From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v4] oom: capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:23:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925142352.havlx6ikheanqyhj@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505947132-4363-1-git-send-email-yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
On Thu 21-09-17 06:38:50, Yang Shi wrote:
> Recently we ran into a oom issue, kernel panic due to no killable process.
> The dmesg shows huge unreclaimable slabs used almost 100% memory, but kdump doesn't capture vmcore due to some reason.
>
> So, it may sound better to capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic to aid trouble shooting and cover the corner case.
> Since kernel already panic, so capturing more information sounds worthy and doesn't bother normal oom killer.
>
> With the patchset, tools/vm/slabinfo has a new option, "-U", to show unreclaimable slab only.
>
> And, oom will print all non zero (num_objs * size != 0) unreclaimable slabs in oom killer message.
Well, I do undestand that this _might_ be useful but it also might
generates a _lot_ of output. The oom report can be quite verbose already
so is this something we want to have enabled by default?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 22:38 Yang Shi
2017-09-20 22:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable slabs only Yang Shi
2017-09-20 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when kernel panic Yang Shi
2017-09-21 8:23 ` David Rientjes
2017-09-21 17:51 ` Yang Shi
2017-09-25 14:23 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-09-25 15:55 ` [PATCH 0/2 v4] oom: capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message " Yang Shi
2017-09-25 20:32 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-25 21:52 ` Yang Shi
2017-09-26 7:56 ` Michal Hocko
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