Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

Kay Sievers
2012-07-09T18:28:22Z

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> I noticed that the format of the oom-killer output seems to have changed, and
> now it spews stuff like..
>
> [49461.758070] lowmem_reserve[]:
> [49461.758071] 0
> [49461.758071] 2643
> [49461.758071] 3878
> [49461.758072] 3878
> [49461.758072]
> [49461.758072] Node 0

> Does the oom-killer code need modifying, or the printk code ?
> I know there's been some regressions in this area recently, but this is still
> happening on the current tree (8c84bf4166a4698296342841a549bbee03860ac0)

This likely fixes it:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=blob;f=kmsg-merge-cont.patch;hb=HEAD

Let me check if it does, and if I can reproduce it.

Thanks,
Kay