From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972146B007B for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:16:31 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] oom: filter unkillable tasks from tasklist dump Message-Id: <20100915191631.92892ea5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:04:45 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, David Rientjes wrote: > > > /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks is enabled by default, so it's necessary to > > limit as much information as possible that it should emit. > > > > The tasklist dump should be filtered to only those tasks that are > > eligible for oom kill. This is already done for memcg ooms, but this > > patch extends it to both cpuset and mempolicy ooms as well as init. > > > > In addition to suppressing irrelevant information, this also reduces > > confusion since users currently don't know which tasks in the tasklist > > aren't eligible for kill (such as those attached to cpusets or bound to > > mempolicies with a disjoint set of mems or nodes, respectively) since > > that information is not shown. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes > > Andrew, did you have a chance to look at this and consider it for -mm? Once the backlog gets too big I start working on it in reverse order :( I'd have got onto Sep 1 tomorrow. Got it now, scheduled it for 2.6.36. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org