On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
^^^^
Thanks Andrew! just a minor nit there: 's/then/when/'
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
