On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:46:37PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Commit e27be240df53 ("mm: memcg: make sure memory.events is
> uptodate when waking pollers") converted most of memcg event
> counters to per-memcg atomics, which made them less confusing
> for a user. The "oom_kill" counter remained untouched, so now
> it behaves differently than other counters (including "oom").
> This adds nothing but confusion.
>
> Let's fix this by adding the MEMCG_OOM_KILL event, and follow
> the MEMCG_OOM approach. This also removes a hack from
> count_memcg_event_mm(), introduced earlier specially for the
> OOM_KILL counter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>