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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2008-02-07 11:14:07 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-07 19:42:19 +0300
commitfef1bdd68c81b71882ccb6f47c70980a03182063 (patch)
tree4cfa5c2c10787a3d54de05ca511db31730a239fd /Documentation
parent4c4a22148909e4c003562ea7ffe0a06e26919e3c (diff)
downloadlinux-fef1bdd68c81b71882ccb6f47c70980a03182063.tar.xz
oom: add sysctl to enable task memory dump
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an OOM-killing. Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and name. This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which rogue task caused it. It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping data they may not desire. If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same cgroup. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 24eac1bc735d..8a4863c4edd4 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- min_unmapped_ratio
- min_slab_ratio
- panic_on_oom
+- oom_dump_tasks
- oom_kill_allocating_task
- mmap_min_address
- numa_zonelist_order
@@ -232,6 +233,27 @@ according to your policy of failover.
=============================================================
+oom_dump_tasks
+
+Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be
+produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such
+information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and
+name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked
+and to identify the rogue task that caused it.
+
+If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very
+large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump
+the memory state information for each one. Such systems should not
+be forced to incur a performance penalty in OOM conditions when the
+information may not be desired.
+
+If this is set to non-zero, this information is shown whenever the
+OOM killer actually kills a memory-hogging task.
+
+The default value is 0.
+
+=============================================================
+
oom_kill_allocating_task
This enables or disables killing the OOM-triggering task in