On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:23:18 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed 12-06-19 13:57:53, Joel Savitz 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. > > Could you be more specific please? We already print uid when dumping > eligible tasks so it is not overly hard to find that information in the > oom report. Well, except when dumping of eligible tasks is disabled. Is > this what you are after? > > Please always be specific about usecases in the changelog. A terse > statement that something is useful doesn't tell much very often. > <crickets?> I'll add this to the chagnelog: : We already print uid when dumping eligible tasks so it is not overly hard : to find that information in the oom report. However this information is : unavailable then dumping of eligible tasks is disabled.
