Re: [PATCH] Add the memcg print oom info for system oom

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 17-05-18 08:00:28, ufo19890607 wrote:
> From: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The dump_header does not print the memcg's name when the system
> oom happened. Some users want to locate the certain container
> which contains the task that has been killed by the oom killer.
> So I add the mem_cgroup_print_oom_info when system oom events
> happened.

The oom report is quite heavy today. Do we really need the full memcg
oom report here. Wouldn't it be sufficient to print the memcg the task
belongs to?

> Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 8ba6cb88cf58..244416c9834a 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ 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 {
> +		mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem_cgroup_from_task(p), p);
>  		show_mem(SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES, oc->nodemask);
>  		if (is_dump_unreclaim_slabs())
>  			dump_unreclaimable_slab();
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs