Re: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> [2009-02-02 13:05:02]:

> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Balbir Singh wrote:
> 
> > David, I'd agree, but since we are under printk_ratelimit() and this
> > is a not-so-common path, does the log level matter much? If it does, I
> > don't mind using KERN_INFO.
> > 
> 
> It matters for parsing dmesg output; the only KERN_WARNING message from 
> the oom killer is normally the header.  There's a couple extra ones for 
> error conditions (that could certainly be changed to KERN_ERR), but only 
> in very rare circumstances.
> 
> As defined by include/linux/kernel.h:
> 
> 	#define KERN_WARNING	"<4>"	/* warning conditions			*/
> 	...
> 	#define KERN_INFO	"<6>"	/* informational			*/
> 
> The meminfo you are printing falls under the "informational" category, no?
> 
> While you're there, it might also be helpful to make another change 
> that would also help in parsing the output:
> 
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 8e4be9c..954b0d5 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -813,6 +813,25 @@ bool mem_cgroup_oom_called(struct task_struct *task)
> >  	rcu_read_unlock();
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> > +
> > +void mem_cgroup_print_mem_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > +{
> > +	if (!memcg)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	printk(KERN_WARNING "Memory cgroups's name %s\n",
> > +		memcg->css.cgroup->dentry->d_name.name);
> 
> This should be "cgroup's", but I don't think you want to print this on a 
> line by itself since the only system-wide synchronization here is a 
> read-lock on tasklist_lock and there could be two separate memcg's that 
> are oom.
> 
> So it's quite possible, though unlikely, that two seperate oom events 
> would have these messages merged together in the ring buffer, which would 
> make parsing impossible.
> 
> I think you probably want to add the name to each line you print, such as:

See below

> 
> > +	printk(KERN_WARNING "Cgroup memory: usage %llu, limit %llu"
> > +		" failcnt %llu\n", res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_USAGE),
> > +		res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_LIMIT),
> > +		res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_FAILCNT));
> 
> 	const char *name = memcg->css.cgroup->dentry->d_name.name;
> 
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "Cgroup %s memory: usage %llu, limit %llu"
> 			" failcount %llu\n", name, ...);
> 
> > +	printk(KERN_WARNING "Cgroup memory+swap: usage %llu, limit %llu "
> > +		"failcnt %llu\n",
> > +		res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_USAGE),
> > +		res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_LIMIT),
> > +		res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_FAILCNT));
> 
> and
> 
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "Cgroup %s memory+swap: usage %llu, limit %llu "
> 		"failcnt %llu\n", name, ...);
> 
> > +}
>

FYI, we have OOM serialization via the memcg_tasklist mutex in the
memory controller.
 

-- 
	Balbir

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