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SubjectRe: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Balbir Singh wrote:

> > > 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.
>

I think it would be easier to parse in userspace if you provided the
cgroup name on the same lines as the usage, limit, and failcnt values
instead of storing that from the header line, but do whatever you want.


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