Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:39:09 -0300 | From | Rafael Aquini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:05:27PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote: > > I like how slub handles this when it can't allocate more slab with > > slab_out_of_memory() and has the added benefit of still warning even with > > __GFP_NORETRY that the oom killer is never called for. If there's really > > a slab leak happening, there's a good chance that this diagnostic > > information is going to be emitted by the offending cache at some point in > > time if you're using slub. This could easily be extended to slab.c, so > > it's even more reason not to include this type of information in the oom > > killer. > > Works for me. Rafael?
New patch, following the suggested approach, posted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/28/561
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