The default page memory unit of OOM task dump events might not be intuitive for the non-initiated when debugging OOM events. Add a small printk prior to the task dump informing that the memory units are actually memory _pages_. Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 84081e7..b4d9557 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const nodemask_t *nodemask) struct task_struct *p; struct task_struct *task; + pr_info("Tasks state (memory values in pages):\n"); pr_info("[ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name\n"); rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(p) { -- 1.8.3.1