The patch titled Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: suppress unnecessary "sharing same memory" message has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: suppress unnecessary "sharing same memory" message oom_kill_process() sends SIGKILL to other thread groups sharing victim's mm. But printing "Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n" lines makes no sense if they already have pending SIGKILL. This patch reduces the "Kill process" lines by printing that line with info level only if SIGKILL is not pending. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -588,9 +588,11 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control !(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) continue; + if (fatal_signal_pending(p)) + continue; task_lock(p); /* Protect ->comm from prctl() */ - pr_err("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n", + pr_info("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n", task_pid_nr(p), p->comm); task_unlock(p); do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, p, true); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mmoom-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill.patch mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process.patch mmoom-suppress-unnecessary-sharing-same-memory-message.patch lib-vsprintf-add-%pt-format-specifier.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html