On 2020/04/23 23:06, Michal Hocko wrote: >> Last year I proposed >> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550896930-12324-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> and Sergey Senozhatsky commented >> >> "This is a bit of a strange issue, to be honest. If OOM prints too >> many messages then we might want to do some work on the OOM side." >> >> . I was thinking that printing to consoles is a requirement for oom_dump_tasks . >> >> If we can agree with not printing dump_tasks() output to consoles, a trivial >> patch shown below will solve the problem. Those who cannot run syslog daemon >> in userspace might disagree, but this will be the simplest answer. > > Talk to printk people about this. > Already CC'ed. My question for you is are you OK with "not printing dump_tasks() output to consoles?" . If your answer is yes, I will start a new thread for this proposal.