/proc/<pid>/oom_adj has been deprecated since kernel 2.6.36 (and will
be removed around 08-2012) due to the rework of the badness heuristics. 
oom_score_adj is the replacement.

We keep a fallback to the old interface for compatibility with older
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>

diff -Nurp mkinitrd-6.0.93.orig/nash/hotplug.c mkinitrd-6.0.93/nash/hotplug.c
--- mkinitrd-6.0.93.orig/nash/hotplug.c	2009-09-02 11:41:45.000000000 +0300
+++ mkinitrd-6.0.93/nash/hotplug.c	2011-08-02 18:50:05.560629881 +0300
@@ -670,10 +670,20 @@ daemonize(nashContext *nc)
     signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
 #endif /* FWDEBUG */
 
-    i = open("/proc/self/oom_adj", O_RDWR);
+    /* new oom-killer interface */
+    i = open("/proc/self/oom_score_adj", O_RDWR);
     if (i >= 0) {
-        write(i, "-17", 3);
+	/* OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN == -1000 */
+        write(i, "-1000", 5);
         close(i);
+    } else {
+	/* old oom-killer interface */
+	i = open("/proc/self/oom_adj", O_RDWR);
+	if (i >= 0) {
+	    /* OOM_DISABLE == -17 */
+    	    write(i, "-17", 3);
+    	    close(i);
+	}
     }
 
     set_timeout(10);