Re: [PATCH] mm: oom_kill: add trace logs in process_mrelease() system call

[Shakeel Butt]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 2:39 AM Charan Teja Reddy
<charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The process_mrelease() system call[1] is used to release the memory of
> a dying process from the context of the caller, which is similar to and
> uses the functions of the oom reaper logic. There exists trace logs for
> a process when reaped by the oom reaper. Just extend the same to when
> done by the process_mrelease() system call.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210809185259.405936-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/oom_kill.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 431d38c..8f4020a 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -941,7 +941,6 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
>         mmdrop(mm);
>         put_task_struct(victim);
>  }
> -#undef K
>
>  /*
>   * Kill provided task unless it's secured by setting
> @@ -1199,8 +1198,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(process_mrelease, int, pidfd, unsigned int, flags)
>                 ret = -EINTR;
>                 goto drop_mm;
>         }
> +       trace_start_task_reaping(task->pid);
>         if (!__oom_reap_task_mm(mm))
>                 ret = -EAGAIN;
> +       if (!ret) {
> +               pr_info("process_mrelease: reaped process %d (%s), now anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB oom_score_adj:%d\n",
> +                       task_pid_nr(task), task->comm,
> +                       K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES)),
> +                       K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES)),
> +                       K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES)),
> +                       task->signal->oom_score_adj);

Tracing is good but I don't think we want this line to be flooding the
kernel logs. I would recommend either simply removing it or adding
another trace for this, so only folks interested in this info can get
it.