mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"

[net-next-2.6.git] / Documentation / filesystems / proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index fad18f9456e4f048f277bac165601f499c1e041e..ffead13f9443fd7d11b63e2cd3a6ffb15c0f1994 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1167,13 +1167,11 @@ CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS
 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
 ------------------------------------------------------
 
-This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes should
-be killed in an out-of-memory situation.  The oom_adj value is a characteristic
-of the task's mm, so all threads that share an mm with pid will have the same
-oom_adj value.  A high value will increase the likelihood of this process being
-killed by the oom-killer.  Valid values are in the range -16 to +15 as
-explained below and a special value of -17, which disables oom-killing
-altogether for threads sharing pid's mm.
+This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes
+should be killed in an  out-of-memory  situation.  Giving it a high score will
+increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer.  Valid
+values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables
+oom-killing altogether for this process.
 
 The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others
 based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process
@@ -1187,9 +1185,6 @@ the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers
 are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make
 parent less preferable than the child.
 
-/proc/<pid>/oom_adj cannot be changed for kthreads since they are immune from
-oom-killing already.
-
 /proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score.
 
 The following heuristics are then applied: