On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:34:24 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

I just spent a happy half hour reliving this thread and ended up
deciding I agreed with everyone!  I appears that many more emails are
needed so I think I'll drop
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcg-avoid-oom-notification-when-current-needs-access-to-memory-reserves.patch
for now.

The claim that
mm-memcg-avoid-oom-notification-when-current-needs-access-to-memory-reserves.patch
will impact existing userspace seems a bit dubious to me.

I'm not sure why this was dropped since it's vitally needed for any sane 
userspace oom handler to be effective.

It was dropped because the other memcg developers disagreed with it.

I'd really prefer not to have to spend a great amount of time parsing
argumentative and repetitive emails to make a tie-break decision which
may well be wrong anyway.

Please work with the other guys to find an acceptable implementation. 
There must be *something* we can do?