On Mon 25-05-15 23:33:31, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > >From 3728807fe66ebc24a8a28455593754b9532bbe74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 22:26:07 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH] mm/oom: Suppress unnecessary "sharing same memory" message. > > If the mm struct which the OOM victim is using is shared by e.g. 1000 > threads, and the lock dependency prevents all threads except the OOM > victim thread from terminating until they get TIF_MEMDIE flag, the OOM > killer will be invoked for 1000 times on this mm struct. As a result, > the kernel would emit > > "Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n" > > line for 1000 * 1000 / 2 times. But once these threads got pending SIGKILL, > emitting this information is nothing but noise. This patch filters them. OK, I can see this might be really annoying. But reducing this message will not help much because it is the dump_header which generates a lot of output. And there is clearly no reason to treat the selected victim any differently than the current so why not simply do the following instead? --- diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 5cfda39b3268..a67ce18b4b35 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly */ task_lock(p); - if (p->mm && task_will_free_mem(p)) { + if (p->mm && (fatal_signal_pending(p) || task_will_free_mem(p))) { mark_oom_victim(p); task_unlock(p); put_task_struct(p); -- 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>