Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] Refactor part of the oom report in dump_header

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jun 28 2018 - 15:04:30 EST


On Wed 27-06-18 19:10:41, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:12:51 +0800 ufo19890607@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > From: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The current system wide oom report prints information about the victim
> > and the allocation context and restrictions. It, however, doesn't
> > provide any information about memory cgroup the victim belongs to. This
> > information can be interesting for container users because they can find
> > the victim's container much more easily.
> >
> > I follow the advices of David Rientjes and Michal Hocko, and refactor
> > part of the oom report. After this patch, users can get the memcg's
> > path from the oom report and check the certain container more quickly.
> >
> > The oom print info after this patch:
> > oom-kill:constraint=<constraint>,nodemask=<nodemask>,oom_memcg=<memcg>,task_memcg=<memcg>,task=<commm>,pid=<pid>,uid=<uid>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Below is the part of the oom report in the dmesg
> > ...
> > [ 134.873392] panic invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x6280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
> >
> > ...
> >
> > [ 134.873480] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),task_memcg=/test/test1/test2,task=panic,pid= 8669, uid= 0
>
> We're displaying nodemask twice there. Avoidable?
>
> Also, the spaces after pid= and uid= don't seem useful. Why not use
> plain old %d?

I've been discussing this with yuzhoujian off-list so please drop the
current pile
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs