On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Michal Hocko wrote: > > vm.oom_dump_tasks is pretty useful, however, so it's curious why you > > haven't left it enabled :/ > > Because it generates a lot of output potentially. Think of a workload > with too many tasks which is not uncommon. Probably better to always print all the info for the victim so we don't need to duplicate everything between dump_tasks() and dump_oom_summary(). Edward, how about this? diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -420,11 +420,17 @@ static int dump_task(struct task_struct *p, void *arg) * State information includes task's pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, * pgtables_bytes, swapents, oom_score_adj value, and name. */ -static void dump_tasks(struct oom_control *oc) +static void dump_tasks(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *victim) { 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"); + /* If vm.oom_dump_tasks is disabled, only show the victim */ + if (!sysctl_oom_dump_tasks) { + dump_task(victim, oc); + return; + } + if (is_memcg_oom(oc)) mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(oc->memcg, dump_task, oc); else { @@ -465,8 +471,8 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p) if (is_dump_unreclaim_slabs()) dump_unreclaimable_slab(); } - if (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks) - dump_tasks(oc); + if (p || sysctl_oom_dump_tasks) + dump_tasks(oc, p); if (p) dump_oom_summary(oc, p); }