Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_killer: Add task UID to info message on an oom kill

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Sun Apr 28 2019 - 18:49:22 EST


On Wed 24-04-19 14:20:13, Joel Savitz wrote:
> In the event of an oom kill, useful information about the killed
> process is printed to dmesg. Users, especially system administrators,
> will find it useful to immediately see the UID of the process.
>
> In the following example, abuse_the_ram is the name of a program
> that attempts to iteratively allocate all available memory until it is
> stopped by force.

There was a more general rework of this message
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542799799-36184-1-git-send-email-ufo19890607@xxxxxxxxx
but I do not see it merged into Andrew's tree. Could you have a look and
pursue it, please?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs