On 10/01/2015 04:18 PM, Pintu Kumar wrote:
> This patch maintains number of oom calls and number of oom kill
> count in /proc/vmstat.
> It is helpful during sluggish, aging or long duration tests.
> Currently if the OOM happens, it can be only seen in kernel ring buffer.
> But during long duration tests, all the dmesg and /var/log/messages* could
> be overwritten.
> So, just like other counters, the oom can also be maintained in
> /proc/vmstat.
> It can be also seen if all logs are disabled in kernel.
Makes sense.
>
> A snapshot of the result of over night test is shown below:
> $ cat /proc/vmstat
> oom_stall 610
> oom_kill_count 1763
>
> Here, oom_stall indicates that there are 610 times, kernel entered into OOM
> cases. However, there were around 1763 oom killing happens.
> The OOM is bad for the any system. So, this counter can help the developer
> in tuning the memory requirement at least during initial bringup.
Can you please fix the formatting of the commit message above ?
>
> Signed-off-by: Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 2 ++
> mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> index 2b1cef8..ade0851 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
> #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC, HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL,
> #endif
> + OOM_STALL,
> + OOM_KILL_COUNT,
Removing the COUNT will be better and in sync with others.
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