Re: [PATCH] oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down

[Bodo Eggert]

Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as its
> enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj
> down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease
> its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set
> it or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked
> it has oom_score_adj of 0, each tab

process

> could decrease it back from 0 upon 
> activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something
> higher.



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