The patch titled oom: do not dump task state for non thread group leaders has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-do-not-dump-task-state-for-non-thread-group-leaders.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oom: do not dump task state for non thread group leaders From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> When /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks is enabled, it's only necessary to dump task state information for thread group leaders. The kernel log gets quickly overwhelmed on machines with a massive number of threads by dumping non-thread group leaders. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-do-not-dump-task-state-for-non-thread-group-leaders mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-do-not-dump-task-state-for-non-thread-group-leaders +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_ continue; if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem)) continue; + if (!thread_group_leader(p)) + continue; task_lock(p); printk(KERN_INFO "[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3d %3d %s\n", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are oom-do-not-dump-task-state-for-non-thread-group-leaders.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