Re: [patch v2 -mm] mm, oom: prefer thread group leaders for displaypurposes

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 16-01-14 14:49:25, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > > When two threads have the same badness score, it's preferable to kill the 
> > > thread group leader so that the actual process name is printed to the 
> > > kernel log rather than the thread group name which may be shared amongst 
> > > several processes.
> > 
> > I am not sure I understand this. Is this about ->comm? If yes then why
> > couldn't the group leader do PR_SET_NAME?
> > 
> 
> Both comm and pid, we only display thread group leaders in the tasklist 
> dump of eligible processes, we want the killed message to specify from 
> which process.

OK, that makes sense now. I didn't think about dump_tasks and
consistency in the output.

> You're suggesting a thread group leader do PR_SET_NAME of all its threads 
> for readable oom killer output?  Lol.

No, I am not suggesting anything. I was just asking why is group leader
different in this regards becasue changelog didn't tell it and I didn't
put it together with dump_tasks.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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