On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:57:53 -0400 Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the event of an oom kill, useful information about the killed > process is printed to dmesg. Users, especially system administrators, > will find it useful to immediately see the UID of the process. > > In the following example, abuse_the_ram is the name of a program > that attempts to iteratively allocate all available memory until it is > stopped by force. > > Current message: > > Out of memory: Killed process 35389 (abuse_the_ram) > total-vm:133718232kB, anon-rss:129624980kB, file-rss:0kB, > shmem-rss:0kB > > Patched message: > > Out of memory: Killed process 2739 (abuse_the_ram), > total-vm:133880028kB, anon-rss:129754836kB, file-rss:0kB, > shmem-rss:0kB, UID 0 The other fields are name:value so it seems better to make the UID field conform. Also, there's no typesafe way of printing a uid_t (using the printk %p trick) so yes, we have to assume its type. But assuming unsigned int is better than assuming int! So... s/UID %d/UID:%u/ in printk --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill-fix +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct ta */ do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, victim, PIDTYPE_TGID); mark_oom_victim(victim); - pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB, UID %d\n", + pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB, UID:%u\n", message, task_pid_nr(victim), victim->comm, K(victim->mm->total_vm), K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_ANONPAGES)), _