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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] oom: dump stack and VM state when oom killer panics
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:26:37 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090918092427.8E48.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909171354570.17483@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

Hello

> The oom killer header, including information such as the allocation order
> and gfp mask, current's cpuset and memory controller, call trace, and VM
> state information is currently only shown when the oom killer has
> selected a task to kill.
> 
> This information is omitted, however, when the oom killer panics either
> because of panic_on_oom sysctl settings or when no killable task was
> found.  It is still relevant to know crucial pieces of information such
> as the allocation order and VM state when diagnosing such issues,
> especially at boot.
> 
> This patch displays the oom killer header whenever it panics so that bug
> reports can include pertinent information to debug the issue, if
> possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Good patch :)

I have one request. In panic case, I don't hope to call printk_ratelimit().
the infomation should be displayed always.

Thanks.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 20:55 David Rientjes
2009-09-18  0:22 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-18  0:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2009-09-21 20:41   ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-21 21:12     ` Joe Perches

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