The patch titled Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: add task UID to info message on an oom kill has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: add task UID to info message on an oom kill In the event of an oom kill, useful information about the killed process is printed to dmesg. Users, especially system administrators, will find it useful to immediately see the UID of the process. In the following example, abuse_the_ram is the name of a program that attempts to iteratively allocate all available memory until it is stopped by force. Current message: Out of memory: Killed process 35389 (abuse_the_ram) total-vm:133718232kB, anon-rss:129624980kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB Patched message: Out of memory: Killed process 2739 (abuse_the_ram), total-vm:133880028kB, anon-rss:129754836kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560362273-534-1-git-send-email-jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -876,12 +876,13 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct ta */ do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, victim, PIDTYPE_TGID); mark_oom_victim(victim); - pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB\n", + pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB, UID %d\n", message, task_pid_nr(victim), victim->comm, K(victim->mm->total_vm), K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_ANONPAGES)), K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_FILEPAGES)), - K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES))); + K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES)), + from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(victim))); task_unlock(victim); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill.patch