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mm, oom: add description of struct oom_control
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Describe the purpose of struct oom_control and what each member does.

Also make gfp_mask and order const since they are never manipulated or
passed to functions that discard the qualifier.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 8, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -12,11 +12,25 @@ struct notifier_block;
struct mem_cgroup;
struct task_struct;

/*
* Details of the page allocation that triggered the oom killer that are used to
* determine what should be killed.
*/
struct oom_control {
/* Used to determine cpuset */
struct zonelist *zonelist;
nodemask_t *nodemask;
gfp_t gfp_mask;
int order;

/* Used to determine mempolicy */
nodemask_t *nodemask;

/* Used to determine cpuset and node locality requirement */
const gfp_t gfp_mask;

/*
* order == -1 means the oom kill is required by sysrq, otherwise only
* for display purposes.
*/
const int order;
};

/*
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