On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Michal Hocko wrote: > > When two threads have the same badness score, it's preferable to kill the > > thread group leader so that the actual process name is printed to the > > kernel log rather than the thread group name which may be shared amongst > > several processes. > > I am not sure I understand this. Is this about ->comm? If yes then why > couldn't the group leader do PR_SET_NAME? > Both comm and pid, we only display thread group leaders in the tasklist dump of eligible processes, we want the killed message to specify from which process. You're suggesting a thread group leader do PR_SET_NAME of all its threads for readable oom killer output? Lol. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>