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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2012-07-31 16:42:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 18:42:42 -0700 |
| commit | de34d965a80d0f61a354bdefa0b15a88bcff2028 (patch) | |
| tree | ac20c4e343a93234abc9c068830d9b0b0ed2bda9 /Documentation | |
| parent | 121d1ba0a019e1465a53533aea133b1b0f6b442d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-de34d965a80d0f61a354bdefa0b15a88bcff2028.tar.gz lwn-de34d965a80d0f61a354bdefa0b15a88bcff2028.zip | |
mm, oom: replace some information in tasklist dump
The number of ptes and swap entries are used in the oom killer's badness
heuristic, so they should be shown in the tasklist dump.
This patch adds those fields and replaces cpu and oom_adj values that are
currently emitted. Cpu isn't interesting and oom_adj is deprecated and
will be removed later this year, the same information is already displayed
as oom_score_adj which is used internally.
At the same time, make the documentation a little more clear to state this
information is helpful to determine why the oom killer chose the task it
did to kill.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 06d662b1c5d5..dcc2a94ae34e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -491,9 +491,10 @@ 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. +information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, swapents, +oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the +OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, +and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. 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 |