From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE5E90013A for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.5]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p5LJ7wre018709 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:08:01 -0700 Received: from pzk10 (pzk10.prod.google.com [10.243.19.138]) by hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p5LJ7Yqa014518 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:07:57 -0700 Received: by pzk10 with SMTP id 10so60717pzk.35 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:07:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: add uid to "Killed process" message In-Reply-To: <20110621113629.GA2758@dhcp-26-164.brq.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1308567876-23581-1-git-send-email-fhrbata@redhat.com> <20110621113629.GA2758@dhcp-26-164.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Frantisek Hrbata Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , KOSAKI Motohiro , Minchan Kim , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , CAI Qian , lwoodman@redhat.com On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Frantisek Hrbata wrote: > I guess the uid of the killed process can be identified from the dump_tasks > output, where it is presented along with other info. I think it is handy > to have the uid info directly in the "Killed process" message. > > This is used/requested by one of our customers and since I think it's a good > idea to have the uid info presented, I posted the patch here to see what do you > think about it. > I don't feel strongly about it, but I think you could justify adding a lot of the same information from the tasklist dump to the single "Killed process" message. The optimal way of getting this information would be from the tasklist dump. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org