Re: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM (v3)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 16:56:35 EST


On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:46:47 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +/**
> > + * mem_cgroup_print_mem_info: Called from OOM with tasklist_lock held in
> > + * read mode.
> > + * @memcg: The memory cgroup that went over limit
> > + * @p: Task that is going to be killed
> > + *
> > + * NOTE: @memcg and @p's mem_cgroup can be different when hierarchy is
> > + * enabled
> > + */
> > +void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > + struct cgroup *task_cgrp;
> > + struct cgroup *mem_cgrp;
> > + /*
> > + * Need a buffer on stack, can't rely on allocations. The code relies
> > + * on the assumption that OOM is serialized for memory controller.
> > + * If this assumption is broken, revisit this code.
> > + */
> > + static char task_memcg_name[PATH_MAX];
> > + static char memcg_name[PATH_MAX];
>
> I don't think we need both of these. With a bit of shuffling we could
> reuse the single buffer?

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