Re: [patch] oom: filter unkillable tasks from tasklist dump

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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 <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, did you have a chance to look at this and consider it for -mm?

Please also add KOSAKI-san's Reviewed-by line from 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128338679018068.

Thanks.

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