024,4096" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree to kill processes -with a oom_adj value of 8 or higher when the free memory drops below 4096 pages -and kill processes with a oom_adj value of 0 or higher when the free memory -drops below 1024 pages. - -The driver considers memory used for caches to be free, but if a large -percentage of the cached memory is locked this can be very inaccurate -and processes may not get killed until the normal oom killer is triggered. - -- 2.20.1