From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f72.google.com (mail-lf0-f72.google.com [209.85.215.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B264B6B0387 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:42:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-lf0-f72.google.com with SMTP id x128so44650154lfa.0 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from SELDSEGREL01.sonyericsson.com (seldsegrel01.sonyericsson.com. [37.139.156.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q11si6339908lfh.105.2017.02.13.07.42.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:42:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 staging-next] android: Collect statistics from lowmemorykiller References: <9febd4f7-a0a7-5f52-e67b-df3163814ac5@sonymobile.com> <20170209192640.GC31906@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170209200737.GB11098@kroah.com> <20170209205407.GF31906@dhcp22.suse.cz> <845d420f-dd26-fb48-c8ef-10ca1995daf8@sonymobile.com> <20170210075149.GA17166@kroah.com> <20170210075949.GB10893@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170210091459.GF10893@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: peter enderborg Message-ID: <375245cc-11ba-4c93-9afa-5332cf43bec6@sonymobile.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:42:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170210091459.GF10893@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Riley Andrews , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Arve_Hj=c3=b8nnev=c3=a5g?= , Linus Torvalds On 02/10/2017 10:15 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 10-02-17 10:05:34, peter enderborg wrote: >> On 02/10/2017 08:59 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] >>> The approach was wrong from the day 1. Abusing slab shrinkers >>> is just a bad place to stick this logic. This all belongs to the >>> userspace. >> But now it is there and we have to stick with it. > It is also adding maintenance cost. Just have a look at the git log and > check how many patches were just a result of the core changes which > needed a sync. > > I seriously doubt that any of the android devices can run natively on > the Vanilla kernel so insisting on keeping this code in staging doesn't > give much sense to me. I guess that we more than a few that would like to see that. We have http://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/how-to-build-and-flash-a-linux-kernel/how-to-build-mainline-linux-for-xperia-devices/ It is not the latest on anything and it is not on par with commercial bundled software. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org