On Mon, 28 May 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Below is the part of the oom report in the dmesg > > ... > > [ 142.158316] panic cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0-1 > > [ 142.158983] CPU: 15 PID: 8682 Comm: panic Not tainted 4.17.0-rc6+ #13 > > [ 142.159659] Hardware name: Inspur SA5212M4/YZMB-00370-107, BIOS 4.1.10 11/14/2016 > > [ 142.160342] Call Trace: > > [ 142.161037] dump_stack+0x78/0xb3 > > [ 142.161734] dump_header+0x7d/0x334 > > [ 142.162433] oom_kill_process+0x228/0x490 > > [ 142.163126] ? oom_badness+0x2a/0x130 > > [ 142.163821] out_of_memory+0xf0/0x280 > > [ 142.164532] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x711/0xa07 > > [ 142.165241] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x23f/0x260 > > [ 142.165947] alloc_pages_vma+0x73/0x180 > > [ 142.166665] do_anonymous_page+0xed/0x4e0 > > [ 142.167388] __handle_mm_fault+0xbd2/0xe00 > > [ 142.168114] handle_mm_fault+0x116/0x250 > > [ 142.168841] __do_page_fault+0x233/0x4d0 > > [ 142.169567] do_page_fault+0x32/0x130 > > [ 142.170303] ? page_fault+0x8/0x30 > > [ 142.171036] page_fault+0x1e/0x30 > > [ 142.171764] RIP: 0033:0x7f403000a860 > > [ 142.172517] RSP: 002b:00007ffc9f745c28 EFLAGS: 00010206 > > [ 142.173268] RAX: 00007f3f6fd7d000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3f7f5cd000 > > [ 142.174040] RDX: 00007f3fafd7d000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f3f6fd7d000 > > [ 142.174806] RBP: 00007ffc9f745c50 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 > > [ 142.175623] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400490 > > [ 142.176542] R13: 00007ffc9f745d30 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > > [ 142.177709] oom-kill: constrain=CONSTRAINT_NONE nodemask=(null) origin_memcg= kill_memcg=/test/test1/test2 task=panic pid= 8622 uid= 0 > > Is it really helpful to dump the nodemask here again? We already have it > as a part of the "%s invoked oom-killer:" message. > At the risk of making the patch more complex, it would be possible to suppress nodemask=<mask> for constraints that are not CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY, but the goal was to provide a single line output that userspace can parse for all information and not rely on surrounding lines to match oom kills with invocations (the invocation itself may have been lost from the ring buffer), and we want this to not be subjected to any ratelimit. We need to eliminate the spurious spaces in the output, though, and fix the spelling of "constrain". There should be no spaces between pid and uid values.
