Re: memory-cgroup bug

[Michal Hocko <mhocko-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri 23-11-12 10:44:23, azurIt wrote:
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> # gdb vmlinux 
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> Reading symbols from /root/bug/dddddddd/vmlinux...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) disassemble mem_cgroup_handle_oom
> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
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> # objdump -d vmlinux | grep mem_cgroup_handle_oom
> <no output>

Hmm, strange so the function is on the stack but it has been inlined?
Doesn't make much sense to me.

> i can recompile the kernel if anything needs to be added into it.

If you could instrument mem_cgroup_handle_oom with some printks (before
we take the memcg_oom_lock, before we schedule and into
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory)
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs