Re: [PATCH v2] Print the memcg's name when system-wide OOM happened

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri May 18 2018 - 01:25:53 EST


On Fri 18-05-18 04:07:14, ufo19890607 wrote:
> From: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The dump_header does not print the memcg's name when the system
> oom happened. So users cannot locate the certain container which
> contains the task that has been killed by the oom killer. System
> oom report will contain the memcg's name after this patch.

It would be great to mention what you can the name for.

> Changes since v1:
> - replace adding mem_cgroup_print_oom_info with printing the memcg's
> name only.
>
> Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/oom_kill.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 8ba6cb88cf58..b0abb5930232 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -433,6 +433,9 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p)
> if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
> mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(oc->memcg, p);
> else {
> + pr_info("Task in ");
> + pr_cont_cgroup_path(task_cgroup(p, memory_cgrp_id));
> + pr_cont(" killed as a result of limit of ");
> show_mem(SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES, oc->nodemask);
> if (is_dump_unreclaim_slabs())
> dump_unreclaimable_slab();

I bet this doesn't compile with CONFIG_MEMCG=n. You either need to put
these pr_info lines inside ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG or add helper. The later
would reduce code duplication.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs