Re: [PATCH] mm: be more informative in OOM task list

[Michal Hocko]

On Sun 01-07-18 13:09:40, Rodrigo Freire wrote:
> The default page memory unit of OOM task dump events might not be
> intuitive for the non-initiated when debugging OOM events. Add
> a small printk prior to the task dump informing that the memory
> units are actually memory _pages_.

Does this really help? I understand the the oom report might be not the
easiest thing to grasp but wouldn't it be much better to actually add
documentation with clarification of each part of it?

> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 84081e7..b4d9557 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const nodemask_t *nodemask)
>  	struct task_struct *p;
>  	struct task_struct *task;
>  
> +	pr_info("Tasks state (memory values in pages):\n");
>  	pr_info("[ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name\n");
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	for_each_process(p) {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs