Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: disable dump_tasks by default

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 06-09-19 19:46:10, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/09/05 23:08, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 05-09-19 22:39:47, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > [...]
> >> There is nothing that prevents users from enabling oom_dump_tasks by sysctl.
> >> But that requires a solution for OOM stalling problem.
> > 
> > You can hardly remove stalling if you are not reducing the amount of
> > output or get it into a different context. Whether the later is
> > reasonable is another question but you are essentially losing "at the
> > OOM event state".
> > 
> 
> I am not losing "at the OOM event state". Please find "struct oom_task_info"
> (for now) embedded into "struct task_struct" which holds "at the OOM event state".
> 
> And my patch moves "printk() from dump_tasks()" from OOM context to WQ context.

Workers might be blocked for unbound amount of time and so this
information might be printed late.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs