On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:09:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: ... > Well, my understanding of the OOM report is that it should tell you two > things. The first one is to give you an overview of the overal memory > situation when the system went OOM and the second one is o give you > information that something has been _killed_ and what was the criteria > why it has been selected (points). While the first one might be > interesting for what you write above the second is not and it might be > even misleading because we are not killing anything and the selected > task is dying without the kernel intervention. Fair enough. Printing that a task was killed while it actually died voluntarily is not good. And select_bad_process may select dying tasks. So let's leave it as is for now. Thanks, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>